Building Agriculture Resilience From The Ground Up with Dr. Aidee Guzman
December 14 @ 5:00 pm - 6:30 pm PST
Cost: Sliding ScaleAbout the Event
Online, December 14, 2022 Â Â 5-6:30 pm Pacific Time (convert to your time zone here)
In this talk, Guzman will present her research on how on-farm diversification in an intensively managed landscape can bolster below- to above-ground biodiversity and their interactions on agroecosystems. For this work, Guzman partnered with small-scale farmers implementing diversified farming practices (e.g. increasing crop diversity) but are often invisibilized in the monoculture landscape of California’s San Joaquin Valley. Guzman will share research on how crop diversification can support soil health (i.e. via beneficial microbes), pollinator communities (i.e. wild bees), and their interactions. She will also discuss how sociopolitical barriers may attenuate the adaptive capacity of small-scale farmers of color to ecological stressors.
How to Register
This is part of the Climate Science For Our World’s Worry – The Resonance and Climate Series 2022 To see the entire collection, click here.
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About Dr. Aidee Guzman
Dr. Aidee Guzman examines agroecological approaches that could harness biodiversity and ecosystem functioning for improved agricultural resilience. Specifically, she studies how agricultural management impacts biotic interactions (e.g. between plants, insects, and microbes) across spatio-temporal scales The overarching goal of her research program is to support farmers, especially those who are historically underserved, through research, education, and outreach that builds on their innovations and demonstrates ecological pathways to agricultural resilience
