Workshop on legumes in agriculture and food systems

10.30  Keynote lecture by Dr Mark Peoples: Legumes & biological N2 fixation – Potential contributions to reducing the environmental impact of agriculture. Mark Peoples is a visiting scientist from CSIRO, Canberra, Australia, and also a doctor of honor at SLU.

11.10  Nawa Raj Dhamala: Nitrogen fixation in forb-based multi-species mixtures

11.20  Carolina Rodriguez: Understanding the ecosystem services and disservices provided by crop diversification

11.30  Nicolas Carton: Facilitating grain legume production with intercropping: focus on interactions for N

11.40  thematic discussion: nitrogen dynamics in legume-based cropping systems

12.00  lunch

13.00  Åsa Grimberg: SLU Grogrund: Future faba beans for food and feed

13.10  Veronica Hederström: Ensuring a sustainable supply of clover seeds – effects of pollinators, pests and natural enemies in clover seed production (and a few words about a new project on pollination in faba bean?)

13.20  thematic discussion: legume breeding and biotic interactions

13.40  coffee break

14.00  Georg Carlsson: Legumes for Sustainable Food Systems – a research theme within Cropping Systems Ecology

14.10  Alexander Menegat, Marcos Lana, Ortrud Jäck: A multi-scale feasibility study for organic soybean and lupine production in Sweden

14.20  thematic discussion: legumes in sustainable agriculture – including a discussion on possibilities for restarting the LegSA network

15.00  end of the workshop