Dear colleagues -- I'm putting together a panel for the 2013 ISA conference on the loose theme of "agriculture in the shadow of climate change." Philip McMichael will chair, and Bryan McDonald has agreed to act as discussant. I'm looking for a couple of additional papers to fill out the panel.
If you have room for this in your ISA planning please send along a brief abstract to [email protected]. Here's the working panel description: --- DRAFT PANEL DESCRIPTION (pending your paper ideas) Panel Title: Feeding a Warming World This panel will look at the challenge of feeding a growing human population on a warming planet. Established forecasts suggest that global food production will need to expand by as much as 70% by mid-century, even as climate change threatens to worsen the world’s agricultural prospects. Is human ingenuity up to the task? What are the potential paths forward, and how is the world to choose among them? What is being done today to prepare for the food needs of tomorrow? --- Thanks for considering, Simon Simon Nicholson, Ph.D.Assistant ProfessorSchool of International ServiceAmerican University4400 Massachusetts Avenue, NWWashington DC 20016 Associate Director of the Global Scholars Programhttp://www.american.edu/sis/globalscholars/index.cfm Phone: +1-202-885-1614E-mail: [email protected] www.american.edu/sis/faculty/snichols.cfm
