Dr. Shemei Zhang places concepts on her map of understanding farm output while Dr. Zhanli " Jerry " Sun draws causal connections on his map of agricultural challenges.
Participants had great conversations around improving their theories. I am honored to work with such talented scholars!
Marvelous fun with causal mapping as Dr. Prishchepov explores deeper understandings of land system change for agriculture, reforestation, and the development of more effective theories and policies.
Heading to the end of a very interesting confernce. Food security is threatened by a combination of growing population, global warming, and weather uncertainty. Corruption and waste also contribute to reduce security. These will lead to increasing catastrophe including human hunger. This, in turn, leads to social instability, including discontent and revolution.
Great research by many participants
Also, wonderful insights by (among many others ) Dr Leslie Lipper of FAO. She noted that "evidence based policy" is not enough. We need to understand the larger picture. There is no "silver bullet" we need to have coordination between policies. Between, for example, adaptation and mitigation of agricultural change.
