1	Preface	5\ud
2	Executive summary	6\ud
2	General introduction	12\ud
Pieter de Wolf, Applied Plant Research, the Netherlands	12\ud
3	Important trends and required skills in England (UK)	17\ud
Gerard McElwee, University of Lincoln, UK	17\ud
4	Important trends and required skills in Finland	28\ud
Jarkko Pyysiäinen and Kari Vesala, University of Helsinki, Finland	28\ud
5	Important trends and required skills in Italy	36\ud
Tanja Bastia, Diego Pinducciu, Antonella Ara, Mara Miele and Terry Marsden, University of Cardiff	36\ud
6	Important trends and required skills in the Netherlands	53\ud
Noen Jukema and Bartold van der Waal, Applied Plant Research, the Netherlands	53\ud
7	Important trends and required skills in Poland	66\ud
Krzysztof Zmarlicki and Lilianna Jabłońska, RIPF	66\ud
8	Important trends and required skills in Switzerland	78\ud
Conradin Bolliger, Christine Rudmann, FiBL	78\ud
9	Important trends and required skills: an international synthesis	101\ud
Pieter de Wolf and Herman Schoorlemmer, Applied Plant Research, the Netherlands and Christine Rudmann, FiBL, Switzerland	101\ud
10	References	122\ud
11	Address list of authors	126\ud
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