SESSIONS
There will be two concurrent sessions, as detailed in the provisional programme, based on two themes:
Farm-regional scale design and improvement, involves considerations operating at whole farm scale, such as trade-offs between economic, environmental and social aspects of farm operation; interactions with policy, community, landscape, and markets; action research and participatory methods; adapting to climate change; crop-livestock integration.
Field-Farm scale design and improvement involves issues operating at field scale, such as optimising production systems, novel systems, production system sustainability and externalities, tools, participatory research.

1. Farm-regional scale design and improvement sessions
1.1 Integrated assessment of agricultural systems: environmental and socio-economic trade-offs I
1.2 Farm models and market interactions
1.3 Model-based intervention in land management practice and policy I
1.4 Model-based intervention in land management practice and policy II
1.5 Multipurpose farming systems
1.6 Integrated assessment of agricultural systems: environmental and socio-economic trade-offs II
1.7 Adapting farms to an uncertain future climate

2. Field-Farm scale design and improvement sessions
2.1 Novel production systems (e.g. bio-energy) and systems for marginal areas
2.2 Agricultural management in future studies
2.3 Integrating genetics and management in improved production systems
2.4 Production system sustainability and externalities
2.5 Sustainability indicators at the farming systems level
2.6 Paddock / Farm / Catchment Model Platforms
2.7 Mechanistic models and expert knowledge: how to integrate?