Stockholm, Sweden
Helping the world be a better place
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Throughout the year, the Forum for the Future of Agriculture organises regional conferences and online events to discuss agriculture and the environment at a national level across Europe. On Thursday, December 1, 2022 we visited Stockholm, Sweden for our second regional event of the year.
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Confirmed speakers (in alphabetical order)
Alexandre Morais do Amaral
Researcher and Advisor to Embrapa’s Board of Directors
Alexandre Morais do Amaral
Researcher and Advisor to Embrapa’s Board of Directors
Alexandre Amaral is chief of international relations of Embrapa (The Brazilian Agricultural Research Corporation), which is the in-house agency of Brazil Ministry of Agriculture. At Embrapa, he has been in charge of scientific cooperation and manager of strategic relations. He has been a research leader on biotechnology and has experience as visiting scientist at Rothamsted Research, University of Illinois, University of Wisconsin and Kansas State University. He has been a member of the Embrapa’s Labex programme, an overseas initiative to foster scientific cooperation with world-class institutions. He holds a PhD in molecular biology and is a researcher at Embrapa in biotechnology since 2002.
Åsa Wolgast Broberg
Deputy Director at the Swedish Ministry of Enterprise and Innovation, Department of Rural Affairs
Åsa Wolgast Broberg
Deputy Director at the Swedish Ministry of Enterprise and Innovation, Department of Rural Affairs
Agr Lic. Åsa Wolgast Broberg is Deputy Director at the Swedish Ministry of Enterprise and Innovation, department of Rural Affairs. She is coordinating the implementation and administration of the Swedish Rural Development Program and the subsequent national Strategic Plan of CAP. She is also responsible for the green architecture of the plans, as well as the Agricultural Knowledge and Innovation System within them. After her Degree of Licentiate in Agricultural Science on Plant Production and Soil Science in 1999 she has also worked 10 years for the Federation of Swedish Farmers with property rights and agricultural environment and 7 years with public advisory service on the latter matter.
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Secretary General, European Landowners’ Organization
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Secretary General, European Landowners’ Organization
Pierre-Olivier Drège
President, European Landowners' Organization
Pierre-Olivier Drège
President, European Landowners' Organization
Linda Eriksson
Forest Director at The Swedish Forest Industries Federation
Linda Eriksson
Forest Director at The Swedish Forest Industries Federation
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Algis Gaizutis
Chairman at Forest and Land Owners Association of Lithuania
Algis Gaizutis
Chairman at Forest and Land Owners Association of Lithuania
Algis Gaizutis is Chairman at Forest and Land Owners Association of Lithuania, which is the national interest organisation for the forest owners in Lithuania and has the status of an independent public NGO. FOAL is recognised national organisation in Lithuania and internationally.
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Tassos Haniotis
Former Director of Strategy, Simplification and Policy analysis, Directorate General, European Commission
Tassos Haniotis
Former Director of Strategy, Simplification and Policy analysis, Directorate General, European Commission
Constantin Kinský
Member of the Board of the Private Forests Chamber in the Czech Republic; European delegate,...
Constantin Kinský
Member of the Board of the Private Forests Chamber in the Czech Republic; European delegate, ELO
Constantin Kinský is a Czech patron and financial advisor. He grew up in France, where he graduated from three universities and lived with his parents in Scotland for one year. He worked in the London and Paris branches of the Merill Lynch bank. In 1997, he returned to Moravia and manages the estate in Žďár nad Sázavou. He runs the family company Kinský Žďár, which manages 750 ha of ponds, forestry and agriculture. Since 2006, he has led a branch of the consulting firm Roland Berger. From 2011 to 2017, he chaired the French-Czech Chamber of Commerce. He is currently engaged in consulting in the financial sector on a freelance basis.
Carl-Henrik Ljung
Market Manager Sweden, Syngenta & Chairman of the Board, Swedish Crop Protection Association
Carl-Henrik Ljung
Market Manager Sweden, Syngenta & Chairman of the Board, Swedish Crop Protection Association
Carl-Henrik Ljung is Market Manager in Sweden for Syngenta and Chairman of the Board for the Swedish Crop Protection Association. He works close to the market and the practical challenges farmers are facing, in the daily work for Syngenta and with broader industry specific topics in the work for the Swedish Crop Protection Association.
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Tomas Lundmark
Professor (chair) of Silviculture, Forest Ecology and Management, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, Umeå, Member...
Tomas Lundmark
Professor (chair) of Silviculture, Forest Ecology and Management, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, Umeå, Member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Forestry and Agriculture.
