Part 2 - Producing food, conserving biodiversity (11 minutes)
Professor Charles Godfray discusses a land use framework to optimize biodiversity, food production, carbon storage or some combination of them.
Speaker
Professor sir Charles Godfray is the director of the Oxford Martin School at the University of Oxford. He is a population biologist with broad interests in the environmental sciences and has published in fundamental and applied areas of ecology, evolution and epidemiology.
He is interested in how the global food system will need to change and adapt to the challenges facing humanity in the 21st century, and in particular in the concept of sustainable intensification, and the relationship between food production, ecosystem services and biodiversity.
Section resources
Article: Food security and sustainable intensification (Charles Godfray and Tara Garnett, 2014)
Knepp Estate (2023)
