08 May 2018
12:59
Conference // Land-Water-Food Nexus: Towards sustainable food production in China and other regions
The conference is organised in the framework of the large-scale research programme on "Sustainable Natural Resource Management for Adequate and Safe Food Provision (SURE+)", which aims to establish a sustainable Virtual Centre of Expertise of leading international researchers on the food-water-land nexus. It is financed by the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences (KNAW) and the Ministry of Science and Technology (MOST), China.
Where and when
Orion Building
Bronland 1 (Building 103)
6708 WH Wageningen
The Netherlands
8 May 2018
8.30am - 6pm
Objectives
The objectives are:
- to exchange knowledge on and discuss recent developments in research on the food-water-land nexus, with a special emphasis on China as a key player in global food security;
- to strengthen cooperation between social and natural scientists in research on the governance of natural resources and environmental management of food systems.
Speakers
- Jikun Huang, Peking University (China)
- David Chadwick , Bangor University (UK)
- Scott Rozelle, Stanford University (USA)
- Martina Flörke, Kassel University (Germany)
- Lex Bouwman, PBL Netherlands Environmental Assessment Agency
- Simon Langan, IIASA, Laxenburg (Austria)
- Claudia Ringler, IFPRI (Washington D.C.)
- Adrian Ely, University of Sussex (United Kingdom)
- Kevin Chen, IFPRI Beijing Office (China)