Securing the Future of Agriculture
About The Event
Free admission. Note: While the deadline has passed to register for in-person attendance, you may still register for the virtual option until noon ET on May 16. Sustainable food production is challenged on many fronts. There will be more mouths to feed using fewer resources on less land. The environment is warming, rainfall patterns are changing, and atmospheric carbon dioxide is increasing. Industrial farms based on the oil economy will need to give way to new energy systems in less than a generation. Geopolitical instability threatens global food security, and the rate of crop improvement remains stubbornly slow. There is plenty of room for innovation. Seeds are the key to revolutionizing agricultural productivity, and the 21st Century brought powerful new genomic tools to accelerate genetic gain. This symposium — cosponsored by the MIT Whitehead Institute and Inari — covers how some of these tools, developed here in Cambridge, are being used to advance crop improvement. Morning Session Where We Find Opportunities for Crop Improvement Afternoon Session Bring on the Compute: How Data and Deep Learning Will Deliver Tomorrow's Crops Have a question about the event? Email: SecuringAgFuture@inari.com INDIVIDUALS WHO DO NOT HAVE AN MIT ID ARE REQUIRED TO ORDER A TIM TICKET VISITOR PASS TO ACCESS THIS EVENT. Visit the following page to order your pass: https://visitors.mit.edu/?event=f4a2a203-a30b-4c6f-b170-ea0196c3acd2