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Farming systems facing global challenges: Capacities and strategies
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The 11th European IFSA Symposium was held 1-4 April 2014 in Berlin, Germany. It was organised jointly by the Humbolt Universität zu Berlin and the Leibniz-Zentrum für Agrarlandschaftsforschung (ZALF): conference website.
The Local Organising Committee comprised: Thomas Aenis, Holger Fischer, Eval Foos, Andrea Knierim, Monika Meiser, Rebecca Ridder, Maja-Catrin Riecher and Heike Schobert.
Plenary presentations:
Janice Jiggins: The arc of History (abstract)
Andrew Campbell: The converging insecurities of food, water, energy and climate and their implications for 21st century farming (abstract)
The proceedings were edited by Thomas Aenis, Andrea Knierim, Maja-Catrin Riecher, Rebecka Ridder, Heike Schobert and Holger Fischer. They were published in two volumes:
Aenis, Thomas, Andrea Knierim, Maja-Catrin Riecher, Rebecka Ridder, Heike
Schobert, Holger Fischer (eds.) (2016a): Farming Systems Facing Global
Challenges: Capacities and Strategies. Volume 1 – Proceedings of the
11th European IFSA Symposium, 1-4 April 2014 in Berlin, Germany. IFSA
Europe, Leibniz-Centre for Agricultural Landscape Research (ZALF),
Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin.
Aenis, Thomas, Andrea Knierim, Maja-Catrin Riecher, Rebecka Ridder, Heike
Schobert, Holger Fischer (eds.) (2016b): Farming Systems Facing Global
Challenges: Capacities and Strategies. Volume 2 – Proceedings of the
11th European IFSA Symposium, 1-4 April 2014 in Berlin, Germany. IFSA
Europe, Leibniz-Centre for Agricultural Landscape Research (ZALF),
Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin.
The proceedings include the full papers that were presented in one of the 21 workshops which were grouped around 3 themes. The papers have undergone a review process before being included in the proceedings. Table of Content
Theme 1: Innovation, knowledge exchange and learning
WS 1.1: Actor-driven or instrument-driven: does it make a difference?
WS 1.2: Evaluation of policy schemes supporting innovation and advisory services.
WS 1.3: Innovation platforms as drivers of institutional change
WS 1.4: The development of more entrepreneurial farming systems
WS 1.5: Returning to the farming and food systems as they are - transdisciplinarity
WS 1.6: Linking scientists and farmers, research and application
WS 1.7: Collaborative learning to solve problems and develop innovations in complex systems
WS 1.8: Knowledge and innovation brokers
WS 1.9: Farmland (bio-)diversity in the hands and minds of farmers
Theme 2: Feeding the future with sustainable agro-food systems
WS 2.1: Healthy growth in value-based chains
WS 2.2: Transition issues in production, marketing and consumption - Animal production
WS 2.4: The role of localised agrifood systems in a globalised Europe
WS 2.5: Achieving co-benefits for sustainability and health
WS 2.6: Integrative and interdisciplinary approaches to ecologisation
WS 2.7: Sustainability of dairy farms
WS 2.8: Farming in the cities
WS 2.9: Greening the CAP
WS 2.11: Larger fields, faster tractors - does it contribute to prosperity and resilience?
Theme 3: Climate change: Farming system approaches to mitigation and adaptation
WS 3.1: Soil management: facilitating on-farm mitigation and adaptation
WS 3.2: Agroforestry research and practice in Europe
WS 3.3: Designing cropping systems for adaptation to climate change
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