AGRO2010 MONTPELLIER
and the
XIth ESA Congress
the International Scientific Week Around Agronomy

29 August – 03 September 2010
Corum conference center and Montpellier SupAgro campus

FIRST ANNOUNCEMENT

The XIth ESA congress creates the opportunity to organise an
International Scientific Week, AGRO2010 Montpellier
(http://www.agropolis.fr/agro2010/index.html) from August 29 to
September 3, 2010 in Montpellier (France). It will combining several
symposia around agronomic research and its contribution to sustainable
development.
The objectives of AGRO2010 are to:
- demonstrate the scientific coherence, ambitions and contribution of
Agronomy as a science ;
- work with other disciplines on the definition of new frontiers in
interdisciplinary research, especially with Integrative Plant Biology,
Soil and Hydrology Sciences, Ecology and Plant Protection, Economy and
Social Sciences, Computer and Artificial Intelligence sciences…;
- make a scientific contribution to the burning questions of 2010 with
regards to agriculture and its contribution to sustainable development
and natural resource management. In addition to climate change and
energy crops, it is likely that the co-existence of food and non food
uses in farming systems or the design of low cost “ecologically
intensive” cropping systems will be two of these burning questions in 2010;
- discuss with farm advisors, technical institutes, stakeholders and
decision makers how Agronomic Research can be made more operational to
contribute to sustainable development;
- attract more students and young scientists to work on the type of
questions and with the type of approaches we develop in our research.


Prof. Jacques Wery
ESA President
Chairman of Agro2010