Program for the IRN QARESS Symposium#2025
Wageningen (WUR)
October 2-3, 2025
Thursday October 2, 2025: Room NcountR (Building Impulse, Wageningen University Campus)
09:00 – 09:30: Opening; Introduction of the IRN QARESS (Luc Doyen, CNRS, CEEM, France)
09:30 – 10:30: Keynote 1: Miranda Meuwissen (WUR, NL): `The knowledge agenda on food system resilience.'
10:30 – 11:00: Coffee Break
11:00 – 11:30: Valaire Yatat (Ecole Nationale Polytechnique Yaounde, Cameroon): `Bioeconomic resilience and sustainability of agroforestry systems'
11:30 – 12:00: Martin Quaas (IDIV – Univ. Kiel, Germany): `Consumer demand and fisheries resilience'
12:00 – 12:30: Marit Haringa & Frank Van Langevelde (WUR, NL): `Resilient Livestock and Fire Management of Savannas Facing Woody Encroachment'
12:30 – 14:00: Lunch
14:00 – 14:30: Oliver Callaghan, Trang Nguyen and Bart de Steenhuijsen Piters (WUR, NL): Taking food systems resilience from theory to practice: the ABCD approach to enhancing resilience capacities
14:30 – 15:00: Preparation of the proposal to call Belmont Forum CRA `Resilience'
15:00 – 15:30: Coffee Break
15:30 – 16:30: Preparation of a proposal to the Biodiversitas call `BiodivConnect'
19:30: Symposium dinner: Diels Restobar, Downtown Wageningen
Friday, October 3, 2025: Room NcountR (Building Impulse, Wageningen University Campus)
09:30 – 10:30: Keynote 2: Matthew Holden (UQ, Australia): `Framing protected areas (PAs) for resilient ecological systems'
10:30 – 11:00: Coffee break
11:00 – 11:30: Jeroen Groot & Roos Adelhart Toorop (WUR, NL): “Benefitting from volatility in agriculture and food systems – towards antifragility”
11:30 – 12:00: Mathieu Cuilleret (CIHEAM) & Luc Doyen (CNRS - CEEM): `Mitigating IUU for Fisheries Bioeconomic Resilience: Necessary but Not Sufficient'
12:00 – 14:00: Lunch
14:00 – 16:00: Brainstorming (by groups ?) for drafting papers:
Role of spatial diversification for resilience - based management ?
Risk versus crisis management ?
16:00: Perspectives and closing