Walter Jehne: Permaculture, Urban Agriculture and Food Futures
Event description
Join us for a conversation with Walter Jehne:
Permaculture, Urban Agriculture and Food Futures
Wednesday 7th June, 6:00 PMÂ -7:00 PM (ACST)
Walter Jehne is an internationally recognised soil microbiologist and innovation strategist. He has immense field and research experience in soils, grasslands, agriculture and forests at local, national (CSIRO and Science Adviser to Australia’s National Soil Advocate), and international (UN) level. Walter's specialisation is the role of soil microbes’ symbiotic processes in the ecology of diseases, plant health, nutrient and waste cycling, soil pedogenesis and the regeneration of bio-systems.
Decades of research have made him an expert in plant root ecology, mycorrhizal fungi, glomalin, and soil carbon formation. He also has worked on biology's enormous influences in hydrological cycles, weather patterns, regional and global cooling, and cloud formation and rain precipitation. Recent work has focused on commercialising leading bio-innovations which will urgently help restore agro-ecosystems and urban agriculture and ecologies. Walter is determined to advance the practical verification, application and extension of these innovations, including for cities and their supply chains, to sustain the current 8 billion and projected 10 billion people by mid-century.
This talk is part of the Australian Permaculture Convergence 2023 and is brought to you by Permaculture SA.
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