Bending the curve of biodiversity loss: A panel discussion
Bending the curve of biodiversity loss: How can agriculture become part of the solution? Join us for a panel discussion hosted by the World Food System Center focused on enhancing biodiversity and resilience in agriculture for environmental well-being.
How do we enable agricultural transformation?
How might science guide processes of change? And what collaborative arrangements do we need among environmental bodies, policy makers, the private sector, and farming communities?
Many of us enjoy plentiful, cheap food, but the intensive farming landscapes producing much of this bounty has come at the cost of biodiversity. Transforming these agricultural systems will not be easy, but it must be inclusive and collaborative. A willingness to try out novel practices is needed, even though some of these might still be largely untested. It is thus important to bring together corporations, policy makers and, most importantly, farmers, in dialogue to align their interests to the common goal of environmentally-friendly farming.
This webinar is part of such dialogue. We invite attendees to provide questions, suggestions, and ideas on how farmers, policy makers, and corporations might develop environmentally-friendly farming systems. A panel of experts from different sectors will discuss your ideas at the event. Your suggestions will inform current work focused on developing and implementing new solutions to reduce the impact of farming on biodiversity.
The webinar is co-hosted by the World Food System Center, the Ecosystem Management Group, the Sustainable Agroecosystems Group, and the Agricultural Economics and Policy Group of ETH Zurich. It is the first in a webinar series hosted jointly by ETH Zurich and IFPRI as part of a Bayer-funded project titled Enhancing Biodiversity and Resilience in Crop Production.
Date: Tuesday, 29 June 2021
Time: 17:00-18:00 CET
Location: Zoom Webinar
Language: English
Registration: external page https://forms.gle/dMtGWfEGR6gsj8bc6
A link will be sent via email upon registering for the webinar.
Discussion Panel
Panelists:
Dr. Michael Glemnitz is a agriculturist in the working group of Provisioning of Biodiversity in Agricultural Systems at the Leibniz-Centre for Agricultural Landscape Research (ZALF, Germany).
Dr. Bärbel Hundt is the Biodiversity Strategy Director at Bayer Crop Science (Germany).
Dr. Sebastian Lakner is the professor of Agricultural Economics at the University of Rostock (Germany).
Dr. Sergei Schaub is a postdoctoral researcher in the Ecosystem Management and Agricultural Economics and Policy Groups at ETH Zurich (Switzerland).
Marc Sneyders is the Head Sustainable Operations at Bayer Crop Science (Belgium); he also has his own farm and works at Hof Ten Bosch, a Bayer Forward Farm in Belgium.
Dr. Wei Zhang is a senior research fellow at the International Food Policy and Research Institute (IFPRI, USA) and leads the research program on ecosystem services within the Natural Resource Management theme in the Environment and Production Technology Division.
Moderator: Claude Garcia is leader of the Forest Management and Development team in the Ecosystem Management Group at ETH Zurich (Switzerland).
ETH Zurich researchers recently joined forces with Bayer and the International Food Policy Research Institute to develop nature-based solutions that counteract biodiversity loss on farms. Find out more about the collaborative project here