International Conference on Smart and Sustainable Agriculture (SSA'2021)
Invited speakers: Christopher Bryant, University of Guelph, ON, Canada, and Antonia Bousbaine, Walloon Council for Sustainable Food, Belgium
Title: Smart Agricultures and Smart Farmers in the Face of Climate Change
Abstract
Smart and Sustainable Agricultures are making positive contributions to reducing the negative impacts on agriculture on water resources as well as contributing to increasing the quality of certain foodstuffs including by increasing the implication of Smart and Sustainable Agricultures by their farmers increasingly taking roles in Food Governance Projects including a broad range of actions as well as other actors. Also Smart and Sustainable Agricultures are increasingly taking major roles in adapting agriculture to climate change.
Biography
Christopher Bryant received a PhD from the London School of Economics and Political Science (1970). He was a Professor at the Universities of Waterloo (1970-1990) and Montréal (1990 to 2014) and is currently Adjunct Professor, School of Environmental Design and Rural Development, University of Guelph (1912 onwards). He is also Adjunct Professor, Geography Department, University of Montreal (September 2014 onwards). He has published many articles in different journals, a huge number of book chapters, many books and monographs; many Reports to different governments and agencies; many other publications and book reviews; and he has made almost 600 presentations during his career.
His fields of research are: agriculture and food production in and around cities and metropolitan centers; food security and food insecurity; tourism development; community development; land use planning; strategic development planning for communities, organizations and agriculture and other economic activities; sustainable development; resilience building for communities exposed to flooding and climate variability; adaptation of agriculture and tourism development to climate change and variability. He is placed in the top 4 to 5% of the over 16 million researchers on Research Gate. He has also directed or co-directed one of the largest numbers of doctoral (29) and masters students (well over 80). Most of his doctoral students now have positions as professors in different universities or government ministries or agencies (and some are already retired).