2025 Aligning policy, practice and innovation for sustainable agriculture

On Tuesday 25 November we hosted an engaging high-level policy webinar exploring how the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) and circular economy policies can better support the adoption of sustainable nutrient management practices in EU agriculture.

Why it matters?
Optimising nutrient management and closing nutrient loops are essential to meeting the EU’s environmental goals under the Green Deal and Farm to Fork Strategy. Despite progress, nitrogen and phosphorus losses remain a major challenge. Improving nutrient monitoring and use efficiency, alongside circular approaches like nutrient recovery from organic waste, can reduce fertilizer dependency, mitigate environmental impacts, and support a more sustainable and resilient agricultural system.

What to expect?
Co-hosted by NutriBudget and ReNu2Cycle, the webinar brought together leading experts, practitioners, and policymakers to explore how policy can drive the adoption of sustainable farming practices through better circular use of nutrients. During the session delegates were able to engage in a dynamic exchange of ideas and contribute to the development of effective, science-based policies that promote sustainable nutrient cycles and drive forward resilient, circular agricultural practices across the EU.

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2025 Aligning policy, practice and innovation for sustainable agriculture webinar – Introduction & Keynote

Margherita Genua, Tassos Haniotis

2025 Aligning policy, practice and innovation for sustainable agriculture webinar – Panel 1: CAP and nutrient management

Stephanos Kirkagaslis, Ana Rocha, Gerard Ross, Tiffanie Stephani, Margherita Genua, Ludwig Hermann

2025 Aligning policy, practice and innovation for sustainable agriculture webinar – Panel 2: Nutrient recovery under the Circular Economy Act

Erik Meers, Laura van Schöll, Mari Chitashvili, Hans Ryckebusch

Confirmed speakers (in alphabetical order)

Mari Chitashvili

Legal Researcher, IZES gGmbH

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Mari Chitashvili

Legal Researcher, IZES gGmbH

Mari Chitashvili is a legal researcher and part of the project management team at IZES gGmbH, where she contributes to EU-funded projects such as ReNu2Cycle with a focus on nutrient recycling, stakeholder engagement, and regulatory alignment. She holds an LL.M. in European and International Law from the Europa-Institut of Saarland University.

Margherita Genua

Project Manager, RISE Foundation

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Margherita Genua

Project Manager, RISE Foundation

Margherita Genua is a Project Manager at the RISE Foundation, where she supports initiatives advancing sustainable agriculture, the circular economy, and resource efficiency. Before joining RISE, she served as Communication and Community Manager at the Biorefine Cluster Europe (Ghent University), where she led communication strategies and stakeholder engagement for European research and innovation projects. With over a decade of experience in European projects on circular economy and renewable energy, Margherita previously worked as Communication Officer at the European Biogas Association (EBA). Earlier in her career, she gained valuable institutional experience at the European Parliament and the Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs. She was also editor of ‘Partnering Europe’ and currently contributes to the publication as a regular contributor.

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.

Ludwig Hermann

Senior researcher and Advisor, PROMAN

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Ludwig Hermann

Senior researcher and Advisor, PROMAN

With over 35 years' experience working as a technology, sustainability and innovation manager, Ludwig is the co-founder and former CEO of ASH DEC Umwelt AG, the co-inventor of technologies for decontaminating minerals and ash, and for efficiently converting renewable energy resources. He has authored and co-authored numerous patents, reports, papers and book chapters on the recovery of critical materials, nutrient recycling and renewable energy. He currently works as a senior researcher and advisor at Proman Management GmbH in Vienna and serves as secretary and board member of the European Sustainable Phosphorus Platform (ESPP) in Brussels. He sits on the Steering Committee of the IWA Resource Recovery Cluster in London and is a member of expert groups focusing on climate, soil and water protection, and the extraction and management of critical raw materials and NORM residues.

Stephanos Kirkagaslis

Policy Officer, Soil Nutrients and Water Resilience, DG AGRI

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Stephanos Kirkagaslis

Policy Officer, Soil Nutrients and Water Resilience, DG AGRI

Stephanos is policy officer in DG AGRI working on environmental sustainability aspects of the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) focusing on soil nutrients and water resilience. He previously worked in DG SANTE setting maximum residue levels for pesticides and preparing the EU-coordinated monitoring programme for pesticide residues in food. Before joining the Commission, he worked for more than 10 years in the agri-food industry as food safety auditor, quality manager and consultant. He started his career as a GlobalGAP auditor in certification bodies.

