18 January (livestream)
How to feed the world in times of pandemics and climate change?
This kick-off event featured leaders from politics, business, science, and civil society, as well as representatives from international organisations:- How agriculture can provide the world long-term with food for a balanced diet despite pandemics and climate change?
Speakers:
- Ms Conny Czymoch Moderator / Journalist
- Dr Agnes Kalibata UN Secretary-General’s Special Envoy for the 2021 Food Systems Summit
- Dr Monique Eloit Director-General of the World Organisation for Animal Health (OIE)
- Mr Pavan Sukhdev President of the World Wide Fund For Nature (WWF International)
- Mr Sunny Verghese Chair World Business Council for Sustainable Development (WBCSD), CEO Olam International
- Dr Theo De Jager President of the World Farmers` Organisation (WFO)
Building Forward Better – for ONE Climate-Resilient and Healthy WORLD without Hunger
Expert Panel 1 - This event discussed how the agricultural sector can contribute to preventing further pandemics and how food systems can emerge stronger from the COVID-19 pandemic.- The panel also asked how agriculture and food systems in developing countries can be made healthier and more resilient to climate change, and how they can better contribute to climate stewardship.
Speakers:
- Moderator
Carin Smaller
Director for Agriculture, Trade & Investment, International Institute for
Sustainable Development (IISD) Genf - Introductory statement Maria Flachsbarth Parliamentary State Secretary, Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ)
- Martien van Nieuwkoop Global Director, Agriculture and Food Global Practice, World Bank
- Delia Grace Randolph Professor Food Safety Systems, NRI; Contributing scientist ILRI
- Bruce Campbell
Director CGIAR Research Programme on Climate Change, Agriculture and Food Security (CCAFS)
"What we should do for COVID is similar to what we should do for climate action. We need to incentivize climate resilient and lower emissions agricultural practices. We know already a lot about good farming practices. Now we need to focus on the incentives to get food value chains working, to get small and medium enterprises working. Farmers will follow on, if the incentives are right. It's about Policy frameworks and local institutions" - Lindiwe Majele Sibanda Director and Chair of the African Research Universities Alliance Centre of Excellence in Sustainable Food Systems (ARUA-SFS)
- Sophie Healy Thow Lead Group Member of the Scaling Up Nutrition Movement (SUN)
Resource:
CCAFS (2020). Actions to transform food systems under climate change. Wageningen, The Netherlands: CGIAR Research Program on Climate Change,
Agriculture and Food Security (CCAFS). 70 pages
This report (1 October 2020) propose four action areas:
- Reroute farming and rural livelihoods to new trajectories, to deal with greenhouse gas emissions, reduce inequality, address gender and social inclusion, and incentivize climate-resilient practices that meet dietary needs.
- de-Risk livelihoods, farms and value chains, reducing the impact of variable weather and extreme events through attention to inclusive early warning systems, adaptive safety nets, and climateinformed advisories and other services.
- Reduce emissions from diets and value chains, involving significant dietary shifts and massive reductions in food loss and waste.
- Realign policies, finance, support to social movements, and innovation to build more resilient and sustainable food systems. This action area cuts across the other three, with attention to realigning subsidies and trade, dealing with power inequities and marginalization, bringing in billions of dollars in private sector investment, transforming innovation systems, and underpinning and supporting social movements addressing climate, livelihoods and food systems.
COVID-19: Lessons for resilience building along agricultural value chains
Expert Panel 2 - This panel discussed the impacts of COVID-19 on food security in agriculture.- What lessons can be drawn from different policy approaches and the different approaches of countries in order to foster resilience?
- How can value chains be made more resilient in respect of both international trade and local production?
- What conclusions can be drawn from experiences of other epidemics such as Ebola?
- This panel shared experiences from different countries and continents, including Latin America, Australia, Western Africa and the EU, in order to identify potential pathways for future pandemic management and the improvement of food security situations in crisis situations.
Speakers
- Dr. Katharina Löhr Deputy Head of the working group "Sustainable Land Use in Developing Countries" (SusLand) at the Leibniz Centre for Agricultural Landscape Research (ZALF)
- PD Stefan Sieber Head of the working group "Sustainable Land Use in Developing Countries" (SusLand) at the Leibniz Centre for Agricultural Landscape Research (ZALF)
- Dr. Boubaker Ben Belhassen Director of the Markets and Trade Division of the UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO)
- Dr. Claudia Ringler Deputy Division Director at the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI)
- Dr. Bettina Rudloff Agricultural engineer and trade economist at the German Institute for International and Security Affairs (SWP)
- Prof Dr. David Pannell Professor of Agricultural and Resource Economics, University of Western Australia
Resources:
- Agri-food markets and trade policy in the time of COVID-19 – FAO
- Challenges for a coherent approach to food system resilience within the EU
- Sustainable Supply Chains in the Agri-cultural Sector: Adding Value Instead of Just Exporting Raw Materials
- The immediate impacts of COVID-19 control measures on the agri-food systems of Australia and New Zealand
- What Can Environmental Economists Learn from the COVID-19 Experience?
