Export routes under fire, demographics under pressure, climate change and shortage of skilled labour are clearly noticeable: The challenges for agricultural production are growing internationally from year to year. This makes it all the more important for enterprises, which produce sustainably and innovatively, preserve resources and contribute to global food security in a circular manner, to take efficient and responsible action. Bioeconomic principles can enhance efficiency and lower cost pressure in a special way – and thus strengthen the resilience and predictability of one’s own economic base.
The following issues are of key importance in these times of ever-changing and perpetuating crises:
- What experiences are producers and policy-makers gaining internationally when applying bioeconomic principles?
- What role do state-of-the-art technologies play in this regard today and tomorrow?
- And how can this economic approach become more widespread in the future?
These questions will be discussed during a panel discussion using the example of a central player in global agricultural production, the region of Eastern Europe/Central Asia, with high-level participation from Ukraine and Kazakhstan. The conference languages are English, German, Russian and Ukrainian.
Programme
Welcome address
Claudia Müller, Parliamentary State Secretary to the Federal Minister of Food and Agriculture (BMEL)
Keynote Speaker
Dr Frans Hermans, Leibniz Institute of Agricultural Development in Transition Economies (IAMO)
Panel Guests
Aidarbek Saparov, Minister of Agriculture of Kazakhstan (tbc)
Vitalyi Koval, Minister of Agriculture of Ukraine (tbc)
Maryna Kovaliova, Chief Marketing Officer at SmartFarming Group
Oliver Gierlichs, Managing Director & CFO at Bayer Ltd. Ukraine
Moderator
Dirk Stratmann, Speaker for Ukraine/Central Asia in the German Agribusiness Alliance
Online registration is possible free of charge on the following website: www.gffa-berlin.de/en.
17. Global Forum for Food and Agriculture (GFFA)
"Farming a sustainable bioeconomy"
15 - 18 January 2025 ǀ CityCube Berlin ǀ Messedamm 26 ǀ 14055 Berlin, Germany
