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Past Meetings |
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USDA Agricultural Innovation Agenda – Ted A.
McKinney
Zoom
meeting -
Tuesday 20 October, 4.30 – 5.15pm
Guest speaker:
Ted A. McKinney, USDA
Under-Secretary for Trade
and Foreign Agricultural Affairs
Chair:
Julian Sturdy MP |
Agenda |
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National
Food Strategy – the role of science and innovation
Zoom meeting, Wednesday 2 September, 5.00-5.45pm
Guest speaker:
Henry Dimbleby, National Food Strategy lead
Chair
Julian Sturdy MP |
Agenda |
Notes |
Post-Brexit opportunities for better UK regulation
of plant breeding innovation
Zoom meeting -
Tuesday 19 May 2020
Guest speakers:
Karen Holt, Independent Regulatory Consultant
Professor Jonathan Jones, Sainsbury
Laboratory, Norwich
Ian Munnery, General Manager, SESVanDerHave UK
Dr Tina Barsby, Chief Executive, NIAB
Chair
Julian Sturdy MP
Karen Holt presentation
Jonathan Jones presentation
Ian
Munnery presentation
Tina Barsby presentation |
Agenda
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Inaugural Meeting
Tuesday 11 February 2020
Committee Room 11, Palace of Westminster
Julian Sturdy MP re-elected as Chair
Lord Haskins, Earl of Lindsay,
Lord Cameron of Dillington and Baroness Jones of
Whitchurch re-elected as Vice-Chairs
Rt Hon Robert Goodwill elected as a new
Vice-Chair |
Agenda |
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Driving productivity growth in British agriculture
Tuesday 2
July, Palace of Westminster
Guest speakers:
Sir
Peter Kendall, Chair, AHDB
Alex Waugh, Director General, nabim
Dr Pete Berry, Head of Crop Physiology and Principal
Scientist, ADAS
Chair:
Julian Sturdy MP
Pete Berry presentation
Alex Waugh presentation |
Agenda |
Notes
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DEFRA chief scientist: the future for agricultural
innovation
Monday 29 April, Committee Room 8, Palace of Westminster
Guest speaker:
Professor Ian Boyd, Chief
Scientific Adviser, DEFRA
Chair:
Julian Sturdy MP
Ian Boyd presentation |
Agenda |
Notes
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Extraordinary General Meeting
Policy briefing: UK
research shows hi-tech, intensive farming is the
best way to feed the world sustainably
Tuesday 19 March, Meeting Room Q, Portcullis House
Guest speakers:
Professor Andrew Balmford FRS, Professor of
Conservation Science, University of Cambridge
Professor Rhys Green, Honorary Professor of
Conservation Science, University of Cambridge
Viscount Ridley, House of Lords
Chair:
Julian Sturdy MP
Andrew Balmford / Rhys Green presentation |
Agenda |
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Soil health
– the foundation for sustainable agriculture
Tuesday 15
January, 5.00 – 6.30pm
Committee
Room 21, Palace of Westminster
Guest speakers:
Rebecca Pow MP,
Champion - Sustainable Soils Alliance
Jacqueline Hannam, Senior Research Fellow in Soil
Science, Cranfield University
Elizabeth Stockdale, Head of Farming
Systems, NIAB
Kate Pressland, Programme Lead, Innovative Farmers
Dave Freeman, Policy Manager, Agricultural
Industries Confederation
Chair:
Julian Sturdy MP
Jacqueline Hannam presentation
Elizabeth Stockdale presentation
Kate Pressland presentation
Dave Freeman presentation |
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Annual General Meeting
Defra vision for agricultural science and innovation
Tuesday 30 October 2018
Committee Room 20, Palace of Westminster
Guest speakers:
Dr Belinda Clarke, Director, Agri-Tech East
George Eustice MP, Minister of State, Defra
Chair:
Julian Sturdy MP
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Impact
of Brexit on genetic innovation in the UK
Wednesday 10 October, Palace
of Westminster
Guest speakers:
Graham Brookes, PG Economics
Professor Johnathan Napier, Rothamsted Research
Dr Julian Little, Bayer Crop Science
Chair: Earl of Selborne
Graham Brookes presentation
Johnathan Napier presentation
Julian Little presentation |
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Notes |
Grassland science and
innovation – the key to a Green Brexit?
