Global Food Security

The international conference "Global Food Security" aims to bring together the international scientific community around the issues of food security, addressing it in its spatial dimension, from local to global, and the interdisciplinarity specific to food systems. Initiated in the Netherlands in 2013, the conferences are now organised on a biennial basis, alternating the continents on which they take place. The 4th conference will be held in Montpellier in June 2020, which represents an opportunity for the entire Agropolis scientific community, which is at the forefront of these themes, to contribute to a state-of-the-art analysis, to develop new inspiring visions and innovative methods from different disciplines. It aims to better understand environmental, nutritional, agricultural, demographic, socio-economic, political, technological and institutional factors, and then to question the costs and effects of current and future food security. These analyses will also take into account the many contextual factors that interact with food systems: climate change, urbanisation, the greening of the economy and data-driven technologies. While these parameters will be at the heart of the discussions, the conference will also address the triple burden of malnutrition: hunger, micronutrient deficiencies and obesity. By exploring the state of the art at the interdisciplinary level of food systems transformation, and by analysing the trade-offs and synergies involved, Conference will contribute to informing actions towards the achievement of the Sustainable Development Goals at different levels across space and time. This conference will contribute to energise and expand the network of researchers in the community at the international level.