Sustainable Food Systems Symposium 2024

Session

Sustainable Agriculture and Resilience

17 Sept 2024, 17:00

Entrance Hall (Paulinerkirche)

74. The impacts of subsidies on household development resilience of pastoralists under climate shocks

Jizhe Wang (Lanzhou University)

17/09/2024, 17:00

Poster

How to adapt climate change and preserve household development resilience in ecologically vulnerable area is a pressing issue. As for pastoralists in ecologically vulnerable and arid regions, drought is the most prevalent and severe climate shock. However, there is a lack of direct evidence regarding to effective measures to help households to adapt climate shocks. Thus, this study presents...

75. Food Security and Globalization: Impacts of Climate Change in European Food Security. A Systematic Review

Víctor Martínez (Basque Centre for Climate Change (BC3), University of the Basque Country (UPV/EHU))

17/09/2024, 17:05

Oral

1. INTRODUCTION

Food systems constitute a relevant part of the political, social, economic, ecological and cultural fabric of communities (Ruggeri Laderchi et al., 2024). They could be described as social-ecological complex systems (Allen & Prosperi, 2016; Folke, 2006) composed by a multiplicity of sub-systems where a galaxy of relationships between the social sphere and the biosphere...

67. Understanding the role of resource bricolage in crop–livestock integration: Evidence from agro-pastoral interfaces in China

Weiye Wang (Renmin University of China)

17/09/2024, 17:10

Oral

Based on fieldwork conducted in B Village, Qilian County, Qinghai Province, and Y Village, Minle County, Gansu Province, we shed new lights on how agriculturalists and pastoralists integrate resources to construct adaptive strategies, and how these strategies interact and perform agro-pastoral coupling to overcome the resource dilemma. Under the pressure from natural disasters, anti-grazing...

83. Scaling Up Soil Carbon Monitoring: The cost-effectiveness of Direct Measurement vs. a Model-Based Approach

Lisa Vanderheyden (Université Catholique de Louvain)

17/09/2024, 17:15

Poster

Introduction
Carbon farming, involving the adoption of agricultural practices aiming at capturing carbon in soils, is a cornerstone of European climate strategies such as the Green Deal. Farmers are rewarded with carbon credits, which are purchased by companies on the Voluntary Carbon Market (VCM)(1,2). It may also lead to other benefits such as improved soil fertility and food security...

165. National Food Security at the cost of other nations The case of Germany and its trade partners

Sudeh Dehnavi

17/09/2024, 17:20

Poster

Abstract
Here we examine the interdependencies between food and water security. We specifically analyze the impact of the food security strategies of an importing country on the water security of its trade partners. The example of Germany highlights the complex and interconnected nature of the system, demonstrating that this limitation extends beyond a single country. Based on our findings,...