CFS: Water and Climate Recommendations to Feed the World
Expert Panel 3 - This panel, also building on the conclusions of GFFA 2017, discussed:- With what policies and innovations can the world ensure food and nutrition security, given increasingly scarce water resources and climate change?
- How can the transformation of food systems make the agricultural sector more climate-resilient?
- How can we improve the efficiency, and diversify the sources, of water use in agriculture to enhance climate change mitigation and adaptation?
Speakers:
- Moderator Chris Hegadorn Secretary, Committee on World Food Security (CFS)
- Keynote Rt. Hon Lord Goldsmith UK Minister of State, Minister for Pacific and the Environment Panel guests
- Mr Thanawat Tiensin Chair, Committee on World Food Security (CFS)
- Eva Ursula Müller Director General for Forest, Sustainability and Renewable Resources of the German Federal Ministry for Food and Agriculture (BMEL)
- Claudia Ringler Deputy Division Director at the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI)
- Julienne Roux Senior network specialist at the Global Water Partnership
- Andrea Cattaneo Senior Economist at FAO
Expert Panel 4 FAO/RUAF - With support from the Federal Government of Germany, FAO is implementing programmes in different cities and countries using the City Region Food Systems approach and helps develop resilience to multiple risks in local food systems. Focus on Madagascar, Ecuador, Australia
Speakers:
- Susanne Schlaack Head of Division, Federal Ministry of Food and Agriculture, Germany
- Alison Blay-Palmer Professor, Wilfrid Laurier University/ RUAF Global Partnership; UNESCO Chair in Food Biodiversity and Sustainability Studies
- Vololontsoa Volatiana Razafindratoanina Regional Director of the Ministry of Agriculture, Livestock and Fisheries for the Analamanga Region (Madagascar)
- Carmen Zuleta Ferrari Local coordinator of the CRFS project within FAO Madagascar
- David Jácome Polit Director - Metropolitan Directorate of Resilience, Chief Resilience Officer, Municipality of Quito
- Dr Rachel Carey Lecturer in Food Systems, School of Agriculture and Food, University of Melbourne
Prevention is cheaper than cure: One Health in practice for sustainable livestock production in Sub-Saharan Africa
Expert Panel 5 ILRI - The panel discussed why integrated One Health approaches help to make livestock keeping communities more resilient, even in the absence of a pandemic; the need for efforts to be better linked and coordinated and how it will help ongoing surveillance and early detection of pathogens with a potential for another global pandemic.Speakers:
- Shirley Tarawali Assistant Director General and Board secretary at the International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI)
- Bjoern Niere Deputy Head of the Division “Pandemic prevention, One Health, animal health, biodiversity” at the German Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ)
- Dieter Schillinger Deputy Director General Biosciences at the International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI)
- Doreen Robinson Chief for Wildlife, UNEP
- Christian Griebenow Managing Director of Vétérinaires Sans Frontières Germany (VSFG)
How innovation can help strengthen the sustainability of food systems and prevent future pandemics
High Level Panel 1 FAO - The panel discussion brought together a group of high-level policy makers to have a focused discussion on the impact of the pandemic on food and agriculture. The high-level dialogue discussed: - How can innovations promote global food security during the COVID-19 pandemic?
- What types of innovations has your country introduced to cope with the pandemic (examples: political, digital)?
- How can innovations in the agri-food industry, in the broadest sense, support recovery from a pandemic?
- How can applying the “One Health” approach in agricultural and environmental planning help prevent further pandemics?
Resource:
- FAO. 2021. How to feed the world in times of pandemics and climate change? Opportunities for innovation in livestock systems. Rome. 32 pages
- The Appendix lists Examples of policy objectives for tackling pandemics and/or climate change to boost resilience and sustainability of livestock systems.
