Find support and connection this autumn with a new year long series: Climate Science for the World’s Worry.
The next workshop in this immersive series will be Building Agriculture Resilience From The Ground Up with Dr. Aidee Guzman.
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In this talk, Dr. Aidee 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.
Dr. Aidee 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.
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.
https://sarahpeyton.com/event/...ith-dr-aidee-guzman/
This is part of the Climate Science For Our World’s Worry – The Resonance and Climate Series 2022
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