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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#222222">Please join us for a talk this <b>Today 2/8</b> by Jeff Mitchell, 12-1pm in Room SE2-302.<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center;background:white"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:#222222">Food production systems for the future: Beyond the jargon</span></b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:#222222"><u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:#222222">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:12.0pt;color:#222222"><u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:#222222">Jeff Mitchell is a Cooperative Extension Cropping Systems Specialist in the Department of Plant Sciences Science at the University
 of California, Davis.  He came through UC Davis for both his Master’s and PhD degrees. 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.  Before beginning his graduate studies, he was a teacher and served as a US Peace Corps Volunteer in Botswana, in Southern Africa.  He also teaches courses on
 agronomic and vegetable crop systems at the University of California, Davis.</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:#222222"><u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#222222">When: Feb. 8, Thursday, 12pm – 1pm</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:#222222"><u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#222222">Where: SE2-302<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#222222">Coffee will be provided, please bring your own mugs.<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#222222">We look forward to seeing you,<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#222222">Nate & Jing<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#222222">Organizers for Spring 2018: Nate Bogie and Jing Yan<u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#222222">Faculty coordinator: Asmeret Asefaw Berhe<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Jing Yan<br>
Postdoctoral Scholar, Soil Physics Lab, School of Natural Sciences,<br>
University of California, Merced</p>
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