The Sustainability and Green Technology (SGT) subdivision seeks to advance the chemistry enterprise and its practitioners to benefit the earth and its people by providing programming topics in sustainable agriculture, sustainable food supplies, green processing technologies, innovative and economically viable chemical products, and technologies. The most significant opportunities for sustainable development of agriculture will result from systems-level optimization at the food-agriculture-green technology nexus. For example, nanosensors and wireless sensor networks can improve yields and minimize inputs by optimizing agriculture. While research communities surrounding the food-agriculture-green technology nexus have independently made great strides in the last decade, less attention has been given to identifying synergies between these communities and determining the role that sustainability can play in that process. This symposium focuses on emerging developments and applications of sustainable chemistry for food security, green agriculture, energy, water, agriculture, synthetic biology, systems engineering, bio-products, by-product stream valorization, data integration and analysis, and social science to identify the greatest systems-level opportunities for minimizing resource inputs and waste, and for maximizing crop productivity and food utilization. The symposium will identify the scientific, engineering, and data challenges that must be overcome to realize a sustainable food-agriculture-green technology system.
Members of ACS, in addition to AGFD, should have an interest in this topic, including: AGRO, BIOT, CELL, TOXI, COLL, and ENVR
Suggested Topics
Sustainable agriculture
Sustainable food supplies
Green processing technologies
Innovative and economically viable chemical products and technologies
Green Chemistry
Alternative Protein Sources
Food Waste Utilization
Agricultural and Food Bioproduct Utilization
Sustainability: Advances and Applications
Food Security
Synthetic Biology
Nanosensors & Wireless networks to improve yields
Valorization data integration and analysis, and social science to identify the greatest systems-level opportunities for minimizing resource inputs and waste and for maximizing crop productivity and food utilization

Michael Appell

US Department of Agriculture

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