Upcoming Program

Using Our Precious Land Wisely

today September 1, 2023


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Rising population and demand for food, feed, fiber and fuel as well as minerals are increasing competition for land. How can we protect and restore land to fight climate change, prevent biodiversity loss and sustain other ecosystem service benefits that people depend upon from nature. 

  • Tim Searchinger is a Senior Research Scholar at the Princeton School of Public and International Affairs and Senior Fellow at World Resources Institute (WRI), where he serves as technical director of its Food Program. Searchinger’s work combines ecology, agronomy and economics to analyze the challenge of how to feed a growing world population while reducing deforestation and greenhouse gas emissions from agriculture. He will discuss the land squeeze challenge, and what we can do about it.
  • Audrey Epp Schmidt is the Nature Conservancy Agroforestry Program Manager for The Nature Conservancy’s North America Regenerative Agriculture Program. In this role, she manages USDA Partnerships for ClimateSmart Commodities grants to advance agroforestry as a natural climate solution. She will discuss the multiple benefits of agroforestry and silvopasture, ways of using more trees in agriculture.

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Begin September 1, 2023 4:00 pm
End September 1, 2023 5:00 pm

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