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Breakout session 1

1. How will the challenges identified for future
   agriculture policy impact on your national
   research priorities and the capacity to deliver
   relevant research?
2. From a national perspective, what are the most
   significant weaknesses and critical barriers to
   providing the knowledge needed to meet these
   policy challenges, both nationally and also
   internationally?
3. How relevant or beneficial for your national
   industry is a future European approach to
   agricultural research policy? And what actions
   will be needed to enable your national industry
   to benefit from these efforts?

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How will the challenges identified for future
agriculture policy impact on your national
research priorities and the capacity to deliver
relevant research? 1

• Use opportunity created by decrease in fossil
  fuels- biofuel/ wind/ methane
• Need for economic analysis/ ecological
  footprint
• Climate change
• Minimise production of greenhouse gasses from
  agriculture
• Evaluate effects of climate change on crop
  production
• Food quality and food and health
• What is quality food?
• Invest in food eating patterns rather than
  quality safety

3
How will the challenges identified for future
agriculture policy impact on your national
research priorities and the capacity to deliver
relevant research? 2

• Complexity of challenges needs joined up
  approaches (cross- departmental)
• Recognition of challenges should free up new
  money
• Challenges are not all about agriculture
• Different styles of policy between academia/
  stakeholders and politicians
• Challenge of speed of globalisation (rapid)
  versus government change (slow?)
• Competition for research sectors other than
  agriculture
• Complexity of policies- how break down to
  component parts

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How will the challenges identified for future
agriculture policy impact on your national
research priorities and the capacity to deliver
relevant research? 2

• Problems in sharing information- entrenched
  feelings
• Lack of appropriately trained staff- especially
  new member states
• Need for better understanding of each member
  states research priorities and programmes inc.
  style of work.
• Challenges are different for different countries
  and either amongst regions
• Need for a general scheme designed top down
  adapted for each countries needs

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From a national perspective, what are the most
significant weaknesses and critical barriers to
providing the knowledge needed to meet these
policy challenges, both nationally and also
internationally? 1

• Researchers follow their interests and not policy
  
• Diverting resources to new challenges- What do
  you stop to free up resource?
• Current skills base- mismatch with needs
• Need to re-define agricultural research
• Public (mis-)perception and (mis-)understanding
• Fed by media
• Communication crucial with media and public
• Communication needed between science and policy
• Farmers are fed up with constraints
• Industry funding is short term- policy needs are
  long term

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From a national perspective, what are the most
significant weaknesses and critical barriers to
providing the knowledge needed to meet these
policy challenges, both nationally and also
internationally? 2

• Need to integrate socio-economics with the
  science- mechanisms?
• Need to be dynamic to plan positive vision for
  the future
• Dominance of multiples (retailers)
• Conflicts between EU and national interests
• Lack of harmonisation in funding RD across EU
• Need for holistic approach, but science quality
  assessment promotes disciplinary approach
• Insufficient use of existing knowledge
• Individual researchers must sell programmes
• Lack of overview and synthesis

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How relevant or beneficial for your national
industry is a future European approach to
agricultural research policy? And what actions
will be needed to enable your national industry
to benefit from these efforts? 1

• Collaboration is essential- sharing common
  objectives
• National budget constraints need to be remedied
• Need for greater resources for greater
  collaboration
• Need to change attitudes e.g ERANETS once thought
  a bad thing
• Need better EU networks
• Need to identify areas with common problems and
  visible European added value- more horizon
  scanning.
• A role for EU voice in a global context
• Freedom of movement for researchers across Europe
• Dont forget local agendas!

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How relevant or beneficial for your national
industry is a future European approach to
agricultural research policy? And what actions
will be needed to enable your national industry
to benefit from these efforts? 2

• Peer review system is not adapted to support
  multidisciplinary/ holistic research approaches