杨凌国际农业科技论坛宣言
(2007年11月7日通过)

2007年11月5日至7日，来自澳大利亚、美国、加拿大、日本、匈牙利、中国等国家的近百名农业科学家聚会中国杨凌，以“国际农业合作、创新与发展”为主题，就旱区农业与节水农业、高效畜牧业与动物疾病防控、食品科技与食品安全、环境保护与生态建设等方面的战略和科技问题进行了广泛研讨，与会者深感受益匪浅。

当前，全球气候变暖，生态问题突出，世界人口不断增加，我们面临着农业可持续发展和食品安全的严峻考验。随着经济全球化的加快，各国农业产业的相关性日益紧密。面对生物技术发展孕育的新的农业科技革命，世界各国的农业科学家加强学术研究的合作与交流是必要的、有益的。我们要共同应对挑战，共同分享新成果，以求促进世界和本国农业科技的不断发展。“杨凌国际农业科技论坛”为我们的交流与合作搭建了一个很好的平台。

杨凌是中国唯一的农业高新技术产业示范区，是中国5000年农耕文明的发祥地。西北农林科技大学是中国具有影响力的高等农业学府。每年一次的“中国杨凌农业高新技术博览会”，已经成为中国最大的农业高新技术成果集散地和农民技术需求的大市场。杨凌可以成为世界农业科学家交流创新成果的场所之一。“杨凌国际农业科技论坛”与“杨凌农业高新科技成果博览会”交相辉映，必将在中国乃至世界农业科技界产生更大影响。

我们希望各国农业科研教学机构的科学家，遵循“优势互补、真诚合作、讲求实效、共同发展”的宗旨，充分利用“杨凌国际农业科技论坛”这一平台，探讨开展国际农业科技合作的新途径，力争在资源共享、合作研究、技术服务、人才培养与交流等方面取得一批实质性合作成果，携手为世界农业科技发展做出贡献。

我们期望，“杨凌国际农业科技论坛”成为一个在大家共同努力下深具影响力的高水平农业科技论坛。

 Declaration of Yangling International Agri-science Forum

Focused on the theme of “International Agriculture Cooperation, Innovation and Development”, we, the scientists from Australia, USA, Canada, Japan, Hungary and China gathered here in Yangling of China from November 5th to 7th, 2007 have made in-depth and extensive discussion on the important strategic and scientific issues, such as dryland farming and water-saving agriculture, high-efficiency animal husbandry and disease prevention and control, food science and safety, environmental protection and sustainable development. All participants benefit from this forum greatly.

Today, global warming, ecological environment deterioration, and continuous increase of world population remain the critical issues, which bring to us the severe challenges for sustainable agriculture development and food safety. The accelerated pace of world economic globalization has rendered an increasing intimate interrelationship within agricultural industries worldwide. So it is getting more imperative and beneficial to strengthen international cooperation and exchanges among agricultural scientists and research institutions. We have to jointly take the challenges and share the new achievement to promote the continuous development of agricultural science and technology. The Yangling International Agri-science Forum has provided us an ideal platform for our cooperation and exchange in the future.

Yangling, the unique state Agricultural Hi-tech Industries Demonstration Zone in China, is the birthplace of 5000 years agriculture civilization. Northwest A&F University is one of the most prestigious universities in China. The annual China Yangling Agricultural Hi-tech Fair has become the largest gathering place for agriculture hi-tech achievements and a huge market for the demand of farming techniques. It is also one of the most attractive places for agricultural scientists to exchange innovative results and achievements. The concurrent Yangling International Agri-Science Forum and Yangling Agricultural Hi-tech Fair will definitely produce far-reaching impact throughout the country and the world as well.

We hope that scientists from agricultural education and research institutions worldwide follow the principles of promoting the development through close collaboration, problem-solving approach and mutual benefits. We will make full use of this Forum to find out new access to the international cooperation and achieve more cooperative success in resources sharing, cooperative researches, exchanges of technique services and professional training. Let us work hand-in hand to make tremendous contribution to the development of world agriculture technology.

With our joint efforts, we believe that Yangling International Agri-Science Forum would become a high-level agri-science forum with profound influence domestically and internationally as well.