- President
- Professor M Lodovica Gullino
- Agroinnova,
Center of
Competence for the Innovation in the
Agro-environmental field
- Università degli Studi di Torino
- Via Leonardo da Vinci 44,
- 10095 Grugliasco (TO),
Italy
- Tel:
+39-011-6708539
- Fax:
+39-011-6708541
- E-mail:
marialodovica.gullino@unito.it
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- Immediate Past President
- Professor Richard E Falloon
- New Zealand Institute for Crop & Food Research
- Private Bag 4704
-
Christchurch,
New Zealand
- Tel:
+64 3 325 6400
- E-mail:
falloonr@crop.cri.nz
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- Vice President:
- Dr Wafa Khoury
- Plant Production & Protection Division (AGP)
- FAO,
Rome,
Italy
(Room B734)
- Tel:+39
6 57054588
- E-mail: wafa.khoury@fao.org
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- Vice President:
- Professor You-Liang Peng
- Department of Plant Pathology
-
China
Agricultural University
-
Beijing 100094,
China
- Tel:
+86 10 62733607
- Email: pengyl@cau.edu.cn
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- Secretary-General:
- Dr Greg Johnson
- Horticulture 4 Development
-
PO Box 412,
Jamison ACT 2614
-
Australia
- Tel:
+61 2 62 51 56 58
- E-mail:
secretary@isppweb.org
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- Treasurer:
- Professor Thomas A. Evans
- Department of Plant and
- Soil Sciences,
University of
Delaware,
- 152 Townsend Hall
-
Newark,
DE
19717,
USA
- Tel:
+1 302 831-1066
- E-mail: tomevans@udel.edu
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- Taskforce for Global Food Security
- Dr Peter R Scott
- CAB INTERNATIONAL
-
Wallingford
- Oxon OX10 8DE, UK
- Tel:
+44 1491 829377
- E-mail:
p.scott@cabi.org
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- Business Manager:
- Dr Peter Williamson
-
PO Box 4674
- Toowoomba East
-
Queensland 4350
-
Australia
- Ph: +
61408745196
- Fax: +
61 746378326
- E-mail:
businessmanager@ispp.org
-
- Editor, ISPP Newsletter
- Professor Brian Deverall
- Faculty of Agriculture, Food and Natural Resources,
Building C81, ATP,
-
University of
Sydney NSW 2006,
Australia
- Ph: +61-2-8627 1040
- E-mail; Brian.Deverall@sydney.edu.au
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- Editor in Chief, Food Security,
- Professor Richard Strange,
-
School of
Biological
and Chemical Sciences,
-
Birkbeck
College,University of
London,
-
Malet Street,London
WC1E 7HX,
UK.
- Tel: +44
(0)20 7631 6232
- Fax: +44
(0)20 7631 6246
- E-mail: r.strange@sbc.bbk.ac.uk
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Torino,
December 2011
Dear Friends and Colleagues,
As the end of the year is approaching, I
would like to update you on what has been achieved by ISPP in
2011.
Our journal,
Food Security: The
Science, Sociology and Economics of Food Production and Access to
Food in partnership with Springer is doing very well and
received a very good Impact Factor. Special thanks go to the
outstanding work of Richard Strange and Peter Scott in helping the
Society realise this initiative.
The meeting of the Executive Committee took
place in Darwin (Australia) in April, on the occasion of the
ACPP-APPS Conference. During October, I visited together with
Secretary-General Greg Johnson, ISPP Vice-President You-Liang Peng
in Beijing. We met with the Organizing Committee of ICPP 2013 and
had opportunities to discuss progress in the organization of the
next International Congress.
While the organization of ICPP 2013
proceeds, the bid for selecting the location for ICPP 2018 is now
open, with
Singapore
and US competing for hosting the meeting in 2018.
From an administrative point of view, we
keep encouraging more member Societies to pay their due annual
fees. Our Business Manager, Peter Williamson, is continually
improving the ISPP web-site, providing more opportunities for
interactions with members. ISPP Newsletters continue to be
prepared thanks to the help of Brian Deverall and contributors.
Looking at 2012, in addition to
forward planning for ICPP2013, a meeting of the Executive
Committee is planned in
China. I urge you all to start
planning to attend ICPP 2013 in Beijing. Although the present
economic situation is critical for everybody, and funds for
travelling are more and more restricted, I still believe that
attending the International Congress of our Society deserves some
sacrifice from all of us. Our colleagues in
China
are working hard in order to prepare a Congress with a very high
scientific content and we should start considering attending it.
While inviting you all to send comments and
suggestions, together with ICPP Executive Committee, and the ISPP
Secretariat, I wish you and your Families a Happy, Healthy and
Fruitful New Year.
Warm Wishes
M. Lodovica Gullino
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