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Dr. David Lapen | Reducing the environmental footprint of agriculture via nature-based activities | 2023-08-09 CACOR Presentation
August 9, 2023 @ 13:30 EDT
Speaker: Dr. David Lapen
Topic: Reducing the environmental footprint of agriculture via nature-based activities and beneficial management practices.
Time: Aug 9, 2023 13:30 Eastern Time (US and Canada)
Summary:
The environmental footprint of agriculture is considerable. Yet there are on and off-farm solutions that can reduce agriculture’s impact on the health of humans and the environment. Nature-based solutions, seizing the ecological goods and services provisioned by natural capital, can be used to help achieve sustainability goals. Natural (semi) features such as wetlands, hedgerows, treelines, and drainage ditches around farms can help sequester carbon, increase biodiversity, improve water quality, and regulate diseases, for example. On-farm practices can be exercised to improve productivity while at the same time reducing off-field transport of contaminants of emerging/existing concern. Tillage approaches, drainage water management, and other beneficial farming practices are discussed in the context of minimizing pollution on downstream environmental receptors.
Biography:
Research Scientist: Environmental Change One Health Observatory, Environmental Quality, Hydrology, BMPs, Biodiversity, Landscape Ecology, Soil Health, Climate Change, Modeling, Ecosystem Services, Microplastics, Indigenous Food/Water Security.
Research scientist: agro-ecosystem health and sustainability. A full CV can be found here.
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