Three broad topics will be addressed: crop physiology (plant breeding, crop nutrition and irrigation and biotic stress and crop protection), cropping systems (abiotic stress, conservation agriculture, intercropping, productivity and efficiency, and low input and organic farming) and farming systems and regional impact (farming systems, nutrient management and recycling, climate change, and biodiversity and landscape).
Alongside these topics and plenary keynote speakers (including presentations from ENDURE partners INRA and the James Hutton Institute), a series of field trips has been organised. These include urban and peri-urban agriculture in Geneva, viticulture in the Pully area and innovative agriculture around Lake Geneva, including a visit to Agroscope.
The organisers note: “The main challenge for the agriculture and food sector is to provide nutritious food for the world’s population whilst conserving natural resources. There is an increasingly broad consensus that agriculture and food systems need to be transformed in a way that they simultaneously provide adequate nutrition for all, minimize negative impact on ecosystems and human health and improve livelihoods and resilience whilst being economically viable (CNS-FAO, 2016).”
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