Marjolein Visser
Member
École interfacultaire de Bioingénieurs
“Marjolein is a specialist in agronomic systems, genetics and plant improvement. In her words: “As an interdisciplinary scientific approach, agroecology has a critical function: it challenges the dominant agronomic model based on the intensive use of inputs external to the agroecosystem (Tilman, Cassman et al., 2002). In a reciprocal way, it also calls into question the dominant ecological model of nature conservation, which advocates a dissociated management - land spare - of biodiversity management and food production, rather than an integrated management of the two functions -land share- (Perfecto and Vandermeer, 2010).” "