The IGU Commission Conference

Global Rural Development and Land Capacity Building

(全球农村发展与土地能力建设国际会议)

August 26-29, 2017, Yulin City, Shaanxi Province, China

（Second-round announcement）

http://www.iguagle.org/AGLE2017/

      Rural decline has inevitably accompanied the increasing global levels of urban development. Issues such as rural depopulation, industrial recession, problems of agricultural security and abandoned land have swept both developing and developed countries. As a result, the development capacity of villages has fallen and threatened their sustainability and resilience. Changing socioeconomic and climate conditions pose great challenges to global food security, rural sustainability and poverty reduction.

      The transformation of human socio-economic activities associated with rural decline also exert further impacts on land use changes in these areas, such as farmland loss, land use inefficiency and abandoned residential land. Thus, the enhancement of land capacity plays an important role in coordinating the human-land relationship and sustaininging rural development and food security globally. The conference "Global Rural Development and Land Capacity Building" aims to analyse rural decline and investigate the relationship between rural transformation and land use with a view to contributing to sustainable agriculture and rural development. This conference is the inaugural conference of the IGU Commission on Agricultural Geography and Land Engineering which was formally estabilished in late 2016.

      The conference will include plenary, oral, and poster sessions. The topics of the conference include but are not limited to:

1. Rural transformation and restructuring

2. Rural diversity and development modes

3. Rural economy, rural spaces and globalization

4. Land engineering and modern agriculture

5. Land consolidation and rural reconstruction

6. Rural hollowing and land system innovation

7. Poverty reduction and rural inclusive growth

8. Rural environment and clean production

Scientific committee

Bojie Fu (Chair), Professor, academician of CAS

Michael Meadows (Co-Chair), Professor, Secretary-General and Treasurer, IGU, University of Cape Town, South Africa

Dadao Lu, Professor, academician of CAS

Yulin Shi, Professor, academician of Chinese Academy of Engineering

Jiulin Sun, Professor, academician of Chinese Academy of Engineering

Chenghu Zhou, Professor, academician of CAS

Zhengtang Guo, Professor, academician of CAS

Peng Cui, Professor, academician of CAS

Fahu Chen, Professor, academician of CAS

Huajun Tang, Professor, academician of Chinese Academy of Engineering

Peijun Shi, Professor, Beijing Normal University, China

Changqing Song, Professor, Beijing Normal University

Shuying Leng, Professor, National Natural Science Foundation of China ( NSFC)

Quansheng Ge, Professor, IGSNRR, CAS

Jie Fan, Professor, IGSNRR, CAS

Jundong Yu, Professor, Mayor, the People's Government of Yulin City

Jichang Han, Professor, KLLCE, MLR

Zhiyuan Ren, Professor, Shaanxi Normal University, China

Yansui Liu (Chair), Professor, IGSNRR, CAS; Beijing Normal University

Michael Woods (Co-Chair), Professor, Aberystwyth University, UK

Xiulan Ma (Co-Chair), Deputy Mayor, the People's Government of Yulin City

Hualou Long, Professor, IGSNRR, CAS

Yong Chang, Professor, Yulin Agricultural Science Institute, China

Haisheng Tong, Professor, Yulin Academy of Agricultural Sciences, China

Zhanfei Chen, Professor, Yulin Academy of Agricultural Sciences, China

Huaihua Liu, Professor, Yulin Academy of Agricultural Sciences, China

Yonglong Bai, Professor, Yulin Academy of Agricultural Sciences, China

Wei Kang, Professor, Yulin University, China

Furen Kang, Professor, Yulin University, China

Jili Gao, Professor, Yulin University, China

Yun Gao, Professor, Yulin University, China

Yaojun Bu, Professor, Yulin University, China

Yuheng Li (Secretary-in-chief), Associate Professor, IGSNRR, CAS

Yuanyuan Yang (Secretary), Assistant Professor, IGSNRR, CAS

Yongsheng Wang (Secretary), Assistant Professor, IGSNRR, CAS

Contact at IGSNRR, CAS, Beijing:

·  Yuheng Li, Tel: 86-10-64889034, Cell: 86-13810682320,
E-mail: liyuheng@igsnrr.ac.cn

·  Yuanyuan Yang, Tel: 86-10-64889634, Cell: 86-13261831298,
E-mail: yangyy@igsnrr.ac.cn

·  Yongsheng Wang, Tel: 86-10-64889634, Cell: 86-13426421390,
E-mail: wangys@igsnrr.ac.cn

Organised by:

International Geographical Union (IGU) Commission on Agricultural Geography and Land Engineering; Institute of Geographic Sciences and Natural Resources Research (IGSNRR), Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS); Beijing Normal University

Co-organized by:

Journal of Rural Studies; Journal of Geographical Sciences; Research Center for Eco-Environmental Sciences, CAS; The Geographical Society of China; Yulin Municipal Government; Yulin University; Academician & Expert Workstation of Yulin University, Yulin Academy of Agricultural Sciences; Key Laboratory of Degraded and Unused Land Consolidation Engineering (KLLCE), Ministry of Land and Resources of China (MLR)