Rural Economy and Land Use: The Challenge for Research DAY 3

09.00 - 10.30

PLENARY SESSION 5

Integrated Food Chains: Research Challenges
Chair: John Lloyd Jones

The session will be attended by researchers from the Food Chain Research Projects within RELU. It will comprise a number of synoptic presentations addressing key food chain research challenges:

Professor Henry Buller and Professor Mike Winter, University of Exeter: Overview of integrated food chain research: where are we now?

Professor Wyn Grant, University of Warwick: Governance - ownership, policy, regulation

Professor Gareth Edwards-Jones, University of Wales, Bangor: People - consumers, economics, communities

Dr Dave Chadwick, Institute of Grassland and Environmental Research: Environment and land use

Summary - A Personal Perspective by John Lloyd Jones

09.00 - 10.30

PLENARY SESSION 6

Chair: Professor Philip Lowe

Keynote Address 7
Sir Howard Newby, Chief Executive, Higher Education Funding Council for England. Why interdisciplinary research: the challenges and the obstacles

Panellists
Professor Ian Diamond AcSS, Chief Executive
Professor Julia Goodfellow, Chief Executive
Professor Sir John Lawton CBE FRS, Chief Executive

Discussion