Sustainable intensification of smallholder mixed crop-livestock systems
Event Details
- Date:
- Tuesday, 24 February 2015
- Time:
- 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
- Room:
- Level 3, Large Seminar Room
- UQ Location:
- Queensland Bioscience Precinct (St Lucia)
- URL:
- http://www.qaafi.uq.edu.au/qaafi-science-seminars-2015
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Event Contact
- Name:
- Mrs Luba Hickey
- Phone:
- 62092
- Email:
- l.kakoychenko@uq.edu.au
- Org. Unit:
- Queensland Alliance for Agriculture and Food Innovation
Event Description
- Full Description:
- Presented by Prof. Mario Herrero
Chief Research Scientist and OCE Science Leader CSIRO Agriculture Flagship
Honorary Professor at QAAFI
Abstract
Human population is projected to increase by 30% over the next quarter of a century to reach 8.3 billion by 2030 (UNPP, 2008). During this period, in developing countries there is likely to be a rapid increase in demand for livestock and crop products, driven by increasing urbanisation and rising incomes (Delgado et al., 1999). At the same time, the impacts of a range of driving forces such as water availability, climate change, and technological innovations on smallholder crop and livestock production may be substantial. The result of these drivers is that the farming systems responsible for global food security will inevitably change. This presentation covers how systems are evolving in the context of these increased pressures and proposes ways for increasing food production and income, while reducing the environmental footprints of food production.
About Prof. Mario Herrero
Mario Herrero is Chief Research Scientist and Office of the Chief Executive Science Leader within CSIRO's Agriculture Flagship. He has more than 20 years of experience working on strategic agricultural R4D projects in Africa, Latin America, Asia and Europe. Before coming to Australia, he spent 12 years in Kenya, leading the Sustainable Livestock Futures and Climate Change programmes and the Targeting Pro-Poor Interventions team at the International Livestock Research Institute. His research looks for solutions to feed the world sustainably in the next 40 years. His areas of expertise are farming and food systems modelling, climate and global change, livelihoods and nutrition security. He has coordinated several global and regional integrated assessments of the future of food and agriculture. Mario has published more than 300 fully refereed papers, book chapters and reports in his areas of expertise. He is currently on the editorial boards of Agricultural Systems (Elsevier), Global Food Security (Elsevier), Agriculture and Food Security (BioMed Central) and Tropical Grasslands, and has been a guest editor for the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences journal (PNAS). He has also supervised over 60 academic theses on different aspects of tropical agricultural production systems, and has recently become a Honorary Professor of Agriculture and Food Innovation at the University of Queensland, Australia.
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