Michiel Martens ( ELIC) will give a seminar "Revealing the impact of deforestation on hydrology and soil salinity over the Dry Chaco ecoregion" The Teams group can be joined here.   ----- Guidelines for attendees : - we ask that you join the Teams group a few minutes before so we can start on time - please turn off your microphone during the talk to limit noise - you can ask

How to accelerate the transition towards more sustainable food economies and achieve the sustainable development goals by 2030.

How to build bridges between academia and non-academia, and how to interact with other stakeholders. What will be the role of bio-engineers in this transition pathways ?

REPORTE MI-OCTOBRE   Le 21 et 22 avril prochains, nous aurons le plaisir d’accueillir les professeurs Tim Benton (University of Leeds et Chatam House) et Matthew Gandy (University of Cambridge), Doctor Honoris Causa (DHC) de notre Secteur des Sciences et Technologies et dont les DHC seront co-livrés par la Faculté d’Agro et ELI (Tim Benton) et par la Faculté d’Architecture LOCI et

The way the food system is governed also contributes to its lack of sustainability and resilience. Sustainable food economies need new policies that are coherent across different levels and scales, reflexive and adaptive, that is, that actively acknowledge and help solve unsustainable lock-ins. This lecture discusses the principles underpinning such policies.

Measure economic, social and environmental impact methods such as LCA, cost-benefit analysis and other forms of impact assessment. However, these indicator systems tend to be partial, linear and scale-inconsistent, and thus incapable of grasping the attributes of complex food systems that are open, hierarchical, circular and dynamic. They also fail to address the issue of resilience.

One intriguing element of the atmospheric dynamics at mid-latitudes is the presence of low-frequency variability at interannual and decadal time scales. The most well known index reflecting this dynamics is the North Atlantic Oscillation. The origin of such a dynamics is however difficult to isolate.

Dans le cadre, entre autres, du Printemps des sciences, cette exposition interactive aborde un sujet d'actualité: le déclin des pollinisateurs. Que signifie la pollinisation ? Quelles plantes ont besoin d'insectes pour se reproduire ? Quels sont les insectes qui visitent les fleurs ? Que mangent ils ? Quelles sont les menaces qui pèsent sur ces espèces ?

Passage inédit en Belgique le 5 mars 2020 de la chercheuse belge Anne Laudisoit travaillant actuellement à New York pour Ecohealth Alliance National Geographic. Son expédition a fait l'objet d'un film "Mbudha, la Source des chimpanzés" (52 min).

Maître Alain Lebrun, lawyer in Liège, will come to present a seminar entitled "Draft international convention on the rights of trees" on Thursday 5 March.