CIGR Newsletter No 62

C I G R - S P O N S O R E D A C T I V I T I E S

A chronological list of events in the field of agricultural engineering can also be found in our Events Calendar  

 

CIGR Section II Symposium on
"Gaseous and Odour Emissions from Animal Production Facilities"

This symposium, organised in co-operation with EurAgEng and NJF, will be held from 1 to 4 June 2003 at Scandic Hotel Bygholm Park, Horsens,Denmark . It will focus on the environmental effect of animal production. One of the major concerns is the ammonia emission from animal husbandry, with respect to acidification and eutrophication of the environment. Moreover, the odour nuisance to local residents and the emission of greenhouse gases and dust are becoming increasingly important issues with respect to animal husbandry.

The following oral sessions as well as numerous poster presentations have been scheduled:

Registration fees are Euro 450 for active participants and Euro 200 for accompanying persons. The proceedings will be available at the symposium on CD-ROM.

For detailed information, please see the web site http://www.agrsci.dk/jbt/cigr/CIGRsecondannouncement2003.htm The address of the Scientific Secretariat is: Att.: Søren Pedersen; Danish Institute of Agricultural Sciences, Research Centre Bygholm, P.O. Box 536, DK-8700 Horsens, Denmark. Phone: +45 7629 6024 Fax: +45 7629 6100 E-mail: Soeren.Pedersen@agrsci.dk

6th Inter-Regional Conference
Envirowater 2003: "Land and Water Use, Planning and Management"

Sponsored by CIGR Technical Section I, this conference will be held in Albacete,Spain, from 3 to 5 September 2003 . The Conference language will be English. It is organised by the Regional Centre for Water Study (CREA), University of Castilla-La Mancha and the Spanish Committee of Agricultural Engineering (CEIR) in co-operation with the CIGR, EurAgEng, ICID, the University of Castilla-La Mancha, the Regional Government of Castilla-La Mancha, and the Spanish Ministry of Science and Technology.

Due to the increases in population and in economic activity, fresh water and land are more and more scarce all over the world, both in quantity and quality. Thus it is necessary to improve planning and management in order to achieve a sustainable use of natural resources. This requires better knowledge of the different processes involved as well as design tools and models to help in decision making, such as Geographic Information Systems (GIS) and other engineering technologies.

The conservation of the environment and the reduction of health risks which are caused by direct and diffuse pollution due to the more intensive use of resources, calls into question local and regional development plans and strategies.

Envirowater 2003 attempts to be a meeting forum for scientists, engineers, and managers of water, land and the environment. The topics include all the strategies and technologies to improve the use and the sustainable management of resources in order to improve productivity and sustainable rural development, but with no risks for health.

The main topics are:

The Conference will consist of three days of oral presentations, poster sessions, and a technical tour. Papers will be reviewed by an international scientific committee and, if accepted, published in the conference proceedings edited under the supervision of an international board of editors. The Conference fee will be 325 Euro; a 20% reduction is planned for participants from East Europe, Africa, Asia and Latin American countries.

Deadlines:

Full camera-ready manuscript due 1 May 2003

Information to authors 1 June 2003

For further information, consult the Conference web page at: http://crea.uclm.es/envirowater2003 or contact: Conference Secretariat, Envirowater 2003, Centro Regional de Estudios del Agua, University of Castilla-La Mancha, 02071-Albacete, Spain. Tel.: +34-967-599200; Fax: +34 967 599 233; Email:envirowater2003@uclm.es

"Drainage for a Secure Environment and Food Supply": 9th International Drainage Workshop

Co-sponsored by CIGR-Section I and jointly organised by the ICID Working Group on Drainage (WG-DRG) and Alterra-ILRI, the 9th tri-annual International Drainage Workshop will be held from 10 to 13 September 2003 in the Jaarbeurs conference centre in Utrecht, Netherlands. Renowned organisations such as ICID and EurAgEng are overseeing the planning of the 9th International Drainage Workshop.

