New Crops and New Uses:

2001 Strength in Diversity
Omni Hotel at CNN Center, Atlanta, Georgia
November 10 – 13, 2001

Invitation for Posters for Special International Session

The Fifth New Crops Conference (Strength in Diversity) is having a special plenary session entitled "International New Crop Development: Incentives, Barriers, Processes and Progress." Three international speakers will give oral presentations on this topic for their respective country (or region, that is from Australia, the European Union and Canada). Each speaker will also prepare a manuscript for the proceedings.

Poster contributions from additional countries are invited to supplement these three contributions.

The following seeks to clarify the purpose of the international session for any prospective contributors of posters.

Authors of posters are invited to present the following in such a way that generic principles of wider utility will be evident:

• What is going on at present?
• What went on in the past (and what are the lessons learnt?)
• What have we learnt about commercializing new crop industries?
• What is the process for the future, from the point of view of the country concerned?

The written paper will be required for the proceedings by November.

It is expected that this plenary session will present historic and current incentives, barriers, processes, programs and institutional innovations involved with New Crops R&D and Commercialization in a number of specific countries or regions.

If you have questions, please contact the convenor for the session, on behalf of the organisers: