2024 Regional Event Poland

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 Wednesday, November 27, 2024 we co-organised our regional event with “Polska Federacja Rolna” at the Centrum Prasowe Foksal. We focused, among others, on the reform of the CAP with the soon to be announced vision for agriculture to be presented by the new College, and of climate change and food security as one of the priorities of the forthcoming Polish presidency; as well as on importance of soil and the place of innovation to deliver these targets. 

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2024 Regional Poland – Introduction

Mark Titterington

2024 Regional Poland – Bogusław Wijatyk

Bogusław Wijatyk, Mark Titterington

2024 Regional Poland – The CAP in context, retrospective and perspective

Tassos Haniotis, Mark Titterington

Confirmed speakers (in alphabetical order)

Sebastian Balcerak

Regen Connect Program Lead, EMEA, Cargill Agricultural Supply Chains

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Sebastian Balcerak

Regen Connect Program Lead, EMEA, Cargill Agricultural Supply Chains

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Małgorzata Bojańczyk

Director, Polskie Stowarzyszenie Zrównoważonego Rolnictwa i Żywności (Polish Association for Sustainable Agriculture and Food)

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Małgorzata Bojańczyk

Director, Polskie Stowarzyszenie Zrównoważonego Rolnictwa i Żywności (Polish Association for Sustainable Agriculture and Food)

Małgorzata Bojańczyk has several years of experience in management, legislation, control and effective implementation of projects related to agriculture and rural development, and is an experienced expert in the field of the Common Agricultural Policy of the European Union, the European Green Deal in relation to the agri-food market. Before joining the Association, she worked at the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development, where she carried out tasks related to the reform of the Common Agricultural Policy of the European Union and supervision over the Agency for Restructuring and Modernization of Agriculture. She represented Poland as a national expert in EU groups and committees, including DG AGRI of the European Commission (Directorate General for Agriculture and Rural Development). Author of publications in Polish and international magazines on topics related to the Common Agricultural Policy, sustainable agriculture, sustainable food production. She is a graduate of post-graduate studies at the Warsaw School of Economics, Kozminski Executive Business School, and a graduate of master’s studies at the Warsaw University of Life Sciences and the University of Bonn in Germany. Environment and green lifestyle lover.

Grzegorz Brodziak

President of the Management Board, Polska Federacja Rolna

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Grzegorz Brodziak

President of the Management Board, Polska Federacja Rolna

Grzegorz Brodziak is President of the Management Board of the Polska Federacja Rolna (Polish Agricultural Federation). As a leading organization in the agri-food sector, the Federation provides professional consulting services. The aim of the Federation is to build social trust, protect the interests of associated business entities and solve their key problems. They represent over 1,000 farms and enterprises from the agribusiness sector employing tens of thousands of employees.

Mateusz Ciasnocha

CEO, European Carbon Farmers; Co-Founder & Co-CEO, The Farm of Francesco; Head of Carbon &...

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Mateusz Ciasnocha

CEO, European Carbon Farmers; Co-Founder & Co-CEO, The Farm of Francesco; Head of Carbon & International Affairs, Ciasnocha Family Farms

Mateusz Ciasnocha - a farmer from Poland on the mission of building a farmer-centric bridge between agricultural and climate policy. He lives his call to action through two businesses: the European Carbon Farmers and the Farm of Francesco, as well as through service in various Supervisory and Advisory Boards: Foundation of the Economy of Francesco, as well as Laudato Si Action Platform at the Holy See and the EU Soil Mission Board at the European Commission.

Petra Čiček

Sustainability Commercial Lead for Central & South Europe, Microsoft

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Petra Čiček

Sustainability Commercial Lead for Central & South Europe, Microsoft

Stepping into the role of Sustainability Commercial Lead at Microsoft, Petra is working with customers to help them transform and power their ESG ambition with technology.

Piotr Gradziuk

Associate Professor, Institute of Rural and Agricultural Development of the Polish Academy of Sciences

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Piotr Gradziuk

Associate Professor, Institute of Rural and Agricultural Development of the Polish Academy of Sciences

Professor Piotr Gradziuk achieved a Doctor in Economics, Faculty of Economic Sciences, Warsaw University of Life Sciences, in March 2016. He has a PhD in Economics, Faculty of Economics, Maria Curie-Skłodowska University in Lublin, 27 September 1990 and a MSc in Agricultural Economics, Faculty of Agriculture, Agricultural Academy in Lublin (currently under new name University of Life Sciences in Lublin), October 1977 - September 1982.

Work experience
2016 - present, Associate Professor, Polish Academy of Sciences, Institute of Rural and Agricultural Development.

2015-2016 expert, Polish Academy of Sciences, Institute of Rural and Agricultural Development

1991-2009, Assistant Professor, Faculty of Agricultural Sciences, University of Life Sciences in Lublin

1986-1991, Senior Assistant, Faculty of Agricultural Sciences University of Life Sciences in Lublin

1983-1985, Assistant, Faculty of Agricultural Sciences University of Life Sciences in Lublin

1982-1983, Intern Assistant, Faculty of Agricultural Sciences University of Life Sciences in Lublin

Tassos Haniotis

Special Advisor for Sustainable Productivity, Forum for the Future of Agriculture; Senior Guest Research Scholar,...

