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Format and Program

The Forum intends to stimulate provocative and challenging discussion, with a forward-looking perspective on research and partnership needs to increase the resilience and the productivity of agricultural and natural resource systems.

On the first day, parallel workshops will focus on research that is still at the advanced research stage, but has potential to deliver significant impact in 15 years and beyond; the second day will consider a 5-10 year timeframe. Both will focus on promising research that requires further investment and essential partnerships to deliver impact.

Plenary Presentations:

Workshop Themes

The workshops will focus on six domains; each will consider promising areas of science within that domain, and will seek to address the following questions.

  • What is the nature of frontier science in this area and how is it poised for long-term or medium-term application?
  • Where and what is the potential for development impact?
  • Which applications could feasibly achieve development impact through take-up into national systems, and which have long-term potential for development impact, but lack an immediate development pathway?

Workshop 1. Resilient natural resource systems

Workshop 3. ICTs transforming agricultural science, research and technology generation

Workshop 4. Beyond the yield curve: exerting the power of genetics, genomics and synthetic biology

Workshop 5. Eco-efficiencies in agro-ecosystems

Workshop 6. Agriculture beyond food science for a biobased economy