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Day
3: Wednesday September 1st
Corum conference center - Rondelet room
Cropping
Systems at Farm, Regional and Global Scales: the Cropping System
in its embedding systems
(S3.3)
Chairs:
Olaf Christen (Martin Luther University, Germany) and Marc Benoit
(INRA Mirecourt, France)
S.3.3.1: Farm scale design of cropping systems |
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Chair: Marc Benoit (INRA Mirecourt, France)
Introduction

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| Keynote
speaker: Henning Kage (Kiel University, Germany)
Multi-criteria
assessment and optimization of cropping systems: What do we
have and what do we need? 
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• Life
Cycle Assessment (LCA) as a tool to design eco-friendly horticultural
systems
(Claudine Basset-Mens, CIRAD ,France) 
• A
model-aid procedure to design and evaluate cropping plans to
improve sustainability of farm systems (Santiago
Dogliotti Moro, Facultad de Agronomía - Universidad de
la República, Uruguay) 
• Modelling
farmers' decisions on crop sequences and crop on-farm localisation:
from arable farms to market-gardeners management decisions
(Marie Mawois, Montpellier SupAgro, France) 
• Cropping
system evaluation for maize with family farmers using a multi-criteria
approach (
Eric Scopel, CIRAD, Madagascar)
•Comparing
Organic and Conventional Agriculture (Guiliano Vitali,
DiSTA - Univ.Bologna, Italy) 
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3.3.2: Cropping system design and assessment at landscape
level |
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Chair: Olaf Christen (Martin Luther University, Germany) |
Keynote speaker: Walter A.H. Rossing (Wageningen University,
The Netherlands)
Designing
multifunctional agro-landscapes  |
• A
model to simulate sunflower oilseed production over the supplying
area of an agricultural cooperative
(Philippe Debaeke, INRA Toulouse, France) 
• Spatial
variability of agro-environmental functions fulfilment in a
Mediterranean agricultural landscape
(Elisa Marraccini, Scuola Superiore S. Anna, Italy)
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Assessing potential additions to crop yields from
shallow water tables for smallholder farmers during the Rabi
season in southern Bangladesh (Perry Poulton, CSIRO, Australia)

• Modelling
farmers’ decisions of splitting agricultural plots at
different time scales: a contribution for modelling landscape
spatial configuration
(Noémie Schaller, INRA Grignon, France)

• Collaborative
Modelling to Mitigate Soil Erosion Risk at Field, Farm &
Catchment Scales in Northern Thailand (Guy
Trebuil, CIRAD, France) 
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S 3.3.3: Cropping system design and assessment at
larger scales |
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Chair: Marcello Donatelli (JRC and CRA, Italy) |
Keynote
speaker: Holger Meinke (Wageningen University, The Netherlands)
Multiple
drivers of change – a challenge for cropping systems designers
and managers  |
• Supporting
Change in Farming Systems Research
(Peter De Voil, QLD-PI, Australia) 
• Use
of soil hydraulic and mechanical models for mapping compaction
risks on the French territory
(Christine Le Bas, INRA Orléans, France)

• A
curvilinear process-based phenological model to study impacts
of climatic change on grapevine (Vitis vinifera L.)
(Iñaki Garcia de Cortazar-Atauri, EU-JRC, Italy)
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Application of the Model-Based Knowledge System
LandCaRe DSS to Pilot Regions for Climate Change Adaptation
in Germany – Analyses at Regional and Local Scale
(Barbara Köstner, Dresden University of Technology, Germany)
• Effects
of high prices on Farming systems across the European Union
(Marcel Adenauer, Bonn University, Germany)
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