<div dir="ltr"><div><div class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div><img src="cid:ii_16161d9ee2cc0d99" alt="Inline image 1" width="338" height="89" style="font-size: 12.8px; margin-right: 0px;"><br></div></div></div></div></div></div></div><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial"><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0px;color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial"><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34)">Hello Everyone,<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0px;color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial"><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34)">Please join us for a talk this<span> </span><b>Thursday 2/8</b> by Jeff Mitchell, 12-1pm in Room SE2-302.</span></p><br></div><div style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial">




















<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center;background:white;margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><b><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:rgb(34,34,34)">Food production systems for the future: Beyond the jargon</span></b><b><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:rgb(34,34,34)"><span></span></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center;background:white;margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><b><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:rgb(34,34,34)"><br></span></b></p>

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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white;margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:rgb(34,34,34)">Despite positive trajectories in global production during the
past century, projected food demand and the goal of minimizing expansion of
cropland now dictate an increase in food production by roughly 70% during the
first half of the 21^st century.  Because future gains in
production are unlikely to be reached by further increases in yield potential
as have been achieved in the past, a new process of discovery and adoption of
improved practices is going to be needed.  Traditional conventional
systems of agriculture are will need to be transformed and improved if they
are not to jeopardize food security for future generations.  This seminar
explores these challenges and the attributes of production systems that may
best provide global food security in coming centuries and argues that what have
been developed as the core concepts and framework of conservation agriculture,
flexibly and creatively applied across very long-term time scales, offers in
large measure our best hope. </span><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:rgb(34,34,34)"><span></span></span></p>

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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Jeff
Mitchell is a Cooperative Extension Cropping Systems Specialist in the
Department of Plant Sciences Science at the University of California,
Davis.<span>  </span>He came through UC Davis for both
his Master’s and PhD degrees.<span> </span>He tells
me that he has the good fortune to work with California’s Conservation
Agriculture Systems Innovation Center which currently has over 2,200
university, farmer, Natural Resource Conservation Service, public agency, and private
industry members and affiliates.<span>  </span>Before
beginning his graduate studies, he was a teacher and served as a US Peace Corps
Volunteer in Botswana, in Southern Africa.<span> 
</span>He also teaches courses on agronomic and vegetable crop systems at the
University of California, Davis.<span></span></span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span> </span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12.8px;font-family:arial,sans-serif">When: Feb. 8, Thursday, 12pm – 1pm</span></p></div><div style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial"><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0px"><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34)"> <u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0px"><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34)">Where: SE2-302<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0px"><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34)"> <u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0px"><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34)">Coffee will be provided, please bring your own mugs.<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0px"><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34)"> <u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0px"><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34)">We look forward to seeing you,<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0px"><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34)"> <u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0px"><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34)">Nate & Jing<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0px"><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34)"> <u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0px"><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34)">Organizers for Spring 2018: Nate Bogie and Jing Yan<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0px"><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34)">Faculty coordinator: Asmeret Asefaw Berhe</span></p></div><br></div>
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