Keynote Presentations

2022

Lal, R. 2022. Managing Physical Properties of Soils of India for Food and Climate Security. Dr. B.P.Ghildyal Memorial Lecture, ICAAR New Delhi, India. 22 February.

• Lal, R. 2022. Sustainable agriculture data: What’s missing, what can be improved, and what needs validation? Strategizing to improve soil health data in agricultural surveys. 50x2030 Initiatives Methods and Tool Development. Rome, Italy.

• Lal, R. 2022. Bringing Soil-Centric Green Revolution to Sub-Saharan Africa. Climate Soil Community of Practice :4 per Thousand and GIZ Event. Bonn, Germany.24-25 March.

• Lal, R. 2022. Soil Carbon Sequestration as a Mechanism for Reducing Emissions. Bioenergy Workshop. Bioenergy Technology Office, DOE, Washington, D.C. 28-29 March.

• Lal, R. 2022. Revisiting Global Food Systems During the Era of Changing Climate and Degrading Soils. Webinar of the Dale Bumpers College of Agric. Food and Life Sciences University of Arkansas. Fayetteville, AR. 30 March.

• Lal, R. 2022. Living in Harmony With Nature. The Torch Club Seminar. Faculty Club, OSU. Columbus, OH. 7 April.

• Lal, R. 2022. Nature –Positive Agriculture: Addressing Global Issues by Innovations in Agriculture and Forestry. U.S.Farmers and Ranchers, HtH. St. Louis, MO. Spring Webinar. 21 April.

• Lal, R. 2022. Earth Day 2022: Restore Our Earth. C-MASC Earth Day. SENR-OSU. Columbus, OH. 22 April.

• Lal, R. 2022. Managing Soils for Healing the Land. State of the Planet. Earth Day Event. IUGS Earth Day. 22 April.

• Lal, R. 2022. Feeding Humanity and Healing the Land. Ohio Youth Institute. CFAES, OSU, Columbus, OH. 25 April.

• Lal, R. 2022. Negative Emission Farming: Managing Soils of Agro-Ecosystems for Sequestration of Atmospheric Carbon Dioxide. Webinar on Soils and Climate Change. National University of Science and Technology. Islamabad, Pakistan. 27 April.

• Lal, R. 2022. Regenerative Agriculture for Soil Carbon Management and Sequestration. Regenerative Society Foundation Meeting. Milan, Italy. 4 May.

• Lal, R. 2022. Making Soils of Small Landholder Farmers Input- Responsive. Research Committee of the IFDC. Muscle Shoals, AL. 10 May.

• Lal, R. 2022. Managing Soil for Food and Climate Security and Advance SDGs of the U.N. National Workshop on Innovative Agriculture, (Azadi Ka Amrut Mahotsav). ICAR, New Delhi, India. 10 May.

• Lal, R. 2022. Managing Soils for Human and the Planet. National Workshop on Innovative Agriculture, (Azadi Ka Amrut Mahotsav). Vigyan Bhawan, New Delhi. 10 May.

• Lal, R. 2022. Healthy Soil and Food for Healthy Planet. UNCCD-CA4SH Side Event. Abdijan, Ivory Coast, West Africa. 12 May.

• Lal, R. 2022. The Need for Soil Health Action. CA4SH –UNCCD COP-15 Side Event. Abdijan, Ivory Coast, West Africa. 13 May.

• Lal, R. 2022. Managing Soils for Sustainable Production of Soybean in Brazil. IX Brazilian Soybean Congress. Iguassu Falls ,Brazil. 15-17 May.

• Lal, R. 2022. Negative Emission Farming :Managing Soils of Agro-Ecosystems for Sequestration of Atmospheric Carbon Dioxide. Distinguished Scientist Seminar Series (DSSS), Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL). Berkeley, California. 20 May.

• Lal, R. 2022. Climate and Soil Carbon Sequestration: What are Key Questions. Making Climate Smart Agriculture Work. 24 May.

• Lal, R. 2022. The role of scientific research in the promotion of sustainable development and peace. Academy of Sciences of Moldova, Science for Peace Forum. Chisinau, Moldova. 25 May.

Lal, R. 2022. NC 1178 Ohio 2022 Annual Report. College Station, Texas A&M University. 8 June.

• Lal, R. 2022. Managing Soil Health for Carbon Farming and Sustainability. Bayer Webinar on “Innovations for Crop Science.” St. Louis, Missouri. 10 June.

• Lal, R. 2022. Nature-Positive Agriculture and Soil-Centric Farming. Corteva Webinar. Des Moines, IA. 10 June.

• Lal, R. 2022. Sustainable Soil Management For Food and Climate Security. Pepsico/IICA Webinar. 14 June.

• Lal, R. 2022. Managing Soil for Climate- Resilient Agriculture Dr. Rattan Lal. 7th International Conference on “Climate Smart Agriculture: Innovations and Adaptations. Rawalkot, Pakistan. 15-17 June.

• fiLal, R. 2022. Carbon Sequestration and its benefits to the small and marginal farmers. Sustainable Food Production Systems for Self Reliant and Climate Resilient Agriculture. Dharwad, India. 16-18 June.

• Lal, R. 2022. No-Tillage System, Improving Soil Life, Environmental Sustainability and Social Wellbeing. 18th National Meeting on Direct Planting in Straw and First World Meeting of the Direct Planting System. Grand Carima Resort and Convention Center, Iguasu Falls, Brasil. 5 July.

• Lal, R. 2022. 50th World Environmental Day 2022: only One Earth. WED. Stockholm, Sweden. 5 June.

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.