Agricultural Research for Development – Scales & Diversity

Agricultural Research for Development is the name of the annual multi/inter-disciplinary and multi-stakeholder conference on agriculture, livestock and forest research in an international development context. It is organised by the four networks Agri4D (www.Agri4D.se), SIANI (www.SIANI.se), Focali (www.focali.se) and Future Agriculture.

Scales & Diversity, in a context of food security & sustainability, is the theme of the conference this year. These are pertinent and interrelated issues in the contemporary development, policy and scientific discourse(s). The theme encompasses everything from climate change and carbon sequestration on the global scale to opportunities and constraints for production on the local scale, large scale monoculture plantation to subsistence agriculture, forest conservation and local goat breeds as well as market accessibility, management, land tenure, REDD+ and local/national/regional/global/private/public/gendered power relations. Furthermore, the issues contain scientific and policy related controversies. We intend that the conference should be a forum for balanced and science based discussions on ways forward. And on how science can/could/should contribute to make this world a better one.