The group
Agrofood Lab is a multidisciplinary research group working to promote sustainable production in agriculture, environmental health and socio-economic promotion of the agri-food sector. Agrofood Lab's goals are to help farms in the process of ecological transition, produce innovation and transfer scientific knowledge, and putting it at the service of society and territory.
Research activity
The main areas and activities of research of Agrofood Lab are:
- plant health, through the development of tools to support the management of pests and plant crops diseases, including invasive species,
- development and implementation of model and quantitative approaches to assess pollinators health and pollination ecosystem services,
- study of the biodiversity of agricultural systems using traditional and molecular methods and implementing methods of analysis based on the study of ecological networks,
- assess the quality of soils through multidisciplinary approaches to determine its fertility and interpreting the agro-ecological meaning of the organic matter,
- evaluate contamination and study the ecological functionality of soil, using chemical, biochemical and molecular biology techniques,
- assessing the impacts connected with plant production, by developing modelling approaches to estimate impacts related to agriculture,
- study and develop methodologies to ensure a sustainable management of livestock production, focusing on the assessment of environmental impacts generated by cattle breeding and precision nutrition,
- develop systemic approaches to the study of agroecosystems by employing multidimensional and multiscale criteria to manage biodiversity,
- analyse and monitor agri-food markets and studying the drivers of consumption.
- analyse business strategies and innovation paths in the agri-food sector.
Keywords
- Food security,
- Sustainable crop production,
- Sustainable animal production,
- Biodiversity,
- Quality of agricultural soils,
- Invasive species,
- Drivers and models on food consumption,
- Innovation in the agri-food sector,
- Analysis of agroecosystems.
ERC sectors
- SH1_10 Management; marketing; organisational behaviour; operations management
- SH1_11 Technological change, innovation, research & development
- SH1_12 Agricultural economics; energy economics; environmental economics
- SH2_6 Sustainability sciences, environment and resources
- SH2_7 Environmental and climate change, societal impact and policy
- SH2_10 Land use and regional planning
- SH3_4 Attitudes and beliefs
- SH3_9 Health, ageing and society
- PE1_14 Statistics
- LS8_1 Ecosystem and community ecology, macroecology
- LS8_2 Biodiversity, conservation biology, conservation genetics
- LS8_3 Population biology, population dynamics, population genetics
- LS9_3 Applied animal sciences (including animal breeding, veterinary sciences, animal husbandry, animal welfare, aquaculture, fisheries, insect gene drive)
- LS9_4 Applied plant sciences (including crop production, plant breeding, agroecology, forestry, soil biology)
- LS9_5 Food sciences (including food technology, food safety, nutrition)
- LS9_6 Biomass production and utilisation, biofuels
- LS9_7 Environmental biotechnology (including bioindicators, bioremediation, biodegradation)
SDG - Sustainable Development Goals
- Goal 1: No poverty
- Goal 2: Zero hunger
- Goal 3: Good health and well-being for people
- Goal 6: Clean water and sanitation
- Goal 12: Responsible consumption and production
- Goal 13: Climate action
- Goal 14: Life below water
- Goal 15: Life on land
People
Gianni Gilioli
Laura Giagnoni
Anna Simonetto
Valentina Caprarulo
Vera Ventura
Giorgio Sperandio
Isabella Ghiglieno
Website
Link to the webpage of the group on the site expertise.unibs.it
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