Science Forum 2018 | Independent Science and Partnership Council

The Program

Science Forum 2018 (SF18), Win more, lose less: Capturing synergies between SDGs through agricultural research, will be held from 10-12 October 2018 in Stellenbosch, South Africa.

The objective of SF18 is to identify substantial interactions between the SDGs (both positive and negative), the role of agricultural research in augmenting synergies and managing trade-offs, and the ensuing implications for the science-policy interface. Results will contribute to the discussion of developing research themes and frameworks in CGIAR.

We are delighted to announce our program is now online. Check out what we have in store for SF18 here!

Day 1

Wednesday, October 10

8:30 - 9:00 Registration
9:00 - 11:00 PLENARY - Setting the scene: how are synergies and trade-offs between SDGs being addressed in policy and research? Chair: Jennifer Thomson, ISPC Member; Emeritus Professor, Department of Molecular and Cell Biology, University of Cape Town, South Africa Jennifer Thomson - Opening
Opening welcome Maggie Gill - Opening welcome	Maggie Gill ISPC Chair; Professor of Integrated Land Use, School of Biological Science University of Aberdeen, UK Shadrack Ralekeno Moephuli President and Chief Executive Officer Agricultural Research Council (ARC), South Africa
Keynote speakers Jean-Pascal van Ypersele - SDG interactions and agricultural research : Challenges and opportunities Salman Hussain - TEEB for Agriculture and Food	Jean-Pascal van Ypersele Professor of Climatology and Environmental Sciences Université catholique de Louvain, Earth and Life Institute Salman Hussain TEEB Coordinator The Economics of Ecosystems and Biodiversity (TEEB)
Discussion
11:00 - 11:30 COFFEE/TEA BREAK
11:30 - 13:00 PLENARY - TOPIC 1 (Interactions between increasing staple crop productivity, resilience to climate change, improving nutrition and sustaining agro-biodiversity) Chair: Patrick Webb, ISPC Member, Professor of Nutrition, Friedman School of Nutrition Science and Policy, Tufts University, USA
Presentations Ruth De Fries - Trade offs and Synergies among Climate Resilience, Human Nutrition, and Agricultural Productivity of Cereals Melinda Smale - Pathways of staple crop productivity through agrobiodiversity to diet diversity: Evidence on links & trade-offs	Ruth DeFries Professor of Ecology and Sustainable Development Columbia University, New York Melinda Smale Professor of International Development Department of Agricultural, Food, and Resource Economics, Michigan State University
Panel Marianne Bänziger - Crop productivity and Agrobiodiversity Bhavani Shankar - Income elasticities for foods in India (2 slides)	Marianne Bänziger Deputy Director General for Research and Partnership (DDG-RP) International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center (CIMMYT) John McDermott Director, CGIAR Agriculture for Nutrition and Health Program International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) Bhavani Shankar Professor of Agriculture, Food and Health SOAS University of London Chris Surridge Chief Editor Nature Plants
Discussion
13:00 - 14:00 LUNCH
14:00 - 15:00 PLENARY - Foresight and SDG interactions Chair: Rodomiro Ortiz, ISPC Member; Faculty (Chair) Professor of Genetics and Plant Breeding, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, Sweden
Presentation Prabhu Pingali - Food Systems Futures & the SDGs: Can we get to zero hunger & rural prosperity by 2030	Prabhu Pingali ISPC Member; Professor, Dyson School of Applied Economics and Management Cornell University, USA
Respondents Keith Wiebe - Strategic Foresight and the CGIAR: Meeting future challenges and the SDGs Ana Paula Aguiar - Can we get to zero hunger & rural prosperity by 2030 ?	Keith Wiebe Senior Research Fellow International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) Ana Paula Aguiar Research Fellow Stockholm Resilience Center
15:00 - 15:30 TRANSFER
15:30 - 18:00 15:30-18:00 BREAKOUT SESSIONS Breeding for multiple objectives - Crops to End Hunger Initiative - USAID and ISPC (Lapa - Nietvoorbij campus) Impact assessment of AR4D in the era of the SRF and SDGs: Challenges, methods and guidance - SPIA (Olive grove - Infruitec campus) Foresight and SDG interactions: Using foresight to assess the basis of SDG interactions under future scenarios - ISPC (Basement - Nietvoorbij campus) USAID - ISPC Breakout session #1 SPIA Breakout session # 2 ISPC Foresight Breakout session #3
18:00 - 20:00 ARC-HOSTED RECEPTION AT NIETVOORBIJ CAMPUS

