Local food systems and short food supply chains have drawn a lot of attention over the past decades. While consumers’ preferences and willingness to pay for local food have been widely explored in high-income countries, farmers’ multifactorial choice of marketing channels remains poorly investigated.

Tropical river deltas are hotspots of humanactivity, but their vulnerability to flood risks is increasing due to sea levelrise and worldwide conversion of mangroves, acting as natural buffers againstmarine flooding, into human land use. Moreover, extreme sea levels notablydriven by climatic fluctuations such as the El Niño-Southern Oscillation, areprojected to intensify with global warming.

Oceanic and atmospheric circulation plays a vital role in regulating the regional climate and the spatial distribution of natural ecosystems. Therefore, it is important to understand how it responds to climate change.

Elif Kardas (University of Puerto Rico) will give a seminar « Puerto Rican bees: Phylogeny, distribution, and gut microbiome (Preliminary data)

Teams

Brice Sinhouenon who will tell us about the "Assessment and exploration of innovative farming options for sustainable improvement of soybean and maize production in Northern Benin" exceptionnally in French PEPA/General Teams channel

For plants and especially for maize (Zea mays), experiencing water deficit at key phenological stages can cause critical yield losses. As such, there is a need to understand the complex plant hydraulic behavior in constraining environments. Within plant diversity, landraces may hold root systems hydraulic architecture that are well fitted to specific pedo-climatic environments.