Tomas Lundmark's background is in silviculture and forest ecophysiology. His current research is about carbon sequestration and carbon balance of managed boreal forests, growth, yield and effects on biodiversity of even-aged vs. uneven-aged management and forest fertilization. His area of expertise is beside silviculture in the field of nature-based carbon removals (boreal forests), monitoring, reporting, and certification methodologies relevant to carbon removals. He has developed models to calculate a verifiable carbon sink in managed boreal forests at the estate level. He has far reaching experiences in research leadership and is well recognized in in the Swedish forest sector and regularly engaged in commissions of trust both by governmental agencies and by the forestry business sector in Sweden as well as internationally.
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Ladislav Miko
Advisor to the Minister of Environment and special envoy of Czech Government for international negotiations...
Ladislav Miko
Advisor to the Minister of Environment and special envoy of Czech Government for international negotiations Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services
Ladislav Miko was Deputy Director-General for the Food Chain in the European Commission’s health and food safety department (DG SANTE) since January 2011. His portfolio covered issues of food safety throughout the whole food chain, including plant and animal health, pesticides, biotechnology, food hygiene, nutrition and food sustainability. He was also acting Director-General in 2014 to 2015. From 2005 to 2010, he was Director for Nature in the Commission’s environment department. He was recently appointed special advisor to Czech Minister of Environment. During the Czech Presidency of the EU in 2009 he was appointed minister of the environment in the Czech government. Before he started his career in the Commission, he was deputy minister in the Czech environment ministry. Before that, he worked for nine years as a professional soil biologist in the Slovak Academy of Sciences. He holds a doctorate in zoology and ecology and he is Associate Professor of Prague University of Life Sciences and Guest Professor at University of Antwerp.
Emmanuelle Mikosz
Forum for the Future of Agriculture Programme Director
Emmanuelle Mikosz
Forum for the Future of Agriculture Programme Director
In January 2022 Emmanuelle Mikosz took the role of 'Forum for the Future of Agriculture' Programme Director. Previously she was the coordinator of the regional events of the Forum.
Since 2005 Emmanuelle has been an ELO adviser specialised in property rights, agricultural and environmental policies dedicated to Central & Eastern European countries. Trained as a lawyer, she earned a Master of Arts degree from the College of Europe (Natolin). Emmanuelle is involved on a daily basis with the formulation of ELO members' positions regarding national land laws and management of enterprises. The European Landowners’ Organization - ELO asbl, created in 1972, is a unique federation of national associations from the EU27, which represents the interests of the landowners, land and forest managers and rural entrepreneurs at the European political level.
Emmanuelle is the Editor-in-Chief of the ELO bimonthly "Countryside Magazine", edited in English, French and Spanish. She is also an expert representing ELO at different international events as well as at the European Commission Civil dialogue groups or biogeographical consultations processes. She has a personal interest in innovation and research policies, including aviation and protection of data regulations. She believes that the future of European agriculture relies on sustainable development hand in hand with the protection of biodiversity and access to water.
Gabriel Mörner
Swedish landowner and entrepreneur
Gabriel Mörner
Swedish landowner and entrepreneur
Gabriel Mörner is a Swedish landowner and entrepreneur. He has been managing the family agricultural business since 2016 and before that he was an advisor on agriculture and forestry. He is a member of the Swedish Landowners Association and is the chairman of the forest committee in the Swedish Landowners Association. He was an expert in the governmental forest inquiry in 2019/2020.
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Gunnar Palme
President, Swedish Landowners' Association
Gunnar Palme
President, Swedish Landowners' Association
Gunnar Palme is President of the Swedish Landowners' Association, which was founded in 1960, and is the umbrella organization for five regional landowners' associations. Gunnar holds a Bachelor of law at the University of Stockholm and is the former President and CEO, Assi Domän AB and Munksjö AB; Former Vice President, Atlas Copco Group and former CEO and Chairman, Finn Power Oy, Finland. He is a member of many boards and is an Academy Member of the Royal Swedish Land and Forest Academy.
Janez Potočnik
Chair ForumforAg and Chairman RISE Foundation
Janez Potočnik
Chair ForumforAg and Chairman RISE Foundation
Anna Richert
Senior Expert of Sustainable Food, WWF Sweden
Anna Richert
Senior Expert of Sustainable Food, WWF Sweden
Anna Richert is Senior Expert of Sustainable Food at WWF Sweden. She has extensive knowledge of food system aspects such as supply chain sustainability, consumer information and sustainable agriculture. Her work includes mobilizing consumers, corporates and decisionmakers for sustainable food systems.
Tiffanie Stephani
Vice-President, European Government Relations and External Communications, Yara International – Region Europe
Tiffanie Stephani
Vice-President, European Government Relations and External Communications, Yara International – Region Europe
Tiffanie Stephani is heading the Government Relations and External Communications at Yara Europe, the market leader in plant nutrition in Europe. Truly inspired by Yara’s vision of a world without hunger and a planet respected, Tiffanie works actively to promote climate-friendly crop nutrition and zero-emission energy solutions such as green ammonia and green fertilizers. She joined Yara Region Europe in January 2021.
