Serageldin Speaks at the Second Annual Malthus Lecture
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Dr. Ismail Serageldin, Director of the Library of Alexandria, is this year’s speaker at the Second Annual Malthus Lecture on 14 July 2011.
This is a lecture series organized once a year by the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) and the U.S. Population Reference Bureau. The name of the series refers to the English scholar Reverend Thomas Robert Malthus, known for his theory published in the early 19th century that sooner or later population gets checked by famine and disease, a theory which has ever since created a debate on whether the earth’s resources can sustainably feed the ever growing global population.
Serageldin tackles this debate in his lecture entitled “Feeding the World Sustainably: Reflections, Issues, and Suggestions”, where he recognizes that “ensuring global food security is a major challenge,” but asserts that “it is not beyond the ken of human ingenuity and determination”.