Food Security Can Be Addressed through Science-Powered Innovation and Collaboration

With the world’s population surpassing 7 billion later this year and the challenges of feeding a growing population base escalating, science-powered innovation and unprecedented collaboration can help address the challenge of food security, said DuPont Vice President & Chief Sustainability Officer Linda Fischer at Fortune magazine’s Brainstorm GREEN this week. 

“Science-powered innovation can help our growing population feed itself by enabling farmers to get the most yield per acre, protecting crops from pests and disease, reducing spoilage with new packaging technologies and value-chain logistics, as well as working with farmers around better nutrient management,” Fisher said. “If we are to achieve real food security, we need to collaborate on enduring solutions that will impact the maximum number of people and partner to deliver local solutions for those most in jeopardy."

Fisher joined fellow panelists Peter Seligman, chairman and CEO of Conservation International, and Arlin Wasserman, vice president of Sustainability at Sodexo, for a discussion on food security which included addressing the importance of food self-sufficiency, especially in developing countries.  

“The world will have more than 9 billion people by 2050,” Fisher said.  “To help address the challenge of feeding the growing population, we need to bring our collective might as business leaders, non-government organizations, academia, governments, farmers and others to collaborate in ways we haven’t done in the past and even thought of yet for the future."

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