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3rd International Conference on Global Food Security: Global Challenges, Local Solutions and Connected Pathways

In association with the DST-NRF Centre of Excellence in Food Security and the Universities of Pretoria and the Western Cape.

The five core conference themes reflect an integrated approach to identifying solutions to the complex global challenge of food security:

  • Food creation
  • Food safety and bio security
  • Food loss and waste
  • Food in a changing society
  • Food utilization

Abstract submission deadline: 30 June 2017

Additional information is available at http://www.globalfoodsecurityconference.com/.

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