Sustainability is at the heart of agricultural practices in order to continue to provide an abundant food supply for future generations while meeting the increased demands for safer products to both humans as well as environmental systems. The AGRO division was founded in 1969 at the onset of era of Rachel Carlson's Silent Spring, with the recognition that chemicals developed from or for agriculture must be done in a more sustainable manner. This could only be accomplished through collaborative efforts between chemists, biologists, toxicologists and social scientists working across industry, academia and government. Divisional programing includes regular or �standing� symposia on agrochemical environmental fate and metabolism, environmental analysis, regulation, ecosystem and human risk assessment, discovery synthesis and application technologies. AGRO creates a forum for trans disciplinary and sector intercourse, setting the stage for interdisciplinary collaborations. The membership rosters boast members from major pesticide and fertilizer manufactures, government scientists from agencies responsible for regulating these industries, and academic scientists conducting work within these fields and is cross-disciplinary with the divisions of Environmental Chemistry (ENVR) and Agricultural and Food Chemistry (AGFD). In recent years the scope of the division has expanded to include the biofuels and renewable energy sectors especially as it relates to the use of agricultural feed-stocks as well as molecular biology (biotechnology) approaches to future agricultural chemical development. AGRO will continue to evolve as the needs of society and technology change over time.

Sustainability through interdisciplinary science and collaboration:  AGRO perspective

248th National Meeting (2014)

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