Adapting to climate change: learnings from dairy and arable farmers (WEBINAR)
Join the webinar to explore how a group of upland dairy farmers in the French Massif Central and crop farmers in Romania are planning and changing their practices to create a more resilient future for their farms.
When? 28 February, 10:00 - 11:30 CET
Register here: https://soilassociation-org.zoom.us/meeting/register/qyUL6k2PRi2QoxmkBYsVdQ
Climate change makes grassland-based production systems more vulnerable because it disrupts the yearly forage supply and makes its availability more unpredictable. Using various research models experts from the "Agroecology-Transect" project can analyse how grassland-based farmers’ perceptions modulate how they adapt to climate change in French Massif central.
On the productive southern lowland plains in Romanian, the frequency, intensity, and duration of heatwaves and drought have increased over the past 20 years. Farmers were asked about a variety of changes they had made or were planning, to build a picture showing which measures were the most likely to succeed, from field scale to a whole farm redesign.
By the end of the webinar, you will learn about
- how farmers are thinking about future climate adaptation and mitigation, based on geographical areas and farm types
- the science demonstrating the importance of lowland plains and upland landscapes for biodiversity
- the threats and opportunities to lowland plains and upland grasslands and their ecosystems
Speakers: Bertrand Dumont, INRAE (France) and Cristiana Necula, Wageningen University & Research (The Netherlands)
Come along if you're
- an arable or grassland-based farmer or advisor interested in hearing how both lowland and upland farmers are creating climate-resilient systems
- involved in research about how farmers are preparing changing weather conditions
- a teacher of agriculture in a college or university