29 August-03 September 2010: Montpellier, France
AGRO 2010, which incorporates the XIth European Society of Agronomy Congress, is the Scientific International Week around Agronomy, which will offer a range of symposiums addressing agronomic research and its contribution to sustainable development.
The organisers, who include ENDURE partners CIRAD and INRA, have identified a number of objectives for the week, including:
To demonstrate the scientific coherence, ambitions and contribution of agronomy as a science.
To work with other disciplines on the definition of new frontiers in interdisciplinary research, especially with integrative plant biology, soil and hydrology, ecology and plant protection, economy and social sciences, and computer and artificial intelligence.
To make a scientific contribution to the burning questions of 2010 with regards to agriculture and its contribution to sustainable development and natural resource management. In addition to climate change and energy crops, it is likely that the co-existence of food and non food uses in farming systems or the design of 'ecologically intensive' cropping systems will be among these questions.
To discuss with farm advisers, technical institutes, stakeholders and decision makers how agronomic research can be made more operational to contribute to sustainable development.
To attract more students and young scientists to work on the type of questions and with the type of approaches we develop in our research.
