Irrigation – Where do I begin?

Instructor

Michael Lathuillière is an agricultural water management and water footprint specialist with experience in local and international food security. He consults with organizations and companies on water footprints and life cycle assessments to assist in measuring and communicating corporate sustainability initiatives.

For three years, he worked with the UBC Faculty of Land and Food Systems’ Land, Food and Community Series on food security projects in the city of Vancouver. Michael also has extensive experience in Latin America, particularly in Brazil where he studied the hydrologic impacts of agricultural expansion and deforestation in the state of Mato Grosso. For three years, Michael contributed regular environmental columns to a local newspaper; he now blogs at http://blogs.landfood.ubc.ca/mjlath/.

Michael holds an M.Sc. from UBC’s Institute for Resource, Environment and Sustainability (2011) and a B.Sc. in Chemistry (2002); he communicates fluently in French and Spanish, and has conversational Portuguese.