The annual BCPC Conference runs over 4 days and this year the focus is Pests & Diseases. Starting on Monday 18 November 2002, the Monday Symposium will consider "The Global Challenge - Sustainable Food Production".

The main conference programme begins on the morning of Tuesday 19 November with the traditional Bawden Memorial Lecture. This year the 29th Bawden Lecture will be given by Dr Jørgen Schlundt from the World Health Organisation. On the following two and half days a comprehensive programme of platform and poster sessions will take place.

The Marketing Forum on Tuesday afternoon will address the subject of "Crop Protection Under Licence". And there will be plenty of opportunity for discussion and debate during the two evening discussion sessions which this year consider "Crop protection research. Who decides? Who benefits?" and "Information technology in practice".

The Conference platform and poster sessions are designed to fall loosely into complementary themes:

• New chemical advances will cover not only the announcement of new compounds for pest and diseases management, but also developments in formulation and application technology.
• Food supply and safety. This theme is addressed from a global perspective not only at the Monday Symposium, but also by the Bawden lecturer and throughout the Conference when the safe use of crop protection agents will be discussed.
• Practical approaches and advances to pest and disease control in a wide variety of arable, field, tropical and sub-tropical crops will be explored. This will include organic crops, biological control as well as the potential role of transgenic crops.
• Advances in new technology will include topics such as plant pathogenic inoculum and neonicotinoid insecticides.
• An environmental theme will, amongst other topics, cover biodiversity in arable ecosystems, ICM in field vegetables, as well as the fate and effects of pesticides in the environment.

As well as two Evening Discussions, a new feature in 2002 is the introduction of two Discussion Fora. Topics have bee chosen to reflect current concerns and delegates are invited to voice their own views.

The detailed Programmes for the Conference can be viewed by clicking on the appropriate day below:
Monday
Tuesday
Wednesday
Thursday
A complete Conference Programme is available in Word here. (Microsoft Word Doc. 92KB)

Dr. Jørgen Schlundt

Each year the Conference commences with a key note address presented by a leading worldwide authority in their subject.

The 29th Bawden Memorial Lecture will be presented by Dr. Jørgen Schlundt, Co-ordinator of the Food Safety Programme, World Health Organisation (WHO), Geneva, Switzerland on the Tuesday morning of the conference.

For details of past Bawden Lectures click here.

		THE MONDAY SYMPOSIUM

The programme for the week commences with the Monday Symposium which complements the Pests & Diseases theme and will address "The Global Challenge - Sustainable Food Production"

Chaired by Mike Calvert from the Royal Agricultural Society of England, this Symposium explores how some of the market demands and factors have developed over time and how they differ between three major regions of the world. Building on these observations will enable the development of crop protection strategies to contribute towards the global challenge over the next 25 years.

This year's Marketing Forum, entitled "Crop Protection Under Licence" will be held on Tuesday 19 November 2002.

This Forum is designed to stimulate discussion on the likely measures, either voluntary or mandatory, which will impinge on the everyday routine of those engaged in the business of food production. A wide range of views will be aired including those of the Government's Voluntary Initiative Steering Group and the NFU as well as experts from the Environment Agency, BASIS and the advisory sector.
"Crop Protection under Licence" is supported by magazine.