Cafe Scientifique Henley Presents Seeds on Ice: Feeding a Changing World

Wednesday 18 October
7.00pm for 7.30pm start
Henley Hockey Club

The talk will cover:

• The global environment and food situation
• Why we are losing genetic diversity and the consequences
• The evolving policy and funding environment
• The global genebank system
• International genebanks
• Millennium Seed Bank
• Svalbard Global Seed Vault

Speaker – Geoff Hawtin

MA and PHD at Magdalene College Cambridge.
Served on Board of Trustees at Royal Botanical Gardens Kew and  Bioversity International Rome
First CEO of Global Crop Diversity Trust
In 2017 awarded OBE for Services to Global Agrobiodiversity Conservation

Booking is essential – please email Cafescihenley@gmail.com