Friday 7 June
Lecture 3
08:45-09:45
Darwinian agriculture: where does Nature's wisdom lie?
R. Ford Denison (University of Minnesota, USA)
Session 4 - New questions about Agroecosystem services and functionning
Chairs: Stephanie Porter and Gilles Bena
09:45-10:15
Keynote S4
Healthy Diets from Sustainable Production: global food system targets to align human and environmental health agendas
Fabrice Declerc (Bioversity - EAT, France)
10:15-10:35
Oral presentation S4
- Smallholder farmers’ use and shaping of social-ecological heterogeneity for biodiverse agroecosystems and crops: an alternative vision of ‘precision agriculture’
Yildiz Aumeeruddy-Thomas (CEFE UMR 5175, CNRS, Montpellier, France)
10:35-11:00
Espace Philippe LamourCoffee break
11:00-13:00
Oral presentations S4
- In the intimacy of an old Mediterranean affair between a fruit tree and a microbiota: perspectives in conservation and agroecology
Hervé Sanguin (UMR BGPI, CIRAD, Montpellier, France) - Consequences of plant Domestication for resistance against insect herbivores: Case studies with Mesoamerican crops
Betty Benrey (Institute of Biology, University of Neuchatel, Neuchatel, Switzerland) - Crop domestication and species interactions within agroecosystems
Yolanda Chen (Plant and Soil Science, University of Vermont, Burlington, VT, United States) - Neodomestication for the production of renewable biomaterials
Jonathan Fresnedo Ramirez (Horticulture and Crop Science, The Ohio State University, Wooster, OH, United States) - Assessing the impact of earthworms on N2O and CO2 fluxes in a realistic agricultural setup at the European Ecotron of Montpellier
Alexandru Milcu (Ecotron, CNRS, Montpellier, France) - Agroecosystem functioning and on-farm performance of regionally-adapted and industry-standard seed varieties across Canadian organic farms
Emma Windfeld (Geography, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada)
13:00-14:25
Lunch
Session 4 - New questions about Agroecosystem services and functionning (continued)
14:25-15:45
Oral presentations S4
- Agrobiodiversity amid global climate change and urbanization: Novel human-environment interactions related to food systems, diet, and nutrition
Karl Zimmerer (Department of Geography, Department of Agricultural Economics, Sociology, and Education, Ecology Program, GeoSyntheSES Lab, Pennsylvania State University; Universidad Autónoma de Madrid (UAM), Spain) - Beyond crop rotation: a functional diversity approach of crop sequences
Lucie Mahaut (CEFE, Université de Montpellier, Montpellier, France) - Greater crop species diversity stabilizes national crop production and food security
Delphine Renard (Interactions, Ecologie et Sociétés, UMR 5175 CEFE, Montpellier, France) - Capitalize on functional diversity in variety mixtures to enhance the multifunctionality and sustainability of wheat production
Jérôme Enjalbert (INRA, Gif-sur-Yvette, France)
15:45-15:55
Closing session
Harlan IV Symposium in Brisbane
Robert Henry (The University of Queensland, Australia)
15:55-16:15
Closing session - thanks
16:15