The table of tomorrow - Organic agriculture, genetics and the future of our food

As part of its Agriculture of Tomorrow club and in partnership with the Agridées think tank, JUNIA ALUMNI invites you to a presentation/conference on the book :

La table de demain - L'agriculture bio, la génétique et l'avenir de notre alimentation (Tomorrow's Table - Organic Farming, Genetics and the Future of Food ), published by Editions Agridées (recently translated into French).ais) of the best-selling book "Tomorrow's Table - Organic Farming, Genetics and the Future of Food" by American authors Pamela Ronald and Raoul Adamchak.

In the presence of one of the authors, Pamela Ronald.

The conference will be followed by a signing session and a cocktail reception.

This book is available for 30 euros, plus postage. It can be purchased here: https://www.agridees.com/product/la-table-de-demain/

Based in California, the Ronald-Adamchak family is atypical. While organic farming and genetic engineering don't usually mix, the authors of this book, who are the protagonists of these two specialties, meet, listen to and respect each other, and manage to come to an agreement. Quite simply because they share the same vision: to make agriculture and food more sustainable, particularly in environmental terms.

What unites the guests at La table de demain is a healthy, nature-focused lifestyle, and above all, the pleasure of eating well together. This very special book is therefore not only a compendium of agroecological practices and extremely well-documented scientific facts on plant breeding and biotechnologies, but also a mine of tasty and varied recipes to share with family and friends. All in all, it's an invitation to share in the daily life of an endearing, open-minded American family.

This 380-page book is organized into 8 parts: Introduction, The Farm, The Laboratory, Consumers, The Environment, Property, The World, Dinner. It is pedagogical, with many explanatory boxes (mainly scientific on genetics and life sciences, but also on climate change, plant-based supplements and industrial agriculture). Its originality lies in the fact that it is written in the form of a family chronicle, with numerous reunions around good home-cooked meals. It is also a book of original recipes.

Authors:

Pamela C. Ronald is a distinguished professor in the Department of Plant Pathology and Genomics Center at the University of California, Davis (USA), where she studies the roles played by certain genes in a plant's responses to the environment. Ronald's laboratory has modified rice to make it resistant to disease and tolerant to flooding, two constraints that seriously threaten rice crops in Asia and Africa. She is the author of over 200 publications in peer-reviewed journals. She and her colleagues received the 2008 Discovery Award from the U.S. Department of Agriculture's National Research Program and the 2012 Tech Award for Valuing Technology in the Service of Humanity for their work on flood tolerance in rice. In 2012, Ronald was awarded the Louis Malassis International Science Prize in Agriculture and Food. Her TED1 talk in 2015 on plant genetics and food security counts over 1.5 million views and has been translated into 24 languages. She is a member of the French National Academy of Sciences.

Raoul W. Adamchak has been growing organically for over thirty years, in part as a partner in Full Belly Farm, a 60-hectare organic vegetable operation that provided weekly baskets of produce to over 500 subscribers. Raoul sold produce at three wholesale markets and to wholesalers and retailers in the San Francisco Bay Area and Sacramento. He was a member, then president, of the Board of Directors of California Certified Organic Farmers and has inspected over 100 organic farms for this organization. He holds a BA in Economics from Clark University and an MA in International Agricultural Development from the University of California, Davis. He now works at the university's student farm, where he teaches organic production practices and manages three hectares of certified organic vegetables and fruit.