Postdoc aim/theme/name

Deciphering the role of agrobiodiversity at multiple scales to support resilience in the face of climate change

Under de supervision of Delphine Renard 

CEFE/CNRS
Campus du CNRS
1919, route de Mende
34293 Montpellier 5
France

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Funding

This postdoc is funded and part of he AgrobiodiverSity for a food-Secure planET (ASSET) project that is funded by the French program Make Our Planet Great Again.

Background and goals 

Maintaining food security of a growing global population in a changing climate stays one ofthe greatest societal challenge. Technological solutions (including greater use of fertilizers and modern crop varieties) have not shown clear success in reducing the sensitivity of crops to climate extremes, especially in smallholder farming systems dominant in the global South.

The mail goal of this project is to evaluate the role(s) of agrobiodiversity to increase or of food production in the face of increasing year-to-year weather variability through the estimation of the contributions of various components of agrobiodiversity (specific, functional, phylogenetic) to the functioning of agroecosystems through time and at embedded spatial scales in East Africa.

Keywords

Agrobiodiversity, crop stability, climate change, alpha and beta diversity, crop synchrony.