Ag 'scoping meeting' to address smarter agriculture

April 8, 2015  


An interdisciplinary group interested in addressing the grand challenge of feeding 9 billion people by 2050 is wanted for an April 17 "scoping meeting" titled "Convergence for Smarter Agriculture," the kickoff for a research push associated with the plant sciences initiative in Purdue Moves.

Purdue Agriculture and Discovery Park, with facilitation by Knowinnovation, are fashioning the scoping meeting to identify key research issues and questions at the heart of smarter agriculture for the coming century and to begin to build new interdisciplinary teams. Future workshops will further develop individual areas and identify funding sources.

The scoping meeting will be from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. at Beck Agricultural Center, 4540 U.S. 52 West. Seating is limited; to register, contact Bill Bogan, operations manager for the College of Agriculture, at bogan@purdue.edu.

"We'd love to bring in a range of motivated problem-solvers from across campus with expertise, innovations and technologies that maybe they've never thought of as having an agricultural impact, and link them up with our faculty to develop new solutions in regard to food security and agricultural productivity," Bogan says. The types of interdisciplinary approaches the scoping meeting will attempt to build are exemplified by a series of seminars that looked at the agricultural impact of emerging technologies such as robotics, advanced sensors, unmanned aerial vehicles, and "big data"; these seminars may be viewed at https://ag.purdue.edu/arp/Pages/Recent-Presentations.aspx.

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