PowerPoint PresentationMISSION 2014 TEAMSSlide 3MISSION 2014 TEAMSlide 5Slide 6Slide 7Slide 8Slide 9MISSION 2014 Class Meeting Monday September 13 32-123http://www.foreignpolicy.com/articles/2010/08/26/the_coming_food_crisis?page=0,1The Coming Food CrisisMISSION 2014MISSION 2014 TEAMSTeam 1: Economics: Should speculation infood commodities be more tightly controlled?Permitted? Value of international Megafarms?Finance and risk management - insurance and disaster relief, micro-financingMISSION 2014 TEAMSTeam 2:Data gathering and mining: How do we monitor global agriculture? Development of an international monitoring system for agriculture, food distribution, and nutrition Supply chains - infrastructure, distribution, efficiency and reliabilityMISSION 2014 TEAM TEAM 3: Case studies I: India and Africa: lack of food production, distribution infrastructure and poverty are huge problems—how to best quantify and solveMISSION 2014 TEAMSTeam 4: Case Studies II: China—has a very large and growing population and is facing strong demand for increased output from less and less land—water issues, fertilizer and pesticide issues---what are solutions?MISSION 2014 TEAMSTeam 5: Fisheries – Global fisheries are collapsing from over fishing, aquaculture short term (?) solution, large managed marine preserves, impact of climate change. Projections-- How do we manage this global resource?MISSION 2014 TEAMS•Team 6: Agriculture I: Food and Energy---biofuels and bioenergy vs food production, energy requirements for food production/costAgriculture II. Food and water – Crop choices, irrigation and long term water supplies impact of climate change on availability of waterAgriculture III. Food and land use – Monocultures vs biodiversity and habitat preservation, Biotechnology - genetic engineering (transgenic and non-transgenic), forest to cropland conversionMISSION 2014 TEAMSTeam 7:International policy and implementation- trade,aid, poverty and hunger (Millennium Development Goals and beyond). United Nations? Compliance?MISSION 2014 TEAMS•Plan for next 100 years--be bold!•Interact with other teamsMISSION 2014 Class Meeting Monday September 13 32-123Each team gets five minutes to introduce themselves and make a statement about their topic: Could be a few factoids or statement of major issues and/or possible links with other teams: Each team should appoint a temporary leader and 1-3 powerpoint slides should be sent to Seth before 2 PM on
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