Workshop: Approaches to Agrobiodiversity and Food Systems

Date de début: 

06 Décembre 2012 - 09:00

Date de fin: 

07 Décembre 2012 - 17:00

Publié ici : 

05 Décembre 2012

Mis à jour le : 

21 Juin 2017

Zone géographique: 

  • Europe
MFO (Royaume-Uni)

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http://www.mfo.ac.uk/en/events/ecological-and-anthropological-approaches-agrobiodiversity-and-food-s

Workshop: Approaches to Agrobiodiversity and Food Systems

Convenor: Laura RIVAL, School of Social Anthropology and Museum Ethnography.

THURSDAY 6 DECEMBER 2012

09:45-10:15: Coffee, registration

INTRODUCTIONS

10:15-11:00

Laura Rival (ODID, SAME) and Doyle McKey (CEFE, Montpellier)
Introduction to the workshop and its main themes

Stanley Ulijaszek (ISCA)
Researching Food systems within and between disciplines

Nick Brown (Plant Sciences, Principal of Linacre College)
Linkages between 'wild' and 'agro' biological diversity

Nick Harberd (Plant Sciences)
Plant Sciences and agrobiodiversity

Charles Godfray (Zoology, Martin School)
The Future of Food

SESSION 1 (11:00- 13:00):

11-11:20 Nick Harberd (Plant Sciences)
Evolution of genetic variability in bread wheat (Triticum aestivum)

11:20-11:40 Vincent Batesti (MNHN, Paris)
The agrobiodiversity of the date palm (Phœnix dactylifera L.) in Siwa, an oasis of the Libyan Desert: what is said, written and forgotten

11:40-12:00 Marc Delêtre (Trinity College, Dublin)
Manioc in Africa: "cultural domestication", historical factors and cross-cultural variation in the valuation of manioc volunteer seedlings as potential resources

12:00-12:20 David Boshier (Plant Sciences)
Socio-economic constraints and opportunities for tree conservation through use in MesoAmerican dry-forest agro-ecosystems: Pachira quinata and Swietenia humilis.

12:20-12:30 Discussant

12:30-13:00 GENERAL DISCUSSION

SESSION 2 (2:00-4:30):

2:00-2:20 Doyle McKey (CEFE, Montpellier)
The functioning of pre-Columbian raised field agriculture: are there lessons for the design of sustainable agroecosystems today?

2:20-2:40 Sophie Caillon (CEFE, Montpellier)
Produce to exchange: The taro water-gardens on Vanua Lava (Vanuatu), a social place that harbours diversity

2:40-3:00 Yildiz Thomas (CEFE, Montpellier)
Clones of culture and seeds of nature: implications of farmers' gathering and cultivating practices in shaping fig and olive agrodiversity in Morocco

3:00-3:20 Lindsay Turnbull and Andy Hector (Zürick and Plant Sciences)
Crop diversity as a tool for yield optimisation and stabilisation

3:20-3:30 Discussant

3:30-4:30 GENERAL DISCUSSION

FRIDAY 7 DECEMBER 2012

9:30-10: Coffee, registration

SESSION 3 (10:00 – 1:00):

10-10:35 David Bohan (Dijon, UMR 1347)
Managing weed ecosystem service provision: ecological and cultural perspectives

10:35-11:10 Cécile Girardin (ECI, OUCE)
A brief history of Biochar: from ancient Amazonia to climate smart agricultural practices

11:10-11:45 Chlöe Violon, Jean Wencélius, Christine Raimond, Eric Garine (Paris Ouest, Nanterre)
Gifts or commodities: The changing status of seeds in northern Cameroon

11:45-12:20 Elise Demeulenaere (MNHN, Paris)
Socio-economic constraints and the evolution of seed exchange networks: The case of 'Semences Paysannes' in France

12:20-12:40 Amy Bogaard (Archaeology)
The nature of early farming systems in western Eurasia during the Neolithic period

12:40-1:00 Margareta Tengberg (MNHN, Paris)
Reconstructing the agrobiodiversity of past multi-species cropping systems - the case of early date palm garden cultivation around the Persian Gulf

1-2: Lunch (sandwiches, brought by caterers)

2:00-2:20 Discussant

2:20-3:00 GENERAL DISCUSSION

SESSION 4 (3:00-4:30):

3:00-3:20 Julia Wright (Coventry, Garden Organic)
Participatory research in Cuban agriculture

3:20-3:40 Fran Lambrick (Plant Sciences)
Food policy councils: functions, structure and collaborative methodologies

3:40-4:00 Naomi van der Velden (University of Cumbria)
How much does your garden grow? Participatory polycultures research in the UK

4:00-4:15 DISCUSSANTS
John Letts and Chris Smaje

4:15-5:00 GENERAL DISCUSSION and CONCLUDING REMARKS

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