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The Bewley Lecture
Issues Facing Horticulture in the 21st Century
Tuesday 8 November 2005
PROGRAMME
10.00
10.30
10.45
11.40
11.50
12.20
12.30
13.30
14.00
14.10
14.40
14.50
15.00
15.15
Registration and coffee
Welcome and introduction
Professor Simon Bright, Director and Head of Department, Warwick HRI
Bewley Lecture: Trends in protected cultivation in Europe
Professor Rolf Larsen, Swedish University of Natural Sciences
Questions to the speaker
Energy use in horticulture
Dr Steve Adams, Warwick HRI
Questions to the speaker
Lunch
The impact of climate change on landscape horticulture
Richard Bisgrove, Reading University
Questions to the speaker
How changes in eating habits and nutrition impact on health
Professor Sudhesh Kumar, Warwick Medical School, University of Warwick
Questions to the speaker
Thank you and presentation
Jeremy Sayers, Chairman, GCRI Trust
Coffee
Optional site tour of Warwick HRI
The Bewley lecture is sponsored by the GCRI Trust
Warwick HRI, Wellesbourne, Warwickshire CV35 9EF
Tel: 024 7657 4455 www.warwickhri.ac.uk
How to find us
From M40 junction 15, follow signs for Wellesbourne
along the A429. Warwick HRI is on the right after 3 miles,
just before the village.
From Stratford-upon-Avon take the B4086 (first on the
left after the river Avon) to Wellesbourne. After 5 miles,
just before the village, turn left at roundabout onto the
A429. Warwick HRI is on the left after ½ mile.
Rail Services: Coventry (18 miles), Leamington Spa (6
miles) Birmingham International Airport (20 miles).
ISSUES FACING HORTICULTURE IN THE 21ST CENTURY
Warwick HRI will be hosting the 11th GCRI Trust Bewley Lecture on the 8 November 2005 at Warwick HRI Wellesbourne.
The event will draw together eminent speakers addressing the issues that will affect horticulture in the 21st century. Key
topics will include:
•Training the horticulture innovators of the future through courses that meet the needs of the horticulture industry.
•General trends in European horticultural research.
•The impact of climate change on landscape horticulture.
•The need to save energy, the approaches used and future research.
•How changes in eating habits and nutrition impact on health.
The Bewley Lecture will be given by Professor Rolf Larsen, Professor of Horticulture at The Swedish University of
Agricultural Sciences, SLU. Professor Larsen will focus on trends in protected crop cultivation in Europe, looking at
geographical clusters of production, sales, advisory and experimental stations, and the competition resulting from an
increase of imports from Asia. He will discuss how grower organisations in northern Europe will increasingly stress the
nationality and safety aspects of their products to gain competitive advantage in the home market and will increase their
reliance on finding and satisfying niche markets.
As initiator of the EuroHort Network, a network for coordinating and developing MSc courses in Horticulture in Europe,
Professor Larsen will give a unique perspective on the trends in horticultural education at the European university level. He
will also outline the general trends in horticultural research including those influenced by government funding, those driven
by economics within the supply chain, the increasing interest in health and diet and the changes occurring due to
biotechnology.
The programme for the day will also include three speakers with particular expertise in other issues that affect horticulture.
Dr Steve Adams leads strategic and applied research on the physiology of protected crops at Warwick HRI. Much of his
work is focused on energy saving and improving crop scheduling. With recent increases in gas prices and the need to cut
greenhouse gas emissions, energy saving is becoming an increasingly important issue for the glasshouse crops sector. Dr
Adams will explain how the effects of temperature on crop growth and development are being studied and exploited so as to
enable growers to save energy without compromising crop quality or scheduling.
Climate change and its effect on landscape horticulture will be discussed by Richard Bisgrove, Senior Lecturer in the
Centre for Horticulture and Landscape at the University of Reading. An expert in the field of amenity horticulture and
landscape management, he co-authored Gardening in the Global Greenhouse (UKCIP, 2002). Richard will summarise
briefly the conclusions of the Gardening in the Global Greenhouse report and consider the implications of these conclusions
for the future of landscape horticulture. In particular he will look at the potential role of the horticulturist in achieving
sustainable landscape development.
Professor Sudhesh Kumar is Professor of Medicine (Diabetes and Metabolism) at Warwick Medical School, University of
Warwick and Honorary Consultant Physician at the University Hospital of Coventry and Warwickshire, NHS Trust. He is
also a Director of Research for Division of Clinical Sciences and lead for the Diabetes/ Cardiovascular research theme at
Warwick Medical School. Professor Kumar will outline the importance of diet on health, and how changes in eating habits
and nutrition impact on health.
The GCRI Trust Bewley lectures were established in 1978, following the official opening of the Bewley Conference Hall at
the Glasshouse Crops Research Institute, Littlehampton. The GCRI series, relaunched in 1997 at Horticulture Research
International (now Warwick HRI), continues to highlight important advances in horticultural science.
The 11th GCRI Trust Bewley Lecture will commence at 10.00am on Tuesday 8 November 2005 at
Warwick HRI Wellesbourne. The event is open to the horticulture industry and those interested
in horticultural education, although places will be limited. If you would like to attend the event
please contact Jeanette Horton on 024 7657 4455 or by email [email protected]
For further information please contact Sarah Cook on 024 7657 5254 or email
[email protected] Alternatively visit the Warwick HRI website www.warwickhri.ac.uk