Conference on Sustainable Crop Production in Response to Global Climate Change and Food Security

The ACSA8 provided a venue for leading academic scientists, researchers and scholars to exchange and share their experiences and research results on the most current advances in environmental and crop sciences, including climate change and its impacts on crop production, molecular approaches for crop improvement and approaches for crop morphology, physiology, ecology and cultivation in response to global climate change and food security.

There was a high consensus among scientists that Vietnam, one of the countries most vulnerable to the impacts of climate change, has been increasingly experiencing consequences of unprecedented extreme weather events such as typhoons, cruel heat, flash floods, flooding, drought, and cyclones with tremendous damages and losses to human life and property. Agricultural sector in general and crop production in particular has been suffered from severe impacts of climate change which led to the decrease in the arable land and the increase in disease outbreaks.

Following remarkable presentations and intensive discussions, the field trip to Xuan Thuy National Park, Giao Thuy district, Nam Dinh province was organized for the participants to visit different cropping patterns, irrigation systems, and mangrove forests to understand mechanism of salinity intrusion and its impacts on rice production, and adaptation strategies of the local people.