Tuesday 5 June, Palace of Westminster
Keynote speakers:
Cledwyn Thomas, The
Stapledon Trust
Deborah Roberts, James Hutton Institute
Mariecia Fraser, Aberystwyth University
Sinclair Mayne, AFBI Northern Ireland
Chair: Julian Sturdy MP
Cledwyn
Thomas presentation
Deborah
Roberts presentation
Mariecia
Fraser presentation
Sinclair
Mayne presentation |
Agenda
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International development opportunities for UK
agri-science
Joint meeting with the APPG on
Agriculture and Food for Development
Wednesday
21 March 2018, Palace of Westminster
Guest speakers:
George
Freeman MP, Chairman, Conservative Policy Forum
Jonathan Dupont, Economic and Social Policy Research
Fellow, Policy Exchange
Professor Steve McGrath, Rothamsted Research
Duncan Barker, Livelihoods Adviser, Agriculture
Research Team, DfID
Joint chairs:
Julian Sturdy MP
Lord Cameron of Dillington
Jonathan Dupont presentation
Steve McGrath presentation
Duncan Barker presentation
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Policy priorities for UK
agri-science and innovation post-Brexit
Wednesday
28 February 2018, Portcullis House
Guest
speakers:
Tom Hind, Chief Strategy Officer,
Agriculture & Horticulture Development Board (AHDB)
Dr Helen Ferrier, Chief Science and Regulatory
Affairs Adviser, NFU
Professor David Leaver, President, BIAC
Chair:
Julian
Sturdy MP
Tom Hind presentation |
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2017
Youth Ag-Summit – encouraging fresh thinking
and innovation in global agriculture
Tuesday 28 November, Palace of Westminster
Guest speakers:
Alice Turnbull, Bayer Crop Science
UK delegates to 2017 Youth
Ag-Summit:
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Luke Blomfield (UK);
- Emily Davis (UK)
- Luca Steele (UK)
Chair:
Julian Sturdy MP
Guest speaker presentations |
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Post-Brexit demand for
innovation in the UK fresh produce sector
Tuesday 12
September 2017
Committee Room 17, Palace of Westminster
Guest
speakers:
Jack Ward, Chief Executive, British
Growers Association
Roger Carline, Commercial Director, NIAB
Dr Ed Moorhouse, Fresh Produce Industry Consultant
Sarah Blanford,
Crop and
Organic Manager, Sainsbury’s
Jack Ward presentation
Roger Carline presentation
Ed Moorhouse presentation
Sarah Blanford presentation |
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Inaugural Meeting
Tuesday 11 July 2017
Meeting Room Q, Portcullis House
Julian Sturdy MP re-elected as Chair
Earl of Selborne, Lord Haskins, Earl of Lindsay,
Angela Smith MP re-elected as Vice-Chairs
Lord Cameron of Dillington elected as a new
Vice-Chair
Income and Expenditure Statement 2016-17 |
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Joint Meeting
with Brazil APPG
Driving agricultural
innovation: trade, research and sustainability – the
Brazil perspective
Tuesday 25
April 2017
Committee
Room 21, Palace of Westminster
Guest
speakers:
Pedro Luiz Oliveira de Almeida
Machado, EMBRAPA
Dr Andre Franceschini Sarria, Rothamsted Research
Dr Simon Vaughan, Rothamsted Research
Francisco Oliveira, former adviser to the Brazilian
Environment Ministry
Pedro Machado presentation
Simon Vaughan / Andre Sarria presentation
Francisco Oliveira presentation |
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The Science Museum: plans for a new agriculture exhibit
Tuesday 31 January 2017
Committee Room 20, Palace of Westminster
Guest speakers:
Ian Blatchford, Director, The Science Museum
Alex Tyrrell, Head of Exhibitions, The Science
Museum
Mary Cavanagh, Content Developer, The Science
Museum
Science Museum Summary Paper |
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Cultivating the Future:
How can 20 years of GM debate inform UK farm
policy?
