This is the website for the National Science Week event GM Food: A Dinner Discussion. Should GM crops contribute to global food security? It is a public forum to be held on 10 August 2011 at the The Pumphouse Hotel. 128 Nicholson Street, Fitzroy Vic.
We need to find a way to feed an extra 3-4 billion people by about 2050. We need to do this in the face of diminishing supplies of land, water, fertilizer and fuel. Should genetically modified crops play a role? GM Food: A Dinner Discussion. Should GM crops contribute to global food security? is a National Science Week event that gives the public the opportunity to explore the use and acceptability of genetically modified crops in the context of food security.
