Biodiversity & food: challenges and opportunities to “win more and lose less"
Food and agricultural production account for a huge share of land use and land cover change on our planet, with a long, well-established legacy of detrimental effects on biological diversity.

And yet, although less diverse than corresponding “natural” systems, these working agricultural landscapes also can provide important habitat values and other ecosystem functions. Working landscapes in tropical and sub-tropical SE Asia and increasingly arid irrigated systems and cattle grazing systems in California, USA, provide practical points of reference in seeking a better balance between agricultural production and recovery of ecosystem services, including biodiversity conservation.

Professor Tom Tomich, Founder of the Food Systems Lab & Distinguished Professor of Sustainability Science and Policy, and Professor Yadvinder Malhi, Director of the Oxford Martin Programme on Biodiversity and Society, will discuss, after Professor Tomich’s presentation, the major practical and scientific challenges. These include embracing multi-functionality and needs to attain a just balance of local interests and national commitments, and associated implications for institutions, collaborations, and human resources necessary to shift our management paradigms.

This is a joint event with the ECI Food Systems Transformation Group

This talk will be live in-person and online

To register to attend live in-person in Oxford, register at: www.oxfordmartin.ox.ac.uk/events/biodiversity-food-challenges
To watch live online on Crowdcast, register at: www.crowdcast.io/e/biodiversity-food-challenges
Date: 10 November 2022, 17:00
Venue: Oxford Martin School, 34 Broad Street OX1 3BD
Venue Details: In-person and online
Speakers: Professor Tom Tomich (Founder, Food Systems Lab, University of California, Davis), Professor Yadvinder Malhi (ECI, University of Oxford)
Organising department: Oxford Martin School
Organisers: Environmental Change Institute (University of Oxford), Oxford Martin School (University of Oxford)
Organiser contact email address: events@oxfordmartin.ox.ac.uk
Part of: Oxford Martin School Events
Booking required?: Required
Booking url: https://www.oxfordmartin.ox.ac.uk/events/biodiversity-food-challenges/
Audience: Public
Editor: Hannah Mitchell