The growth of the world’s population and the need to provide it with high-quality food require improving constantly agricultural technology. Climate change is an additional barrier to ensuring food security, so it is necessary to effectively adapt agricultural production to extreme weather activity.
In order to increase the availability of healthy and nutritious food, it is necessary to take political and legislative measures which take into account countries’ social and economic characteristics. The session is devoted to considering the causes of climate change, new agricultural technologies which can produce high yields even in extreme weather activity, and possible ways to achieve the zero hunger.
Facts and figures
According to the FAO’s State of Food Security and Nutrition in the World report, it is estimated that up to 757 million people were undernourished in 2023, which is 152 million more than in 2019.
Updated projections show that nearly 582 million people will be chronically undernourished in 2030 bringing the number of undernourished people in the world close to pre-pandemic levels.
Access to and affordability of healthy diets with all the essential nutrients have been comprehensively assessed for 2024. The estimates show that 2.8 billion people cannot afford a healthy diet at minimal cost.
Climate change affects every country on every continent: it disrupts national economies and affects people’s lives. Weather patterns are changing, sea levels are rising, and weather activity is increasing.
Climate change may undermine efforts to achieve global food security, eradicate poverty and meet the Sustainable Development Goals.
Questions for discussion
Role of the state in solving food and climate problems in Latin America.
Influence of atmospheric composition on the Earth’s climate, impact on agrifood systems.
Prospects for developing crop varieties resistant to extreme weather activity.
Preserving soil fertility as one of the key factors in the efficiency of agricultural production.
Ways of solving the food problem.
PAC
Paulo Afonso de Carvalho
Professor, University of Brasilia
EC
Elena Chudinova
Associate Professor, Agricultural and Technological Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences
NY
Nikolay Yelansky
Corresponding Member of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Chief Researcher, RAS Institute of Atmospheric Physics named after A. M. Obukhov
Invited speakers
Topic of the report
Need to Create a New Type of State to Finally Solve Climate and Food Crises in Latin America
Hernando Kleimans (Argentina)
Journalist, Russia Specialist
Topic of the report
Implementation of Zero Hunger State Food Policy in the First Government of Lula da Silva in 2003-2006
Paulo Afonso de Carvalho (Brazil)
Professor, University of Brasilia
Topic of the report
Impact of Large Megalopolises of Latin American, European and Asian Countries on the State of the Atmosphere and Climate of the Earth
Nikolay Elanskiy
Corresponding Member of the Russian Academy of Sciences; Chief Researcher, A. M. Obukhov Institute of Atmospheric Physics, Russian Academy of Sciences
Topic of the report
Where Soil Conservation Begins: Role of Social Factors in Chile
Alexander Neaman (Chile)
Professor, Faculty of Agricultural and Food Sciences, Universidad Austral de Chile
Topic of the report
Conservation and Sustainable Use of Plant Genetic Resources for Food Safety and Agriculture in Latin America and the World
Naghavi Mohammad Reza (Iran)
Professor, Department of Genetics and Plant Breeding, University of Tehran
Topic of the report
Deratization Measures in Populated Areas and Natural Foci of Infection Using the Example of Latin American Countries and Russia
Sergey Ryabov
Leading Researcher, Head of Laboratory, Research Institute of Systems Biology and Medicine
Topic of the report
Colloidal Silver Products in Latin American Agriculture
