International workshop on System Innovations, Knowledge Regimes, and Design Practices towards Sustainable Agriculture
16-18 June 2010, organized by WUR and INRA
The workshop will be held in the Netherlands is organised by an international scientific committee from the Netherlands and France.
The workshop has the following features: ·
The workshop has the following features: ·
- Intensive interactions among a limited number of participants (30-35), mostly researchers but also some policy-makers and representative of cooperative and professional networks. ·
- Participation is by invitation only on the basis of submitted abstracts (for researchers) or known expertise. · All papers have to be written and will be distributed prior to the meeting. ·
- The meeting consists of two kinds of sessions: 1) paper sessions focussing on a theme; 2) 'harvesting' sessions without a paper submission. The latter sessions aim at teasing out lessons for governance and to define a further research agenda. ·
- The workshop will be held from 16-18 June 2010 and participants are expected to arrive on the 15th. ·
- Local costs (hotel, subsistence) will be borne by the organisers. Funding applications to fund travel as well are still pending. Check website for progress on this issue.
Update: 15 December 2009
Quick-facts
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300 papers presented
Keynote speakers
Andy Hall (Link Ltd & CRT-RIU)
Prabhu Pingali (Gates Foundation)
Juliana Santilli (Public Min.-BR)
Aliou Diagne (AfricaRice, CGIAR)
Lawrence Busch (MSU & LU)
Symposium Chairpersons
Bernard Hubert (Agropolis International)
Hubert Devautour (CIRAD
Scientific committee space