Monday 15th March 2010

Reception and launch of National Science & Engineering Week

Official opening by Laura McGillivray, Chief Executive, Norwich City Council

Reception from 18:00 in The Forum, Millennium Plain, Bethel Street, Norwich

followed by

The Richardson Lecture

from 19:00 in the Noverre Suite, The Assembly House, Theatre Street, Norwich

The end of the agricultural treadmill: Implications for world food security and global warming

to be given by

Professor Harald von Witzke, Chair for International Agricultural Trade & Development at Humboldt University Berlin

Chaired by Professor David Boxer, Director IFR

followed by Buffet Supper

Professor Harald von Witzke holds the International Agricultural Trade & Development chair at Humboldt University, Berlin. His academic career has taken him to the University of Minnesota, St Paul where, during an eleven year posting, he became Professor of Agriculture and Applied Economics. Before that he was Associate Professor at Gottingen University, Germany. He has written many papers on a wide range of agricultural topics but the main emphasis of his current studies are World Trade, Climate Change and Food Security.

David Richardson OBE FRAgS is senior partner in a 1000 acre family farming enterprise in Norfolk. Mainly arable, it also includes a horse livery. He writes a regular column in Farmers Weekly; is a trustee of Sentry Ltd which manages land across England and Scotland for a variety of landowners; and a non executive director of Allen & Page Ltd, a specialist animal feed firm with a national distribution network. He presented radio and TV programmes on farming, food and the countryside for the BBC and ITV for over thirty years. He was the founding chairman of LEAF (Linking Environment and Farming) and his contribution towards the development of integrated farming was, in 2000, rewarded with an OBE. He was awarded a silver medal for agricultural communication in 1993 by RASE and has twice been presented with the Netherthorpe Award for Communicator of the Year by the Guild of Agricultural Journalists.

To book for either or both events, please contact Dawn Barrett, Tel: 01603 255 328 or email: dawn.barrett@bbsrc.ac.uk by Tuesday 9th March latest