• Opening address
  • Nobuyoshi Maeno
• Welcoming remarks
  • Mutsuo Iwamoto

Keynote Address

• An assessment of technology development from the Green Revolution to today
  • William D. Dar and Mark D. Winslow
• Multifunctional Agriculture in the Tropics: Overcoming Hunger, Poverty and Environmental Degradation
  • Pedro A., Sanchez
• Evolution and new directions using information systems for enhanced farmer partnership in NARS agricultural research
  • Stein W. Bie

Session 1: Technology development for increased production: accomplishments, needs, and potential

• Developing new crop varieties tolerant to stress and low-input conditions
  • Kazuyoshi Takeda
• Contributions of molecular biology to breeding and issues associated with its application in developing countries
  • Ronald P. Cantrell and Gene P. Hettel
• Distribution and processing systems for stable supply of products from agriculture, forestry and Fisheries
  • Greg I. Johnson, E .J Woods and P. J. Hofman

Session 2 Concepts, needs, and approaches for agro-ecological sustainability

• Sustainable land management for crop production
  • Eric T. Craswell
• Sustainable water management for crop production
  • S. A. Prathapar
• Sustainable aquaculture production and fisheries management
  • Meryl Williams and Choo Poh Sze

Session 3 Evolution of farmer-researcher-extension-private sector partnerships for technology development and dissemination

• Evolution of concepts and approaches of systems-oriented, farmer participatory agricultural research
  • John S. Caldwell
• Contributions of farmer knowledge to agricultural technology development
  • Harold J. McArthur Jr.
• Institutionalization of technology development
  • David W. Norman
• Developing sustainable agricultural systems: case study examples, determinants, future approaches, and roles of different partners, as viewed from the cooperation agency
  • Nobuyuki Samejima
• Developing sustainable agricultural systems: determinants, future approaches and roles of different partners, as viewed from the soybean breeding program for human nutrition, at the National Soybean Research Center of EMBRAPA
  • Mercedes Concordia Carrão-Panizi
• Developing sustainable agricultural systems: determinants, future approaches, and roles of different partners
  • Achmad M. Fagi

Summary of Sessions and General Comments

• Summary of Session 1: Technology development for increased production: accomplishments, needs, and potential
  • Masa Iwanaga
• Summary of Session 2: Concepts, needs, and approaches for agro-ecological sustainability
  • Osamu Ito
• Summary of Session 3: Evolution of farmer-researcher-extension-private sector partnerships for technology development and dissemination
  • Keiji Ohga
• Highlights of General Discussion:
  • Kazuyuki Tsurumi and Masaharu Yajima
• Closing Remarks
  • Ronald P. Cantrell