We are pleased to announce our first invited speakers for the 3rd Agriculture and Climate Change Conference to be held 24-26 March 2019 in Budapest, Hungary. Invited speakers include:
Michael Dingkuhn, CIRAD, France Tentative presentation title: Stress adaptation, memory, plasticity: Strategic thoughts on improving crops’ coping ability
Dave Gustafson, International Life Sciences Institute Research Foundation, USA Tentative presentation title: Use of system performance metrics to improve the efficiency of the food chain
Philip Thornton, International Livestock Research Institute, UK Tentative presentation title: Transforming agri-food systems in lower- and middle-income countries to meet the SDGs
More speakers to be announced shortly.
BE A PART OF THE PROGRAMME - submit abstracts for oral and poster presentations on the conference topics by 22 October 2018.
Topics:
- Modelling climate change and its application to agriculture
- Climate change and increased agricultural uncertainty
- Abiotic stress
- Effects of CO2 on plant growth
- Food security in developing countries
- Impacts of climate change on nutrition, quality and resource use efficiency
- Improving the efficiency of the food chain
- Plant-microbe interactions and climate change
- Reducing the impact of agriculture on climate change
- Innovative breeding practices
- New crops for a new climate
We welcome your participation and look forward to receiving your abstracts.
Conference Chairs David Edwards, University of Western Australia, Australia (Chair) Rodomiro Ortiz, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, Sweden (Co-Chair) Zsuzsanna Kolbert, University of Szeged, Hungary (Local Co-chair)
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