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The world’s population will grow in a few decades from 6 to 9 billion, and the social and economic gap between north and south of the world gets wider all the time, the new giant economies of Asia and Latin America are growing rapidly in buying power and improved living conditions. At the same time, the climate changes currently in progress are altering the productivity of the soil with negative impacts on the world’s agricultural production.

In this context, we are seeing new forms of colonialism (that some have defined as the “third world war”), in which the object of the strife is agricultural soil, sold by the poorer countries to private equity funds or to other countries that have new and more demanding mouths to feed.

In this scenario, what will the future geopolitical balances be like? What are the prospects? What are the priorities for action?

The Barilla Center for Food and Nutrition and the Corriere della Sera Foundation present the workshop "Scarcity of resources and climate change: the priorities for intervention".

Monday May 17 at 5 pm in Milan, Sala Buzzati (via Balzan 3 – corner of via S.Marco 21 - Milan) and live on barillacfn.com.

PROGRAM

Introductory message
Piergaetano Marchetti (Chairman of the Corriere della Sera Foundation)
The Barilla Center for Food & Nutrition

Guido Barilla (Chairman of the Barilla Group)        

The scarcity of natural and agricultural resources: facts & figures
Valerio De Molli (Managing Partner, The European House-Ambrosetti)       

The effects of climate change on the availability of agrifood resources
Riccardo Valentini (Professor of Forest Ecology, Tuscia University, Director of the Impacts on Agriculture Forests and Natural Ecosystems Division of the CMCC)

Conflicts for the use of natural resources, evolution of the agrifood sector and repercussions on the accessibility to food
Andrea Boltho (Economist, Magdalen College, University of Oxford)
Sergio Romano (Editorialist, Corriere della Sera)           

Coordinator
Giovanni Caprara