11 MAY 2026 (MON) 11:00-12:00

Departmental Research Seminars Series

Sustainable agriculture development under future climate change

Date: 11 MAY 2026 (Monday)

Time: 11:00-12:00 (HKT)

Venue: Chamber, Faculty of Social Sciences, 11/F, The Jockey Club Tower, Centennial Campus, HKU

Registration link: TBC

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Abstract:

Rising demand for food and biofuels is placing growing pressure on land, water and ecosystems worldwide. Achieving food security while advancing low-carbon and sustainable agriculture requires integrated strategies across production, trade and consumption. This seminar examines how telecoupled food systems connect local demand with distant environmental impacts, and how zonal simulations combined with crop models can help reveal these linkages. It will also discuss how climate change, socioeconomic development and biofuel policies shape regional environmental outcomes and inform more sustainable agricultural pathways. 

Professor Honglin Zhong

Professor, Institute of Frontier and Interdisciplinary Science and the Institute of Blue and Green Development, Shandong University (Weihai)

Honglin Zhong is a Professor at the Institute of Frontier and Interdisciplinary Science and the Institute of Blue and Green Development, Shandong University (Weihai).His research focuses on agroecosystems, sustainable resource and environmental development, and renewable energy industries, with particular attention to ecosystem processes, socioeconomic–environmental telecoupling, and transition pathways for biomass and renewable energy. In the past five years, he has published more than 40 papers in leading journals, including Nature, Nature Sustainability, and Nature Food.

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