Speakers:
- Moderator Conny Czymoch
- Introductory statement Ms Julia Klöckner Federal Minister of Food and Agriculture of the Federal Republic of Germany
- Dr. QU Dongyu FAO Director-General
- Her Excellency Thoko Didiza Minister of Agriculture, Land Reform and Rural Development of the Republic of South Africa
- His Excellency Jamshid Abdukhakimovich Khodjaev Minister for Agriculture of the Republic of Uzbekistan
- Mr Christian Hofer Director of the Federal Office for Agriculture of the Swiss Confederation
- Erik Fyrwald Chief Executive Officer and Executive Director of Syngenta Group
Looking ahead: Food systems resilience beyond COVID-19
Expert Panel 6 OECD - Improved policies are needed to address this triple challenge while bolstering the resilience of food systems, not just to COVID-19, but also to climate change and other risks. In particular, governments need to complement their crisis responses with measures that meet longer-term objectives, while winding down temporary relief measures that may limit future resilience.This panel discussed how this can be achieved by combining insights from the private sector, academia, NGOs, and governments during and beyond the COVID-19 crisis.
- How can we improve the governance of risks?
- What investments are needed?
- How should the sector prepare for long-term risks?
- And what existing policies are hampering risk management?
Speakers:
- Moderator Shenggen Fan Chair Professor, China Agricultural University, Beijing China
- Marion Jansen Director of the Trade and Agriculture Directorate (TAD)
- Bill Jolly SVP Procurement supporting the Crop Science division of Bayer
- Graziella Romito Director of international relations at the Italian Ministry of agricultural food and forestry policies
- Edegar de Oliveira Rosa Leader of the Food and Agriculture program in WWF Brazil
New reality, new business: Lessons to learn from global mega crises
Expert Panel 7 GFFA Berlin e.V. - Terms such as increased efficiency and global markets only seem to contradict buzzwords like local food and sustainability labelling. However, as important aspects of a future-oriented strategy for the entire sector, all of them are of enormous importance: how does agri-business companies deal with these complex demands.Speakers:
- Moderator Charlotte Smith Journalist, UK Panel guests
- Prof. Ortwin Renn Managing Scientific Director, Institute for Advanced Sustainability Studies (IASS) in Potsdam, Germany
- Ngabaghila Chatata (see picture) Co-founder and Managing Director, Thanthwe Farms, Malawi
- Matthias Berninger Senior Vice President Public Affairs, Science & Sustainability, Bayer AG
Case study
- Malawi: is a leading Malawian horticulturist and
- Ngabaghila Chatata is a Co-founder and Managing Director of Thanthwe Farms that is turning to be a market leader in the horticulture sector.
- Growth Accelerator Malawi is a 12-month business acceleration programme that supports early stage innovative and impactful entrepreneurs with investment, technical assistance and mentorship. Entrepreneurship plays a significant role in the growth and development of any economy. For that reason, Growth Accelerator has positioned itself as a catalyst for rapid and strategic growth of Malawian businesses by offering professional support to local ventures.
20 January (livestream)
The role of the seed sector in strengthening the resilience of agricultural production
Expert Panel 8 GFA/GIZ - Climate change, natural disasters and pandemics particularly affect countries in Asia and Africa. The agricultural sector is increasingly faced with ever more extreme heat and cold spells followed by heavy rainfall and floods. This has devastating effects on food security, especially for rural populations. Ensuring high-quality seed production adapted to the challenges of climate change is becoming increasingly important and constitutes the foundation of resilient agricultural production.- This expert panel discussion at the GFFA 2021 used short interactive virtual presentations to showcase selected practical interventions on the importance of seed production, complemented by practical experiences in strengthening the resilience of agricultural production systems.
- As part of a virtual expert panel discussion with representatives from science and agribusiness, concrete experiences from the projects of the Bilateral Cooperation Programme (BKP) of the BMEL in Ethiopia and India were analysed in detail.
Resources:
- Indo-German Cooperation: Seed Sector Development
- Supporting Sustainable Agricultural Productivity in Ethiopia
Speakers:
- Moderator Geert Balzer Partner and managing director of Team Consult
- Introductory statement Friedrich Wacker Head of Directorate on EU Affairs, International Cooperation and Fisheries, Federal Ministry of Food and Agriculture
- Dr. Sowmini Sunkara National project coordinator of the “Indo-German Cooperation on Seed Sector Development”
- Dr. Rebeka Gebretsadik Senior Seed Expert for the GIZ-led Supporting Sustainable Agricultural Productivity Program in Ethiopia
- Dr. K. Keshavulu Managing Director of Telangana State Seed Organisations
- Dr. Taye T Mindaye Crop Director of the Ethiopian Institute of Agricultural Research (EIAR)
- Dr. Peer Wilde Plant breeding advisor
- Dieter Rücker Federal Association of German Plant Breeders
Climate change – what’s agriculture got to do with it!?
