Program

General program l Key note speakers  l Sessions l Round tables

General program

  

The working sessions will take place from June 28 – 30, 2010.

To encourage exchange and debate, the symposium will include different sessions:

• Key note lectures: Recognized personalities will present their views on the different hot topics in plenary sessions.

• Round table sessions: Key stakeholders will share their practices and reflections on the challenges research is currently facing.

• Parallel working sessions: thematic sessions will enable discussion on specific issues around the hot topics.

Working languages will be English, French, and Spanish. Simultaneous translation will be available during all plenary sessions.

Monday, June 28		Tuesday, June 29		Wednesday, June 30
9:00-9:30	Opening	9:00- 10:00 am	Key note 3 Juliana Santilli	9:00- 10:00 am	Key note 4 Lawrence Busch
9 :30-10 :30 am	Key note 1 Andy Hall
		10:30-12:30	Working sessions (4-5 long presentations)	10:30-12:30	Working sessions (4-5 long presentations)
11:00-12:30	Working sessions (3 long presentations)
12:30- 2:00 pm	Lunch break	12:30- 2:00 pm	Lunch break	12:30- 2:00 pm	Lunch break
2:00- 3:00 pm	Key note 2 Papa Seck	2:00- 3:30 pm	Round tables	2:00- 3:00 pm	Key note 5 Robert Watson
3:00- 4:00 pm	Exchange sessions (5 short pres.)			3:00- 4:00 pm	Plenary Round table
		3:30- 4:30 pm	Exchange sessions (5 short pres.)
4:30- 5:30 pm	Exchange sessions (5 short pres.)			4:30- 5:30 pm	Proposals
		5:00- 6:00 pm	Exchange sessions (5 short pres.)
5:30- 6:30 pm	Poster session			5:30- 6:30 pm	Conclusion
		6:00- 7:00 pm	Poster session
	Evening free	8:00- 11:00 pm	Reception dinner		Evening free

  

Field Trip : On July 1, a field trip will be organized to enable discussions to continue through concrete examples. 

Side events : On Friday July 2, different side events may be organized by institutions or networks who wish to continue particular discussions or hold their annual meeting. We will provide all the logistical support required for these side events.

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Key note speakers

 
Andy Hall  (United Nations University)

Questions put at stake for innovation systems today

(Monday, June 28, 9:30 am)

Papa Seck (Director of Africa-Rice)

How to conceive innovating agricultural policies in Africa to feed this continent in a sustainable and sustained way?
(Monday, June 28, 2:00 pm)

Juliana Santilli (Public Prosecutor - Public Ministry, Brazil)

Innovating to enhance agrobiodiversity, recognize collective intellectual rights and enable more social equity
(Tuesday, June 29, 9:00 am)

Juliana Santilli is a Brazilian lawyer and public prosecutor, specialized in Environmental and Cultural Heritage Law and Public Policies. She holds a Phd in Socio-Environmental Law (Catholic University of Paraná, Brazil), is a co-founder of the Brazilian public interest organization Instituto Socioambiental (  www.socioambiental.org) and a researcher in Law, associated to the multidisciplinary research program called: “Local communities, agrobiodiversity and traditional knowledge- Phase II”,  developed by Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD) and  University of Campinas (UNICAMP). She is  the author of the books “Agrobiodiversity and farmers’ rights” (São Paulo: Peirópolis, IEB, 2009) and “Socioenvironmentalism and new rights: legal protection to biological and cultural diversity” (São Paulo: Peirópolis, ISA, IEB, 2005). She has also organized and co-authored the book “Indigenous peoples and the Law” (Brasília: Núcleo de Direitos Indígenas, 2003).

Santilli participated, as a researcher in Law, of the program  Biodivalloc – “From localized products to geographical indications: which instruments to promote biodiversity in Southern countries?”, developed by governmental and non-governmental organizations, with the support of the French international cooperation, on the following countries: Brazil, India, South Africa, Ethiopia, Senegal and Niger, coordinated by M. C. Cormier-Salem (IRD/ MNHN, Paris).

Lawrence Busch (Professor at Michigan State University and Lancaster University)
Acting sustainably: Governance through standards in a times of « corporate science »
(Wednesday, June 30, 9:00 am)

Lawrence Busch (Professor) (Ph.D., Cornell University ) is Professor of Standards and Society at the Centre for Economic and Social Aspects of Genomics at Lancaster University (UK) and University Distinguished Professor at the Institute for Food and Agricultural Standards at Michigan State University (USA).  His current research concerns  (1) the role of private sector Third Party Certification of food and agricultural products in both industrial and developing nations, and (2) the importance of neoliberal economic policies in transforming both agriculture and agricultural research globally.

