Programme
The 2024 symposium is an in-person event and will host a number of special focus sessions addressing contemporary issues and technical methods.
Our Keynote speakers will be announced below leading up to the symposium.
Don't forget to register for the Symposium to gain access to all the sessions and receive a copy of the proceedings.
The 2023 programme can be found below.
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Our 2024 Keynote Speakers
Steven Wolf
Opening Keynote Presentation:
Steven Wolf studies environmental governance (i.e., interplay of state and non-state actors in environmental (mis)management) at Cornell University (USA). His teaching and research focus on the implications of real and imagined state (public), market (private) and community (collective) coordination mechanisms applied to agriculture, forests, and environmental change. Recent collaborations with students and postdoctoral researchers focus on India, China, Mexico, and USA. Current work centers on analysis of accountability relations and lack thereof. He is Past President of RC40, Research Committee on Agriculture and Food, International Sociological Association.
Steven Wolf
Opening Keynote Presentation:
Steven Wolf studies environmental governance (i.e., interplay of state and non-state actors in environmental (mis)management) at Cornell University (USA). His teaching and research focus on the implications of real and imagined state (public), market (private) and community (collective) coordination mechanisms applied to agriculture, forests, and environmental change. Recent collaborations with students and postdoctoral researchers focus on India, China, Mexico, and USA. Current work centers on analysis of accountability relations and lack thereof. He is Past President of RC40, Research Committee on Agriculture and Food, International Sociological Association.
Professor Karl BehrendtElizabeth Creak Chair in Agri-Tech Economic ModellingKeynote Presentation:
Karl is the Founding Director of the Global Institute for Agri-Tech Economics at Harper Adams University, which works to analyse the role of innovative agricultural technologies using economics and science (see the GIATE website for further information). He is the International Society of Precision Agriculture Economics Community Leader, a member of The Food and Drink Sector Council, Agricultural Productivity Task Force – Research & Innovation Group, and a Technical Sub-Committee Member of the British Standards Institute developing the Code of Practice for the use of crop robots in agriculture and horticulture.
He has over 25 years industry experience in farm and agribusiness management, agricultural consulting, extension and research. His current focus is on working with industry and other research institutions to provide economic intelligence and agri-tech solutions for UK and global agriculture and value chains. His core discipline is in the area of bioeconomic modelling of agro-ecological systems and decision support for farmers and policy development.
Karl is also Adjunct Research Professor at Charles Sturt University in Australia and part of the China International Talent Program with Inner Mongolia Agricultural University.
Dr Andreas Meyer-Aurich
Keynote Presentation:
Dr. Andreas Meyer-Aurich, Senior Scientist at the Leibniz Institute for Agricultural Engineering and Bioeconomy e.V. (ATB) and lecturer at the Humboldt Universität zu Berlin. He studied Agricultural Sciences at the Technische Universität Berlin, holds a PhD in Geoecology from University of Potsdam and a habilitation at Humboldt Universität zu Berlin in Agricultural Economics. He works for more than twenty years on issues of environmental and economic impacts of technologies in agriculture. Currently he is coordinating a EU Horizon Europe Project on “Digitalisation as Enabler for Agroecology” where the potentials of Digitalisation for sustainable agriculture are explored in seven European countries.
Keynote Presentation:
Dr. Andreas Meyer-Aurich, Senior Scientist at the Leibniz Institute for Agricultural Engineering and Bioeconomy e.V. (ATB) and lecturer at the Humboldt Universität zu Berlin. He studied Agricultural Sciences at the Technische Universität Berlin, holds a PhD in Geoecology from University of Potsdam and a habilitation at Humboldt Universität zu Berlin in Agricultural Economics. He works for more than twenty years on issues of environmental and economic impacts of technologies in agriculture. Currently he is coordinating a EU Horizon Europe Project on “Digitalisation as Enabler for Agroecology” where the potentials of Digitalisation for sustainable agriculture are explored in seven European countries.
Professor Paul J. Thomassin
Keynote Presentation:
Paul J. Thomassin is a Professor of Agricultural Economics at McGill University. He received his B.Sc. (Agr) from McGill University and his M.S. and Ph.D. in Agricultural and Resource Economics from the University of Hawaii. His research areas include agricultural and environmental economics, technological change, and the economics of climate change. He leads the socio-economic pillar of a multidisciplinary sustainable agriculture network in Quebec. Current research projects include dairy farmer adoption decisions to meet net-zero goals, plant breeding technology and the adoption of new pulse varieties on the farm and regional levels, and the economic impact of antimicrobial resistance from the food supply chain.
Keynote Presentation:
Paul J. Thomassin is a Professor of Agricultural Economics at McGill University. He received his B.Sc. (Agr) from McGill University and his M.S. and Ph.D. in Agricultural and Resource Economics from the University of Hawaii. His research areas include agricultural and environmental economics, technological change, and the economics of climate change. He leads the socio-economic pillar of a multidisciplinary sustainable agriculture network in Quebec. Current research projects include dairy farmer adoption decisions to meet net-zero goals, plant breeding technology and the adoption of new pulse varieties on the farm and regional levels, and the economic impact of antimicrobial resistance from the food supply chain.
Professor Tom MacMillan
Keynote Presentation: A shared research strategy for UK agricultural universities
Tom MacMillan is the Elizabeth Creak Chair in Rural Policy and Strategy at the Royal Agricultural University. Tom focuses on informing national and international policy relating to the land-based sector, the environment and food. He specialises in farmer-centred innovation, and food and farming policy. Tom is Deputy Director of The National Innovation Centre for Rural Enterprise, Director of Research for the Food, Farming & Countryside Commission, and was the Policy Advisor to Henry Dimbleby for the recent National Food Strategy. He has worked in farm-centred innovation for over a decade, and previously as Director of Innovation at the Soil Association, he founded the Innovative Farmers programme.
Keynote Presentation: A shared research strategy for UK agricultural universities
Tom MacMillan is the Elizabeth Creak Chair in Rural Policy and Strategy at the Royal Agricultural University. Tom focuses on informing national and international policy relating to the land-based sector, the environment and food. He specialises in farmer-centred innovation, and food and farming policy. Tom is Deputy Director of The National Innovation Centre for Rural Enterprise, Director of Research for the Food, Farming & Countryside Commission, and was the Policy Advisor to Henry Dimbleby for the recent National Food Strategy. He has worked in farm-centred innovation for over a decade, and previously as Director of Innovation at the Soil Association, he founded the Innovative Farmers programme.
Images from the 2019 Symposium