(Launch of new Essay Collection
marking 20 years of global GM crop cultivation)
Wednesday 14 December,
Macmillan Room, Portcullis House
Guest speakers:
Mark Buckingham, Chair, Agricultural Biotechnology
Council (abc)
Professor Sir John Beddington, Senior Adviser,
Oxford Martin School and former Government Chief
Scientific Adviser
Dr Helen Ferrier, Chief Science and Regulatory
Affairs Adviser, NFU
Professor Huw Jones, Chair in Translational
Genomics for Plant Breeding, Aberystwyth University
Graham Brookes, Agricultural Economist, PG Economics
Ltd
Cultivating the Future - Essay Collection
Graham
Brookes presentation |
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Can UK agri-science help the State of Nature?
Tuesday 22 November 2016
Committee Room 5, Palace of Westminster
Guest speakers:
Dr Mark Eaton, Principal Conservation Scientist,
RSPB
Richard Bramley, Farmer, NFU Environment Forum
Dr Jonathan Storkey, Senior Research
Scientist, Rothamsted Research
Mark
Eaton presentation
Richard Bramley presentation
Jonathan Storkey presentation |
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ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING
Harnessing the opportunities of New Breeding
Techniques
Tuesday 19 July 2016
Committee Room 21, Palace of
Westminster
Guest speakers:
Professor Helen Sang,
The Roslin Institute, University of Edinburgh
Dr Louise Ball, EU Crops and GM Policy
Team, Defra
Dr Penny Maplestone, Chief Executive, British
Society of Plant Breeders
Helen Munday, Head of Scientific and Regulatory
Affairs, Food & Drink Federation
Helen Sang presentation
Penny
Maplestone presentation
Louise Ball presentation
Helen
Munday presentation |
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Impact of the Precautionary Principle on EU
Innovation
Monday 6 June 2016
Committee
Room 5, Palace of Westminster
Guest speakers:
Dr David Parsons, Institute for
Environment, Health, Risks & Futures, Cranfield
University
Maurice Selg, Senior Vice President, Edelman
Intelligence
Mark Titterington, Head of Corporate Affairs EAME,
Syngenta AG
Chair:
Mark Spencer MP
David Parsons presentation
Maurice Selg presentation
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EU
referendum – implications for UK farming and
agri-science
Monday 9 May 2016
Committee Room 21, Palace of Westminster
Guest speakers:
Dr Helen Ferrier,
NFU
Paul Rooke, Agricultural Industries Confederation
Nick von Westenholz, Crop Protection Association
Alistair Driver, Political Editor, Farmers Guardian
Chair:
Mark Spencer MP
Helen Ferrier presentation
Paul Rooke presentation
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Solutions for water security – a critical challenge
for sustainability and stability
Joint meeting with the APPG on Agriculture &
Food for Development
Thursday 11 February 2016
Committee Room
2A, House of Lords
Guest speaker:
Jeremy Bird,
Director General, International Water Management
Institute (IMWI)
Chair: Lord Cameron of Dillington |
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IP and Innovation in Agriculture
Tuesday 26 January 2016
Boothroyd Room, Portcullis House
Guest Speakers:
Peter Button, Vice-Secretary General,
International Union for the Protection of New
Varieties of Plants (UPOV)
Dominic
Muyldermans, Senior Legal Consultant, CropLife
International
Sarah Smith, Research Fellow, Parliamentary
Office of Science & Technology
Chair: Mark Spencer MP
Peter Button presentation
Dominic Muyldermans presentation
Sarah Smith presentation |
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Going against the Grain
Report - Breakfast Briefing
Protecting access to
global supply chains for UK farming – launch of a
new cross-industry report
Thursday 29 October 2015
MacMillan Room, Portcullis House
Guest Speakers:
George Eustice MP, Minister of
State for Food and Farming, Defra
Dr Julian Little, Agricultural
Biotechnology Council
Dr Andrea Graham, NFU
Paul Rooke, Agricultural
Industries Confederation
Going against the Grain report |
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Water security in agriculture
– how can science help?