High Level Panel 2 EU-Commission - Agricultural processes, particularly the production of food, are by their nature deeply connected to the global carbon cycle. Therefore, attaining a zero-net-emission agricultural sector is, for the time being, impossible. This does not mean, however, that there are no possibilities to reduce the level of emissions generated by agriculture. The panelists discussed:- How can the agricultural sector and agricultural policy contribute to climate change mitigation?
- How can we make food systems more climate-resilient?
- How can these challenges be better addressed in development cooperation and trade policies?
Speakers:
- Dr. Johan Swinnen Director General International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI)
- Jonathan Duniam Australian Assistant Minister for Fisheries and Forestry – Replaced at short notice Hon. David Littleproud due to unpredictable circumstances
- Marie-Claude Bibeau Canadian Minister of Agriculture and Agri-Food
- Elizabeth Nsimadala President of the Pan Africa Farmers Organization (PAFO)
- Janusz Wojciechowski Member of the European Commission, responsible for Agriculture
Agrobiodiversity as a key to more resilient agricultural systems – lessons learnt from the global South
- Expert Panel 9 WWF
- The aim of this panel was to assess and distill lessons from three ongoing smallholder producer inititatives in Paraguay, Zambia and Thailand, on how climate-adapted agriculture and the establishment of regional sustainable supply chains can improve the living conditions and resilience of rural agricultural communities against shocks, such as climate change or pandemic outbreaks like COVID-19.
Speakers:
- Lucy Aquino Country Office Director, WWF-Paraguay
- Conrad Muyaule MBAPM, BSc Ag, DBIOM
- Ply Pirom Project Manager Sustainable Consumption and Production (SCP), WWF-Thailand
- Emile A. Frison Alliance Bioversity-CIAT & IPES Panel Food Member
Implementing the right to food! – with agro-ecology, climate-proof agriculture and One Health
Expert Panel 10 Forum Umwelt und Entwicklung, INKOTA, Agrarkoordination, Welttierschutzstiftung, Brot für die Welt - Against the backdrop of the climate crisis and the repercussions of the COVID-19 pandemic, the following issues were discussed:- What role do local supply systems play in protecting health, nature and the environment, and what can we learn from small-scale food producers?
- What potential does the One Health approach offer as a possible response to the crises in our food system?
Speakers:
- Moderators Stig Tanzmann Advisor for agricultural issues at Brot für die Welt + Josephine Koch Forum Umwelt und Entwicklung
- Michael Fakhri United Nations Special Representative on the Right to Food and Professor at the University of Oregon School of Law Hilda Adams Fisher woman, South Africa
- Sofía Monsalve Suárez Secretary General of FIAN International
- Andrea Winkler Co-Chair of the Lancet Commission on One Health
- Teresa Anderson Climate policy coordinator at ActionAid International
21 January (livestream)
Climate Resilient Agriculture: Lessons from the EU and the Land Down Under
8:00-9:00 a.m. Expert Panel 11 Australia - The panel discussion will share lessons learned in Australia and the EU, the policy choices that will support the transition to global sustainable agriculture and the implications for food security and global value chains.
Speakers:
- Moderator Frédéric Simon Editor, Energy & Environment Introductory statement
- The Honourable David Littleproud Australian Minister for Agriculture, Drought and Emergency Management
- Norbert Lins German Member of the European Parliament and Chair of the Agriculture and Rural Affairs Committee
- Joachim Rukwied President of the German Farmers’ Association
- Fiona Simson President of the NFF
- Mark Davie Australian Beef Farmer
Science Slam
Expert Panel 12 Bundesverband für Tiergesundheit - The panel’s objective is to shift from ‘high-level’ conversations to analyzing data that can be used to develop national action plans that lead to measurable sustainability improvements; This can accelerate efforts to achieve the SDGs and ultimately build a more resilient global food system.
