Session 3: Sustainable and Climate-Smart
Farms and Farmers of the Future
Session 3: Sustainable and Climate-Smart
March 19, 2021
Moderator
Dr. Adam Chambers
Air Quality Scientist, USDA NRCS National Air Quality and Atmospheric Change Team
Opening Remarks
Introductory video
Dr. Gerald Shively
Associate Dean and Director of International Program in Agriculture, Purdue University
Presentations
Resilient Agricultural Systems
Dr. Robert Bertram
Chief Scientist, USAID
Soil Quality and Health
Dr. Rattan Lal
Distinguished University Professor of Soil Science, The Ohio State University
Adapting Agricultural Systems to the Effect of Climate Change
Dr. M.L. Jat
Principal Scientist-Sustainable Intensification, CIMMYT
Integrated Crop-livestock Systems as a Climate-smart Strategy for Food Security
Dr. Paulo Carvalho
Discipline Leader in the Grazing Ecology Research Group, Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil
Questions & Answers
Wrap-up & Closing Remarks
Resources
- Resilience and Sustainability in Ancient Agricultural Systems
(Article, BioOne, 2015) - A framework to assess the resilience of farming systems
(Article, Science Direct, 2018) - Resilience in agricultural and food systems
(Article, International Institute for Environment and Development, 2019) - Resilient Agriculture
(Article, Winrock International, 2017) - Climate resilient agriculture systems: The way ahead
(Article, DownToEarth, 2021) - Building resilient agricultural systems through farmer field schools
(Article, Food and Agriculture Organization, 2015) - Toward a more resilient agriculture
(Article, Solutions, 2016) - Understanding Climate-Smart Agriculture
(Video, Food and Agriculture Organization, 2015) - How to grow food in land people think is useless
(Article, Authority Magazine, 2019) - Resilient Agricultural Practices
(Article, Research Gate, 2019)
- Soil Health
(Article & Video, United States Department of Agriculture, 2017) - Managing Soil Health: Concepts and Practices
(Article, Penn State Extension, 2017) - Regenerative Agriculture
(Article, Cargill, 2021) - Soil Quality and Soil Health
(Article, United States Department of Agriculture, Natural Resource Service, 2019) - Developments in Agricultural Soil Quality and Health
(Article, Frontiers in Environmental Science, 2019) - Soil health in agricultural systems
(Article, National Center for Biotechnology Information, 2007) - Soil Health Digest
(Article, Successful Farming, 2019) - What is Soil Quality?
(Article, Cornell University) - Critical review of soil biology
(Article, ResearchGate, 2019) - Soil Management
(Article, New Mexico State University, 2019)
- Adapting Agriculture to Climate Change
(Article, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 2007) - 5 Ways our Government can Confront Climate Change
(Article/Blog, Interamerican Association for Environmental Defense, 2017) - Vulnerabilities in Agriculture and Forestry
(Article, United States Department of Agriculture, 2013) - Mitigating Climate Change in Agriculture
(PDF Report, California Environmental Associates, 2014) - Agriculture and Climate Change: Towards Sustainable, Productive and Climate-Friendly Agricultural Systems
(PDF Report, Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development, 2016) - How does Climate Change affect Agriculture?
(Video, Syngenta, 2018) - Climate Change Adaption and Mitigation in the Food and Agricultural Sector
(PDF Report, Food and Agriculture Organization, 2008) - A new tool to help scale water innovations
(Article, International Water Management Institute, 2021) - Establishing irrigation potential of a hillside aquifer in the African highlands
(PDF Report, Wiley Online Library, 2019) - Predicting Shallow Groundwater Tables for Sloping Highland Aquifers
(PDF Report, UK Research Council, 2019)
- Climate-smart integrated production systems
(Article, Food and Agriculture Organization, 2021) - Support to specific fishing and farming needs in Tonga
(News Article, Food and Agriculture Organization, 2014) - The Role of Trees in Aguaculture Systems
(Article, Agroforestry.com, 2006) - Agroforestry could make agriculture emissions-neutral by 2050
(Article, World Agroforestry Centre, 2018) - Evidence for the impacts of agroforestry on agricultural productivity, ecosystems services and human well-being in high-income countries
(Article, Environmental Evidence, 2018) - What is Regenerative Agriculture?
(Article, reNature, 2020) - Aguaculture
(Article, United States Department of Agriculture, 2019)