The conference will begin in the afternoon of Tuesday 23 February 2016, and run until lunchtime on 25 February. Entrance is only available to registered participants, but you can follow the discussion on Twitter using the hashtag #ContestedAgronomy.
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The programme contains full details of presentations in the plenary and parallel sessions. It also has the full text of abstracts submitted by participants for posters and conference papers.
Programme Summary
Tuesday 23 February
1015 Registration opens (coffee/tea available)
1230 Buffet lunch
1330 Welcome (Melissa Leach, Director, Institute of Development Studies)
Introduction (Jim Sumberg)
“Agronomy is…”: two short presentations (5 minutes)
- Dave Harris
- George Serpantié
World Café: Exploring different perspectives on the worlds of agronomy
(Ken Giller and John Thompson)
1530 Tea & coffee
1600 Plenary presentations (Jens Andersson, Chair)
- A golden age for agronomy? Ken Giller
- Perennial grains: Transformative option or pipe dream? Sieg Snapp
- Why conventional agronomy will never reach the poor Bart de Steenhuijsen-Piters
1800 Close, dinner
Wednesday 24 February
Parallel sessions
0830 – 1015
Session 1: Sustainable intensification & yield gaps
Chair: Rachel Bezner Kerr
Session 2: China & Brazil in African agriculture
Chair: Ian Scoones
Session 3: Seeds & systems
Chair: Chuck Staver
1045 – 1230
Session 4: Conservation agriculture
Chair: Mary Ollenburger
Session 5: Creating & contesting agronomic knowledge
Chair: Hanson Nyantakyi-Frimpong
Session 6: Biodiversity, carbon & CSA
Chair: Ruth Haug
1330 – 1530
Session 7: System of rice intensification (SRI)
Chair: Flora Hadju
Session 8: Extension, persuasion & justice
Chair: Joshua Ramisch
Session 9: GM debates
Chair: Elena Lazos
Session 10: Politics of data & methods
Chair: Sieg Snapp
1600 – 1800
Session 11: Water & resource management
Chair: Dan Taylor
Session 12: Evaluating the impact of “new” agronomy and “old” extension systems
Chair: David J Spielman
Session 13: Policy, priorities & agendas
Chair: Wendy Wolford
Session 14: Scaling for impact
Chair: Regina Birner
Thursday 25 February
Plenary
0830 World Café: What are big contestations? Who/what are the drivers? What theoretical framings are proving particularly useful? (Ken Giller and John Thompson)
1015 Tea & coffee
1045 “Where does all this go next?” Summing up and short discussion
1225 Conference close (Jim Sumberg)
1230 Lunch