Dr. Gilles Billen shows that industrial agriculture, propelled by international trade and specialization, has disturbed the nitrogen cycle. This has provoked the crossing of planetary boundaries and endangered the possibility of feeding the world. Alternatives do not require new technologies but different ways of organizing production and regional networks. Lynn Fries interviews Gilles Billen on GPEnewsdocs.
This video was produced by GPEnewsdocs and published on the YouTube channel of Analysis News on April 23, 2024.
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Dr Gilles BILLEN is a Research Director CNRS (Emeritus), still teaching a course on Territorial Biogeochemistry in the Master ‘Science of the Universe and the Environment” at Sorbonne Université (ex. P. & M. Curie Univ.) in Paris. He played a leading role in the development of biogeochemical modelling tools, aimed at testing scenarios for water resources management. He is now conducting interdisciplinary research devoted to the modelling of nutrient transfer between agricultural land and hydro systems, at various scales from regional or global. He also participated in various international forums and projects, and to editorial teams.
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