01/03/16 1 A golden age for agronomy? Ken Giller Plant Production Systems, Wageningen University Three issues 1. Is this a ‘Golden Age’ for agronomy? 2. Contested Agronomy – the case of Conservation Agriculture 3. Future challenges - Agronomy in context The development spotlight shifted 1990s – the dark ages? 2003 – Hilary Benn – White Paper – Agriculture and Poverty: Unlocking the Potential 2005 – Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation started their Agricultural Development Program 2006 – Rockefeller Foundation & BMGF started AGRA (Alliance for the Green Revolution in Africa) 2008 – World Development Report – Agriculture for Development Grain prices 0 100 200 300 400 500 600 700 800 900 jan-02 jan-03 jan-04 jan-05 jan-06 jan-07 jan-08 jan-09 jan-10 jan-11 jan-12 jan-13 jan-14 jan-15 $ Mg -1 Maize (US Gulf) Rice (Thailand) Soybean (Rotterdam) Wheat (US Gulf) World Bank – Global Economic Monitor (data un;l May 2015) hAp://databank.worldbank.org/data/reports.aspx?source=GlobalL EconomicLMonitorL(GEM)LCommodi;es&l=en#
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A golden age for agronomy?
Ken Giller Plant Production Systems, Wageningen University
Three issues
1. Is this a ‘Golden Age’ for agronomy? 2. Contested Agronomy – the case of
Conservation Agriculture
3. Future challenges - Agronomy in context
The development spotlight shifted
1990s – the dark ages? 2003 – Hilary Benn – White Paper – Agriculture and Poverty: Unlocking the Potential
2005 – Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation started their Agricultural Development Program
2006 – Rockefeller Foundation & BMGF started AGRA (Alliance for the Green Revolution in Africa)
2008 – World Development Report – Agriculture for Development
Does the contestation of CA only concern less-developed countries?
! No!
! John Kirkegaard et al. (2014) Sense and nonsense in conservation agriculture: Principles, pragmatism and productivity in Australian mixed farming systems Agric. Ecosyst. Environ. 187, 133-145.
! Giller et al. (2015) Beyond Conservation Agriculture. Frontiers in Plant Science, 6, Article 870
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Three issues
1. Is this a ‘Golden Age’ for agronomy? Yes!
2. Contested Agronomy – the case of Conservation Agriculture
…and the beat goes on… 3. Future challenges – agronomy in context
Response to P and inoculation with soybean in western Kenya
Long term trial results in Western Kenya 2010
Putting nitrogen fixation to work for smallholder farmers in Africa
Effect of P-fertilizer and/or Inoculant on soybean grain yield (t ha-1) in Nigeria, 2011 and 2012
Ronner et al. (2016) Field Crops Research, 186, 133-145.
Putting nitrogen fixation to work for smallholder farmers in Africa
Cumulative probability of economic return to use of inputs in soybean (USD ha-1) in Nigeria, 2011 and 2012
Ronner et al. (2016) Field Crops Research, 186, 133-145.
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Potato yields on a high-tech farm in the Netherlands