The power of African soils to mitigate climate change - a film screening and interview session on Project ReDEAL's work
Tuesday 16 November 2021, 4:30pm to 6:00pm
Venue
LEC - LEC 1 Biology LT, Lancaster, United Kingdom, LA1 4YW - View MapOpen to
All Lancaster University (non-partner) students, Alumni, Applicants, External Organisations, Families and young people, Postgraduates, Prospective International Students, Prospective Postgraduate Students, Prospective Undergraduate Students, Public, Staff, UndergraduatesRegistration
Free to attend - registration requiredRegistration Info
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Event Details
A short film screening of the pioneering work carried out in Kenya as part of Project ReDEAL. The film highlights the interdisciplinary work done to investigate on-the-ground methods to restore degraded grasslands. This will be followed by a panel session hosted by local students and refreshments.
What’s on offer?
A short film screening of the pioneering work carried out in Kenya by a team from the Lancaster Environment Centre as part of Project ReDEAL -Restoring Degraded African Landscapes. The film highlights the interdisciplinary work done to investigate on-the-ground methods to restore degraded grasslands in the sub-humid Eastern highlands of Kenya. This will be followed by a 45-minute panel session hosted by local school students. They will interview the main researchers in this project and also take questions from the audience. The event will culminate in the chance to chat informally with the researchers and students over light refreshments.
What’s it about?
The aim of Project ReDEAL is to restore degraded African grasslands to improve food security, livelihoods and mitigate climate change. The project explores how a combination of plant biodiversity and new livestock management models can restore grazing land in humid and highly populated areas. The project hopes to develop low cost, easily implemented restoration solutions that can be taken up by farmers across the region and in other East African Countries. The film covers the work encapsulated in Project ReDEAL which spans across many countries and institutions including the: University of Manchester, University of Kabianga, International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI) and Centre for International Forestry Research (CIFOR).
Who’s leading the event?
Rachael Middleton from Project ReDEAL will be chairing the event with a question and answer session hosted by students from a local school. The event will be hosted in the Lancaster Environment Centre Biology Lecture Theatre, Lancaster University campus.
Location
Find directions to the venue on the interactive campus map: Biology Lecture Theatre. The closest visitor parking is in Farrer Avenue.
Open to
Anyone aged 15 and over.
Of particular interest to
Anyone with an interest in the topics and also for students interested in ecology or environmental science.
Speakers
Lancaster Environment Centre, Lancaster University
John is passionate about soil, the brown gold that underpins our very survival on the planet, but which most people take for granted. He has spent the last 30 years working on understanding and predicting the soil erosion processes that degrade soil functions, soil monitoring, how we can protect soils better and how soils can be managed to mitigate flooding and the pollution of surface waters. He is a member of LEC's Sustaiable Soils Research Group.
University of Manchester
Richard Bardgett is British ecologist and Professor of Ecology at The University of Manchester. He graduated from the University of Newcastle-upon-Tyne in 1987 with a degree in Soil and Land Resource Science, and then moved to Lancaster University, where he gained his PhD in 1991. He then held posts at the Institute of Grassland and Environmental Research and the Universities of Manchester and Lancaster, where he established the Soil and Ecosystem Ecology Group. Richard returned to The Universit
Lancaster Environment Centre, Lancaster University
My expertise is on farming systems research, combining agricultural and environmental sciences. I use modelling, field experimentation and surveys to investigate the determinants of land productivity and the impacts on food security. Since 2005, I have been conducting research on adaptation and mitigation of climate change on farming systems. This research looks for incentives for land users to improve crop and livestock productivity and to reduce GHG emissions to the atmosphere.
Contact Details
| Name | Rachael Middleton |
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