This is a past event
One of the greatest challenges facing humanity is to provide food security across the world and in the long term. One of the prerequisites to tackle this great challenge is to understand how sustainable agroecosystems function.
In Prof. Six’s talk he will present how we have and hope to continue to elucidate the feedbacks between agroecosystem management options (e.g., tillage, organic practices, integrated soil fertility management, etc.), global change (e.g., elevated CO2, elevated O3, and climate change), and carbon and nutrient cycling. He will make the argument, based on some case studies, of how we need to conduct experimental work from the micro- to landscape scale over day to decadal times scales and subsequently integrate the experimental results within simulation models to interpolate and extrapolate them to the regional and global scale over decadal to century-long time scales. Furthermore, he will present some collaborative work on bio-economic modelling in order to holistically assess the sustainability of agriculture. Finally, he will present some case studies of how to bring our improved understanding into practice to ensure a better food security.
- Speaker
- Professor Johan Six
- Hosted by
- Environment and Food Security
- Venue
- Kings College Conference Centre, University of Aberdeen