Session: Symposium--Scaling of Sustainable Agricultural Intensification Practices
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Division: ASA Section: Environmental Quality

Title: Symposium--Scaling of Sustainable Agricultural Intensification Practices

Community Leaders: P. V. Vara Prasad and Zach P. Stewart
Organizers: P. V. Vara Prasad , Ivan Ortiz-Monasterio and Zach P. Stewart
Moderator: Zach P. Stewart
Lead Community Sponsor: Sustainable Intensification Community
Cosponsor: ASA Section: Global Agronomy
Community Cosponsor: Agronomy in Africa Community
Format: Oral Symposium
Keywords: Food Security and Sustainable Agriculture

Session Description: Sustainable intensification (SI) of farming systems is essential to address the grand challenge of increasing production of nutritious and safe food, while safeguarding the environment. Research on agronomic, genetic, ecological and social components of SI along with building enabling environments through appropriate policy is a prerequisite for success. The goal of this symposium will be to have a dialogue to share global success stories and examples of interventions that have effectively used principles of SI to address food and nutritional security. Reasons for success and how to create enabling environments for SI interventions will be presented and discussed.