Events
| Event Title | Date | Time | Subject Details | Venue Details | Contact Details |
| 3rd SWAT Workshop and Conference for South East and East Asia (SWAT SEEA III) |
16 June 2013 | 0900 | The SWAT (Soil & Water Assessment Tool) model has been popular due to the fact that the model is in the public domain and has ability to simulate a watershed of any size, from a few ha to a large continent. Therefore there is a substantial demand from scientific communities to learn about its application in various conditions. The World Association of Soil and Water Conservation (WASWAC), an agency that supports and promotes SWAT for a wide use, would like to invite you and your colleagues to attend and learn how to use SWAT in your work in relation with the care and management of soil and water resources. |
Bogor, Indonesia, June
16-22, 2013. Click for details |
For registration Visit the Indonesian conference website |
| 6th World Congress on Conservation Agriculture (WCCA) |
22 June 2014 | 0900 |
The 6th World Congress on Conservation
Agriculture (WCCA). Growers, researchers, policy makers and others interested
in conservation agriculture are encouraged to attend the WCCA to network with
peers from around the world, discuss policy affecting adoption of conservation
practices and review the application of the latest research in the field.
With an anticipated audience of more than 600 people,
the Congress program will maximize networking and interaction among presenters
and attendees. The focus will be on dialogue, information exchange and
exploration of new ideas. Concurrent session tracks will explore the following
areas of conservation agriculture: Growing more with less the future of
sustainable intensification; Weatherproofing agriculture - the adaption of
farming practices to address climate variability; Increasing conservation
adoption - how innovative technology and approaches can drive greater adoption
of conservation systems around the world
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Winnipeg Convention Center in Winnipeg, Manitoba. June 22-26, 2014. Visit WCCA |
Registration is now open
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| Annual Meeting of the Caribbean Food Crops Society (CFCS) |
30 June 2013 | 0900 |
This will be a joint meeting with the Caribbean Agro-Economic Society and the International Society for Horticultural Science. The first initial meeting announcement will be sent out shortly. Attendance by TAA members would help to strengthen the linkages between TAA and CFCS. TAA has strong historical roots in Trinidad, this would be a good opportunity to reignite links. |
Port of Spain, Trinidad; June 30 to July 6 |
Any member who would like to attend, please contact
Bruce Lauckner, our representative in the Caribbean. A registration fee applies.
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| Biotechnology and Agriculture: What is the role of science in achieving food security?' |
08 October 2013 | 18.00 | Humanitarian Centre, Cambridge, launches their "Global Food Futures" themed year, 2013. In October Prof Amir Kassam will present a keynote address on "Biotechnology and Agriculture: what is the role of science in achieving food security?" More details will be posted by the Humanitarian Centre NOTE THAT VENUE & DATE YET TO BE FIXED
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Date and Venue (in Cambridge) be decided. | For more information and to register, visit link
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| Cambridge Conservation Forum Annual Symposium |
09 January 2014 | 0930 | 15th Annual Symposium. Details to be announced | Judge Business School, Trumpington Road, Cambridge CB2 1AG. | Contact details to be announced. Visit the CCF website for further news |
| Cambridge Conservation Forum Summer Symposium |
26 June 2013 | 0915 |
This one day summer symposium provides an opportunity to focus on a theme of interest to CCF members and explore ways in which we might strengthen and enhance our collaborative working. The theme this year will be: Conservation and Sustainability. Click for details.
Biodiversity
conservation is strongly linked to broader questions of sustainability, both
historically and thematically. Given the emerging threat that global climate
change poses to biodiversity, these links are now more important than ever.
Conservationists and their organisations carry out a range of activities to
promote sustainability, such as carbon forestry, sustainable use projects and
outreach to the private sector. But do we practice what we preach within our
own organisations and in our own lives? The aim of this years CCF Summer
Symposium is to explore these questions through a range of presentations and
interactive sessions, and to identify opportunities to do more.
The symposium will include sessions on the following themes: Background to the relationship between conservation and sustainability; What can individuals do to be more sustainable? What can conservation organisations do to be more sustainable? What can conservation organisations do to encourage sustainability among others? An interactive session to explore the barriers and opportunities for change at the individual and organisational level.
The organisers welcome offers of presentations
relevant to any of these themes. Please contact Roger Mitchell
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Judge Business School, Trumpington Road, Cambridge CB2 1AG.Registration from 09.15 and programme from 10.00 17.00. Click for details |
Booking form now available as download. £40 per person if paid before 7th June 2013; thereafter it will be £45 Includes lunch and wine reception. |
| Combined Heat and Power from biomass - the way ahead (Sept 2013) |
17 September 2013 | 14.30 |
The University of East Anglia is kindly arranging a visit for the TAA to see their biomass production unit (click for details) The topic will be "UEA Combined Heat and Power the way ahead. After an initial briefing, there will be a tour of the biomass generation installation, followed by a talk on, inter alia, the production of biomass, environmental aspects, project management, costs, and the impacts of biomass use on food production.
