Understanding the Role for Agriculture & Land Conservation in Climate Action Planning

Phillips Hall

Agriculture continues to present many challenges for climate action and deserves additional attention to both impacts and potential for GHG mitigation. Uncertainty in down-scaled regional climate change impacts makes decisionmaking tough for the agricultural and land conservation community—solutions must provide the maximum adaptability. Although a now vigorous field of research, the potential for agriculture and land conservation for carbon sequestration is not as well understood as it needs to be for robust program development. This session will address how to best work with the agricultural stakeholders and land conservation organizations and will look at the latest best management practices. County representatives are especially encouraged to attend. Moderator: Timothy LaSalle, Lecturer in the College of Agriculture, Food, & Environmental Sciences, Cal Poly SLO