[MCN] Save the Date! Resilient Ag: Farming in a Changing Climate.

[Neva Hassanein]

Please join us for this free, public event.

Dr. Laura Lengnick will give public lecture titled, "Resilient Agriculture:
Farming in a Changing Climate," on Wed. Sept. 23 at 7 PM in the University
Center Theater (Third Floor), University of Montana.

Laura Lengnick's new book, Resilient Agriculture:  Cultivating Food Systems
for a Changing Climate, is available from New Society Publishers:
https://www.newsociety.com/Books/R/Resilient-Agriculture

An agronomist and soil scientist, Dr. Lengnick is a researcher, policymaker,
activist, educator and farmer whose work explores the community-enhancing
potential of sustainable agriculture and food systems. Laura contributed to
the 3rd National Climate Assessment as a lead author of the USDA report
Climate Change and Agriculture in the United States: Effects and Adaptation.
After leading the academic program in sustainable agriculture at Warren
Wilson College  for more than a decade, Laura is now an affiliated
researcher with the Local Food Research Center and a climate resilience
planning consultant with Fernleaf Solutions, both located in Asheville, NC.
 


Co-sponsors:  UM Environmental Studies Program, UM Dining, The Maureen and
Mike Mansfield Center at UM, Montana Audubon, UM Office of Sustainability,
UM International Conservation and Development Program, UM Resource
Conservation Program, Climate Smart Missoula, Alternative Energy Resources
Organization, Community Food and Agriculture Coalition.


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