Sustainable Agriculture Matrix (SAM) Consortium: a Transdisciplinary and Transnational Network to Guide the Pursuit of Sustainable Agriculture

Xin Zhang1, Levent Ozturk2, Christian Folberth3, Pauline Chivenge4, LUiz Antonio Martinelli5, Tafadzwanashe Mabhaudhi6, Jean Pierre Ometto7, Kevin Edward Jackson8, Lilian Nkengla9, Rosario Castro Bernardini9, Srishti Vishwakarma1, William Dennison10 and Eric A Davidson11, (1)University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science Appalachian Laboratory, Frostburg, United States, (2)Sabanci University, Istanbul, Turkey, (3)IIASA International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis, Laxenburg, Austria, (4)African Plant Nutrition Institute, Benguérir, Morocco, (5)CENA/USP University of Sao Paulo, Piracicaba, Brazil, (6)University of KwaZulu-Natal, Durban, South Africa, (7)INPE National Institute for Space Research (INPE), Earth System Science Center, Sao Jose dos Campos, Brazil, (8)University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science, Frostburg, United States, (9)Oxfam America, Washington, DC, United States, (10)University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science, Cambridge, MD, United States, (11)University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science Appalachian Laboratory, Frostburg, MD, United States