Both projects are part of a series of studies of how grades and standards for food products are implicated in restructuring the social world including (re) distribution of income wealth, status, prestige and power.  In addition, Dr. Busch maintains a longstanding interest in agricultural bio- and nano-technologies and the standards governing the use of these technologies. websites: http://www.genomicsnetwork.ac.uk/cesagen/people/academicstaff/forename,7898,en.html http://www.msu.edu/~lbusch

 

Robert Watson (Chief Scientist - DEFRA & Professor at East Anglia University )

Renewing agricultural research

(Wednesday, June 30, 2:00 pm)

Professor Watson’s career has evolved from research scientist at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory: California Institute of Technology, to a US Federal Government program manager/director at the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), to a scientific/policy advisor in the US Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP), White House, to a scientific advisor, manager and chief scientist at the World Bank, to a Chair of Environmental Sciences at the University of East Anglia, the Director for Strategic Direction for the Tyndall centre, and Chief Scientific Advisor to the UK Department of Environment, Food and Rural Affairs. In parallel to his formal positions he has chaired, co-chaired or directed international scientific, technical and economic assessments of stratospheric ozone depletion, biodiversity/ecosystems (the GBA and MA), climate change (IPCC) and agricultural S&T (IAASTD).   Professor Watson’s areas of expertise include managing and coordinating national and international environmental programs, research programs and assessments; establishing science and environmental policies - specifically advising governments and civil society on the policy implications of scientific information and policy options for action; and communicating scientific, technical and economic information to policymakers.   During the last twenty years he has received numerous national and international awards recognizing his contributions to science and the science-policy interface, including in 2003 - Honorary “Companion of the Order of Saint Michael and Saint George” from the United Kingdom.

 

Sessions

See the program of sessions (with all the abstracts)

1. Innovating to link production and conservation: how to feed the world population and protect the planet at the same time?

1-A. Assessment of new techniques or processes 

1-B. Assessment methods of innovation at different scales 

1-C. Agroecology and ecological intensification : from paradigms to local experimentations 

1-D. Impact of certification on production processes 

1-E. Towards environmental services: change in practices and policies 

2. Questioning social equity: how can innovation reduce the fragility of poor populations and make them members of a sustainable society?

2-A. Impacts of innovations on poverty reduction 

2-B. Producer inclusion and social equity: reducing poverty and enhancing food security 

2-C. Innovating in urban agriculture to improve food security and social equity 

2-D. Local food networks: fostering social cohesion and equity 

2-E. Territorial innovations to enable social inclusion 

2-F. International rights, innovation and social equity 
 

3. Learning and being creative: how can different types of knowledge be combined to create innovation?

3-A. Using video to enhance reflexion on innovation 

3-B. Conciliating different stakeholder views around common issues 

3-C. Innovation brokers 

3-D. Understanding the perception of actors to enable adaptation to change 

3-E. Recognition of traditional knowledge for sustainable innovations 

3-F. Emergence of new practices within farmer learning communities 

3-G. Encouraging a dialogue between local farmer knowledge and technical knowledge 

 

4. Acting collectively: what kinds of institutions, policies, and forms of governance can strengthen society’s capacity for resilience?

4-A. Innovations and territorial governance  

4-B. Innovating to enable cohabitation between various usages in peri-urban areas 

4-C. Territorial impact of innovations in food systems 

4-D. Local/global tensions in innovation processes of agro-food systems 

4-E. Social construction of standards and chains 

4-F. Certification: an institutional innovation to foster sustainability? 

4-G. Agricultural advisory services: towards an innovation system approach 

4-H. Analysis of multiactor processes 

4-I. Financing innovation for sustainability 

4-J. Understanding the organizational and strategic determinants of the adoption of innovations 

4-K. Implementing innovation systems in practice: advancement and challenges 

5. Renewing research models and practices: how can research better fulfil its responsibilities to elaborate innovating solutions in collaboration with society?

5-A. The greening of agricultural research 

5-B. New research partnerships for plant breeding and conservation of biodiversity 

5-C. Participatory research for innovation 

5-D. Crossdisciplinary approaches for knowledge integration: frameworks and methods 

5-E. Research to deal with adaptative and resilient socio-ecological systems 

5-F. Open source knowledge for agrarian development 

 

Round Tables

 

Parallel Round Tables (Tuesday, June 29, 2:00 pm)

Innovation systems in practice: challenges and perspectives

Organised with the World Bank

 

Innovation policies in the Mediterranean Region

Organised with OECD, FIDA and ArimNet

 

Dynamiques régionales de l’innovation.

Organised in partnership with the Languedoc-Roussillon region and the PSDR project (Pour et Sur le Développement Régional).

 

Final round table ( Wednesday, June 30, 3:00 pm)

Research and action perspectives on Innovation Systems