Rural Economy and Land Use: The Challenge for Research DAY 2

Thursday 20th January 2005, Birmingham City Centre Holiday Inn

09.30 - 10.30	PARALLEL SESSION 1
	Policy Workshop - Biodiversity and Land Use Chair: Professor Gareth Edwards-Jones Dr Keith Duff, Chief Scientist, English Nature: Research Challenges Dr Richard Ferris, Biodiversity Research Coordination Officer, Joint Nature Conservation Committee: The UK Biodiversity Action Plan - Strategic research needs Dr Simon Bilsborough, Senior Economist, Countryside Council for Wales: Biodiversity and land use
	Data Management Workshop 1 Led by Louise Corti, RELU Data Support Service
	Interdisciplinary Workshop 1 Led by Dr Sandra Bell, University of Durham
10.50 - 12.20	PARALLEL SESSION 2
	Policy Workshop - CAP Reform Chair: Professor Wyn Grant Alastair Rutherford, Head of Agriculture, English Nature: The Research Challenge of CAP Reform Professor Allan Buckwell, Country Land and Business Association: Economic, Environmental and Social Consequences of CAP reform Workshop Summary
	Data Management Workshop 2 Led by Louise Corti, RELU Data Support Service
	Interdisciplinary Workshop 2 Led by Dr Sandra Bell, University of Durham
13.20 - 14.50	PARALLEL SESSION 3
	Policy Workshop - Water Framework Directive Chair: Dr Dave Chadwick Jonathan Fisher, Senior Water Economist, Environment Agency: Collaborative Research programme on Economics for WFD Jacob Tompkins, Policy Development Advisor, Water UK Daniel Instone, Head of Water Quality Division, Defra: Water Framework Directive Workshop Summary
	Policy Workshop - UK Food Policy: Implications for RELU Chair: Professor Henry Buller Dr Andrew Moxey, Head of Analytical Services Division, SEERAD: SEERAD Research Policy Philip Andrews, Defra and Helen Dunn, Defra: The Strategy for Sustainable Farming and Food Workshop Summary
	Interdisciplinary Workshop 3 Led by Dr Sandra Bell, University of Durham
15.10 - 16.40	PARALLEL SESSION 4
	Integrated Food Chains: Research Review Chair: John Lloyd Jones The session will be attended by researchers from RELU Food Chain Research Projects and will comprise a series of short project introductions. Dr Gary Barker, BBSRC: Tools for assessing and managing food chain risks Dr Dave Chadwick, Institute of Grassland and Environmental Research: Sustainable and holistic food chains for recycling livestock waste to land Professor Henry Buller, University of Exeter: The links between quality food production and biodiversity protection Professor Wyn Grant, University of Warwick: Biological alternatives to chemical pesticide inputs in the food chain - environmental and regulatory sustainability Dr Alastair Bailey, Imperial College, London: Adoption of alternative pest management strategies in field crop systems Barry Hounsome, University of Wales, Bangor: Assessment of environmental, community and nutritional impacts of consuming fruit and vegetables produced locally and overseas Professor Bruce Traill, University of Reading: Implications of a nutrition driven food policy for land use and the rural environment Dr David Little, Stirling University: Warmwater fish production as a niche production and market diversification strategy
	People and the Rural Environment: Research Challenges Chair: Professor Louise Heathwaite The session will be attended by researchers from the Scoping Studies, Capacity Building Awards and Development Activity projects within RELU. It will comprise a number of synoptic presentations drawing on the work and ideas of clusters of RELU projects: Professor David Raffaelli, University of York: RELU - The international context Dr Fergus Lyon, Middlesex University: Farm-centred learning in rural development Dr Piran White, University of York: Integrating spatial data
16.50 - 17.50	PARALLEL SESSION 5
	Chair: Professor Maggie Gill Keynote Address 5 Professor Joyce Tait, Director, ESRC Innogen Centre, Interdisciplinary rural research: learning the lessons from previous collaborative programmes between social and natural scientists Keynote Address 6 Dr Anna Jöborn, Head of Programmes, Department of Political Science, Göteborg University, An international perspective on interdisciplinary research Discussion