Agricultural Environments and Development

农业生产的创新方法将最大限度地减少当前的一系列挑战，包括土地稀缺、施肥不当、土壤和水污染以及土地使用的变化。这些挑战因全球化进程和往往具有排斥性的管理而扩大。该研究计划将揭示生物物理和人类对加拿大和发展中国家农业生态系统变化的贡献。我们将通过调查养分循环的效率和植物在替代农业生态系统中的表现来实现这一目标，同时绘制农业生态系统管理的人类维度。这种方法对于加拿大高产但可持续的景观和发展中国家农业的健全管理做法至关重要。

Innovative approaches to agriculture production will minimize a host of current challenges including land scarcity, misuse of fertilization, soil and water contamination and land-use change. These challenges are magnified by globalization processes and often exclusionary management. This research program will shed light on biophysical and human contributions to changing agricultural ecosystems in Canada and in developing countries. We will achieve this by investigating the efficiency of nutrient cycles and the performance of plants in alternative agroecological systems while simultaneously charting the human dimension of agroecosystem management. This approach is critical for highly productive yet sustainable landscapes in Canada and sound management practices for agriculture in the developing world.