BEYOND EMISSIONS: HOW REGENERATIVE AGRICULTURE BUILDS RESILIENCE
with Bruno Basso, Jonathan Lundgren & Natalia Pinzón
Bruno Basso
John A. Hannah Distinguished Professor and MSU Research Foundation Professor at Michigan State University, Co-Founder & Chief Science Officer, The Soil Inventory Project, and Co-Founder of CIBO Technologies
Dr. Bruno Basso is the Hannah Distinguished Professor and Research Foundation Professor at Michigan State University. He is an international recognized agricultural systems scientist. His research focuses on sustainable agriculture.
He holds global patents on remote sensing and crop modeling for improving crop productivity, ecosystems services and sustainability.
He is a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science
(AAAS), a Fellow of the American Society of Agronomy, and a Fellow of the Soil Science Society of America.
He is a member of the Board of Agriculture and Natural Resources of the US National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine (NASEM). He is a member of the Biological and Environmental Research Advisory Committee (BERAC) of the Department of Energy, Office of Science.
He has published more than 250 papers. He is ranked 2% of top scientist across all discipline (Standford Univ). He is the cofounder of CIBO Technology (start-up) and the The Soil Inventory Project (NGO). He received his PhD from Michigan State University.
Jonathan Lundgren
Founder & Director of Ecdysis Foundation
Jonathan founded Ecdysis Foundation & Blue Dasher Farm as a research foundation as well as training ground for future scientists and farmers. He is an Agroecologist, Farmer, Rancher, and Beekeeper.
In 2022, the 1000 Farms Initiative was launched as one of the most ambitious agroecology experiments ever conducted. The 1000 Farms Initiative is working to determine how we can transform our food system so that it benefits our farmers, our ecosystems, our communities, and our bodies.
Regenerative agricultural practices are instrumental in this transformation. It is critical they are implemented by individual farmers on a continental level. Ecdysis is encouraging this adoption by gathering and communicating data at a continental scale, a desperately needed and pioneering approach.
Natalia Pinzón
Assistant Professor of Cooperative Extension, University of California, Berkeley; Co-Founder, Farmer Campus
Dr. Natalia Pinzón is an incoming Assistant Professor of Cooperative Extension at UC Berkeley, specializing in Climate Resilient Rural Community Development. Her research explores the intersection of agroecology, climate resilience, and rural viability.
Her award-winning participatory research program, Farming Through Wildfire Season, revealed how agroecological farmers and ranchers are key allies in addressing the wildfire crisis through their ecological and market practices. In
other work, she collaborates with geoscientists, agronomists, and farmers to develop usable climate decision-support tools. She also co-leads a national agroecology
network with 13 land-grant universities, working to institutionalize agroecology across the United States.
Natalia is the co-founder of Farmer Campus, a bilingual agriculturaleducation network focused on resilience. A Colombian immigrant, she holds a PhD in Geography from UC Davis, has studied agroecology in Latin America, Africa, and Asia, and brings over 20 years of experience in agricultural research and practice, including vegetable farming, seed production, and dairy goat wrangling.