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Please see herebelow the latest announcement on the 2nd Agriculture and
Climate Change Conference.

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and Climate Change Conference: Climate ready resource use-efficient crops
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oral and poster presentations by *Friday 17 October 2016*.

The *2nd Agriculture and Climate Change Conference* will focus on the
likely impact of climate change on crop production and explore approaches
to maintain and increase crop productivity into the future.

Plenary Speaker:
*Bruce Campbell*, *CGIAR ((CIAT-CCAFS), Denmark*

Keynote Speakers:
*Hannes Dempewolf*, *Global Crop Diversity Trust, Germany*
*Jessica Fanzo*, *Johns Hopkins University, USA*
*George A. Kowalchuk*, *Utrecht University, The Netherlands*
*Martin A.J. Parry*, *Lancaster University, UK*
*Wayne Powell*, *CGIAR Consortium, France*
*Cynthia Rosenzweig*, *NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies, USA*
*Johan Fredin Uddling*, *University of Gothenburg, Sweden*
*Paul C. West*, *University of Minnesota, USA*
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*Call for Abstracts*Submit abstracts by *17 October 2016*

Abstracts for oral and poster presentations are invited on the below
conference topics and should be submitted using the online abstract
submission system.

*Topics*

   - Increased agricultural uncertainty
   - Modelling and its application
   - Abiotic stress
   - Effects of CO2 on plant growth
   - Impacts on nutrition, quality and resource use efficiency
   - Plant-microbe interactions
   - Innovative agronomic and breeding practices
   - New crops for a new climate

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*Special Issue*

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all invited papers have been published, a *Virtual Special Issue* will be
created collecting all papers from the conference.

A virtual special issue with selected articles from the Agriculture and
Climate Change Conference 2015 is freely available online until 6 March
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*Important Dates*

*17 October 2016*
Abstract Submission Deadline

*20 January 2017*
Early Bird Registration Deadline
*Conference Chairs*

*David Edwards (Chair)*
*University of Western Australia, Australia*

*Rodomiro Ortiz (Co-Chair)*
*Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, Sweden*

*José Luis Araus Ortega (Co-Chair)*
*University of Barcelona, Spain*

*Scientific Advisory Committee*

*Senthold Asseng*
*University of Florida, USA*

*Molly Brown*
*University of Maryland, USA*

*Robin Buell*
*Michigan State University, USA*

*Robert Henry*
*University of Queensland, Australia*

*Andrew Paterson*
*University of Georgia, USA*

*Andrew Sharpe*
*National Research Council, Canada*

*Kadambot Siddique*
*University of Western Australia, Australia*

*Rob Snowdon*
*Justus Liebig University, Giessen, Germany*

*Clare Stirling*
*CIMMYT, Mexico*

*Mark Tester*
*KAUST, Saudi Arabia*

*Michael Udvardi*
*Noble Foundation, USA*

*Rajeev Varshney*
*ICRISAT, India*

*Liming Ye*
*Joint Laboratory of Global Change and Food Security, CAAS, China*

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