Call for Abstracts
The topics of interests include but are not limited to
- The global food market
- Large scale and global agribusiness: efficiencies, offerings and deficiencies
- Community food security
- Sustainable food communities
- The local food movement
- Economics of farmers markets and community co-ops
- Urban and rural food deserts
- Supply chains: just-in-time distribution, transportation and warehousing
- Waste management in food production and environmental sustainability
- Health and Nutrition
- Urban agriculture
- Nutrition in Public Health
- Farmland preservation
- Agricultural land availability and ‘peak food’
- Soil depletion, exhaustion, erosion and fertilizers; and remedies
- Agricultural fossil fuel use and rising energy costs
- Implications of transitions with growing affluence from grains, legumes and pulses, to meat and dairy
- Agriculture and deforestation
- Principles and practices of sustainable agriculture
- Diversion of foods into biofuels
- Food production and the water supply
- Natural disasters and the food supply
- Organic foods
- Genetically modified foods
- The green revolution
- Food science
- Agricultural greenhouse gases and climate change; and remedies in agricultural carbon sequestration
- Hydroponic and low-carbon agriculture
- Farm originated and feedlot pollution
- Animal welfare