12.10.2022 - Seminar Lecture Series: Food Security in High Mountains of Central Asia: A Broader Perspective
Dr. Roy Sidle, Director of the Mountain Societies Research Institute and Professor of Earth and Environmental Sciences at the University of Central Asia (Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan) will present his current research in Central Asia.
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- 12.10.2022 - Seminar Lecture Series: Food Security in High Mountains of Central Asia: A Broader Perspective
- 2022-10-12T15:00:00+02:00
- 2022-10-12T16:00:00+02:00
- Dr. Roy Sidle, Director of the Mountain Societies Research Institute and Professor of Earth and Environmental Sciences at the University of Central Asia (Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan) will present his current research in Central Asia.
12.10.2022 von 15:00 bis 16:00 (Europe/Berlin / UTC200)
Abstract
Addressing food security in high mountains is a multi-dimensional conundrum due to complex climate patterns that are not consistent across landscapes. These changes affect the timing and extent of droughts and water supplies as well as native plant distribution. The climate change-land degradation nexus, while difficult to disentangle, poses formable challenges. Isolated mountain villages, coupled with insufficient incomes, strained subsistence existence, and degraded lands lend residents vulnerable to malnutrition, stunting, and food access. Because arable mountain soils exist mostly in confined valleys, food production in limited and small ‘kitchen-gardens’ are insufficient to provide family food. Soils are typically infertile with little organic matter; on hillslopes, thin soil and rock cover coupled with short growing seasons restrict production. High-elevation pastures are over-grazed and effects of natural hazards on food security are often overlooked. Here we examine food security through these multi-faceted stressors, instead of merely focusing on food production and distribution.
Date: 12.10.2022 15:00-16:00 hr CET - virtual