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Tassos Haniotis

Special Advisor for Sustainable Productivity, Forum for the Future of Agriculture; Senior Guest Research Scholar, IIASA

Tassos Haniotis recently retired, after a 33-year career in the Commission, as the Director of Strategy, Simplification and Policy Analysis in the Directorate General for Agriculture of the European Commission. Tassos is Sustainable Productivity Adviser for the Forum for the Future of Agriculture and a Senior Guest Research Scholar at the International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis. He previously held posts as Head of Unit in the Agricultural Policy Analysis and Perspectives unit and the Agricultural Trade Policy Analysis unit in the same Directorate General, as Member and subsequently Deputy Head of the Cabinet of former European Commissioner for Agriculture Franz Fischler (with respective responsibilities the preparation of the 2003 reform of the Common Agricultural Policy, and the agricultural chapter of the Doha WTO Round and the EU-Mercosur negotiations), and as the Agricultural Counsellor of the European Commission’s Delegation in the United States. He holds Ph.D. and M.S. degrees in Agricultural Economics from the University of Georgia, USA, and a B.A. in Economics from the Athens University of Economics and Business, in his native Greece. Before joining the European Commission, he spent six months as a visiting Fellow at the Centre for European Agricultural Studies, Wye College, University of London, focusing on EU-US agricultural trade relations in the Uruguay Round of GATT negotiations. He hold a Honorary Doctorate degree from the University of Thessaloniki. Active in the ag research community, he is a member of the International and European Associations of Ag Economics, the International Agricultural Trade Research Consortium, and the EU Nitrogen Expert Panel.

Ewa Karólewska

Senior Regional Project Manager, Startup Support, European Institute of Innovation & Technology (EIT) Food

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Ewa Karólewska

Senior Regional Project Manager, Startup Support, European Institute of Innovation & Technology (EIT) Food

Ewa has many years of experience in working with innovations and solutions for sustainable development gained in Poland, Austria and Dubai. She worked with the first Polish fund of funds supporting VC funds as well as with public funds provided by EU, Switzerland, Norway. She also worked as a consultant and a partnership/business development manager in the private sector. She was one of the founding members of an NGO focused on sustainable and ethical consumption. At EIT Food, she collaborates with the agrifood industry, startups and other innovators to accelerate innovations in the Central Easter-Europe and Nordic countries. She is convinced that a transformation to a more sustainable, equitable and just food system is possible.

Kerstin Rosenow

Head of Unit ‘Research & Innovation’, DG AGRI, European Commission

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Kerstin Rosenow

Head of Unit ‘Research & Innovation’, DG AGRI, European Commission

Kerstin Rosenow is Head of Unit ‘Research & Innovation’ in DG AGRI, European Commission where she is responsible for the EU research and innovation policy in the intervention area of "agriculture, forestry and rural areas". Her unit programmes and monitors the research funded under Cluster 6 "Food, Bioeconomy, Natural Resources, Agriculture and Environment" of Horizon Europe R&I Programme. Her unit also provides the secretariat for the Horizon Europe R&I Mission” A Soil Deal for Europe”. Previously, she was Head of Unit in the EC Research Executive Agency (REA) where she managed the implementation of the project portfolio for Horizon 2020 Societal Challenge 2 (food security, sustainable agriculture and forestry, marine, maritime, and inland water research and the bioeconomy). She has been working in the EC for over 20 years after covering a managerial position in the German administration (Representation of the State of Hessen to the EU). For DG AGRI she coordinated negotiations with pre-accession and candidate countries and the preparation of the 2014-2020 CAP legislative framework. She studied law, politics and administration in Marburg, Grenoble and Bruges.

Dariusz Sip

Managing Director for Poland, the Baltic States, the Czech Republic and Slovakia, Syngenta

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Dariusz Sip

Managing Director for Poland, the Baltic States, the Czech Republic and Slovakia, Syngenta

Dariusz Sip has worked in the agricultural industry since the beginning of his career. Over the past 16 years, he has held a variety of commercial, technical and managerial positions in sales, registration and technical support at Syngenta. Formerly Director of Seeds for Central Europe, he is currently Managing Director for Poland, the Baltic States, the Czech Republic and Slovakia, responsible for developing the crop protection business.

Dariusz Sip holds a degree in agronomy specializing in crop protection from Poznan University of Life Sciences and Executive MBA at Poznan-Atlanta PUEB-GSU.