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The date has yet to be finalised but will be during the third week of September, 16th, 17th or 18th, starting around 2.30. Meantime, watch this space .... Click for directions | Hugh Back and Carol Midmore of the East Anglian group of TAA is setting up the visit. For more information, contact Hugh Back |
| Developing methods in agriculture and health research |
13 June 2013 | 0900 |
The Leverhulme Centre for Integrative Research on Agriculture and Health (LCIRAH) is proud to announce that its 3rd Annual Conference. The focus of this 2 day conference will be on methodological and integrative aspects of research on agriculture and health and will feature the work and findings of researchers in agricultural development, nutrition, public health, economics, anthropology, veterinary science and other related fields.Deadline for submission of abstracts 21.01.2013. Click here for further details regarding the conference and abstract submission. |
Royal Veterinary Colleges Camden Campus, London, on the 13-14th June 2013 |
Email Ibi Wallbank, LCIRAH Administrator. +44
(0) 207
958 8262
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| First International Conference on Global Food Security |
29 September 2013 | 09.00 |
The Conference aims to deliver state-of-the-art analysis, inspiring visions and innovative research methods arising from interdisciplinary research. Join us in this exciting opportunity to ensure that the best science is garnered to support the emergence of the Sustainable Development Goals. Achieving global food security whilst reconciling demands on the environment is the greatest challenge faced by mankind. By 2050 we will need to feed 9 billion people. The urgency of the issue has led to huge scientific strides forwards; making it difficult to keep up with the rapidly expanding volume of scientific research. We aim to better understand economic, social, biophysical, technological and institutional drivers of current and future global food security. |
29 September - 2 October 2013, Noordwijkerhout, The Netherlands
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Applications to register, click here |
| Hugh Bunting Memorial Lecture |
17 June 2013 | 18.00 | Guest speaker Prof Dr
J.D.H. Keatinge,
Director General, AVRDC - The World Vegetable Center, Taiwan. The topic will be '
Horticulture
The Key Ingredient in the Developing World for Nourishing Families,
Empowering Women and Commercializing Small Holders'.
Finger Buffet and Reception, free of charge, 20.00 to 21.30.
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John
Madejski Lecture Theatre, Agriculture Building, Earley Gate, University of
Reading. 18.00 assemble, Welcome and Lecture 18.30 - 20.00. Map
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RSVP to: Mrs Linda McCarthy (tel: 0118 378 4549).
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| Implementing the Common Agricultural Policy and the future of UK farming |
11 July 2013 | 08.30 |
Westminster Forum Projects, a private organisation co-ordinating informative and impartial keynote seminars on a wide range of topics, is holding a senior-level keynote seminar under the banner of Westminster Food and Nutrition Forum. Click here for details. |
Central London, (Houses of Parliament, 08.30
registration, 9.00 to 13.00.
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Contact Marcin Kaczmarek, Senior Contact Strategy Executive, Westminster Forum Projects, 01344 864796. Go to above website for fees and booking form. Includes a PDF transcript of the papers. |
| Implementing the UK Strategy for Agri-Tech |
07 November 2013 | 08.30 | Westminster Forum Projects,a private organisation co-ordinating informative and impartial keynote
seminars on a wide range of topics, is holding a senior-level keynote seminar
under the banner of Westminster Food and Nutrition Forum. Click here for details.
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Central London, (Houses of Parliament), 08.30
registration, 9.00 to 13.00.
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Contact Marcin Kaczmarek, Senior Contact Strategy
Executive, Westminster Forum Projects,
01344 864796. Go to above website for fees and booking form
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| International Congress: Livelihood 2013 Sustainable livelihood in the tropical drylands |
17 September 2013 | 09.00 |
Over the last decade, significant advances have been made in tropical and subtropical drylands of Sub-Saharan Africa to boost sustainable livelihood. This international symposium aims at creating a forum for those conducting research in dry highlands of Africa as well as in comparable regions around the globe to discuss results and to exchange experience during paper and poster sessions as well as during field excursions. Themes will be: Water harvesting for improving livelihood; Soil conservation and forestry; Technologies for improved rural welfare; Aquatic ecology; Crop productivity; Socio-economics of sustainable livelihood. Visit website for details. |
The congress will be hosted by Mekelle
University, Mekelle, Northern Ethiopia (about 780 km north of the capital Addis
Ababa). Daily air links with Addis.
The symposium will be held in the Axum
Hotel in the centre of Mekelle city, 17th to 21st Sept
2013.
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For more info, contact
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| 'Let Them Eat Cake: Food Quality and Acceptance in Africa' |
12 June 2013 | 18.00 |
The University of Greenwich, Natural Resources Institute, invites you to an Inaugural Professorial Lecture by Professor Keith
Tomlins. Following the lecture, Professor Tomlins will be available to discuss
his work. Refreshments will be served from 5.30pm.
