12th Congress of the European Society for Agronomy Helsinki, Finland, 20-24 August 2012
 

Session titles

Agriculture at the margins:

  • Division 1: Plant system biology: The cultivated plant in a field
    Crop adaptation to high latitudes
    Crop stress response
    Omics in crop sciences
    Modelling up to the whole-plant level
    Resource use efficiency
    Yield gap assessment and reduction
  • Division 2: Field scale agroecology: The cultivated field as an ecosystem
    Crop protection, allelopathy, and pesticide reduction
    Field biodiversity
    Legume-supported rotations
    Management of novel crops, including cover/catch-crop systems
    Modelling up to the crop, field or farm level
    Soils and soil-plant(-microbe) interactions
    Water management
  • Division 3: Cropping systems at farm, regional and global scales: The cropping system in its embedding systems
    Agricultural landscape features
    Environmental impacts of cropping systems
    Extension and education
    Farming systems design
    Energy efficiency in cropping, including tillage systems
    Modelling at the system level
    Sustainable bioenergy cropping

The keynote speakers at ESA12 are

  • Albajes, Ramon (Spain). Ecological footprint of agriculture and crop protection: analyzing environmental impacts of crop protection methods within an integrated framework
  • Donatelli, Marcello (Italy). Estimating impact assessment and adaptation strategies under climate scenarios for crops in Europe
  • Ekbom, Barbara (Sweden). How field biodiversity can enhance ecosystem services
  • Foulkes, M. John (UK). Increasing the efficiency of water and nutrient use of crops by exploitation of novel germplasm, traits and technologies
  • Fowler, D. Brian (Canada). Low-temperature stress in cereals: know the land - know your crop
  • Keatinge, J.D.H (Dyno) (Taiwan). Climate uncertainty: What response is needed from vegetable agronomists worldwide?
  • Kirkegaard, John (Australia). Soil-plant interactions and Australia’s conservation farming revolution: sense, nonsense and roots to success
  • Peltonen-Sainio, Pirjo (Finland). Coping with the special features of the extreme northern corner of crop production
  • Pointereau, Philippe (France). Energy efficiency in cropping, including tillage systems
  • Slafer, Gustavo (Spain). Matching growth of wheat production and demand: shall we further increase yield potential or close the gap with actual yields?
  • Tardieu, Francois (France). Plant Phenotyping, a new field and opportunity for crop scientists
  • Thrän, Daniela (Germany). Sustainable bioenergy cropping
  • Tittonell, Pablo (Netherlands). Supporting design and co-innovation in farming systems - Actors, agroecological knowledge and landscape functions
  • Villalobos, Francisco (Spain). Avenues for improving the productivity of irrigation at different scales
  • Watson, Christine (UK). Legume-supported crop rotations: A European perspective