Optimizing agrobiodiversity towards improving nutrition, resilience and environmental performance of food production
Osnat Steimatzky, Tel Aviv University
Please join us for our next Monday departmental seminar on the 12th of December from 15:00 to 16:00 at the Porter Auditorium
Optimizing agrobiodiversity towards improving nutrition, resilience and environmental performance of food production
Osnat Steimatzky, Tel Aviv University
One of the main ecosystem services of agriculture systems is the provision of food. At the same time, production of food places heavy environmental burdens, emitting over a quarter of all anthropogenic greenhouse gas emissions, polluting the atmosphere and waterways, using significant water and land resources, and driving biodiversity loss. As population continues to rise, and climate change accelerates, ensuring a stable food supply is thus a grand societal challenge
Biodiversity is strongly linked to both ecosystems' productivity and stability. In this lecture I will present one of the mechanisms explaining this positive contribution, and demonstrate how, by applying an evenness diversification strategy approach to redesign the current USA cropland, we can enhance year-to-year yield stability, increase macro- and micro- nutrients supplies, and improve overall environmental performance of agriculture without expanding existing land use
Bio
Osnat has a B.Sc in Biology and Economics from the Hebrew University and a MBA from Tel Aviv University. She currently studies the relationships between crops and functional diversity in the USA food system. Prior to her studies she managed a VC company portfolio and specialized in financial risk
Alon Shepon
The Department of Environmental Studies
The Porter School of the Environment and Earth Science
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The Israeli Forum for Sustainable Nutrition
