Following a successful Virtual Workshop in the year 2020, the RUC-APS consortium RUC-APS H2020 project, is organising a conference oriented to “Enhancing and implementing Knowledge based ICT solutions within high Risk and Uncertain Conditions for Agriculture Production Systems” and invites you to submit an Abstract for Presentation for the RUC-APS International Conference 2021.

Key themes included but not limited to:

• Land use systems & complex systems modelling.
• Soil biogeochemistry, plant-soil-microbe interactions, sustainable agricultural production.
• Medical law and ethics, animal disease outbreaks, disease risk assessment, contingency planning, policy advice.
• Environmental science, policy interaction, environmental management and impact.
• Food security, sustainable agriculture, network analysis, behaviour change.
• Livestock nutrition, livestock systems, international development.
• Ecology, biodiversity, environmental and societal trades-offs, sustainable development.
• Mathematics, crop and pest modelling, environmental impacts, natural resource availability, biodiversity, decision support tools.
• Animal behaviour and welfare.
• Agricultural and resource economics, environmental management, climate change, food supply chains, antimicrobial resistance.
• Applied and computational mathematics, sustainable intensification, livestock production systems, integrated crop-livestock systems.
• Science in innovation, risk governance, academic-industry linkages, science into society, science evaluation, sustainable development.
• Decision Support systems, Knowledge Managements and Smart solutions in Agri-food domains.

Organising Committee

• General Chair
  • Jorge Hernandez, University of Liverpool, United Kingdom
• Program Chairs
  • Leandro Antonelli, National University of La Plata, Argentina
  • Shaofeng Liu, University of Plymouth, United Kingdom
  • Ana Esteso, Universitat Politècnica de València, Spain
• Industry Collaboration Chairs
  • Horacio Arias, BBlock, Chile
  • Javier Lahuerta, FEDACOVA, Spain
• Publication Chair
  • Janusz Kacprzyk, Systems Research Institute of the Polish Academy of Sciences, Poland
• Communication and management
  • Rachel Brockley, University of Liverpool, United Kingdom
  • Jorge Hernandez, University of Liverpool, United Kingdom
• Dissemination and Social Media
  • Alejandro Fernandez, National University of La Plata, Argentina
  • Rachel Brockley, University of Liverpool, United Kingdom
  • Horacio Arias, BBlock, Chile
• Sponsorship
  • Jorge Hernandez, University of Liverpool, United Kingdom
  • Janusz Kacprzyk, Systems Research Institute of the Polish Academy of Sciences, Poland
  • Alejandro Fernandez, National University of La Plata, Argentina