ABSTRACT
This chapter concerns a scientific meeting to be held in France to explore how global modelling can be used in improving people's ability to understand and deal with the agricultural and energy systems which are so important to the daily lives of people everywhere in the world. The symposium analyses the abilities to provide sufficient food and energy to the globe's swelling billions as we move towards an increasingly crowded, competitive, and perilous 21st century world. There is the relationship between food and energy at the input level. There are also links between oil prices and attempts to increase agricultural production through desalinisation and use of hydroponics. Another food-energy interaction results from the rapid exploitation of fuel wood by the poor, who increasingly lack the income to buy kerosene. In the long run, new patterns of food distribution and consumption and new allocations of energy will depend on countless millions of decisions by individuals around the globe.
