12th Congress of the European Society for Agronomy

Helsinki, Finland, 20-24th August 2012

Do not miss the early registration deadline on May 30, 2012

The call for papers is now closed and more than 300 abstracts have been submitted. The conference takes a number of themes from “agriculture at the extremes”, including tolerance to stresses, pushing the margins of sustainability, and extending models of crop growth to include responses to long days and cool droughts.

Apr23

Highlight of the “EJA paper of the month” (#5 - April 2012)

“Optimizing chickpea phenology to available water under current and future climates”

by Afshin Soltani and Thomas R. Sinclair
Europ. J. Agronomy 38 (2012) 22–31

May14

Conferences on "Ecosystem service in agriculture" and "Agronomy as the science of primary food production"

Montpellier, France, May 3rd and 9th, 2012

Agropolis International, in charge of ESA secretariat, has invited John R. Porter, Professor of Agricultural Systems Ecology at the University of Copenhagen Denmark, Associate Editor-in-Chief EJA and Coordinating Lead Author for IPCC to share his ideas on agronomy.

May10

1st International conference Organic Rice Farming and Production Systems

Montpellier, France, August 27-30, 2012

Pre-registrations are now open. Deadline for earlybird fare is June 30, 2012.

This conference is open to researchers and to all stakeholders in the production chain: rice growers, professional organizations and their partners, collection, transformation and commercialization companies, territorial managers… Teachers and students will also find information relevant to their training.