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Working Group Co-chairs’ Meeting

23-26 March, 2009

The first joint working group (WG) co-chairs meeting was held at the University of East Anglia (UEA) and the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affair (Defra) on 23-26th March 2009. The purpose of the meeting was for co-chairs to review and revise each group’s research proposal and to plan the work for next stage. This meeting also provided an opportunity for working group co-chairs to clarify synergies, discuss cross group issues, as well as communicate with other SAIN members and policy makers in Defra, Dfid and industrial sectors.

At the meeting in UEA, co-chairs discussed and revised each working group’s priority research activities, implementation plan and resource requirement. The proposed research activities included review and gap analysis, policy briefing, tool/methodology development to technology development and demonstration. The co-chairs agreed a phased implementation plan start with review and gap analysis.

In the afternoon of 26th March, a wash-up meeting was held in Defra. Prof Bob Watson, Prof Gordon Conway, Jeremy Eppel and other Defra and DFID officials attended the meeting and commented on working groups’ research plans.

Prior to this co-chairs meeting, Prof Li Shizhong, member of WG2 met with Dr Jeremy Woods, Prof David Norse and Dr Yuelai Lu on 20th March in London, discussed research plan of WG2.

Participants list

Mr Liu Zhongwei	Director, Division for European Affairs, Department of Intl Cooperation, MOA
Prof Zhou Jianbin	SAIN WG1 Co-chair Northwest Agriculture and Forestry University,
Prof Lin Erda	SAIN WG3 Co-chair, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences
Prof Tang Shirong,	SAIN WG4 member, Deputy Director, Institute of Agro-Environmental Protection, MOA
Prof Tong Yanan,	Head of SAIN China Secretariat, Northwest A & F University,
Prof David Powlson	SAIN WG1 co-chair, Rothamsted Research
Dr Jeremy Woods	SAIN WG2 Co-chair, Imperial College London,
Prof Pete Smith	SAIN WG3 Co-chair, University of Aberdeen
Prof Bob Watson	Co-chair of SAIN Governing Board, Chief Scientific Advisor, Defra
Mr Jeremy Eppel	SAIN Governing Board Member , Deputy Director, Farming for Future, Defra
Dr Renata Rees	UK-China Sustainable Agriculture, Defra
Ms Alexia Flowerday	UK-China Sustainable Development Dialogue, Defra
Prof Gordon Conway	SAIN Governing Board Member, Chief Scientific Advisor, DFID
Mr John Warburton	Senior Environmental Advisor, DFID, China
Mr Jonathan Lingham	Policy & Research Division, DFID
Mr Leo Horn	National Coordinator (China), UK-China Sustainable Development Dialogue
Prof David Norse	SAIN Governing Board Member, University College London
Mr Gary Punter	Director of Technology Development, British Sugar Group
Dr Yuelai Lu	Head of SAIN UK Secretariat, University of East Anglia
Miss Lisa Howlett	SAIN UK Secretariat, University of East Anglia

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