Global Challenges in Food, Nutrition & Environment Symposium

Themes:

• Nanomaterial
• Organic Pollutants
• Supplements and Pharmaceuticals
• Food Security and Nutrition

This event, hosted by Hong Kong University, will provide a public space for the direct engagement of academic and scientific experts in multiple fields related to food, nutrition and the environment.

Several sessions will discuss the crucial factor that water plays in achieving food security, including:

• Professor Bryan Brooks
  Environmental Science and Biomedical Studies, Baylor University, USA
  Title: “Perspectives on integrative urbanization, water, and food security”
• Professor Colin Barrow
  Chair in Biotechnology, Deakin University, Australia
  Title: “Nanobiotechnology for agriculture, water quality and food security”
• Dr. Terry Van Gevelt
  Politics & Public Administration and Civil Engineering, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong
  Title: “Governing the water-energy-food nexus: Insights from new institutional economics”