The 2010 Agrospace Workshop is focused on the continuum of food production systems whose demands and requirements within the restrictions of a hazardous Space environment, or a resource-limited Earth biosphere, each having similar goals of life-support and maintenance of quality of life.
This 4th Agrospace Workshop will capitalize on the successes within the Space research and development community for CE (Controlled Environments), and the recent surge of CEA (Controlled Environment Agriculture) on Earth, to improve the knowledge base, to create a greater user awareness, and help to promote economic development for industry that will feed our current world, and our worlds of the future. Expectations, ranging from traditional farms with greenhouse controlled environments to the unproven systems for urban agriculture, have been dramatic and distributed among many climate regions of the Earth in response to the increased consumer demand of high quality, locally grown, safe foods with efficient use of controlled inputs, and reduced outputs of system byproducts. 
The studies of systems to maintain life in Space can offer information and expertise for Earth systems that range from food production practices to improved resource allocation, to reduced environmental discharge, and to economic development by the encouragement of local food producers. Therefore, the goals of the 2010 Agrospace Workshop will be to enhance and enrich the information that is available for all related controlled environment applications by combining interdisciplinary Space science & engineering program, with Earth agricultural science and engineering applications of CEA program, and crop production hydroponics with its producer-oriented program.
The scientific, engineering, and food production communities from Italy, Europe and around the world involved in Space and involved in Agricultural applications of CEA on earth are invited to participate May 20-21, 2010 in the beautiful resort village of Sperlonga, Italy with presentations and discussions of the interdisciplinary Agrospace 2010 program.  These focused segments of Agrospace 2010 will present the successes and challenges of both Space life support and Earth food production applications, and help establish a mandate that would encourage the use of modern science knowledge and technology systems for local food production within a progressive agricultural community.