The organisers have taken an integrated approach to the workshop, combining preparatory internet discussion sessions with linkages to the 3rd World Water Forum activities and sessions, keynote speakers both on subjects of direct interest and on related topics, and papers from specialists throughout the world.

The WG-DRG would like to promote and stimulate interest in best management practices from the point of view of agricultural production and environmental impact among a much wider group than the traditional group of drainage engineers and scientists. This workshop endeavours to stress the importance of drainage to the general public, politicians, planners and designers, and to organisations that formulate agricultural and IWRM policies.

The programme comprises plenary presentations (including keynotes, special topic presentations and summaries of discussions), concurrent discussion sessions, and, if sponsors can be found, luncheon and dinner speakers.

Four main topics and twenty-one subordinated subjects have been selected for discussion at the IDW9.

I. Innovative drainage technologies in agriculture

II. Drainage: a tool for integrated water resources management in agriculture

III. Drainage institutions for participatory development

IV. Capacity building in drainage

The topics reflect requests for inputs on the technical and local level (Topics 1), the regional level (Topics 2 and 3) and the level of stakeholders’ involvement (Topic 4).

The participants will discuss materials, designs, management, environmental impacts, economics, and, most of all, relationships between the various disciplines. To structure this discussion, the organising committee seeks contributions in the form of research papers, state-of-the-art papers, discussion papers and posters, and active involvement in the discussions. In preparation of the workshop, discussion is intended to start straight away via internet, so that the actual workshop can be used to formulate recommendations.

500-600 word proposals for research papers, state-of-the-art papers, discussion papers or posters should be submitted to the Secretariat in an electronic format by 31 March 2003. After review and acceptance, abstracts will be placed on the IDW9 website at http://www.alterra-research.nl/pls/portal30/docs/FOLDER/ilri/ILRI/workshop/index.htm . Contributions will be made available to the participants on CD-ROM at registration in Utrecht.

Deadlines and dates:

paper proposal submission 31 March 2003

review / discussion on the internet after 1 April 2003

Full text submission 31 July 2003

Registration fees are Euro 450/500 (before/after 1 July); there is a remission of Euro 50 for members of ICID, of member countries, and of EurAgEng. Registration fees for accompanying persons are Euro 127/150 (before/after 1 July). For the early registration discount, funds should be received before 1 July.

For information and registration contact: IDW9 Workshop Secretariat; Alterra-ILRI; P.O. Box 47; 6700 AA Wageningen; The Netherlands. Phone: +31 317 49 55 49; Fax: +31 317 49 55 90; Email: drainage2003@ilri.agro.nl Internet: http://www.ilri.nl then select 9th International Drainage Workshop.

Workshop on
"Improved Irrigation Technologies and Methods: Research, Development and Testing"

This workshop, co-sponsored by CIGR Section I, will be held on 18 and 19 September 2003 in Montpellier,France . A plenary session in the morning will address the state of the art and the perspectives of new technologies and methods in irrigation, considering improvements in irrigation equipment during the last decades as well as questions of irrigation equipment testing and standardisation. Two parallel sessions in the afternoon will deal with surface and with pressurised irrigation. The latter will deal with questions of sprinkler irrigation (solid sets and irrigation machines) and of drip irrigation.

As a complement to the workshop, a one-day technical tour will visit: Cemagref testing facilities in the laboratory at Aix-en Provence and in the field at Le Merle experimental farm (Salon de Provence) for raingun and sprinklers evaluation, BRL water meter testing facilities, Precision agriculture in a farm near Tarascon. Following the initiation of an international network of irrigation equipment testing laboratories, a meeting of delegates from the laboratories concerned will be held during the IEC.

Further information is available on the internet at http://afeid.montpellier.cemagref.fr/techws2003.htm or from Alain Vidal; European International Affairs Office; Cemagref; 361, rue Jean-Francois Breton - BP 5095; 34033 Montpellier Cedex 1 - France. Tel. +33 4 67 04 63 38 or +33 1 40 96 61 80; Fax: +33 4 67 63 57 95 or +33 1 40 96 61 42

Symposium
"25 Years of Assessment of Erosion"

This symposium will be held in Ghent, Belgium from 22 to 26 September 2003 . Organised by the Department of Soil Management and Soil Care, Ghent University, it is co-sponsored by CIGR-Section I "Land and Water Engineering".

