Outreach

Several outreach projects in UK and Benin with Bugs for life (e.g. workshops, fundraising events, courses at schools in Benin, video material and reports) (www.Bugsforlife.org)

Soils, where food begins, 2022, Laura & Lea Riggi, FAO here

Caring for Soils, 2024, Laura Riggi & Pierre Chopin, FAO here

2022 - 6th European Congress of Conservation Biology, Czech Republic.

Mass-flowering crops for conservation of wild pollinators real or mirage potential?

2020 - ECOFLOR, Spain. Buzzing for Bloom!

2019 - SCAPE, Sweden. Effect of mass flowering crops on bumblebees in wild flower edges

2019 - OIKOS, Sweden. Midfield islands - small natural features with large ecological roles?

2016 - Entomological Society of America, Orlando, U.S. Test of the subsidy hypothesis in an above- below ground tri-trophic cereal systems.

2014 - Insects to feed the world, Netherlands. Exploring the practices, perceptions and possibilities of edible insects in Northern Benin.

2013 - International Organization for Biological Control, Luxemburg. IPM in OSR 

Fresque du climat master to general public to explain climate change drivers and impacts

Ludi Soli master for students to explain soil functions

Salon de l’agriculture fair France (2013) - presented research at the INRAE stand 

Biovelddag (2022) - Dutch organic field day

Greppa Näringen (Sweden): “How do flowering fields affect the pollinating insects?” (March 5 2024)

The Applied Ecologist 2023. “Unravelling the seasonal dance: How flowering crops impact wild pollinators” 

Bulletin of the Royal Entomological Society, UK, Antenna 40(2):67-71. 2016. "Bugs for Life bites back: Edible insects in northern Benin."