Monitoring agriculture for market management and food security
(From europa.eu)
At this one-day conference, the Joint research centre (JRC) will give an overview of its activities in agricultural and agro-environmental monitoring, yield forecasting and early warning, deforestation and land use/land cover monitoring. While presentations will have a solid scientific content, they will be presented in such a way as to be understood by non-specialist EXPO visitors.
The audience will include researchers and students of various disciplines related to food, agriculture and agro-environment, policy makers, public officers, public and private donors, UN organisations, NGOs, farmers' organisations, food industries, biofuel industries and other entrepreneurs for which timely and reliable quantitative information concerning food and agriculture is essential (producers of fertilisers, seeds, machinery for technical equipment, for packaging and so on).