Session: Sustainable Intensification for Improved Food Production and Environmental Quality Oral
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Division: ASA Section: Environmental Quality

Title: Sustainable Intensification for Improved Food Production and Environmental Quality Oral

Community Leader: P. V. Vara Prasad
Organizers: P. V. Vara Prasad , Sieglinde S. Snapp and Mitch C. Hunter
Lead Community Sponsor: Sustainable Intensification Community
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Format: Oral Topical Session
Keywords: Environmental Quality, Farming System, Food System and Sustainable Intensifiation

Session Description: The dual challenge of increasing global food production while reducing environmental impacts of agriculture is more urgent than ever. Sustainable Intensification (SI) is an approach that aims to increase crop yields on existing agricultural land while minimizing the negative environmental pressures and impacts of agricultural systems. Concepts and principles of SI are innovative and has the potential for transforming food production systems. Multidisciplinary approaches involving all actors of food production system and consumers is required. The SI community brings together members from across our Society to examine challenges, limitations, and opportunities for SI in agronomic production systems across the globe.