GHI 2024 : 2nd GHI World Congress on Global Food Safety and Security: Stepping up the Transition of the Global Food System for a Sustainable Future

The 2024 GHI World Congress will be held in Rotterdam, the Netherlands, on the 18th to 20th March 2024. From all over the world, food scientists, food industry experts and people with an interest in transforming our food systems to develop a sustainable future for a safe and secure food supply will come together in-person and on-line to highlight issues, discuss solutions and develop roadmaps.
This GHI World Congress marks 20 years since the founding of GHI, the Global Harmonization Initiative, and we are marking the occasion by focusing our attention and scientific collaborations on developing plans for a sustainable future for food for the next 20 years and beyond.
The line-up of world renown speakers includes: the future foods expert, Professor Mark Post, explaining the regulatory and consumer acceptance challenges for cultivated meat. Professor Arnold van Huis, Chief Editor of the Journal of Insects as Food and Feed, discussing the advantages of edible insects in assuring future food security. Gut microbiome specialist Professor Stanley Brul describing the known role of the gut microbiome in health and disease, with an emphasis on open questions that remain. And Professor Adewale Olusegun Obadina of the WHO Guideline Development Group on traditional food markets outlining the life-saving activities underway to make the cassava crop safer to eat - cassava is an important staple food in many parts of the Global South.
Other notable speakers include: The Chief Scientist of the European Food Safety Authority, Professor Carlos Gonçalo das Neves. Emeritus Professor Ruth Oniang'o, the recipient of the Africa Food Prize, Laureate and one of Fortune Magazine’s ‘Top 30 Women Achievers' Globally in Food and Drink’. And the Guardian columnist and environmental activist, George Monbiot.
The 2024 GHI World Congress will include sessions on innovation in food safety and security, future foods, consumers and sensory science, the transformation of food systems, and much more. To ensure your views are included as part of the discussions, save the date and register now. We look forward to welcoming you there. There will be ample opportunity for open discussions of issues faced, solutions hypothesized, and roadmaps developed. You are welcome to join our invited speakers on the podium by presenting your work and ideas at the Congress. Abstract submissions are being taken now. All speakers will have the opportunity to publish their papers in a conference book of the proceedings and in several special editions of scientific journals. For more information, visit the Congress website www.ghiworldcongress.org and view the Congress video there - See you there! About the 2024 GHI World Congress
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