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Msc Amandine Pastor
PhD student
Email: amandine.pastor(at)wur.nl
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I am Amandine Pastor and I work as a PhD student for the NWO project “Impact of climate change and land use change on global water resources”. I am an agricultural engineer (EIP, Toulouse) and I have a Msc in Plant sciences (Wageningen university). Afterwards, I was hired by ICARDA as an agricultural consultant in collaboration with the group “Land dynamics, Wageningen” to carry out a survey on the impact of soil and water conservation practices in the North east of Morocco. Then, I worked as a guest researcher at the BFS group (WUR) to focus on nutrient use efficiency in tropical maize and leguminous species. I also gave some lectures on irrigation, soil fertility and nutrient management during the course “organic plant production” at Wageningen.
Research interests
- Global water resources modeling
- Climate change
- Food security
- Environmental flow
- Soil degradation/fertility
Current research
"How to manage the global water system to sustain both food production and environmental needs under global change", under supervision of MSc. Hester Biemans, Dr. Fulco Ludwig and Prof. Dr. Pavel Kabat.
The expected outcome of my PhD project is to define more explicitly the planetary boundary of freshwater resources in order to sustain both the environmental and the food production requirements with a dynamic global vegetation model LPJml. Besides, an integrated modelling framework will be used to study the combined effect of climate change and socio-economic development on the global water cycle.
Poster presentations
- Pastor A.V., Rossing W.A.H., Lantinga E.A., Flores D., (2010). Prospects of intercropped legumes for sustainable maize production in Costa Chica, Mexico. Poster at the International soil fertility conference, March 2010, Berlin, Germany.
Publications
- Pastor A.V., Flores D., Lantinga E.A., Rossing W.A.H., Janssen BH., Kropff M.J. (in prep). Capturing flaws in nutrient management: a study case of maize production in the tropics. Under revision for submission to Plant & Soil.
- Pastor A.V., Stoorvogel J.J. (in prep) Impact assessment of the soil and water conservation techniques in the North eastern Morocco. Under revision for submission to Land degradation & development.