In the final of “Climate Caravan in Brazil” project, the graduate student will present a research about sustainable production of food.
Renan Venancio da Silva, student from Entomology Graduate Program at College of Agriculture “Luiz de Queiroz” (USP/ESALQ), was one of the five selected to compose the team “Climate Caravan in Brazil” and to present his research line in the final of the project, on September 22th, in Rio de Janeiro. At this stage, the finalists will compete for a trip to the Conference of Youth in Paris, for a participation in a scientific expedition with the Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD), or with the Centre de Coopération Internationale en Recherche Agronomique pour le Développement (CIRAD).
The “Climate Caravan in Brazil” is an initiative of the French Embassy, that has a team engaged in questions related to the climate and sustainable development. To be selected, the student had to make a video, with no more than 30 seconds, presenting the research that he is developing at ESALQ/USP. “I saw in this competition an opportunity to internationally expose what we are doing”, commented.
Renan signed up to the “Scientific Communication Competition”, aiming to popularize the science in a simple language about the issues related to the climate and sustainable development.
The research, supervised by Professor Gilberto José de Moraes, from the Agricultural Acarology Laboratory of ESALQ/USP, and entitled “Biologic Control – a tool for the sustainable production of food”, which will be presented in Rio, aims the determination of species of edaphic predators mites (that inhabit the soil) with potential of use in the biologic control of blood-sucking mites. “It is important that other researchers know what we are studying, because then we can share ideas. That was what motivated me to sign me up”, commented the student.
Link for the video made by the graduate student: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iJ3FCaeH2Ew
Written by: Ana Carolina Brunelli
Proofread by: Caio Albuquerque
Translated by: Giovanni Augusto Rocha
Proofread by: Alexandre Joviniano dos Santos
Photo by: Divulgação
Acom (ESALQ’s Office of Communications)
August 8th, 2015