Monday 14 September 2015
Committee Room
17, Palace of Westminster
Guest speakers:
Martin Collison,
Director, Collison & Associates Ltd
Dr Jerry Knox, Reader in Agricultural Water
Management, Cranfield University
Prof Chris Atkinson, Professor of Sustainable
Agriculture and Climate Change, Natural Resources
Institute, University of Greenwich
Paul Smith, Business Development Director,
Incinerator Replacement Technology Ltd
Dr David Firman, Head, NIAB CUF Potato
Agronomy Unit
Martin Collison presentation
Jerry
Knox presentation
Chris Atkinson presentation
David Firman presentation |
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INAUGURAL MEETINGDelivering the UK Agri-Tech
Strategy
Monday 6
July 2015
Committee Room 9, Palace of
Westminster
Guest speakers:
Dr Stephen Axford, Head
of Agri-Tech, BIS
Dr Paul Burrows,
Director, Corporate Policy and Strategy, BBSRC
Sara Eppel, Head of
Innovative and Sustainable Farming, Defra |
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ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING
The science behind our daily loaf
– UK wheat research in practice
Monday 12 January
2015
Committee Room 11, Palace of Westminster
Guest Speakers:
Martin Savage, Trade
Policy Manager, National Association of British and
Irish Millers
Phil Howell, Programme Lead,
Cereal Pre-Breeding, NIAB
Paul Molyneux, Innovation
Director, Hovis Ltd
Paul Temple, Mixed Farmer, East
Yorkshire
Chair:
Mark Spencer MP
Martin Savage presentation
Phil Howell presentation
Paul Molyneux presentation
Paul Temple presentation
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Effect of the Loss
of Crop Protection Technologies on UK Agriculture
and the Wider Economy
Wednesday 26
November 2014
Keynote Speaker:
Richard King,
Partner and Head of Business Research, The Andersons
Centre
Guest Panellists
Guy Smith,
Vice-President, NFU
Nick von Westenholz,
Chief Executive, Crop Protection Association
David Caffall, Chief
Executive, Agricultural Industries Confederation
Chair:
Mark Spencer MP
Richard King presentation
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The solar harvest - new
opportunities for UK agriculture
Joint meeting with the APPG on
Beef and Lamb
Monday 20 October 2014
Room S, Portcullis House
Guest speakers:
Guy Smith, NFU Vice President
Jonathan Selwyn, Lark Energy
Kate Covill, Orta Solar
Agricultural Good Practice Guidance for Solar Farms
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Building public support
for UK agri-science
Tuesday 9 September 2014
Committee Room 15, Palace of
Westminster
Guest Speakers:
Tom Heap, broadcast
journalist and BBC Countryfile presenter
Andrew Opie, Food Policy
Director, British Retail Consortium
Chair:
Mark Spencer MP
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Building public support for UK agri-science
Tuesday 13 May 2014
Committee Room 9, Palace of
Westminster
Guest Speakers:
Mark Lynas, author, environmentalist and
former anti-GM campaigner
Ian Blatchford, Director of the Science Museum
Ian Blatchford presentation
Guy Smith, Essex farmer and NFU Vice President
Chair:
Earl of Lindsay
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Building
public support for UK agri-science
Wednesday 9 April 2014
Committee Room 18, Palace of Westminster
Guest Speaker:
Professor Sir Mark Walport, Chief Scientific
Adviser to HM Government
Chair:
George Freeman MP |
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UK Plant Science – Current status and future
challenges
Parliamentary launch of a
major new report from the UK Plant Sciences
Federation
Wednesday 26 March 2014
Committee Room 18, Palace of Westminster
Guest Speakers:
Dr Mimi Tanimoto,
Executive Officer, UK Plant Sciences Federation
Professor Jim Beynon,
Chair of Plant Systems Biology, University of
Warwick
Mark Buckingham, Corporate Affairs Europe Middle
East, Monsanto Vegetable Seeds
UKPSF report |
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ANNUAL GENERAL
MEETING
Tuesday 17 December 2013
Committee Room 12, Palace of Westminster
GM crops - time for a fresh appproach?
