Yale University will be organising the “Yale Food Systems Symposium”, to take place 18-19 October 2013 at Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut, USA.

The symposium addresses the complex ecological and socio-economic processes of food production, consumption, climate change and rapid urbanisation.

The conveners are now calling for abstracts and workshop proposals before 01 July 2013 on these topics:

• Climate change and the food system
• Urbanisation, land use change, and food systems planning
• Politics, policies, and governance across scales
• Agricultural biodiversity and issues of genetic property
• Sustainable intensification, multi-functional agriculture
• Urban-rural linkages
• Public and market-based approaches to regulating the food system
• Alternative food networks
• The right to food, food justice, and food sovereignty movements
• Industrial ecology approaches to food systems analysis
• Sustainable diets and assessing and forecasting nutrition trends
• Sustainable supply chains
• University-community partnerships

Please visit the official symposium website for more information.

First International Conference on Global Food Security

Elsevier, in partnership with European Society for Agronomy and Wageningen University, will be organising the “First International Conference on Global Food Security“, from 29 September to 2 October 2013 in Noordwijkerhout, The Netherlands.

The conference aims to address the issues of food production, access, and the trade-offs between competing environmental, economic or social objectives.

The conveners are now calling for abstract submission for oral and poster presentations before 10 May 2013 on these topics:

• Global and local analyses of food security
• Enabling policies for local and global food security
• Sustainable intensification of food production systems
• Novel ways of feeding 9 billion people
• Learning from the past to understand the future
• Land sparing, land sharing and trade-offs
• Agricultural production as feedstock for renewables
• Lost harvest and wasted food
• Nutritional security
• Labelling, certifying and striving for quality and sustainability of food production

Please visit the official conference website for more information.

International Symposium on Agrobiodiversity for Sustainable Development

Bioversity International and the Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences will be organising the ”International Symposium on Agrobiodiversity for Sustainable Development”,  03-04 June 2013 in Beijing, China.

The symposium will focus on the important role of agricultural biodiversity in agroecological intensification for supporting productive and resilient farming systems to improve livelihoods of smallholder farmers. The symposium will also aim to understand the local cultural values in enhancing productivity through the use of traditional crop varieties, traditional farming practices and climate change response strategies.

Please read this PDF document or contact the organising committee directly at email hidden; JavaScript is required for more information. Participants need to submit this registration form to the organisers before 30 April 2013. The local costs of accommodation and food will be covered by the organisers for registered participants presenting scientific posters.

Plant Genetic Resources and Seeds: Community Resilience in the Face of Change

The Wageningen University and Research Centre for Development Innovation (CDI) will be organising a training programme on “Plant Genetic Resources and Seeds: Community Resilience in the Face of Change”, from 28 October to 16 November 2013, in Jeypore and Chennai, India.

The overall objective of this training programme is to enhance participants’ capabilities to associate Community Biodiversity Management (CBM) as integrated strategies for managing Plant Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture (PGFRA) and building community resilience towards climate change.

Full travel, board and lodging expenditures would be provided by the Netherlands Fellowship Programmes to successful applicants. Deadline for fellowship application is 07 May 2013 through fellowships for short courses on “Scholarship Online“.

Please read this PDF document or visit the official website of CDI for more information.

2nd Global Moringa Meet 2013

The Centre for Jatropha Promotion & Biodiesel (CJP) will be organising the “2nd Global Moringa Meet 2013”, along with a “Two Days Moringa State of Art International Workshop” this coming 21-22 November 2013 in Jaipur, India.

The focus of the events is to share the latest research and developments on Moringa crop production and commercialisation.

You can contact the organizers directly at email hidden; JavaScript is required, or visit the official conference website for more information.