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16 October 2025
Agriculture Webinar | Agroecosystem Resilience in Marginal and Underutilized Lands: Innovative Approaches for Sustainable Management, 17 October 2025
Message from the webinar Chair:
It is my great pleasure to welcome you to the webinar “Agroecosystem Resilience in Marginal and Underutilized Lands: Innovative Approaches for Sustainable Management”. I am delighted to chair this session and bring together experts and participants who are committed to advancing sustainable practices. Groups such as this can provide leadership as researchers, practitioners, and policymakers exchange ideas and explore solutions that strengthen the resilience of fragile agroecosystems while promoting sustainability and food security.
I hope you all recognize your potential to contribute to the following issues:
- Standardizing definitions of terms such as marginal lands and underutilized lands, and ecological resistance, recovery, and resilience;
- Sustainability in light of global population, land use, technology, and climate changes;
- Objective scientific criteria to characterize agroecosystem resilience.
I look forward to engaging discussions, valuable insights, and innovative perspectives from our distinguished speakers and participants. Together, let us advance knowledge and collaboration that will inspire practical actions for the sustainable management of these vital landscapes and resilient agroecosystems for future generations.
Date: 17 October 2025
Time: 11:15 a.m. EDT | 05:15 p.m. CEST | 11:15 p.m. CST-ASIA
Webinar ID: 867 4285 9269
Website: https://sciforum.net/event/Agriculture-5?subscribe
Register now for free!
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Speaker/Presentation |
Time in EDT |
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Prof. Carl Crozier |
11:15–11:25 a.m. |
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Dr. Hubert Hirwa |
11:25–11:45 a.m. |
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Peng Yu |
11:45 a.m.–12:05 p.m. |
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Dr. Richard David Schulterbrandt Gragg III |
12:05–12:20 p.m. |
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Q&A Session |
12:20–12:25 p.m. |
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Prof. Carl Crozier |
12:25–12:30 p.m. |
After registering, you will receive a confirmation email outlining how to join this webinar. Registrations with academic institutional email addresses will be prioritized.
Unable to attend? Register anyway, and we will let you know when the recording is available to watch.
Webinar Chairs and Keynote Speakers:
- Prof. Carl Crozier, North Carolina State University, Dept. of Crop & Soil Sciences, V.G. James Center, North Carolina, USA;
- Dr. Hubert Hirwa, Sustainability Institute, School of the Environment, Florida Agricultural and Mechanical University (FAMU), Tallahassee, FL, USA;
Mr. Yu Peng - Mr. Yu Peng, Indianapolis School of Science, Department of Earth & Environmental Sciences, Indiana University, Indianapolis, IN, USA;
- Dr. Richard David Schulterbrandt Gragg III, School of the Environment, Florida A&M University, Florida, USA.
Relevant Special Issue:
“Agroecosystem Resilience in Marginal and Underutilized Lands: Innovative Approaches for Sustainable Management”
Guest Editors: Dr. Hubert Hirwa and Dr. Richard Schulterbrandt Gragg III
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 31 January 2026
