February 2007
MEDIA ADVISORY: UC experts discuss agricultural sustainability at AAAS
WHO: UC economist, UC agricultural sustainability expert, California farmer, and other national research scientists
WHERE: Renaissance Parc 55 Hotel, Fourth Floor, Parc Ballroom 3, 55 Cyril Magnin Street, San Francisco
WHEN: 10:30 a.m. -12:00 p.m., Sunday, Feb. 18, 2007
WHAT: AAAS seminar: Science, Sustainability and Subsidies for Agriculture and ResourceThere is serious concern around the world about how we can achieve sustainable agricultural systems. Given the scope and importance of agricultural subsidies to many nations, the influence of how, why and where subsidies are applied is of great importance to scientific efforts directed at achieving sustainability. This seminar will address sustainability in U.S. agriculture, considering the science needed to achieve sustainability as well as economic and policy influences with respect to monetary subsidies paid by the government to farmers and ranchers. Alternative incentives will be explored for enhancing research and applications by agricultural stakeholders related to energy conservation and the conservation of renewable natural resources.
Daniel Sumner, director of UC Davis Agricultural Issues Center and Frank S. Buck Jr. professor in the Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics, UC Davis, will speak on "Subsidies and the Character and Structure of North American Agriculture."
Tom Tomich, director of UC Davis Agricultural Sustainability Institute/UC Sustainable Agriculture Research & Education Program, will discuss agricultural sustainability.
For more information about the 2007 Annual Meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, please go to:
http://www.aaas.org/meetings/Annual_Meeting/.Media Contacts:
Cal Qualset, (530) 754-8502, coqualset@ucdavis.edu
Tom Tomich, (530) 752-2379, tptomich@ucdavis.edu,
Daniel Sumner, (530) 752-1668, dasumner@ucdavis.edu
