IESIC 2024

The Indian Ecological Society International Conference 2024

"Transforming Agrifood Systems in the Face of Climate Changes and Energy Transitions"

In collaboration with

Punjab Agricultural University Ludhiana, India

November 12-15, 2024

Themes

T1-Climate Changes and Energy Transitions

  • Climate change adaptation and mitigation
  • Tolerance of plants and livestock to heat, flooding, drought, and saltwater intrusions
  • Optimizing energy required for tillage and other farm operations
  • Making soils a carbon-sink while maintaining fertility and use
  • Preparing for new pest invasions as climates change
  • Electrification of farm machinery
  • Energy and water efficient innovations for Agri-food systems
  • Reduce emission of greenhouse gases
  • Emerging threat to sustainable agriculture

T2-Regenerative Agriculture

  • Circular Economy
  • Zero input agriculture
  • Pant-plant and plant-animal signaling
  • Underground plant-plant communications
  • Collective action and social innovation for transformation
  • Breeding adaptation; tolerance systems
  • Digital tools for sustainable agri-food systems
  • Sustainable climate-smart agricultural practices and agri-food systems
  • Climate smart organic farming

T3United Nations Sustainable Development Goals: Transitions to Resilient

  • Agrifood Systems
  • SDG2: End hunger, achieve food security, improve nutrition and promote sustainable agriculture
  • Economic, environmental and social indicators of sustainability: Land productivity, Profitability, Resilience, Soil health, Water use, Fertilizer pollution risk, Pesticide risks, farm employment, Food security, Land tenure. Measuring Progress towards Productive and Sustainable Agriculture
  • Climate change
  • Climate change and industrial agriculture
  • Integrated pest management
  • Biotechnological interventions in agriculture

T4-Biodiversity and Provision of Ecosystem Services Across Agricultural Landscapes

  • Building and maintaining genetic diversity of seeds, cultivated, wild, farmed and domesticated plants and animals
  • Biodiversity and ecosystem services role in agrifood systems.
  • Meeting future conservation targets, and maintaining key services for humans and biodiversity

T5-Future Forest Management: Towards Climate Resilience

  • Climate Resilient Management Practices
  • Criteria and Indicators of Sustainable Climate Resilient Forest Management
  • Climate resilient tree species
  • Tree improvement techniques for mass seed production
  • Urban tree plantations for minimizing the climate risks
  • Climate change durable agro-forestry
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