Keynote 1: Food for the World - GeoComputation Meeting the Challenge
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Meeting the challenge of providing sufficient and high quality food for the World is a hunger reducing necessity, which is an imperative for global sustainability and economic prosperity. Much of the popular emphasis for the scientific contribution to help meet this challenge is focussed on climate change and global warming. At a specific level of contextual detail, studies continue with climate variation and environment factor influences on agronomy, giving rise to an emerging domain of multi-disciplinary research activity known as agrometeorology.
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