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Provisional Science Programme
Wednesday 18th April Speaker and Title of Talk
Time .
12:00 - 18:00 Registration
14:00 Professor Chris Lamb, Director John Innes Centre
Title: Welcome to Global Agriculture 2020
14:10

Visions of Agriculture in 2020

Chair: To be confirmed

14:15 M Swaminathan, MS Swaminathan Research Foundation, India.
Title: Towards evergreen revolution in global agriculture
14:45 A Gray (Centre for Ecology & Hydrology, UK; ACRE)
Title: Agriculture and the Environment
15:15 B Mazur, Dupont Agricultural Products Experiment Station, USA.
Title: Discovering and developing new crop seed and grain products
15:45 - 16:30
Tea
16:30 - 18:30

Round Table: Setting the agenda for global agriculture

Chair: Professor M Gale FRS, JIC, UK

Session in which issues raised by the previous speakers are expanded upon and extended by the round-table participants. Each round-table participant will make a brief statement; there will be approximately one and a half hours available for open audience involvement.
. Round table participants:
  • M Swaminathan (MS Swaminathan Research Foundation, India)
  • B Mazur (Dupont Agricultural Products Experiment Station, USA)
  • A Gray (Centre for Ecology & Hydrology, UK)
  • J Huang (Centre for Chinese Agricultural Policy, China)
  • R Grove-White (University of Lancaster, AEBC)
  • R Simpson (National Consumer Council, UK)
  • A Sittenfeld (University Costa Rica, Costa Rica)
  • I Sithole-Niang (University of Zimbabwe, Zimbabwe)
  • K Ammann (University of Bern, Switzerland)
18:45 Welcome Reception and Buffet, at John Innes Centre




Thursday 19th April Speaker and Title of Talk
Time .
8:30 - 10:30

Session 1: Current and Projected Demands on Agriculture

Chair: Professor M Swaminathan, UNESCO Cousteau Chair in Ecotechnology, MS Swaminathan Research Foundation, India

8:35 G Khush (IRRI, Philippines)
Title: Towards global food security: what are the priorities?
9:05 J Huang (Centre for Chinese Agricultural Policy, China)
Title: Economic role of agriculture in developing country economies.
9:35 M Parry Jackson Environmental Institute (UEA, UK)
Title: Climate change, water and future food supply
10:05 R Simpson (National Consumer Council, UK)
Title: Consumer demand as a driving force in developing food-production
10:35 - 11:00 Coffee
11:00 - 13:00 Session 1 continued
11:05 I Sithole-Niang (University of Zimbabwe)
Title: The status of agricultural biotechnology in Zimbabwe: From research to field.
11:35 M Paske (National Farmers Union UK)
Title: Europe: too much food; too little land.
12:05 M Wolfe (Elm Farm Research Centre, UK)
Title: Recognising and realising the potential of organic agriculture.
12:35 K Ammann (University of Bern, Switzerland)
Title: Science and fiction in risk assessment research
13:05 - 14:00 Buffet lunch and poster session
14:00 - 16:00

Session 2: Opportunities and Priorities in Agricultural Bioscience R&D

Chair: Dr R Flavell, Chief Scientist, Ceres Inc., USA.
14:05 G della-Cioppa (Large-Scale Biology Corporation, USA)
Title:New technology for gene expression in plants
14:35 H Leung (IRRI, Philippines)
Title: Rice functional genomics: a public research platform for gene discovery and crop improvement.
15:05 M Dilworth (Murdoch University, AU)
Title: Where will nitrogen come from?
15:35 D DellaPenna (University Michigan, USA)
Title: Nutritional genomics: An approach for dissecting plant biochemical pathways of nutritional importance to humans.
16:05 - 16:30
Tea
16:35 J Ma (Dept Immunology, UMDS, UK)
Title: New products – mammalian proteins and pharmaceuticals
17:05 L Herrera (CINESTAV-IRAPUATO, Mexico)
Title: Development of transgenic plants better adapted to marginal soils
17:45 - 18:45 Workshops
The membership of the workshop panels will be responsive according to the priority issues which arise, and are deemed of greatest importance for finding a way forward.
19:30 Conference Dinner, at the Sainsbury Centre for the Arts.
Pre-Dinner Speaker Em. Prof. Marc Van Montagu
Professor M Gale to introduce.




Friday 20th April Speaker and Title of Talk
Time .
8:30 - 10:30 Session 3: Constraints , Conflicts and Strategies
8:35 U Barwale-Zehr (Mahyco Life Sciences Research Centre, India)
Title: Agbiotech role in economic development in developing countries.
9:05 A Sittenfeld (University Costa Rica, Costa Rica)
Title: From research to markets and farmers: the way ahead in tropical agriculture.
09.35 W De Greef (Syngenta, Switzerland)
Title: The role of bioindustry R&D in the future of agriculture.
10:05 S Wakhusama (ISAAA AfriCentre, Nairobi, Kenya)
Title: Progress in transferring research results and technologies to end-users in Kenya
10:35 - 11:00 Coffee
11:00 R Grove-White (Lancaster University, UK; AEBC)
Title: Society, trust and biosafety in the contemporary world
11:30 J Kinderlerer (SIBLE, UK)
Title: Biosafety regulation harmonization.
12:00 - 13:00 Workshops
The membership of the Workshop panels will be responsive according to the priority issues which arise, and are deemed of greatest importance for finding a way forward.
13:00 - 14:00 Lunch
14:00 - 16:00

Round-up Round Table

Chair: Professor Sir John Beringer, CBE, University of Bristol, UK.

14:10 Summaries from Workshop Chairs
14:40 Round Table and Recommendations:
Following discussion with audience involvement, each Round-Table participant will be ask to provide a comment on key points raised at the conference relevant to their own areas of expertise, and to make a specific recommendation(s) for the way forward
15:45 The Chair will make a summarising statement (15-20 minutes).
16:00 Close of Conference

[NB: * asterisk indicates 'speaker to be confirmed']