Krzysztof Stańkowski

MSO Manager, PepsiCo

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Krzysztof Stańkowski

MSO Manager, PepsiCo

Krzysztof joined PepsiCo in November 2016 as an agronomist. From the very beginning, he was responsible for implementing the Sustainable Agriculture Program, the GlobalGap system and initiating regenerative agriculture practices among Polish potato suppliers. Currently, he manages the Agro team in Poland, ensuring stable potato supplies to two production plants: in Grodzisk Mazowiecki and Święte. Before joining PepsiCo, he gained experience in companies such as Philip Morris and Deloitte, where he dealt with agronomy, sustainable agriculture and optimization of planning processes, digitalization, data analysis and many other areas. One of his key achievements at PepsiCo is the full implementation of sustainable potato cultivation, which goes to the production of Lay’s chips, which significantly contributes to the company’s goals in the field of sustainable development.

Jurgen Tack

Secretary General, European Landowners' Organization

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Jurgen Tack

Secretary General, European Landowners' Organization

Jurgen Tack studied biology (marine ecology) at Brussels Free University where he also obtained his PhD in Sciences. Within the Framework of the Kenya Belgium Project in Marine Sciences (Coastal Farms Kenya) he developed a number of oyster farms along the Kenyan coast. In 2000 he joined the team of the Belgian Biodiversity Platform (Belgian Science Policy Office) where he was responsible for European and international science policy in the field of biodiversity and biodiversity related research. In 2007 he became the CEO of the Research Institute for Nature and Forest (a research organization under the umbrella of the Flemish Authority). In 2015 he became Secretary-General of the National Science Foundation (Flanders) In 2016 he took the position of Scientific Director at the European Landowners’ Organization (ELO), CEO at Landelijk Vlaanderen (Flemish Landowners’ Organisation) and CEO of the Aanspreekpunt Privaat Beheer Natuur en Bos (an advisory organ for private landowners on the management of nature and forest). In 2023 he became Secretary-General of the European Landowners Organisation (ELO). He coordinates several EU projects on private land conservation. On behalf of ELO he chairs the European Commission’s Large Carnivore Platform and acts as expert for the EU Biodiversity Platform and the EU Expert Group on Cultural Heritage.

Mark Titterington

Co-Founder & Director, Forum for the Future of Agriculture

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Mark Titterington

Co-Founder & Director, 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.

Bogusław Wijatyk

Director General, Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development, Republic of Poland

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Bogusław Wijatyk

Director General, Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development, Republic of Poland

Bogusław Wijatyk ensures the functioning of the Ministry, conditions for its operation, organization of work and implements the personnel policy of the Ministry.

Agenda

Nov 27, 2024

10:00 - 16:00 (CET)

Foksal Press Center CPF, 3 Foksal #5 00-366, Warszawa, Poland

09:30 - 10:00 (CET)

Arrivals and registration

10:00 - 10:10 (CET)

Words of welcome

Welcome

• Mark Titterington, Co-Founder & Director, Forum for the Future of Agriculture

10:10 - 10:30 (CET)

Opening session

Opening words – The challenges of our time for the agricultural sector

• Bogusław Wijatyk, Director General, Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development, Republic of Poland

10:35 - 12:00 (CET)

Session 1 - Special focus on Central European region

Introduction to session

• Tassos Haniotis, Special Advisor for Sustainable Productivity, Forum for the Future of Agriculture; Senior Guest Research Scholar, IIASA

Panel discussion

• Grzegorz Brodziak, President, Polska Federacja Rolna (Polish Agricultural Federation)
• Małgorzata Bojańczyk, Director, Polish Association for Sustainable Agriculture and Food (Polskie Stowarzyszenie Zrównoważonego Rolnictwa i Żywności)
• Jurgen Tack, Secretary General, European Landowners’ Organization
• Tassos Haniotis, Special Advisor for Sustainable Productivity, Forum for the Future of Agriculture; Senior Guest Research Scholar, IIASA

Moderator:

• Mark Titterington, Co-Founder & Director, Forum for the Future of Agriculture

12:00 - 13:10 (CET)

Session 2: Role of soil in the next CAP reform

Panel discussion

• Kerstin Rosenow, Head of Unit ‘Research & Innovation’, DG AGRI, European Commission
• Prof. Piotr Gradziuk, Associate Professor, Institute of Rural and Agricultural Development of the Polish Academy of Sciences
• Dariusz Sip, Managing Director for Poland, the Baltic States, the Czech Republic and Slovakia, Syngenta
• Sebastian Balcerak, Regen Connect Program Lead, EMEA, Cargill Agricultural Supply Chains

Moderator:

• Mark Titterington, Co-Founder & Director, Forum for the Future of Agriculture

13:10 - 14:00 (CET)

Networking coffee break

14:00 - 15:00 (CET)

Session 3 - Climate change and role of innovation

Panel discussion

• Mateusz Ciasnocha, CEO, European Carbon Farmers; Co-Founder & Co-CEO, The Farm of Francesco; Head of Carbon & International Affairs, Ciasnocha Family Farms
• Ewa Karolewska, Senior Regional Project Manager – Startup Support, European Institute of Innovation & Technology (EIT) Food
• Krzysztof Stankowski, MSO Manager, PepsiCo
• Petra Čiček, Sustainability Commercial Lead for Central & South Europe, Microsoft

Moderator:

• Mark Titterington, Co-Founder & Director, Forum for the Future of Agriculture

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