Guest speaker:
Rt Hon Owen Paterson MP,
Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural
Affairs
Owen Paterson speech |
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Implementing the UK Agri-Tech
Strategy
Tuesday 10 September 2013, 4.30 – 6.00pm, Committee Room
12
Guest speakers:
Lord de Mauley,
Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State, Defra
Judith Batchelar, Director of
Sainsbury’s Brand & Industry Co-Chair, Agri-Tech
Leadership Council |
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Digital Farming : The Next
Agricultural Revolution
Tuesday 16 July 2013,
Committee Room 16, Palace of Westminster
Guest speakers:
Professor Simon Blackmore, Head of
Engineering, Harper Adams University
Simon Griffin, Technical Manager, SOYL Precision
Farming
Mark Pettigrew, Agricultural Sustainability Manager,
PepsiCo
James Hallett, Chief Executive, British Growers
Association
Shradha Singh, SYield Project Leader /
Derek Scuffell, Information Domain Specialist
Syngenta
James Hallett presentation
Simon
Griffin presentation
Mark
Pettigrew presentation
Shradha Singh / Derek Scuffell presentation |
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JOINT MEETING WITH THE ASSOCIATE
PARLIAMENTARY GROUP FOR
ANIMAL WELFARE (APGAW)
Large-scale livestock systems – production and
welfare implications
Monday 20 May
2013, Committee Room 14, Palace of
Westminster
Keynote
speaker:
Kenn Buelow,
Wisconsin dairy farmer and vet
Guest
panellists:
Peter Stevenson, Chief Policy Adviser,
Compassion in World Farming
David Alvis,
UK livestock consultant
Kenn Buelow presentation
Peter Stevenson presentation
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Towards a UK Agri-Tech Strategy - Science Minister
David Willetts MP
Wednesday 30 January 2013,
Boothroyd Room, Portcullis House
Keynote speaker:
Rt Hon David Willetts MP, Minister of State for
Universities & Science
Chair:
George Freeman MP
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ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING
Feeding The Future - Innovation
Requirements for Primary Food Production in the UK
to 2030
Tuesday 4 December 2012, Grand Committee Room, Palace of Westminster
Keynote Speaker:
Jim Godfrey, Farmer and
Chair, TSB Sustainable
Agriculture & Food Innovation Platform
Guest Panellists:
Professor Ian Crute,
Agriculture & Horticulture Development Board
Andrea Graham, NFU
Paul Rooke, Agricultural
Industries Confederation
Jim Godfrey presentation
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Unlocking the potential of UK agri-science
Tuesday 6 November 2012
Guest Speaker:
René Custers, Regulatory & Communications Manager,
VIB, Belgium
Chair:
George Freeman MP
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Producing more from less – new metrics for
sustainable agriculture
Tuesday 26 June
2012
Keynote Speaker
Fred Luckey, Chair, Keystone
Alliance for Sustainable Agriculture
Guest Panellists
Professor Tim Benton, UK
Champion for Global Food Security
Guy Gagen, NFU Chief Arable
Adviser & Chair, Defra Green Food Project Wheat
Sub-Group
Fred Luckey presentation
Tim Benton presentation
Guy Gagen presentation
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Case studies in UK agri-food
innovation – challenges and
opportunities
Wednesday 16
May 2012
Guest
Speakers
Robert
James, Technical Director, Thanet Earth
Nigel Kerby, Managing Director,
Mylnefield Research Services Ltd
Gino de Jaegher, Managing Director, British
Sugar
Robert James presentation
Nigel Kerby presentation
Gino de Jaegher presentation
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Agricultural innovation in
high-growth BRIC economies
Tuesday 17 April 2012
Guest Speaker:
Stephanie Studer, Research
Editor, Economist Intelligence Unit
Stephanie Studer presentation
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Annual
General Meeting
Tuesday 29 November 2011
Beyond Foresight: What
does 'sustainable intensification'
mean for UK agriculture?
