Session: Special Session Symposium--the Role of Food Production in Climate Change: Finding New Ground

Division: Special Sessions

Title: Special Session Symposium--the Role of Food Production in Climate Change: Finding New Ground

Lead Community Sponsor:
Cosponsor: ASA Section: Agronomic Production Systems, SSSA Division: Soils and Environmental Quality, C06 Forage and Grazinglands, ASA Section: Climatology and Modeling, ASA Section: Global Agronomy, SSSA Division: Soil and Water Management and Conservation
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Format: Oral Symposium
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Session Description: Agriculture contributes to climate change as a result of greenhouse gases (GHGs) generated in the production of animal and plant products. This cross-cutting symposium will explore this system's (animal, crop, soil and atmospheric sciences, social sciences, economics, and policy) feedback dynamics with climate change. The purpose of this symposium is to provide a forum for a discussion of complex issues whose improved understanding can pave the way for future research, education, and policy solutions to the most critical environmental and human health issue of our time. Our goal is that attendees leave the symposium with new and challenging questions resulting from the shattering of academic silos.