How can we save biodiversity while feeding the world
Dr David Williams, School of Earth and Environment, will explore some of the ways we can address the challenge of balancing agriculture and biodiversity, looking at the landscape-scale impacts of different production systems to analyses of the current and future impacts of food systems on biodiversity & the wider environment. Dr Williams is interested in looking after the world’s incredible biodiversity in the face of global change. Somehow this has led him to spend a lot of time talking to farmers and looking at agricultural policy and food consumption, with a passing interest in emerging infectious diseases Human well-being is utterly dependent, in different ways, on both agriculture and biodiversity. However, the two are often in conflict, with agriculture driving the catastrophic loss of nature across the world. As human populations and per capita consumption increase, balancing food security with biodiversity conservation is increasingly challenging. Time 12:00 GMT