Erik Meers

Professor, Department of Green Chemistry and Technology, Gent University

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Erik Meers

Professor, Department of Green Chemistry and Technology, Gent University

Erik Meers is a professor at Ghent University in Belgium. He is specialised in the biobased circular economy, and in that frame also on mineral nutrient recycling (nitrogen, phosphorus and other minerals). He founded collaborative platforms such as Biorefine Cluster Europe, the European Sustainable Nutrient Initiative and End-of-Waste.

Ana Rocha

Director - EU Agriculture & Forestry policies, European Landowners' Organization

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Ana Rocha

Director - EU Agriculture & Forestry policies, European Landowners' Organization

Ana Rocha currently leads the Policy team at the ELO and follows policies affecting agriculture and forestry in Europe. She holds a degree in agricultural engineering, having studied in Portugal, Belgium and the Netherlands. She has consolidated professional experience in EU lobbying, representing the interests of European landowners and land managers for more than ten years, in Brussels and in London. She remains involved in a small family farm in Portugal.

Gerard Ross

Senior Research Associate, Wageningen University & Data Scientist at the Nutrient Management Institute

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Gerard Ross

Senior Research Associate, Wageningen University & Data Scientist at the Nutrient Management Institute

Dr. Gerard Ros is a senior research associate at Wageningen University and data scientist at the Nutrient Management Institute. He is a well-known expert in the field of soil science and plant nutrition, with special reference to soil quality, nutrient cycling, and risk assessment. He is specialized in carbon and nutrient dynamics in terrestrial ecosystems and is leading the development of a NutriKPI framework to monitor, stimulate and valorise sustainable farm management across Europe. He led more than 100 projects on agronomic perspectives of innovative nutrient and soil management solutions optimizing nutrient efficiency of agricultural farm systems.

Hans Ryckebusch

Communications Manager, IMPACT

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Hans Ryckebusch

Communications Manager, IMPACT

Hans Ryckebusch is a Communications Manager at IMPACT, a non-profit organisation embedded in the University of Ghent that specialises in research communications and stakeholder engagement with a focus on agriculture and biobased resource recovery. Before joining IMPACT, he worked as a Project Communications Manager at POM West-Vlaanderen where he supported European projects on innovation in the healthcare economy, the food industry, and circular materials. Prior to this, he worked for more than a decade as a Communications Officer at Etex where he was responsible for the financial and corporate communication of this holding company.

Laura van Schöll

Senior Project Manager, Circular Fertiliser Legislation, NMI Agro

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Laura van Schöll

Senior Project Manager, Circular Fertiliser Legislation, NMI Agro

Laura van Schöll is senior expert on circular fertiliser regulations at the nutrient management institute NMI in the Netherlands. She holds a PhD from Wageningen University and has a background in soil quality and plant nutrients. She is consulted by shalkeoplder in the complete value chain, from the European Commission to SME producing recycled fertilising products.

Tiffanie Stephani

Vice-President, European Government Relations and External Communications, Yara International – Region Europe

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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.

Agenda

Nov 25, 2025

14:00 - 16:00 (CET)

14:00 - 14:05 (CET)

Welcome and opening remarks

Welcome and opening remarks

• Margherita Genua, Project Manager, RISE Foundation

14:05 - 14:20 (CET)

Keynote

Keynote speech

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

14:20 - 15:10 (CET)

Panel 1: CAP and nutrient management

Panel session

• • Stephanos Kirkagaslis, Policy Officer, Soil Nutrients and Water Resilience, DG AGRI
  • Ana Rocha, Policy Director of EU’s Agri and Forestry related Policies, European Landowners’ Organization (ELO)
  • Gerard Ros, Senior Research Associate, Wageningen University and Data Scientist at the Nutrient Management Institute
  • Tiffanie Stephani, Vice-President, European Government Relations and External Communications, Yara International – Region Europe

Moderators

• Margherita Genua, Project Manager, RISE Foundation
• Ludwig Hermann, Senior Researcher and Advisor, PROMAN

15:10 - 15:55 (CET)

Panel 2: Nutrient recovery under the Circular Economy Act

Panel session

• Erik Meers – Department of Green Chemistry and Technology – Gent University
• Laura Van Scholl – Sr. Project Manager Circular Fertiliser Legislation – NMI Agro
• Mari Chitashvili – Legal Researcher, IZES gGmbH
• Hans Ryckebusch – Communications Manager, IMPACT

15:55 - 16:00 (CET)

Closing remarks

Final remarks and closing

• Erik Meers – Department of Green Chemistry and Technology – Gent University

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