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Pilkington Lecture Theatre, Medway Campus, University
of Greenwich, Central Avenue, Chatham Maritime, Kent ME4 4TB
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RSVP by Wednesday 5 June to Heather McAvoy-Marshall Telephone:
+44 (0) 1634 883911
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| Plan Bee - the future of pollination |
27 May 2013 | 19.00 | Mike Brown, Head of the National Bee Unit at DEFRA, will be giving a talk on "Plan Bee-the future of pollination", organised by CSAR (the Cambridge Society for Applied Research). (Posted by Cambridge Conservation Forum (CCF) | The Wolfson Lecture Theatre at Churchill College, Storeys Way, Cambridge CB3 0DS. | A charge of £3 will include tea or coffee beforehand. |
| TAA AGM and Ralph Melville Memorial Lecture |
27 November 2013 | 17.00 | TAA AGM and Ralph Melville Memorial Lecture. The guest speaker will be Sir John Beddington, presenting a lecture on 'Challenges of the 21st Century'. |
To be held at 5:00 pm at the Royal Over-Seas League Club, Park Place on Wednesday 27th November, 2013. |
Contact Elizabeth Warham, General Secretary to reserve tickets for the meeting and buffet supper. Prices will be announced in due course. |
| TAA SW: Summer Outing: Mendips and the Chew Valley |
17 July 2013 | 11.00 | The TA A SW Summer outing has been planned to take place from 17th to 19th July with a two night stay at Folly Farm, which is owned and managed by the Avon Wildlife Trust. Package will include two nights at Holly Farm (near Bishop Sutton) in the Chew Valley with bed and breakfast and one evening meal. An evening meal at Woodford Lodge on the Chew Valley Lake. This is an opportunity to become familiar with this AONB only 10m miles south of Bristol. Planned visits include: Farming in the valley and the Mendip Hills, renewable energy activities, the Bristol Community Farm (next to the Lake), visits to the Alves Brothers and Farrington Farm two highly successful farm businesses and two excellent local museums illustrating life over the last 200 years | From 17th to 19th July, with a two night stay at Folly Farm which is owned and managed by the Avon Wildlife Trust. |
The probable cost will be about £120.00. Register now with
Tim Roberts or
George Taylor-Hunt .
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| The Bath and West Show. |
29 May 2013 | 10.00 | The TAA South West Branch will be presenting TAA at the Bath and West Show from 29 May to 1st June. Please visit us and find out all about the Association and membership |
Bath & West Show Shepton Mallet, Somerset BA4 6QN |
Details
from George Taylor-Hunt
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| Threats to Land and Water Resources in the 21st Century: Prevention, Mitigation and Restoration |
04 September 2013 | 09.00 |
The 2nd World Association of Soil and Water Conservations World Conference (WASWAC-WCII): The Threats to Land and Water Resources in the 21st Century: Prevention, Mitigation and Restoration. There will be a post-conference excursion to the Eastern part of the country, September 8-10. The conference topics will cover fields of management and conservation of soil and water resources, to be circulated in the near future. Deadline for abstracts to April 15, 2013. For full details click here. |
Chiang Rai, Thailand, September 4-7, 2013.
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Please complete registration
forms and send to the Coordinator (Khun Samran) or the conference administration.
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| Transforming agriculture between policy, science and the consumer |
21 July 2013 | 0900 | The Congress will be of interest to a wide audience from both the agricultural production sector, farmers and farm managers, as well as scientists, policy makers, representatives of companies supplying agriculture with the means of production, processing and marketing firms, and organizations related to the agribusiness sector and involved in rural development. Click for programme |
21-26 July 2013, Warsaw University of Life Sciences, Warsaw, Poland |
Flyer & Contact details or email |
| Transforming Rural Livelihoods in Africa - conference |
20 October 2013 | 0900 |
Transforming Rural Livelihoods in Africa: How can land and water management contribute to enhanced food security and address climate change adaptation and mitigation? Soil Science Society of East Africa (SSSEA) in collaboration with African Soil Science Society (ASSS) invite participation at a conference intended to critically analyze Land and Water Management (LWM) technologies, innovative products and services; and strategies benefiting small-scale agriculture in Africa. A particular focus of this joint conference deals with the contribution of LWM in the Agricultural Production Value Chains, addressing threats and opportunities associated with climate change, and scaling up of proven technologies for transformational impact on the livelihoods of African small-scale farmers. In addition, land use planning and policy will be addressed during this conference. In line with the Comprehensive Africa Agriculture Development Programme (CAADPs) goal of eliminating hunger and reducing poverty through agriculture, the conference touches on the pillars relating to sustainable land management; market access; increasing food supply and reducing hunger |
Nakuru, Kenya 20-25 October
2013
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For further information: Barrack Okoba. |
| What can the UK do to help put an end to the current nutrition crisis? |
04 June 2013 | 16.00 |
Meeting jointly hosted by the All Party Parliamentary
Group on Agriculture and Food for Development, Development Initiatives and the
Institute of Development Studies that will examine the role that the UK can play
in putting an end to the current nutrition crisis.
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Boothroyd Room, Portcullis House, Westminster, 4.00 5.30pm. See APPG website |
RSVP to Dominic Foster, APPG Agriculture and Food for Development Coordinator at |