Farmers at this year’s NFU Cymru Mid-Gwynedd annual meeting will hear expert opinion on climate change and feeding the world’s increasing population.
Guest speaker at the meeting, which will start promptly at 7pm on Thursday 26 January 2012 at the Meifod Country House Hotel, Bontnewydd, will be Professor Gareth Wyn Jones of Bangor University, whose address will be “The Challenge of Feeding the World’s Population and Climate Change”.
Recent predictions include a nine billion world population by 2050 and a potential increase in global temperature through the effect of greenhouse gases with consequent implications for food production.
Professor Gareth Wyn Jones chaired The Land Use Climate Change Group set up under the previous Welsh Government two years ago as an independent body with representatives from the farming, forestry, research and environmental sectors. It was asked to consider how agriculture and rural land use could help to reduce and adapt to climate change and to look at opportunities for farming and forestry.
The annual report will be presented by retiring Chairman Mr Edwin Noble and the meeting will confirm the 2012/2013 officeholders as follows: Messrs William Hughes, Chairman, Aled Jones, Deputy Chairman, Dafydd Jones, Treasurer, Merfyn Thomas, President and John Owen, Welsh Council Delegate. There will also be an address by Mr Stephen James, Deputy President of NFU Cymru and presentation of the RP Owen Shield for Best Branch. Members are urged to attend the meeting, which is sponsored by HSBC.
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