Keynote Speaker:
Professor Sir David Baulcombe,
Regius Professor of Botany,
Cambridge University
Guest Panel:
Peter Kendall, President, NFU
Gareth Morgan, Head of
Agriculture Policy, RSPB
Professor Wayne Powell,
Director, IBERS
Professor Baulcombe presentation |
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Agro-chemistry: new directions,
new challenges?
Monday 31 October 2011
Guest Speakers:
Dr David Lawrence, former Head of
Research & Development, Syngenta
Professor John Pickett, Michael
Elliott Distinguished Research Fellow, Rothamsted
Research
Speaker presentations
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Impact of the global food
security crisis
on consumer and media attitudes
to food science
Wednesday 14 September 2011
Guest Speakers:
Giles Shapley, Network Research
Fiona Fox, Science Media Centre;
Giles Shapley presentation
Fiona Fox presentation
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Global GM Crop Adoption
- Status & Prospects
Monday 20 June 2011
Guest speaker: Clive James,
ISAAA
Clive James presentation
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Bee Health and Pesticides
Monday 4 April 2011
Guest speaker: Dr Jeff
Pettis,
Research Leader, USDA Bee Research Laboratory
Guest panel:
Dominic Dyer, Crop Protection
Association
Dr Chris Hartfield, NFU
Tim Lovett, British Bee Keepers
Association
Dr Jeff Pettis presentation
Tim
Lovatt presentation
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The role of new agricultural technologies in
tackling climate change
Tuesday 7 December 2010
Guest Speaker: Jack Bobo, Senior Advisor in
Biotechnology, US Department of State
Jack Bobo presentation
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Unlocking our food production potential: the role of UK Agricultural Science
Monday 15 November 2010
Guest Speakers:
Jim Paice MP, Minister of State for Agriculture & Food, Defra
Professor Ian Crute, Chief Scientist, Agriculture & Horticulture Development Board
Ian Crute
presentation
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APPGSTA Annual General Meeting
Tuesday 23 March 2010
Guest Speaker: Professor John Beddington, Government Chief Scientific Adviser
John Beddington presentation
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Minutes |
UK wheat productivity – research targets & needs
– Tuesday 23 February 2010
David Sheppard presentation
Richard Summers presentation
Tina Barsby presentation
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Minutes |
UK livestock sector – research targets & needs, role of collaborative R&D
– 19 January 2010
David Leaver presentation
Geoff Simm presentation
Chris Warkup presentation
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New models for collaborative R&D in agriculture – the Technology Strategy
Board’s Agri-Food Innovation Platform
– 1 December 2009
Paul Mason presentation
Chris Warkup presentation
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UK horticulture sector – research targets & needs, role of collaborative R&D
– 20 October 2009
Neil Bragg presentation
Chris Atkinson presentation
Simon Bright presentation
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Rt Hon Jane Kennedy MP, Minister for Farming and the Environment, Defra
– 19 May 2009
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Annual General Meeting
GM crops present & future – is it time to re-open the debate?
– 24 March 2009
Graham Bookes presentation
Julian Little presentation
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Minutes |
Agricultural science – bridging the gap between basic and applied research
– 28 January 2009
Prof David Leaver presentation
Prof Jonathan Jones presentation
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Minutes |
Wheat Quality Research, nabim reception – 16 December 2008
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Report |
Presentation |
Professor Bob Watson, Defra Chief Science Adviser – 25 November 2008
Prof Watson presentation (5mb file)
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EU pesticide approval plans – 28 October 2008
Sean Rickard presentation
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Agenda |
Minutes |
Group Visit to NIAB – 23 June 2008
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Programme |
Report |
Inaugural Meeting – 11 March 2008
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Agenda |
Minutes |
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