How to accelerate the transition towards more sustainable food economies and achieve the sustainable development goals by 2030.

How to build bridges between academia and non-academia, and how to interact with other stakeholders. What will be the role of bio-engineers in this transition pathways ?

REPORTE MI-OCTOBRE   Le 21 et 22 avril prochains, nous aurons le plaisir d’accueillir les professeurs Tim Benton (University of Leeds et Chatam House) et Matthew Gandy (University of Cambridge), Doctor Honoris Causa (DHC) de notre Secteur des Sciences et Technologies et dont les DHC seront co-livrés par la Faculté d’Agro et ELI (Tim Benton) et par la Faculté d’Architecture LOCI et

The way the food system is governed also contributes to its lack of sustainability and resilience. Sustainable food economies need new policies that are coherent across different levels and scales, reflexive and adaptive, that is, that actively acknowledge and help solve unsustainable lock-ins. This lecture discusses the principles underpinning such policies.

Measure economic, social and environmental impact methods such as LCA, cost-benefit analysis and other forms of impact assessment. However, these indicator systems tend to be partial, linear and scale-inconsistent, and thus incapable of grasping the attributes of complex food systems that are open, hierarchical, circular and dynamic. They also fail to address the issue of resilience.

Dans le cadre, entre autres, du Printemps des sciences, cette exposition interactive aborde un sujet d'actualité: le déclin des pollinisateurs. Que signifie la pollinisation ? Quelles plantes ont besoin d'insectes pour se reproduire ? Quels sont les insectes qui visitent les fleurs ? Que mangent ils ? Quelles sont les menaces qui pèsent sur ces espèces ?

One intriguing element of the atmospheric dynamics at mid-latitudes is the presence of low-frequency variability at interannual and decadal time scales. The most well known index reflecting this dynamics is the North Atlantic Oscillation. The origin of such a dynamics is however difficult to isolate.

Maître Alain Lebrun, lawyer in Liège, will come to present a seminar entitled "Draft international convention on the rights of trees" on Thursday 5 March.

Passage inédit en Belgique le 5 mars 2020 de la chercheuse belge Anne Laudisoit travaillant actuellement à New York pour Ecohealth Alliance National Geographic. Son expédition a fait l'objet d'un film "Mbudha, la Source des chimpanzés" (52 min).

Martin Vancoppenolle (CNRS Researcher at LOCEAN/IPSL, Paris, France and a former researcher of our lab) will be soon giving a seminar reviewing recent research on biogeochemistry in the sea ice zones. The response of the climate system to more greenhouse gases is marked by amplified warming at the poles, driven by physical processes in the atmosphere-ocean-sea ice system.