Perth Laboratory – Public Seminar Series 2007

Can the world head off a food crisis without creating a water crisis?

Dr Simon Cook
Basin Focal Projects, CGIAR Challenge Program on Water and Food, Colombo, Sri Lanka
Site-specific crop insurance, CIAT, Cali, Colombia

Thursday 29 March 2007 at 3.30pm, CSIRO Auditorium

Abstract

The world will need 30% more food in the near future to avert a food crisis for the billions of people living in poverty. It must do so with less water to avert an already looming water crisis. To meet this challenge it needs a so-called Blue Revolution, equal or greater than the Green Revolution. What would this look like in different parts of the world? How can it be achieved? What are the likely impacts on poverty? This presentation will look at the problems, as best we understand them, in different basins in Asia, Africa and Latin America, and at some options for change.

About the speaker

Simon Cook trained at Swansea, Reading and Cambridge in the UK. He joined CSIRO Land and Water in Perth in 1991, working on spatial information for agriculture. In 2000/2001 he left to join CIAT in Cali and is currently working on the Basin Focal Projects of the CPWF, a multi-institute research program looking for realistic change options to meet the global food and water crisis.

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