Rio+11: Towards a New Paradigm in Agricultural Research - The Challenge of Sustainable Development
 
ZIL/SFIAR Conference, Friday, 6 June, 2003, Auditorium Maximum, ETH Zürich
 

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Workshops

Two workshops on "Research Partnerships for Sustainable Development" will be held in parallel sessions from 14:00 - 16:00h.

WS 1 (Room F33.1): F ocus on sustainable land and water management
Moderator: Markus Giger, CDE Berne

• Mitigating syndromes of global change - Research agenda of the National Centre
  of Competence in Research North-South
  Urs Wiesmann, CDE Berne
• Conflict over irrigation - The role of research in mitigation. Case study from Kenya
  Boniface P. Kiteme, Centre for Training and Integrated Research in Arid
  and Semi-arid Lands Development CETRAD, Nanyuki Kenya
• Area-wide integration of livestock and crop activities as a solution to allow
  sustainable growth of intensive livestock production in South East Asia
  Harald Menzi, SHL Zollikofen / Henning Steinfeld, FAO

Rapporteur to final plenary: Urs Scheidegger, SHL Zollikofen

 
WS 2 (Room F33.5):F ocus on sustainable agri-food chains
Moderator: Peter Stamp, ZIL ETH Zurich

• Research partnership in biotechnology for improved wheat production in India
  Gabriele Schachermayr, ISCB ETH Zurich / Katharina Jenny, SDC Berne
  Partnering in an imperfect world
  Therese St. Peter, Syngenta Foundation
• The dilemma between research excellence and development relevance
  Felix Escher / Emmanuel Frossard, ZIL ETH Zurich

Rapporteur to final plenary: Therese St. Peter, Syngenta Foundation

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