Under continued global warming, extreme events such as heatwaves will continue to rise in frequency, intensity, duration, and spatial extent over the next decades. Younger generations are therefore expected to face more such events across their lifetimes compared to older generations.

Agriculture faces many challenges. In both public discourse and the scientific literature debates about the future are increasing framed in terms of ‘alternative’ versus ‘conventional’ agriculture. In this paper we critically examine this framing, and seek to understand how the term conventional has been and is being used.

In this seminar, Virginie Marelli, head of research at dataroots, will present how a typical AI project is implemented in the industry. In the first part, she lays the foundations of AI, and she'll discuss how the models are deployed and automated in an efficient way, to fully leverage the value of AI.

Intercropping consists in growing distinct crops on the same plot at the same time. It may play a role in the transition towards a more sustainable agriculture, thanks to its many advantages, e.g. higher yield, lesser use of pesticides.

Elie Bou-Zeid is Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering at Princeton University. An expert in atmospheric physics and micrometeorology, Prof. Bou-Zeid serves as Editor of the American Meteorological Society’s Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences.

Forest degradation is a gradual process through which the forest’s biomass declines, the species composition and vertical complexity change and the soil physico-chemical properties degrade.