Dr. Ruth Defries author Professor of Ecology and Sustainable Development at Columbia University and MacArthur Genius fellowship recipient will be visiting NMSU next week as a featured speaker in the CAMBIOS (climate change education) speaker series.
Thursday April 17 CAMBIOS Seminar
Title: Nature’s message for our food systems
Speaker: Dr. Ruth Defries
Where: The Rio Grande Theater. 211 N. Main Street Las Cruces
When: Thursday April 17 @ 7 pm
In her recent book What would nature do? Dr. Ruth Defries professor of Ecology and Sustainable Development at Columbia University in New York and co-founding Dean of the Columbia Climate School writes about the uncertainty that climate change brings to the stability of our food systems and the surprising set of time-tested strategies from the natural world that can help humanity weather these changes. Her CAMBIOS presentation (Nature's Message for Our Food Systems) will highlight how the resilience of food systems has emerged as a key component of climate adaptation and the scientific cultural and political realities needed to make this possible.
Dr. Defries also wrote a superb 2014 book “The Big Ratchet” that is essential reading for everyone in the agricultural and environmental sciences! The Big Ratchet outlines the global-scale geological biological political and economic processes underpinning food production in the modern globalized world.
Event Venue & Nearby Stays
Rio Grande Theater, 211 N. Main Street, Las Cruces, United States
