The EU’s future agricultural policy
With the Green Deal for Europe the EU has set ambitious climate targets for the Union. The Green Deal contains measures to promote a sustainable and durable European food system that reduces CO2 emissions, increases resilience, guarantees food safety, and protects biodiversity and the environment in Europe.
These climate and environmental objectives persist despite Vladimir Putin’s invasion of Ukraine. Nevertheless, the war has underscored the importance of ensuring European food sovereignty and limiting dependence on imports, as well as the need to rethink global agricultural supply chains and global food security.
The war in Ukraine has thus emphasised the need to rethink the EU's agricultural and food policy and explore innovative solutions that can help to achieve a better balance between the need to secure resilient food supplies and honour the EU’s green commitments.
PROGRAM:
09.00 - 09.10 WELCOME AND INTRODUCTORY REMARKS
09.10 - 09.30 KEYNOTE: PLAYING TO OUR STRENGTHS: DANISH STRONGHOLDS IN FOOD & AGRICULTURE with Lars Gregersen, Executive Director at the Danish Agricultural Agency.
09.30 - 10.00 KEYNOTE: WILL FARM TO FORK STRENGHTEN EUROPEAN FOOD SOVEREIGNITY? with Wolfgang Burtscher, Directorate-General for Agriculture and Rural Development.
10.00 - 11.00 PANEL: RETHINKING EUROPEAN FOOD POLICY – BALANCING EUROPEAN FOOD SOVEREIGNTY AND GLOBAL EXPORTS
- Asger Christensen, RENEW Europe, MEP
- Harriet Bradley, Head of Programme: CAP and Food, Institute for European Environmental Policy
- Søren Søndergaard, President of the Danish Agriculture & Food Council
- Jesper Pagh, Group COO, DLG
- Ida Auken, the Social Democratic Party, Member of the Danish Parliament
11.00 - 11.15 BREAK
11.15 - 12.15 PANEL: THE FUTURE OF EUROPEAN AGRICULTURE – TOWARDS AN EVER-GREENER PRODUCTION
- Claus Crone Fuglsang, Executive Vice President, Novozymes
- Tavs Nyord, Senior Consultant at the Future Food Program, CONCITO
- Pekka Pesonen, General Secretary, Copa-Cogeca
- Hanne Søndergaard, Executive vice president, Agriculture, Sustainability & Communications, Arla
- Helle Borup Friberg, CEO, Økologisk Landsforening
12.15 - 13.00 MODERATED CONVERSATION: FROM GLOBAL RECOMMENDATIONS TO DANISH POLIC
- Erling Bonnesen, Venstre
- Christian Friis Bach, De Radikale
13.00 - 14.00 LIGHT LUNCH
The event will be moderated by Lykke Friis, Director of Think Tank EUROPA, and is organised by Think Tank EUROPA in collaboration with the Danish Agriculture & Food Council.