Rethinking Agricultural Systems

18 / 19 December 2013, St. Catherine’s College, Oxford

 

The meeting will explore agricultural systems in the context of providing ecosystem services: it will ask what we would do in an ideal world and how we can envisage positive changes to the current system given socio-economic constraints.  An important feature of the meeting will be to encourage discussion of techniques across disciplines and discourage the use of labels so that we are unhindered by possibly negative preconceptions. The meeting will explore theory and practice from a wide range of farming systems. 

 

Professor Jonathan Foley, University of Minnesota; Professor Tim Benton, University of Leeds; 

Professor William Sutherland, University of Cambridge; Professor Philip Grime, University of Sheffield; Professor Steven Newman, BioDiversity International Ltd; Dr Joern Fischer  Leuphana University, Dr Christine Watson, Scottish Agricultural College.

 

Workshops:  There will be three targeted, structured workshops with pre-determined outputs.  A facilitated workshop on “Computational and Technological Solutions to Rethinking Agriculture” will be organised by the British Ecological Society’s Computational Ecology group.

 

Papers (and posters) are invited.  Please see the attached.

 

Best wishes

Barbara