The symposium will cover a wide range of topics. The following is a tentative list which is still subject to modifications:

Review papers on specific syntheses of assessment of parameters in the erosion process are welcome for consideration as keynote presentations. A scientific committee will select the papers and decide upon the way of presentation: oral (including review) or poster presentations.

For a first orientation and for downloadable registration forms, please consult the symposium web site at http://soilman.rug.ac.be/symposium_erosion/

For further information please contact the Symposium office "25 years of Assessment of Erosion", p/a ir. Greet Oltenfreiter, Dept. Soil Management & Soil Care, Ghent University, Coupure Links 653, B-9000 Ghent, Belgium. Tel: +32 9 2646066; Fax: +32 9 2646247; E-mail: erosion@soilman.rug.ac.be

XXX CIOSTA-CIGR V Congress on "Management and Technology Applications to Empower Agriculture and Agro-Food Systems"

This congress will be held in Turin,Italy , from 22 to 24 September 2003. CIOSTA (Commission Internationale de l’Organisation Scientifique du Travail en Agriculture) and CIGR-Section V have organised several biannual International Congresses; the 2003 congress will be held at the School of Agriculture of Turin University.

The main topics of the Congress will be related to the subjects mainly dealt with by the two Organisations: work science and management in agriculture, ergonomics and safety. In these sectors, due to the contribution of information and electronic technologies, new powerful tools are now available for crop production and post harvest processing as well as forest, environment and landscape management.

The plenary session will be held by international experts in the above-mentioned fields. The ten main topics of the Congress will concern:

The language of the oral presentations and posters of the symposium will be English. Short abstracts (maximum 600 words) underlining objectives and results must be submitted by e-mail by 30 November 2002.

The year 2003 will celebrate the occasion of the thirtieth CIOSTA Congress. For this reason a wide participation is expected. The organising committee will offer technical visits in the Langhe and Monferrato areas which, in September, during grape harvest, offers interesting visits together with the view of a beautiful landscape in the best period of the year. A pleasant program for accompanying persons will be organised.

Deadline:

Abstracts 30 November 2003

Further information is available by e-mail ciosta.2003@unito.it or from the Organising Committee Co-ordinator Dr. Cristina Tortia, Department of Agricultural, Forest and Environmental Economics and Engineering, Via Leonardo da Vinci 44, Grugliasco, Italy, tel. +39 (0) 116708845, fax +39 (0) 116708591. The URL of the conference web site with registration forms is: http://www.agraria.unito.it/dip/deiafa/ciosta.htm

"New Trends in Farm Building"
International Symposium of CIGR II

CIGR-Section II invites you to participate in the International Symposium "New Trends in Farm Building" that will be held in Évora, Portugal from 2 to 6 May 2004 . The objective of the Symposium is to bring together scientists from different countries working in agricultural engineering and related areas, particularly those involved with structures and environmental control for animal and plant production. Research findings, legislation, technical solutions and future trends concerning farm buildings, systems and equipment for animal and plant production will be shared and discussed.

The scientific program will include poster sessions, plenary sessions, and oral sessions on the following topics:

Abstracts (English, max. 500 words, MS Word 6.0 or 7.0) should be submitted by 31 May '03 by e-mail to pcf@uevora.pt, or to: International Symposium "New Trends in Farm Buildings", Universidade de Évora - Departamento de Engenharia Rural, Apartado 94, 7002-554 Évora - PORTUGAL. Abstracts should include: title, authors and their address, keywords (max. 5), purpose of presentation, approach, results, conclusions. Submissions should state whether an oral or poster presentation is suggested, and which scientific session is the most appropriate. The Scientific Committee including Prof Meneses of the Technical University of Lisbon and leading representatives of CIGR, EurAgEng, and ASAE will decide on acceptance and allocation to oral or poster presentations.

