About this Event
How will we secure the plant varieties needed for more sustainable UK agriculture? Can the plant breeding community rise to the challenge, and what is needed to achieve this?
As agriculture faces multiple complex challenges – high costs, dietary shifts, policy changes, climate fluctuations and biodiversity loss - this event explores the role of improved plant varieties in creating sustainable agricultural systems.
We will bring together a diverse range of approaches to evaluate the challenges faced by the UK plant breeding sector. With a broad range of agricultural philosophies and crop types participating, this event provides a unique opportunity for discussion and debate about future needs, shared interests, and potential points of leverage to maximise the impact of the plant breeding community in the challenges faced by UK agriculture.
Join plant breeding experts for a day of fruitful knowledge exchange and creativity. Priorities, collaboration opportunities and shared resources as well as technology and policy enablers will be discussed and debated to ensure our breeding programmes meet the needs of the future market and challenges of the 21st Century.
You will hear from speakers like Tim Benton (Chatham House) , Tom MacMillan (RAU) , Janet Talling (DEFRA) and Paul Gosling (AHDB).
9:00 Registration
9:30 Welcome
9:45 Setting the scene - A tipping point for change
10:15 The role and potential of plant breeding
11:00 Refreshment break
11:30 Enabling plant breeding for the future
12:30 Lunch
13:30 Stakeholder breakouts
15:30 Refreshment break
16:00 Feedback and action plan
16:45 Close
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Event Venue & Nearby Stays
Conference Aston, Aston Street, Birmingham, United Kingdom
GBP 25.00