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SAM Consortium’s Third Annual Meeting Held in Conjunction with the Sustainability Research & Innovation Congress (SRI 2023) in Panama
The Sustainable Agriculture Matrix (SAM) Consortium, a transdisciplinary and transnational network for guiding the pursuit of sustainable agriculture, held their third consortium meeting as well as organized two separate sessions at the 2023 Sustainability Research and Innovation Congress in Panama Read More …
Project Report (NSF Award #: 1739823) Now Posted Online
Kevin Jackson, Xin Zhang Our final project report for our NSF Award (#1739823), titled ‘Sustainable Agriculture in the Nexus of Food, Energy, Water and Nutrient on National and Global Scales,’ has been posted online for the broader public1. This report Read More …
Sustainable Agriculture Matrix (SAM) Consortium hosted a workshop to discuss stakeholder inputs from eight countries
The Sustainable Agriculture Matrix (SAM) Consortium, a transdisciplinary & transnational partnership funded by the Belmont Forum, held their Second Consortium Meeting. This meeting was a two-day event where partner organizations from around the world came together to share the results Read More …
July Newsletter for the Pathways Initiative
The Sustainable Agriculture Matrix (SAM) is a framework that provides an assessment of agricultural sustainability for over 150 countries to inform policy & promote accountability at the national & global scale. Workshops are currently being co-developed and held by scientists Read More …
Dr. Xin Zhang, PI of the Sustainable Agricultural Matrix Presented at the FAO Roundtable “Measuring Progress towards Sustainable Agriculture”
FAO in North America reported in its blog on June 21, 2019: http://www.fao.org/north-america/news/detail/en/c/1199670/ “Xin Zhang, Assistant Professor at the University of Maryland’s Center for Environmental Science (UMCES), presented the Sustainable Agricultural Matrix (SAM). The matrix aims to help track Read More …
SAM Workshop Second Meeting June 18-20, 2019
The second meeting of SESYNC pursuit project “Understanding dynamic environmental and socioeconomic interactions in food systems to support decision-making towards a sustainable and resilient agriculture” is held successfully on June 18-20, 2019 at the National Socio-Environmental Synthesis Center (SESYNC), Annapolis, Read More …
First Edition SAM Indicators
A manuscript describing first-edition SAM indicators are under development and will publish soon…
SAM Workshop First Meeting August 21-23, 2018
The first meeting of SESYNC pursuit project “Understanding dynamic environmental and socioeconomic interactions in food systems to support decision-making towards a sustainable and resilient agriculture” is held successfully on August 21-23, 2018 at the National Socio-Environmental Synthesis Center (SESYNC), Annapolis, Read More …