Food: Will There Be Enough to Go Around?

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Partner:: Compass Summit
Location:: Terranea Resort
Palos Verdes, CA
Event Date:: 10.26.11
Speaker:: Jerry Glover
Tags:: perennial grain; perennial rice; plant breeding; rice; grain; crops; farming; farm; nutrition

Summary: RETHINKING SUSTAINABILITY

Soil: Will there be enough to go around?

Jerry Glover, Science and Technology Policy Fellow, US Agency for International Development

Compass Summit, a forum for true interaction and exchange, examines some of today's most pressing problems through the lens of global citizenship, recognizing that human ingenuity is an unlimited resource. Guided by NPR's Ira Flatow, an intimate group of some of the world's best thinkers and doers convened along the rugged Palos Verdes coastline on Oct 23-26, 2011 at Terranea Resort to engage in meaningful conversation, ask questions, and challenge ideas -- we invite you to join in the conversation.

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Jerry Glover

Jerry Glover, an agricultural ecologist and AAAS Science & Technology Policy Fellow, advises the US Agency for International Development on agricultural research in Sub-Saharan Africa. Jerry earned undergraduate soil science and philosophy degrees and a Ph.D. in soil science at Washington State University.

�A 2010 National Geographic Emerging Explorer, Jerry has published articles on perennial cropping systems in the journals Nature, Science, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, and Scientific American.�

His work has been highlighted in documentary films and in National Geographic and Nature, which recognized Jerry as one of "five crop researchers who could change the world."

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01.: Introduction

00 min 27 sec

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02.: Soil Conclusions

04 min 33 sec

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03.: Ecosystem Concepts

02 min 16 sec

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04.: Agricultural Ecosystems

04 min 51 sec

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05.: Relative Volumes of Global Resources

05 min 44 sec

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06.: Breeding Perennial Grain Crops

02 min 27 sec

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07.: Q1: Engineering Perennial Crops?

03 min 59 sec

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08.: Q2: IP Rights, GMOs?

03 min 07 sec

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Breeding Perennial Grain Crops

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Encyclopædia Britannica Article

crop: In agriculture, a plant or plant product that can be grown and harvested extensively for profit or subsistence. By use, crops fall into six categories: food crops, for human consumption (e.g., wheat, potatoes); feed crops, for livestock consumption (e.g., oats, alfalfa); fibre crops, for cordage and textiles (e.g., cotton, hemp); oil crops, for consumption or industrial uses (e.g., cottonseed, corn); ornamental crops, for landscape gardening (e.g., dogwood, azalea); and industrial and secondary crops, for various personal and industrial uses (e.g., rubber, tobacco).; crop on britannica.com