California & The International Community Webinar: Looking to Soil as a Climate Smart Agricultural Strategy

Thursday, December 5th, 2017 • 9:00 – 11:00 a.m. PST (California)

Introduction
- Jenny Lester Moffitt, Deputy Secretary, CDFA
Panel 1: What are healthy soils? A closer look at the composition and benefits of building soil organic matter
- Dr. Geetika Joshi, Senior Environmental Scientist, CDFA
Panel 2: Examining the impacts soil degradation in California and around the world
- Dr. Elia Scudiero, Postdoctoral Research Fellow, USDA
- Mr. Ronald Vargas, Secretary of the Global Soils Partnership, FAO
Panel 3: Public and private efforts to build soil health
- Dr. Guihua Chen, Senior Environmental Scientist , CDFA
- Gregoire James, Founder and President, Genera Cycle
Panel 4: Success stories
- Glenn McGourty, UCCE Advisor Mendocino County, UCCE
- Dr. Ravi Gopal Singh, Cropping Systems Agronomist, CIMMYT

For Webinar presentation material, please contact CDFA.OEFI@cdfa.ca.gov