Events

• LandMod 2010
  

  03-05 February: Montpellier, France
  LandMod 2010, the 2010 Conference on Integrative Landscape Modelling, will bring together scientists working in the main disciplines dealing with ecosystems and landscpae simulation and management, complex dynamic modelling and the assessment of vulnerability, resilience and adaptation of agro and ecosystems under human influence.

• The Dundee Conference
  

  23-24 February 2010: Dundee, Scotland
  Organised by the Association for Crop Protection in Northern Britain, The Dundee Conference aims to bring together farmers, advisers, the agro-chemical industry and all those concerned with advances in chemical and non-chemical crop protection, including advisory, research and government organisations.

• 1st Phytoma Encounter on tomato leaf miner
  

  23-24 March 2010: Valencia, Spain

  ENDURE researchers from Spain and France will be among the participants at the 1st PHYTOMA-Spain International Encounter on Tuta absoluta: Tomato leaf miner, a serious problem in expansion, which is being held at the Polytechnic University of Valencia.

• Slugs and Snail Control in the 21st Century
  

  23-25 March 2010: Cardiff, Wales
  With some of the chemicals used for slug and snail control facing withdrawal, the slug and snail subgroup of the IOBC/WPRS is staging a three-day meeting at Cardiff University, Wales, with the emphasis on coming up with new, integrated, adaptable and knowledge-led approaches to controlling slug and snail pests.

• GCARD 2010
  

  28-31 March 2010: Montpellier, France

  The first Global Conference on Agricultural Research for Development (GCARD) is being held in the French city of Montpellier.

• 19th Biennial IPRI Workshop
  

  28-31 March 2010: Charleston, South Carolina, USA
  The 19th Biennial International Plant Resistance to Insects Workshop is being held in the American city of Charleston and will include sessions at the nearby United States Vegetable Laboratory.

• IAALD Xlllth World Congress
  

  26-29 April 2010: Montpellier, France

  The Xlllth World Congress of the International Association of Agricultural Information Specialists is being jointly organised by Agropolis International and will be held in the latter's home city of Montpellier, France.

• EuroBlight Workshop
  

  03-06 May 2010: Arras, France

  EuroBlight, the European potato late blight network, will be staging a workshop in the French city of Arras in May 2010, with the objective of presenting and discussing recent results on integrated control for both late and early blight.

• Cultivating Crisis
  

  04 May 2010: Montpellier, France
  The international workshop Cultivating Crisis: Pesticides et 'Suds': des problématiques pour les sciences sociales (Pesticides and developing nations: issues for the social sciences) will feature a variety of expert presentations tackling issues such as the management of chlordecone pollution in the French West Indies, an analysis of the Mexican farmworkers' mobilisation against the use of toxic chemicals in US agriculture and the situation of seasonal farmworkers in relation to pesticides.

• 62nd International Symposium on Crop Protection
  

  18 May 2010: Ghent, Belgium
  Belgium's Ghent University stages its 62nd International Symposium on Crop Protection in May with a plenary session followed by parallel sessions.