
Wed, 20 Oct
|Online Event
Forum on Science and Environmentally Sustainable Agriculture

Time & Location
20 Oct 2021, 12:00 pm – 3:00 pm GMT-4
Online Event
About the Event
US Embassy, Kingston and The UWI
Forum on: Science Solutions for Environmentally Sustainable Agriculture
Date: October 20, 2021
Time: 12 – 3 pm (Eastern Caribbean); 1-4 pm (Jamaica)
Keynote Speaker: Tim Searchinger – Research Scholar, Princeton University, Senior Fellow and Technical Director, Food Program - World Resources Institute (WRI)
Panel Themes:
Panel 1 | Climate Change and the World Food Challenge – a Regional Perspective
Panel 2 | Science and Technology Based Solutions for Water and Soil Management in the Climate Context
Panel 3 | The Role of Science and Technology in Achieving Climate-Friendly Food Systems
Who should attend: Academics/researchers, university students; policymakers ; practitioners and producers who are specifically interested in environmentally sustainable agriculture.
Moderators and Panellists include:
Dr. David C. Smith – Director, Centre for Environmental Management, Coordinator, Institute for Sustainable Development - University of the West Indies
Dr. Patricia Northover – Senior Fellow at the Sir Arthur Lewis Institute of Social and Economic Studies (SALISES), UWI Mona
Dr. Sharon Hutchinson – Faculty of Food and Agriculture – St. Augustine, Trinidad
Dr. Khadijah Williams – Chair, Policy and Research Committee – Jamaica Network of Rural Women Producers
Hugh Johnson – Vice President of the World Cocoa Farmers Organization and President, Small Business Association of Jamaica
Dr. Ronald Roopnarine – Lecturer, Faculty of Food and Agriculture, University of the West Indies, Trinidad and Tobago
Dr. Chaney St. Martin – Water and soil management expert, Inter-American Institute for Cooperation on Agriculture (IICA)
Dr. Jonathan McFadden – Research Economist and Assistant Professor, Department of Economics, University of Oklahoma
Dr. Gaius Eudoxie – Deputy Dean Outreach at Faculty of Food and Agriculture, UWI, St Augustine
Dr. Dwight Robinson – Department of Life Sciences – UWI Mona
Dr. Jessica Fanzo – Bloomberg Distinguished Professor of Global Food Policy and Ethics at the Berman Institute of Bioethics, the Bloomberg School of Public Health, and the Nitze School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS) at Johns Hopkins University
Pedro Rocha – Coordinator of Biotechnology and Biosafety, Inter-American Institute for Cooperation on Agriculture (IICA)
Dr. Sylvia Adjoa Mitchell – Senior Lecturer, Medicinal Plant Research Group, The Biotechnology Centre, UWI Mona Campus
Registration required: https://bit.ly/3DoXVow
Registration deadline: Tuesday, Oct. 19, 2021 at noon.
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