 | From the conference website: Workers cultivate rice in North Vietnam. |
Videos of the talks presented at a symposium on "The Future of Rice Biotechnology: Scientific Advances and Policy Issues," held on campus this spring, are now available online.
More than half the world's people depend on rice as their major source of food. In many Asian countries up to 70% of the daily caloric intake comes from rice. It is estimated that by 2030 over five billion people will be major rice consumers.
The Yale symposium, which took place April 30, brought together scientists and policymakers to examine future prospects for rice biotechnology. Topics ranged from the Green Revolution to genetic engineering to turning fundamental discoveries into practical applications, and more.
The symposium was the final event in a year-long seminar series organized by the Genetically Modified Plant Study Group sponsored by Yale's Institution for Social and Policy Studies and its Interdisciplinary Bioethics Project. It was organized by Nancy Kerk, Ian Sussex and Carol Pollard at Yale, and Valerie Karplus at the California Institute of Technology.
The complete program and videos of each talk can be found at http://cgp.yale.edu/events/rice/
summary.html.
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