Four-day moot: Botanists urged to devise food security solutions

PESHAWAR: As the country faces one of its worst water crises, experts gathered at an international conference on plant resources were urged to come up with food security solutions.

The four-day conference, titled “plant resources, current trends, challenges and its solutions,” opened at the University of Peshawar on Saturday. The conference includes 35 technical sessions where around 600 papers will be presented before 1,000 delegates.

The botanical conference has been jointly organised by the Islamia College University (ICU) and the University of Peshawar (UoP) with collaboration from the Higher Education Commission (HEC) and the Pakistan Botanical Society.



University of Peshawar Vice Chancellor Prof Dr Asif Khan urged delegates to come up with solutions for global food shortages, clean energy, climate change and for enhancing botanical effectiveness in finding a cure to diseases.

Earlier, the joint organisers of the conference, including the vice chancellors of UoP and ICU honoured visiting experts including Professor Andrew Pieroni from Italy, Prof Marie Barkwork and Prof Stephen Wegulo from the USA, Prof Zhay Fuqi from China and Prof Ahmet Aksoy from Turkey.

Published in The Express Tribune, March 25^th, 2018.