Science Forum 2011 was held in Beijing from Oct. 17 to 19, which was organized by the Independent Science and Partnership Council (ISPC) of the CGIAR, in cooperation with the Consortium Board of the CGIAR, the Global Forum on Agricultural Research (GFAR) and the CAAS.

Dr. WANG Ren, Vice President of CAAS gave a welcome speech at the opening ceremony as well as Mr. XIE Jian-min, Deputy Director General of Department of International Cooperation of Ministry of Agriculture, Dr. Rudy Rabbinge, University Professor of Wageningen University and Dr. Jeffrey McNeely, International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN). About 240 scientists from home and abroad attended the meeting and discussion on resource scarcity and the ecological intensification of agriculture, sustainability science for moving targets, agro-biodiversity and animal protein etc.

The theme of the meeting is to explore new ways to adapt agriculture research landscape to address the challenges on the demand of a changing climate and depleted supply of fossil fuel, land, water and other resources and to increase crop and livestock production for the 9 billion people by 2050, etc. The experts exchanged their opinion and scientific results in these domains.