Accelerating Agricultural Productivity Growth for a Sustainable, Resilient World

At this hybrid event hosted by the Global Agricultural Productivity Initiative at Virginia Tech (GAP Initiative), the Coalition on Sustainable Productivity Growth for Food Security and Resource Conservation (SPG Coalition) and the U.S. Department of Agriculture, policymakers, private-sector innovators and research leaders will discuss the need to accelerate agricultural productivity growth and concrete actions to do so. The event will include the release of the 2022 Global Agricultural Productivity Report. It also features Nikki Dutta, the Foundation for Food & Agriculture Research’s (FFAR) Advanced Animal Systems Scientific Program Officer, who will present on FFAR’s Greener Cattle Initiative.

The world’s food and agricultural systems are under severe stress from the Russian invasion of Ukraine, climate change, and COVID-19, with devastating impacts on food security. Accelerating agricultural productivity growth is fundamental to meeting today’s challenges and building more sustainable, resilient systems to withstand challenges in the future.

Key Topics

• What is the outlook for agricultural productivity growth in the face of the Russian invasion of Ukraine and other conflicts, COVID-19, and climate change?
• Where is agricultural productivity stagnating or falling? What are the repercussions for food security and the environment?
• How do we accelerate sustainable productivity growth at all scales of production? What would be the impacts if we did?

This event is free and open to the public with pre-registration.