
FoodFirst Floriade Conference Food & Sustainability
The FoodFirst Coalition is pleased to invite you to the second conference of the FoodFirst Floriade series. During this conference, co-organized with the RoundTable WorldConnectors, the focus will be on sustainable food production. The inspiring location for the event is the Floriade in Venlo, the world horticultural expo, and conference guests will be able to visit the Floriade free of charge on the day of the conference!
Date: Tuesday 8 May, 2012
Time: Conference 13.45-17.00, followed by drinks
Location: Innovatoren, Floriade, Venlo (www.floriade.nl)
For more information and registration, please visit: www.foodfirst.eu/8mei2012
Participation in the conference is free.
The discussion will centre on the following issues.
- How can a growing world population be fed in a sustainable way?
- Are fertilizers and intensive agriculture necessary to realize this aim, or are there ecological alternatives?
- What is sustainable food production, and how can applicable standards be developed?
- How can market parties be stimulated to produce food for 9 billion people as sustainably as possible?
Programme
13.45 Registration & coffee
14.15 Start programme
Moderator Evelijne Bruning (Director The Hunger Project)
14.20 Welcome
Hans Eenhoorn – (Worldconnector and Former Senior Vice President of Unilever)
14.30 Key note speech
Nitin Desai (Trustee WWF International, Member of the Indian Prime Minister’s Council on Climate Change, Secretary-General of the WorldSummiton Sustainable Development in Johannesburg, 2002)
14.50 Key note speech
Prem Bindraban (Director ISRIC World Soil Information, WageningenUR)
15.10 Questions from the audience and debate between keynote speakers
15.40 Break
16.10 Presentation of The True Price initiative
Michel Scholte (Young Worldconnector)
16.20 Panel discussion with:
Hans Eenhoorn (Worldconnector and Former Senior Vice President of Unilever)
Paul Engel (Director of ECDPM and Professor Public Policy and Innovation,MaastrichtSchoolof Management)
Paul Jansen (Director Corporate Public Affairs Agri at VION NV)
Wouter Verhey (Policy Coordinator Food Security, Ministry of Economic Affairs, Agriculture and Innovation)
17.00 Closing