The annual conference of the Forum for the Future of Agriculture takes place every spring in Brussels. This year the annual conference is online through a virtual platform.
The purpose of the Forum is to stimulate open discussions on the future of European and world agriculture and assess what should and what can be achieved over time, attaching equal weight to two challenges: food security and environmental security. The Brussels event is accompanied every year by regional conferences across Europe.
The Forum is now established as the premier meeting place for those who have a stake in the future of agriculture and has been addressed by European Commissioners, MEPs, National Government Ministers, Industry Leaders, Academics, NGOs, International Organisations, including OECD and FAO.
- Keynote address - Catherine Bertini, World Food Prize Laureate & Distinguished Fellow, Chicago Council on Global Affairs
- Benedikt Bösel, CEO & Founder, Gut&Bösel - Benedikt and his team are implementing different forms of regenerative agriculture like syntropic agroforestry, holistic grazing, market gardening and different composting methodologies on his estate that is characterized by extremely low precipitation and sandy soil.
- Erik Fyrwald, Chief Executive Officer, Syngenta Group and Chairman, Syngenta Foundation for Sustainable Agriculture
- Marion Jansen, Director, Trade and Agriculture Directorate, OECD
- Carina Millstone, Executive Director, Feedback Global
- Vanessa Nakate, Climate justice activist (Uganda)
Session 3 – Healthy food for all at scale Results of Youth Hackathon healthy food Moderated dialogue
- Shenggen Fan, Chair Professor and Dean, Academy of Global Food Economics and Policy, China Agricultural University
- Lawrence Haddad, Executive Director, Global Alliance for Improved Nutrition (GAIN)
- Brent Loken, Global Food Lead Scientist, WWF
- Berry J. Marttin, Member of the Managing Board, Rabobank Group
- Mai Thin Yu Mon, Indigenous Peoples Rights Activist from Myanmar
Session 4 – Learnings from COVID to build the food system transformation Moderated dialogue
- David Nabarro, Strategic Director, 4SD and Special Envoy on Covid-19 for the World Health Organization
Session 5 - Towards global food system renewal
- Thomas J. Vilsack, United States Secretary of Agriculture - The US perspective
- Frans Timmermans, Executive Vice-President for the European Green Deal, European Commission - Connecting EU-UN
- Agnes Kalibata, UN Secretary General’s Special Envoy for the 2021 Food Systems Summit and President of AGRA
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