2007 Pesek Colloquium: Cynthia Rosenzweig, Climate Change & Agriculture

Date: Wednesday, February 28th, 2007

Start: 7:00 pm

Location: Ames, Iowa

For the 2007 Pesek Colloquium on Sustainable Agriculture, Cynthia Rosenzweig spoke about "Climate Change and Agriculture: Learning Lessons and Proposing Solutions." Rosenzweig is a research agronomist at the NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies in New York City and leader of its Climate Impacts Group. She recently led an international, interdisciplinary project to study the potential impacts of climate change on world food supply, trade, and risk of hunger. She is coauthor, with Daniel Hillel, of Climate Change and the Global Harvest: Potential Impacts of the Greenhouse Effect on Agriculture (1998).

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