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Inmaculada Batalla

We need to understand the future of food production and food security in the context of climate change. Agricultural sector has the challenge to adapt its activity to climate change on one side, and reduce its GHG emissions on the other side. This last does not only imply to reduce directly GHG emissions on farm production, it includes too, the enhancing of agricultural carbon sinks. All this without putting apart its main objective which is feeding the increasing global population in a sustainability context. Understanding sustainability as a horizontal approach covering social, economic and environmental aspects.

"We need to understand the future of food production and food security in the context of climate change. Agricultural sector has the challenge to adapt its activity to climate change on one side, and reduce its GHG emissions on the other side. This last does not only imply to reduce directly GHG emissions on farm production, it includes too, the enhancing of agricultural carbon sinks. All this without putting apart its main objective which is feeding the increasing global population in a sustainability context. Understanding sustainability as a horizontal approach covering social, economic and environmental aspects."

Position:
Postdoctoral Researcher
Main Research Field:
Sustainability assessment of farming systems, GHGs, carbon footprint
BC3 Research Line:
3. Research Line Terrestrial Ecosystems
Contact information:
Email address: inmaculada.batalla@bc3research.org
Contact phone: +34944014690 (ext. 182)
Scopus Author ID: 56656623600
Download CV: Curriculum Vitae Inmaculada Batalla_February2021

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Inma Batalla is a postdoc at BC3. She holds a PhD in Sustainability of Livestock Systems at Universidad del País Vasco, a MsC in Rural Development (Agricultural economics and rural sociology) at the University of Córdoba and a BCs in Agricultural Engineering at the University of Extremadura.
She has experience in the sustainability assessment of farming systems with a multicriteria perspective. Wide experience in holistic analysis of farming systems using economic, social and environmental indicators to give a better comprehension of the situation of primary sector towards its viability in the long term. She has worked with special emphasis in climate change impacts of livestock through a Life Cycle Assessment approach to use them as start point to draw mitigation and adaptation strategies.

She has collaborated in some research projects related to sustainability assessment, in one of them, she got a PhD fellowship from the National Institute for Agricultural Research (INIA) to develop her PhD in Neiker Tecnalia.
Nowadays she is participating with BC3 in KONTRAE (Emergency and dissemination of resistance to antibiotics: links between human health, livestock, food and the environment) and RTA 2015-00058-C06 (Manure management in dairy cattle systems in Northern Spain: efficiency in nutrient use, GHS mitigations and reduction of carbon foortprint )

She is member of RED REMEDIA-Spanish Network for Mitigation of Greenhouse Gases Emissions from the Spanish Agroforestry Sector

She is really interested on exploring the interactions amount different indicators and its implications in different contexts to enhance sustainable agriculture practices able to empower rural areas and agriculture communities.

Journal Articles

2021
Albizua A., Bennett E.M., Larocque G., Krause R.W., Pascual U. 2021. Social networks influence farming practices and agrarian sustainability. PLoS One. 16. DOI (10.1371/journal.pone.0244619).
2020
del Prado A., Galán E., Batalla I., Pardo G. 2020. Impactos y adaptación al cambio climático en rumiantes. ITEA-Informacion Tecnica Economica Agraria. 116. (5) 461-482. DOI (10.12706/itea.2020.038).
2019
Gutiérrez-Peña R., Mena Y., Batalla I., Mancilla-Leytón J.M. 2019. Carbon footprint of dairy goat production systems: A comparison of three contrasting grazing levels in the Sierra de Grazalema Natural Park (Southern Spain). JOURNAL OF ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT. 232. 993-998. DOI (10.1016/j.jenvman.2018.12.005).

Affiliation previous to BC3

Batalla, I., Knudsen, M. T., Mogensen, L., Hierro, Ó. d., Pinto, M., & Hermansen, J. E. (2015). Carbon footprint of milk from sheep farming systems in Northern Spain including soil carbon sequestration in grasslands. Journal of Cleaner Production, 104(0), 121-129.

Affiliation previous to BC3

Mena, Y.; Gutiérrez-Peña, R.; Pérez-Neira, D.; Damián, M.; Batalla, I; del Hierro, O. (2014) Impacto de la ganadería ecológica sobre el medio ambiente y su papel en el mantenimiento de la biodiversidad. Junta de Andalucía

Other Publications

2020
Batalla, I., Pardo, G., delPrado, A. 2020. Gases de efecto invernadero y producción caprina: ¿qué debemos tener en cuenta? . Tierras caprino, 30, pp 10-17. 10-17.

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Inmaculada Batalla

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Affiliation previous to BC3

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