Speakers:
- Moderator Roxane Feller Secretary General Animalhealth Europe
- Dr. Jude L. Capper Livestock Sustainability Consultancy
- Anne Mottet Livestock Development Officer Animal Production and Health division (NSA), Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)
- Shirley Tarawali ILRI Assistant Director General and Chair of Global Agenda for Sustainable Livestock (GASL)
- Claire Bury Deputy Director, DG Sante of the European commission
Healthy soils to combat climate change and end hunger
Expert Panel 13 4 per 1000 - The “4 per 1000” Initiative has evolved as the main multi-stakeholder partnership on soil carbon sequestration for climate change mitigation.Speakers:
- Moderator Dr. Paul Luu, Executive Secretary of the "4 per 1000" Initiative
- Claire Chenu Research director at INRAE (French National Research Institute for Agriculture, Food and Environment)
- Natacha Agbo Agronomist, NGO African Innovation Services
- Florence Jeantet OP2B Managing Director
- Victoria Prentis Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Farming, Fisheries and Food, United Kingdom
Sustainable feed for sustainable food: global solutions for climate resilience and climate change mitigation
3:30-4:30 p.m. Expert Panel 14 Deutscher Verband Tiernahrung - The use of feedstuffs is of major importance in the animal value-added chain for producing food and securing the supply. Due to the international flow of goods (from the import of raw materials to the export of food), industry has a great responsibility with regard to reducing the ecological burden while at the same time ensuring the efficiency and resilience of the markets in the event of crises and pandemics. Social and environmental responsibility through organised sustainable supply chains is also of great importance in respect of sustainability in this regard. This will be discussed with stakeholders using the example of soya. The objective is to illustrate what contributions are possible for the Green Deal.
Speakers:
- Moderator Dr. Hermann-Josef Baaken Managing Director of the German Association for Animal Nutrition
- Prof. Dr. Wilhelm Windisch Technical University Munich, Animal Nutrition
- Dr. Gert van Duinkerken Business unit manager of Wageningen Livestock Research
- Dr. Jan Dijkstra Associate professor at the Animal Nutrition Group of Wageningen University & Research (the Netherlands)
- Asbjørn Børsting Director for dakofo OG variety Denmark
- Dr. Wolfgang Trunk Policy officer, European Commission, DG SANTE
The power of many: enhancing climate change mitigation through agricultural research networks (in times of pandemics)
5:00-6:00 p.m. Expert Panel 15 Thuenen-Institute/GRA/University Potsdam - The expert panel will outline collaborative actions taken over the past 10 years on reducing agricultural greenhouse gas emissions, including through the Global Research Alliance on Agricultural Greenhouse Gases;
Speakers:
- Moderator Hayden Montgomery GRA Special Representative
- Nina Grassnick Research associate at the Thuenen Institute
- Claus Deblitz Deputy director of Institute of Farm economics / agri benchmark coordinator at Thuenen Institute
- Veronica Ciganda Principal Investigator, Director of the Production and Sustainability Research Program at National Institute for Agricultural Research (INIA) Uruguay
- Salva Calvet Coordinator of Red REMEDIA, Universitat Politecnica de Valencia
- Hubert Wiggering Professor / KlimAgrar coordinator at University of Potsdam
22 January (livestream)
Climate-proof food systems: the role played by new breeding techniques – globally and in Europe
8:00-9:00 a.m. Expert Panel 16 Grain Club/OVID - The Grain Club and the agri-food associations set themselves the goal of shedding light on the importance of new breeding techniques (NBTs) for climate-proof food systems from different perspectives and discussing them with the audience.
Speakers:
- Moderator Christiane Freitag Head of Dialog at Genius GmbH
- Prof. Dr. Matin Qaim Professor of World Food Economics and Rural Development at the University of Göttingen
- Pedro Gallardo Barrena, Vice-president of COPA, European farmers' trade union
- Jörg Migende Chief Development Officer Agrar at BayWa AG
- Norbert Lins MEP Chair of the Committee on Agricultural and Rural Development, European Parliament
How to better cope with change: New approaches for food system resilience to pandemic and climatic shocks
10:30-11:30 a.m. Expert Panel 17 GAA/IAMO - Representatives from politics, industry and science will discuss approaches to ensuring food security under the conditions of climate change and the COVID-19 pandemic from the perspective of producers and consumers and will present best practice examples from the international agrarian production and supply chain.
Speakers:
- Moderator Julia Harnal Chairperson German Agribusiness Alliance & Vice President Sustainability and Governmental Affairs Agricultural Solutions, BASF SE
- Dr. Daniel Müller Leibniz Institute of Agricultural Development in Transition Economies (IAMO)
- Taras Kachka Deputy Minister of Economic Development, Trade and Agriculture of Ukraine
- Dr. Thomas Kirchberg Member of Executive Board, Südzucker AG
- Michael Wironen TNCs Center for Sustainability Science, The Nature Conservancy
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