Tsilla Boisselet will be presenting her research proposal at the 5th International Conference on Sustainable Development in Rome, Italy on September 6-7, 2017. The conference will address the fundamental questions of Sustainable Development from the critical challenge of human, environmental, and economic sustainability concerning the present and future generations in a global perspective.
Tsilla, leader of the Resuscitation project will be sharing how to use positive interactions between plants with contrasting species and how an informatics tool will replenish the soil.
A method that uses the synergy between species to improve agriculture and soil use and help give the farmer’s land an ecologically and economically sustainable second chance.
The corresponding Paper will be published online in October 2017 in the Special Issue, Volume 6, and Issue 4 of the European Journal of Sustainable Development (EJSD).
ABSTRACT
ABSTRACT
Environmental and economic limitations prompt the search for areas of improvement to reduce the environmental footprint of agriculture while increasing its resilience and maintaining productivity.
We propose a biomimicry approach, where cultivation and productivity are more dependent on intrinsic dynamics than on human/chemical inputs driven by fossil fuels. To specifically target synergetic dynamics and overcome difficulties linked to poor knowledge and hazardous trial-and-error processes, we are developing an informatics tool to design adapted, efficient plant partnerships or clusters.
The tool consists of a prediction model that suggests a potential win-win plant or other symbiotic relationships, flexible enough to exploit information about local soil/climatic conditions. As the tool gains strength from generated data, it evolves into a simulation model for several-component ecosystem-like systems. In this way, the tool establishes a solid base to support and accelerate applicability of intercropping–type methods, providing realistic expectations about growth and harvest over time, including ecological criteria such as biodiversity. Thus, the tool provides a way out of the deforestation/agriculture dilemma, and opens up possible human soil use during remediation of polluted areas, with significant consequences in many different domains affected by human soil use, including environment, soil stability, health, and climate.
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