Bio: Anna-Camilla is an agroecologist focusing her research on the development and promotion of sustainable cropping systems following a landscape agronomy approach and applying agroecological principles. She applies these principles to vegetation management in and around cropped fields with the objective to maximize synergies between vegetation and beneficial organisms to foster ecosystem service provisioning.

Talk outline: Reconciling agriculture with biodiversity conservation is possible if we prioritize the objectives and analyse the agroecosystems in a holistic manner. Science provides important tools to do this. The Landscape Agronomy approach is an example of a tool that can support holistic agroecosystem analysis by connecting landscape features to spatial land use patterns and agricultural practices.

In this context biodiversity can support agricultural by providing ecosystem services while agricultural practices and correct land management can sustain local biodiversity. An example will be provided by analysing a traditional olive grove landscape identifying strength and weaknesses of the current system and possible improvements.

Bio: Alison Smith is a Senior Research Associate at the University of Oxford's Environmental Change Institute, where she works with the Leverhulme Centre for Nature Recovery and the Nature-based Solutions Initiative. After working as a climate and energy policy consultant for around 20 years, she joined the University in 2014, where she initially worked on several large European projects focused on ecosystem services and climate change. She now specialises in modelling and analysing sustainable land-use pathways, aiming to identify options that maximise multiple benefits and avoid or mitigate trade-offs. As part of the international FABLE (Food, Agriculture, Biodiversity, Land-use and Energy) consortium and the UK's Land-use for Net Zero (LUNZ) Hub, she models the outcomes of stakeholder-led pathways for sustainable land use in the UK and its four nations. She also works closely with local policymakers and practitioners in the UK, including creating maps for Local Nature Recovery Strategies and developing the Environmental Benefits from Nature Tool for Natural England.

This event is open to all and is relevant to those with an interest in natural capital, land management, and the relationships between agricultural production and biodiversity loss.