Day 2

Thursday, October 11

9:00 - 10:30 PLENARY - TOPIC 2 Interactions between intensifying livestock and aquaculture production for food and nutrition security, and: a) increased vulnerability to antimicrobial resistance and zoonoses; b) land use change Chair: Maggie Gill, ISPC Chair; Professor of Integrated Land Use, School of Biological Science, University of Aberdeen, UK
Presentations Jonathan Rushton - Interactions between intensifying livestock production for food & nutrition security... Mario Herrero - Livestock, land and the environmental limits of animal source-food consumption	Jonathan Rushton Professor of Animal Health and Food Systems (N8 Chair) Institute of Infection and Global Health, University of Liverpool Mario Herrero Chief Research Scientist and Office of the Chief Executive Science Leader Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO)
Panel Delia Grace: Demon Duck of Doom Marius Gilbert - Intensifying livestock : EID, AMR & Land use change Luciana Gallardo Lomeli - Comments on Intensifying livestock & aquaculture production for food security & nutrition perspective	Delia Grace Program Leader Food Safety and Zoonoses International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI) Marius Gilbert Head of Spatial Epidemiology Lab; FNRS Research Associate Université Libre de Bruxelles Luciana Gallardo Lomeli Research Analyst, Global Restoration Initiative World Resources Institute (WRI) Boulanouar Bouchaib Principal Livestock Officer African Development Bank (ADB)
Discussion
10:30 - 11:00 COFFEE/TEA BREAK
11:00 - 12:30 PLENARY - TOPIC 3 Grappling with complex systems: the water-energy-food nexus experience Chair: Holger Meinke, ISPC Member; Head, School of Land and Food; Director, Tasmanian Institute of Agriculture (TIA), University of Tasmania, Australia
Presentations Mathew Kurian - Riding Out the Perfect Storm: The Case for Integrative Modelling via Place-based Observatories Francesco Fuso Nerini - The climate-land-energy and water nexus: Implications for agricultural research	Mathew Kurian Head of Unit, Capacity Development and Governance (CDG) United Nations University (UNU-FLORES) Francesco Fuso Nerini Assistant Professor, Department of Energy Technology KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden
Panel Jacques Wery - Grappling with Complex Systems: The water-energy-food nexus experience Manuel Barange - Grappling with complex systems: The water-energy-food nexus experience	Izabella Koziell Program Director CGIAR Research Program on Water, Land and Ecosystems, Sri Lanka Jacques Wery Deputy Director General and Director of Research International Center for Agricultural Research in the Dry Areas (ICARDA) Sonja Vermeulen Global Food Lead Scientist World Wildlife Fund (WWF) Manuel Barange Director, Fisheries and Aquaculture Division Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)
Discussion
12:30 - 14:00 LUNCH AND TRANSFER
14:00 - 17:00 BREAKOUT SESSIONS Managing the roles of livestock and fish in sustainable food systems - ILRI, WorldFish and FAO (Olive grove - Infruitec campus) Synergies and tradeoffs among SDGs: the climate dimension - CCAFS and Sustainable Amazon Foundation (Pinotage - Nietvoorbij campus) Nexus, Systems, Landscapes: Does Your Sector Still Matter? Rethinking the Agricultural Research Agenda to Help us Tackle Tradeoffs - CGIAR Research Program on Water, Land and Ecosystems (WLE) , IWMI and IFPRI (Lapa - Nietvoorbij campus) Managing tradeoffs: how do we translate research into evidence? - Cornell University and Nature Plants (Basement - Nietvoorbij campus) ILRI - WorldFish - FAO Breakout session #4 CCAFS - FAS Breakout Session #5 WLE - IWMI - IFPRI Breakout session #6 Cornell University - Nature Plants Breakout session #7
18:00 - 20:00 ISPC-HOSTED RECEPTION AT THE PROTEA HOTEL BY MARRIOTT STELLENBOSCH

Day 3

Friday, October 12

9:00 - 10:30 PLENARY - report back from breakout sessions Chairs: Nighisty Ghezae, ISPC Member; Director, International Foundation for Science, Sweden and Rodomiro Ortiz, ISPC Member; Faculty (Chair) Professor of Genetics and Plant Breeding, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, Sweden
Rapporteurs from the 6 breakout sessions (10 min each)
Discussion
10:30 - 11:00 COFFEE/TEA BREAK
11:00 - 12:30 PLENARY - Strengthening the science-policy interface Chair: Karen Macours, Chair, Standing Panel on Impact Assessment (SPIA); Associate professor at the Paris School of Economics and researcher at French National Institute for Agricultural Research (INRA)
Presentation Maggie Gill - Quality of research for development and the science policy interface	Maggie Gill ISPC Chair; Professor of Integrated Land Use, School of Biological Science University of Aberdeen, UK
Panel Ruben Echeverria - Strengthening policy dialogues in CGIAR Sara Savastano - Strengthening the science-policy Interface in the face of increasing complexity	Lindiwe Majele Sibanda Co-Chair Global Alliance for Climate Smart Agriculture (GACSA) Purvi Mehta Deputy Director and Head of Asia for Agriculture Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, India Ruben G. Echeverría Director General International Center for Tropical Agriculture (CIAT) Sara Savastano Director of Research and Impact Assessment Division International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD) Bernard Rey Head of Cooperation Delegation of the European Union in South Africa
Discussion
12:30 - 13:30 LUNCH
13:30 - 15:00 PLENARY - Implications for CGIAR and way forward Chair: Leslie Lipper, Executive Director, ISPC Secretariat Leslie Lipper - Way forward: Some main points emerging around building blocks
Panel Andrew Campbell - Science Forum 2018 : Implications for CGIAR Emmanuel Okogbenin - Implications for CGIAR and Way Forward	Maggie Gill ISPC Chair; Professor of Integrated Land Use, School of Biological Science University of Aberdeen, UK Margret Thalwitz Board Chair International Center for Agricultural Research in the Dry Areas (ICARDA) Andrew Campbell Chief Executive Officer Australian Centre for International Agricultural Research (ACIAR) Hao Weiping Professor; Deputy Director General, Department of International Cooperation Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences (CAAS) Emmanuel Okogbenin Plant Breeder/Molecular Geneticist; Director Technical Operations African Agricultural Technology Foundation (AATF) Jimmy Smith Director General International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI) Shadrack Ralekeno Moephuli President and Chief Executive Officer Agricultural Research Council (ARC), South Africa