Dates and Deadlines:

Abstracts 31 May 2003

Notification of acceptance 30 September 2003

Full papers (& registration of one author) 31 December 2003

Registration fees are Euro 400/500 (before 31 January 2004/ 15 April 2004) for CIGR members, 320/400 for Participants from developing countries, 250/300 for students, participation in technical sessions, book of abstracts, CD-ROM with proceedings, coffee, lunches, and technical tour included.

For further Information on technical tours, social program, etc., consult http://www.der.uevora.pt/fb2004.htm Scientific issues are handled by Prof. J. Meneses; E-mail jmeneses@isa.utl.pt; other issues by Ms Paula Sequeira, Phone: +351 266 760823, Fax: + 351 266 711189, E-mail: pcf@uevora.pt

International Conference of CIGR Section IV on "Electricity and Energy, Especially the Renewable Energy Sources in Agriculture"

Organised by the Hungarian Electrical Association, with the participation of the Hungarian Society of Agriculture Sciences and of the Scientific Society of Power Economy, this conference will be held in Budapest, Hungary, from 17 to 24 May 2004. The conference languages will be English and Hungarian; simultaneous translation will be provided. The main themes are:

Papers should be submitted in English, with a one-page abstract.

Deadlines:

Preliminary registration: 31 May 2003

Written paper abstract 30 September 2003

Full papers 30 November 2003

Final registration 28 February 2004

There will be a reduced participation fee for CIGR members and for participants from developing countries and former socialist countries. A one-day study tour will take place during the conference; a two-day post-congress tour will also be organised.

For further information please contact the Conference office: Elitexpo Ltd., "CIGR-Conference", H-1056 Budapest, Belgrád rkp. 22., Hungary. Tel./Fax: +36 1 318-3710 or -0937 E-mail: eexpo@axelero.hu

2004 CIGR International Conference
"The Olympics of AgEng"

This major international CIGR conference will be held from 11 to 14 October 2004 in the International Meeting Centre of Beijing,PR China . With the sponsorship of CIGR, the Chinese Society for Agricultural Machinery (CSAM), the Chinese Society of Agricultural Engineering (CSAE), and co-sponsored by AAAE and AOC, the conference is organised by the Chinese Agricultural University (CAU), the Chinese Academy of Agricultural Mechanisation Sciences (CAAMS), and the Chinese Academy of Agricultural Engineering (CAAE). The conference language will be English.

Human beings are facing the new challenge of the growing of knowledge-based economy that affects our daily lives. Agricultural engineering knowledge and technologies have spread throughout the world with the development of information technology and multi-disciplinary activities.

As we move into the new millennium, advanced engineering technologies are being rapidly applied in agriculture, food and bio-systems. The need for increased cooperation and face-to-face exchanges among engineers, scientists, and commercial companies in the global village is evident.

The 2004 CIGR International Conference conference aims to provide opportunities for researchers, scholars, managers and other professionals to exchange the latest information, and to provide a discussion forum on how to promote scientific and technological innovations on agricultural engineering into the New Millennium.

The product shows, poster sessions and other academic activities of this conference will deal with subjects such as:

Agricultural engineers, institutions and companies are invited to participate in this congress and to submit a paper to the academic committee. Papers presented at the meeting will be available to the meeting participants on CD-ROM, and abstracts will be published officially for the participants.

Dates and Deadlines:

Abstracts 1 April 2004

Notification of acceptance 15 April 2004

Full papers 1 June 2004

Failure to submit a written paper by 1 June 2004 will not preclude the author from presenting, but the paper will not be included in the proceedings available at the meeting. Further information is available on the internet at http://www.2004cigr.org/ or from the Conference Secretary Dr. Renjie Dong, PO Box 184#, China Agricultural University, No. 17 Qinghuadonglu Haidian district, Beijing 100083, PR CHINA. Email: 2004cigr@bjaeu.edu.cn or 2004info@bjaeu.edu.cn or info@2004cigr.org

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