Sustainable Global Agrifood Systems: Reducing Carbon, Water, and Biodiversity Footprints of Agricultural Production with Improved Land Management
Sustainable Global Agrifood Systems: Reducing Carbon, Water, and Biodiversity Footprints of Agricultural Production with Improved Land Management
Session ID#: 282246
Session Description:
The global agrifood supply chain is shifting towards sustainability. Improved agroecosystem management has a great potential for reducing greenhouse gas emissions, enhancing carbon sequestration and soil health, reducing water use and pollution, and/or avoiding biodiversity losses. Improved modeling and monitoring capacities to track these environmental footprints for agroecosystems are urgently needed in both academia and industry. We invite submissions focusing on: (1) developing scalable and cost-effective monitoring capacities to track environmental footprints; (2) synthesizing multi-source observations to infer environmental footprints, including those from near-surface/airborne/satellite remote sensing, ground surveys, long-term experiments, and intensive sensor networks; (3) multi-scale process-based modeling of soil, plant, management, environmental, and economic aspects of the agricultural system; (4) systematic model-data integration to support measurement, reporting and verification and decision-making for improved farming practice, policy design, and economic returns; and (5) new protocols, standards, market mechanisms, project methodologies, and policies related to sustainability in global agrifood systems.
Co-Sponsor(s):
- B - Biogeosciences
- GH - GeoHealth
- H - Hydrology
- SY - Science and Society
Index Terms:
0402 Agricultural systems [BIOGEOSCIENCES]
0410 Biodiversity [BIOGEOSCIENCES]
1615 Biogeochemical cycles, processes, and modeling [GLOBAL CHANGE]
1640 Remote sensing [GLOBAL CHANGE]
Primary Convener: Bin Peng, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, United States
Conveners: Zhenong Jin, Peking University, The Institute of Ecology, College of Urban and Environmental Science, Beijing, China, Jinyun Tang, Lawrence Berkeley Natl Lab, Climate and Ecosystem Sciences Division, Berkeley, United States and Kaiyu Guan, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, Agroecosystem Sustainability Center, Institute for Sustainability, Energy, and Environment, Urbana, United States
Student/Early Career Convener: Jie Yang, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, United States
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