SUFICA final seminar

September 12 2022, 09:30 - 12:30

The final academic seminar of the SUFICA project will take place in the Faculty of Agronomy and Engineering, Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Chile, Santiago. SUFICA researchers from UK, Brazil and Chile will present our main results.

First the two project leaders, Eduardo Arellano (Chile) and Lynn Dicks (UK) will provide an overview of the SUFICA project itself, and one of the main outputs – the Cool Farm Biodiversity tool for farms in the Mediterranean and semi-arid regions of the world.

Fabiana Oliveira will present our participatory approach to agroecology research, in which we co-designed practices to benefit biodiversity, with SUFICA partner farmers.

After a coffee break, the Patricia Reboucas, Vinina Ferreira and Andres Munoz-Saez will present our results, looking at insects, soil fauna and mammals respectively.