The Leibniz Centre for Agricultural Landscape Research (ZALF) will host the 17th Congress of the European Society for Agronomy (ESA). The congress will take place in Potsdam from the 29th of August to the 2nd of September 2022. The registration period starts from 1st June 2022.

The conference program will include sessions on four different topics:

Session 1: Increasing the resilience and resource efficiency of cropping systems, focusing on climate change

Session 2: Towards pesticide-free agriculture

Session 3: Trade-offs of producing protein from crops and livestock

Session 4: Crop diversification and digitalisation to support transformations in production systems

The European Society of Agronomy (ESA) is a scientific network founded in 1990 with the aim of promoting the science of agronomy and its application in agriculture and rural development throughout Europe. Every two years, ESA initiates a congress. The 17th ESA conference is chaired by Prof. Claas Nendel, researcher at ZALF and president of ESA.