Keynote Presentations

2020

• Lal, R. 2020. Managing Soil Carbon for Food and Climate. US-UK Scientific Forum on Sustainable Agriculture with the National Academy of Sciences (NAS), Washington, D.C., USA. 5 March 2020.

• Lal, R. 2020. Soil Management and Sustainable Development Goals. Virtual Dialogue with Dr. Rattan Lal and Dr. Manuel Otero, General Director of IICA | Soil Health: The Welfare of Humanity with the Inter-American Institute for Cooperation on Agriculture (IICA), San José, Costa Rica. 7 July 2020.

• Lal, R. 2020. Status and Challenges of Global Soil Carbon Sequestration. RECSOIL: Re-carbonization of Global Soils with the Food and Agricultural Organization of the UN (FAO), Rome, Italy. 17 June 2020. (Starts at 34:00)

• Lal, R. 2020. Realizing Sustainable Development Goals by Regenerative Agriculture and Soil Organic Matter Management. Good Growth Plan with the Syngenta Group and IICA, Uberlândia, Brazil and San José, Costa Rica. 23 September 2020.

• Lal, R. 2020. Soil: The Essence of Life on Our Planet. 30th Annual Online Organics Recycling Conference with the Compost Council of Canada and IICA Canada. 30 September 2020.

• Lal, R. 2020. Translating Science into Action, featuring the Honorable VP Al Gore and World Food Prize Foundation President Barbara Stinson. Panelist. 2020 Borlaug Dialogue with the World Food Prize Foundation (WFPF), Des Moines, Iowa, USA. 12 October 2020.

• Lal, R. 2020. Carbon Farming for Food and Climate Security: Producing More from Less. Iowa State University Norman Borlaug Lecture with the World Food Prize Foundation (WFPF) and Iowa State University (ISU), Ames, Iowa, USA. 12 October 2020.

• Lal, R. 2020. Innovative Agriculture Methods to Cater to a Changing Climate in Africa. Virtual DAAD climapAfrica Conference (Day Two) with Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst (German Academic Exchange Service) (DAAD), Bonn, Germany. 30 October 2020.

• Lal, R. 2020. The World Soil Day: Perseverance, Opportunities, and Challenges. The Ohio State University Soil Science Seminar: World Soil Day, Columbus, OH, USA. 4 December 2020.

2017

• Lal, R. 2017. The Food-Energy-Water-Waste Nexus in India. Waste Management Innovation Conference, Mumbai, India 17-18 April 2017.

2016

• Lal, R. 2016. Sustainable Management and Carbon Sequestration in Soils of Africa. COP22, Marrakesh, Morocco, 7-18 November 2016.
• Lal, R. 2016. Adaptation of African Agriculture to Climate Change (AAA). Marrakesh, Morocco, 29-30 September 2016.
• Lal, R. 2016. Soil Health and Sustainability. GIFS Conference, Saskatoon, Canada, 14-16 June.
• Lal, R. 2016. Soils and World Food Security. GIFS Conference, Saskatoon, Canada, 14-16 June.

2015

• Lal, R. 2015. Soil Restoration for Ecosystem Services. IUSS Sustain 2015 Conference, University of Kiel, Germany, 21-24 September 2015.
• Lal, R. 2015. Soil and Sustainability. Annual Meeting of the Japanese Society of Soil Science, Kyoto, Japan, 9-11 September 2015.
• Lal, R. 2015. Saving Oil by Managing Soil. Soil Not Oil International Conference, Richmond, California, 4-5 September 2015.
• Lal, R. 2015. Integrated Resource Management for Efficient Food Production. International Soil Conference on "Sustainable Uses of Soil in Harmony with Food Security (ISC2015), Phetchaburi Province, Thailand, 18-21 August 2015.
• Lal, R. 2015. Soil Carbon Pool as an Environmental Indicator. International Conference on Environmental Indicators (ICEI), Windsor, Canada, 2-5 August 2015.
• Lal, R. 2015. Carbon Sequestration in Soils: A Challenge for Food Security and Climate Action. INRA, Paris, France, 7 July 2015.
• Lal, R. 2015. Managing Landscape for Environmental Sustainability. International Conference on Climate Change and Multi-dimensional Sustainability in African Agriculture, Morogorro, Tanzania, 3-5 June 2015.
• Lal, R. 2015. Environmental Sustainability. International Conference on Climate Change and Multi-dimensional Sustainability in African Agriculture, Morogorro, Tanzania, 3-5 June 2015.
• Lal, R. 2015. Challenges of Measuring and Managing Soil C Sink for Mitigating Climate Change. Global Soil Week 2015, Berlin, Germany, 20-23 April 2015.
• Lal, R. 2015. Soil as a Sink of Atmospheric CO₂ and CH₄. Global Soil Week 2015, Berlin, 20-23 April 2015.
• Lal, R. 2015. Beyond DNC-2015. Dresden Nexus Conference, Dreseden, Germany, 25-27 March 2015.
• Lal, R. 2015. Soil Carbon Sequestration and Climate Change. VIII Costa Rican Soil Science Congress, San Jose, Cost Rica, 18-20 March 2015.
• Lal, R. 2015. Soil and Society. Alberta Soil Science Workshop, Edmonton, Canada, 17-19 February 2015.

2014

• Lal, R. The Soil-Peace Nexus: Our Common Future. 20th World Congress Soil Science, Jeju, Korea, 8-13 June 2014.