Seminar - April 2021
Probiotic Agriculture: Using Life to Manage Life in the Food System
Professor Jamie Lorimer, School of Geography and the Environment, University of Oxford
For the Food Values Research Group's April 2021 seminar, we are pleased to welcome Prof Jamie Lorimer.
A probiotic turn is underway in various domains of health and environmental management. Probiotic approaches introduce organisms into ecological systems and manage their dynamics to restore desired functions and services. They aim to address the problems caused by the overreach of modern, antibiotic approaches that have simplified and degraded ecological systems and compromised their resilience and sustainability. This talk provides an overview of this shift, and illustrates its implications for agriculture and food. It focuses on the example of regenerative agriculture and the roles it affords livestock, plants and microbes in tackling environmental problems.
When: Tuesday, 27th April 2021, 4-5 PM
Where: Online. Please RSVP to foodresearch@adelaide.edu.au
Prof Jamie Lorimer is a researcher in the School of Geography and the Environment at the University of Oxford. Jamie's research examines the production of environmental knowledge, and how this knowledge comes to shape the world around us. He focuses on powerful understandings of nature and their consequences for human and nonhuman life across different spatial scales.