GC31E:
Linkages, Trade-Offs, and Synergies Between the Global Food System, Society, and the Environment Posters

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Session ID#: 23706

Session Description:
The global food system is one of the most extensive ways by which humanity has altered the planet. Massive demands for water, fertilizers, and energy support the production, transport, and consumption of food, while increasing globalization of the food system intimately links distant human and natural systems. Achieving global food security requires this food system to function within environmental boundaries and in the face of environmental change and variability. This session welcomes submissions that examine the interaction of the environment and food security, especially approaches that integrate nutrition, livelihoods, and social-environmental feedbacks. Submissions which discuss potential solutions for achieving sustainable food production, including their feasibility/implementation, are encouraged. Collectively, this session aims to better understand the linkages, tradeoffs, and synergies between the global food system, society, and the environment.
Primary Convener:  Kyle Frankel Davis, Columbia University, The Earth Institute, New York, United States; The Nature Conservancy, New York, NY, United States
Convener:  Jessica Gephart, University of Maryland, National Socio-Environmental Synthesis Center, Annapolis, MD, United States
Chairs:  Jessica Gephart, University of Maryland, National Socio-Environmental Synthesis Center, Annapolis, MD, United States and Kyle Frankel Davis, The Nature Conservancy, New York, NY, United States
OSPA Liaison:  Kyle Frankel Davis, The Nature Conservancy, New York, NY, United States

Cross-Listed:
  • B - Biogeosciences
  • H - Hydrology
  • SI - Societal Impacts and Policy Sciences
Index Terms:

0402 Agricultural systems [BIOGEOSCIENCES]
1616 Climate variability [GLOBAL CHANGE]
1630 Impacts of global change [GLOBAL CHANGE]
1834 Human impacts [HYDROLOGY]

Abstracts Submitted to this Session:

Global and regional drivers of land-use emissions 1961-2013 (Invited) (220752)
Steven J Davis1, Jennifer A Burney2, Julia Pongratz3 and Eberhard Hansis3, (1)University of California, Irvine, Irvine, CA, United States, (2)University of California San Diego, La Jolla, United States, (3)Max Planck Institute for Meteorology, Hamburg, Germany
Is carbon farming an effective climate mitigation option? (230369)
Tamara Jane Zelikova1, Jason Funk2, Noah Deich3, Giana Amador2, Rory Jacobson2 and CCR, (1)University of Wyoming, Laramie, WY, United States, (2)Center for Carbon Removal, Oakland, United States, (3)Center for Carbon Removal, Berkeley, CA, United States
Assessing Agricultural Intensification Strategies with a Sustainable Agriculture Matrix (243428)
Xin Zhang, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ, United States and Eric A Davidson, University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science Appalachian Laboratory, Frostburg, MD, United States
Biodiversity Hotspots, Climate Change, and Agricultural Development: Global Limits of Adaptation (248553)
Uwe Andreas Schneider1, Livia Rasche1, Erwin Schmid2 and Jan Christian Habel3, (1)University of Hamburg, Center for Earth System Research and Sustainability (CEN), Hamburg, Germany, (2)BOKU University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences, Economics and Social Sciences, Vienna, Austria, (3)Technical University of Munich, Ecology and Ecosystemmanagement, Munich, Germany
Beneficial impacts of an international grain reserve on global food security (266803)
Christian Otto1,2, Jacob Schewe2, Michael Joseph Puma3 and Katja Frieler4, (1)Columbia University of New York, The Earth Institute, Palisades, NY, United States, (2)Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research, Potsdam, Germany, (3)Columbia University, Center for Climate Systems Research, New York, NY, United States, (4)Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (PIK), Research Department Transformation Pathways, Potsdam, Germany
Phosphorus Import Dependency and Recycling Potential in the Global Phosphorus Mosaic (289078)
Stephen M Powers, Baylor University, Biology, Center for Reservoir and Aquatic Systems Research, Waco, TX, United States

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