Louise Fresco, resident of Wageningen University and Research in The Netherlands, will present a lecture Thursday night titled “Hamburgers in Paradise: Food and Agriculture in the 21st Century.”

The lecture will take place at noon on Thursday in room 1951 of Food Sciences Building. A reception will precede the talk from 11:30 a.m. to noon in the Food Sciences courtyard.

Fresco, who has also served as a former U.N. director, a contributor to think tanks and has advised to academies in the United States and Europe, will speak about how unrest is made worse by hunger, poverty, environmental problems and modernization during the lecture.

A book Fresco authored titled Hamburgers in Paradise: The Stories behind the Food We Eat will be released next month, and in 2013 wrote an op-ed that received worldwide attention titled “The GMO Stalemate in Europe” in Science Magazine.

The lecture is sponsered by the Agronomy department, the College of Agriculture & Life Sciences, the World Food Prize Foundation and the Committee on Lectures.