The conference "Is the Future of Agriculture perennial?" will comprise sessions in which participants representing producers, food industry, and policy, will discuss potentials and challenges of perennial polycultures. The programme also contains pre- and post- study tours to Högestad Estate (largest upscaling of Kernza cultivation to date in collaboration with LUCSUS and TLI), the SITES field station operated the Swedish University of Agricultural Science (trials of Kernza based cropping systems), and University of Copenhagen Plant Science Centre at Taastrup in Denmark.
– We hope this conference will become a stepping stone for integrated research in which academia and producers start co-producing knowledge, says Lennart Olsson, coordinator for the Pufendorf IAS Theme Domestication.
The conference is organised by the Pufendorf IAS Theme Domestication (2018-2019) in collaboration with Lund University Centre for Sustainability Studies and the Land Institute, Kansas, USA
As part of the conference the publicis welcome to attend a half-day symposium to take part in a discussion about the future of agriculture together with prominent scholars from the humanities, natural, and social & economic sciences.