This conference discussed the following points:
- How to balance the need to meet increased demand for food with the ability to increase production given climate change, scarcity of land and the depletion of resources?
- What is a sustainable diet? How will this change and with what impact on the needs of agriculture?
- How to grow more from less without burning rainforests, eroding soil quality or destroying natural habitats or biodiversity?
- How to reduce carbon inputs and dependence on oil use in agricultural production over the long term?
- What developments in science and technology are needed to generate a further green revolution?
- How to translate its applications into practice?
- How to ensure greater access and equity and reduce waste?
- What is the future use of land and how to balance competing needs?
- What trends in foreign direct investment and with what impacts?
- How to square the circle between enabling countries to ensure adequate food supplies for their populations yet guarantee food to net food importing countries?
- What should international food and agricultural policies look like for the next fifty years?
- What investments are likely to most beneficial?
