Call For Papers: Agriculture and Climate Session at AAG Annual Meeting

[Jonathan M. Winter]

Dear Colleagues,

We encourage you to submit an abstract to the session: "Climate Change and the Future of Agriculture” at the 2018 American Association of Geographers Annual Meeting.

 

Session Description: Last year the prevalence of undernourishment increased for the first time in decades, and in the future, the global agricultural sector faces the significant challenge of feeding a population projected to increase to 9 billion by mid-century under an evolving climate. This session will explore the geography of agricultural production systems at local to global scales inclusive of crops, climate, water, soils, and technology.

We seek papers that address all aspects of food production and security. Topics include, but are not limited to, agricultural climate risk, statistical and process-based methods of evaluating crop yields, land use and land cover change, the representation of water scarcity, soils, and nitrogen in crop simulations, interactions between agriculture and extreme events, climate change adaptation and mitigation strategies, proliferation of violence and food security, and precision agriculture.

 

Please contact Jonathan Winter (jwi...@dartmouth.edu) with any preliminary ideas or questions. Interested participants should email a copy of your abstract and program information number (PIN) to Jonathan Winter (jwi...@dartmouth.edu), Steven Quiring (quiri...@osu.edu), and Jeffrey Andresen (andr...@msu.edu) by Wednesday, October 25.              

 

The AAG Annual Meeting is April 10-14, 2018 in New Orleans (http://annualmeeting.aag.org/), and the deadline to submit an abstract is October 25, 2017 (http://annualmeeting.aag.org/submit_an_abstract).

Best,

Jonathan Winter

Steven Quiring

Jeffrey Andresen