Prior to this, Tiffanie has been working as Senior Agriculture and Environment Manager at Fertilizers Europe, representing the interests of the mineral fertilizer manufacturers in the European Union, between March 2016 and December 2020. She started her career in European Government Relations and in the agriculture sector 17 years ago as policy officer in the European & environmental affairs department of the German Farmers’ Association (Deutscher Bauernverband, DBV) in Brussels. Tiffanie (French native) holds a university degree in political science from “Sciences Po Lille” and a master degree in European public management.
Jurgen Tack
Scientific Director, European Landowners' Organization
Jurgen Tack
Scientific Director, European Landowners' Organization
Confirmed Moderators (in alphabetical order)
Ana Rocha
Director - EU Agriculture & Forestry policies, European Landowners' Organization
Ana Rocha
Director - EU Agriculture & Forestry policies, European Landowners' Organization
Ana Rocha is an agricultural engineer and is currently leading the Agriculture and Forestry Policy team at the ELO. She has consolidated professional experience in EU lobbying, representing the interests of European landowners and land managers for more than ten years. She remains involved in a small family farm in Portugal.
Mark Titterington
Senior Adviser, Strategy & Partnerships, Forum for the Future of Agriculture
Mark Titterington
Senior Adviser, Strategy & Partnerships, Forum for the Future of Agriculture
Mark has enjoyed a long career in the agri-food sector having previously worked at the United Nations and for Syngenta where he held a number of senior leadership positions in corporate affairs and business sustainability in the EAME region and globally. After leaving Syngenta in 2017, Mark became Chief Executive of EngineeringUK, a not-for-profit organisation dedicated to inspiring and nurturing STEM skills in young people. Mark later became Head of Marketing and Public Affairs for Indigo Agriculture Europe GmbH. Mark is a co-founder and senior adviser to the Forum for the Future of Agriculture and a Senior Fellow at the Transatlantic Policy Network.
Agenda
Dec 01, 2022
Arrivals and registration
Words of welcome
● Gunnar Palme, President, Swedish Landowners’ Association
Opening words
● Janez Potočnik, Chair of ForumforAg 2022 and Chairman the RISE Foundation; Co-Chair of the International Resource Panel of the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP)
Building bridges between COP27 and CBD COP15
Special address
● Ladislav Miko, Advisor to the Minister of Environment and special envoy of Czech Government for international negotiations Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services
Session 1: Food security and National Strategic Plans – how to deliver environmental targets
Keynote speech: What’s really new in terms of food security uncertainties?
● Tassos Haniotis, former Director of Strategy, Simplification and Policy Analysis, DG AGRI, European Commission
Opening speech: How can we reach environmental and economic goals at the same time: A matter of tradition, imitation or innovation?”
● Per Frankelius, PhD, Associate Professor (Docent) in Business Administration at Linköping Universit
Respondents
● Åsa Wolgast Broberg, Deputy Director, Swedish Ministry of Enterprise and Innovation, department of Rural Affair
● Tiffanie Stephani, Vice-President, European Government Relations and External Communications, Yara International – Region Europe
● Algis Gaizutis, Chairman at Forest and Land Owners Association of Lithuania
● Moderated by Mark Titterington, Senior Adviser, Strategy & Partnerships, Forum for the Future of Agriculture
Coffee break
Session 2: Integrating climate mitigation and biodiversity regeneration in food system transformation
Panel discussion
● Jurgen Tack, Scientific Director, European Landowners’ Organization
● Carl-Henrik Ljung, Market Manager Sweden, Syngenta
● Alexandre Amaral, Researcher and Advisor to Embrapa’s Board of Directors
● Anna Richert, Senior Expert of Sustainable Food, WWF Sweden
● Moderated by Mark Titterington, Senior Adviser, Strategy & Partnerships, Forum for the Future of Agriculture
Summary of the ForumforAg Regenerative Agriculture workshop series
● Mark Titterington, Senior Adviser, Strategy & Partnerships, Forum for the Future of Agriculture
Speakers
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Lunch break
Session 3: What is the type of forest we need following climate change scenarios?
Keynote speaker
● Prof. Tomas Lundmark, Professor (chair) of Silviculture, Forest Ecology and Management, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, Umeå, Member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Forestry and Agriculture.
Respondents
● Pierre-Olivier Drège, ELO President, Fondation François Sommer (France)
● Linda Eriksson, Forest Director at The Swedish Forest Industries Federation
● Constantin Kinský, Vice President and Member of the Board of the Private Forests Chamber in the Czech Republic (SVOL); European delegate, European Landowners’ Organization
● Gabriel Mörner; Swedish Landowners’ Association
● Moderated by Ana Rocha, ELO Director – EU Agriculture & Forestry-related policies, European Landowners’ Organization
Summary of the Forestry workshop series: How to bridge the gap between civil society and the forest value chain
● Emmanuelle Mikosz, Forum for the Future of Agriculture Programme Director
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