2025 Market outlook workshop Day 2

On November 6 and 7 the Forum for the Future of Agriculture (ForumforAg) hosted a workshop on market outlooks and policy implications. This built on our previous event and looked at the big picture from OECD-FAO newest report covering the 2025-2034 perspective, and then dived into the outlook for arable crops and livestock plus look at the environmental footprint and policy implications, with a special focus on Europe.

Day 2 of the workshop was hosted by Cédric du Monceau, Member of the Committee of the Regions 

Find out more about Day 1 (different venue) by clicking here

Click on image above or here to access the OECD-FAO Agricultural Outlook 2025-2034 report

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2025 Market outlook workshop day 2 – Introduction

Mark Titterington, Lee Ann Jackson, Cédric du Monceau, Tassos Haniotis

2025 Market outlook workshop day 2 – Environmental footprint

Ana Luisa Barbosa, Tamas Krisztin, Edward Davey, Professor Erik Mathijs, Emanuele Paolo Sicuro, Mark Titterington

2025 Market outlook workshop day 2 – Policy implications

Anne-Catherine Dalcq, Tamas Krisztin, Liam MacHale, Leonardo Mizzi, Mark Titterington

Confirmed speakers (in alphabetical order)

Ana Luisa Barbosa

Spatial Data Scientist, Joint Research Centre (JRC), European Commission

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Ana Luisa Barbosa

Spatial Data Scientist, Joint Research Centre (JRC), European Commission

Ana Luisa Barbosa, a committed and highly competent Spatial Data Scientist and Geographer (a former graduate from the NOVA Information Management School and UMinho) has over 20 years experience working in the data science field and information knowledge management. She has developed information/decision support systems in several fields such as regional and urban policy, climate change and adaptation, energy, biodiversity, agro-economy, marine spatial planning, and environmental sector. She has also worked on numerous projects at a European and international level including regions such as Eastern Europe, East, and North Africa, Latin America. Ana has worked for several European Commission Directorate-Generals, European Agencies, IOC-UNESCO, and for the private sector. Throughout her career, she has participated in several Horizon 2020 projects and has assisted the European Commission / EASME and REA as a monitoring and evaluation expert within the Horizon 2020 framework. She has several publications as an author and co-author in various journals, as well as policy and technical reports. She is currently working on the AFOLU/CAPRI modeling team in the Economics of food systems at the Joint Research Centre - European Commission.
She is a proud wife and a mother of twins.

Anne-Catherine Dalcq

Walloon Minister of Agriculture, Rural Affairs, Forestry, Nature, Hunting and Fishing

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Anne-Catherine Dalcq

Walloon Minister of Agriculture, Rural Affairs, Forestry, Nature, Hunting and Fishing

Anne-Catherine Dalcq is the Walloon Minister of Agriculture, Rural Affairs, Forestry, Nature, Hunting and Fishing. Coming from a family of farmers in Saint-Jean-Geest, near Jodoigne, she grew up with strong values: pridein carrying out one's projects and work, respect for our countryside and solidarity. Her background is deeply rooted in the agricultural world.

With a PhD in agricultural sciences from the University of Liège, she has a clear vision of the current agricultural challenges. As Vice-President of the Young Farmers' Federation and the European Young Farmers' Council, she always acted for an agriculture that is ready to respond to new challenges. She has had the opportunity to speak on behalf of farmers at numerous events and debates, highlighting all the climatic, economic and environmental challenges facing the agricultural sector.

In 2024, she decided to get involved in politics with the Reform Movement. With more than 7,000 votes in the regional elections, she was elected as a Walloon MP, then appointed Minister of Agriculture and Rural Affairs.

Edward Davey

Head, World Resources Institute Europe UK Office; Senior Advisor, Food and Land Use Coalition; Advisor,...

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Edward Davey

Head, World Resources Institute Europe UK Office; Senior Advisor, Food and Land Use Coalition; Advisor, New Economy for the Amazon and Congo Basin

Edward Davey is Head of WRI Europe's UK office, where he represents WRI (including its 75 UK-based staff) to the UK government, philanthropies, private sector, NGOs, and WRI's Royal Patron, HM King Charles III. Edward also serves as a Senior Advisor (previously Country Director and Partnerships Director) to the Food and Land Use Coalition, and as an Advisor to the New Economy for the Amazon and Congo Basin. He worked on secondment for the UK Government's Cabinet Office on COP26, including the Glasgow Leaders Declaration on Forests and Land Use, and as an Advisor to the UAE COP28 Presidency on the COP28 Declaration on Sustainable Agriculture, Resilient Food Systems, and Climate Action.

Prior to WRI, Edward worked for The Prince of Wales' International Sustainability Unit as a Senior Programme Manager and speechwriter, and for the Colombian Presidency as a Lead Adviser on Environment. He started his career at Oxfam and the UN Human Development report, and also worked for the AMAR Foundation — a humanitarian organization in the Middle East — and the London-based children's charity, Kids Company.

Edward lives in Lewes in SE England with his wife Davina and young children, Oli and Lara. He is an enthusiastic amateur choral singer, keen football player, and author of the book 'Given Half a Chance: Ten Ways to Save the World'.

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.

Lee Ann Jackson

Former Head of Division, Agro-food Trade and Markets, OECD

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Lee Ann Jackson

Former Head of Division, Agro-food Trade and Markets, OECD

Lee Ann Jackson is an experienced operational and strategic leader committed to working on key global issues with proven record of management in multi-cultural environments. Creative problem-solver, curious about alternative views and comfortable mediating conflict. Dynamic speaker and moderator in international dialogues. Dedicated international professional passionate about organizational learning and delivering a positive impact.

Tamas Krisztin

Senior Research Scholar, Integrated Biosphere Futures Research Group, IIASA Biodiversity and Natural Resources Program

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Tamas Krisztin

Senior Research Scholar, Integrated Biosphere Futures Research Group, IIASA Biodiversity and Natural Resources Program

Tamas Krisztin is a senior research scholar in the Integrated Biosphere Futures Research Group of the IIASA Biodiversity and Natural Resources Program. He is the scientific coordinator of the Horizon Europe LAMASUS Project, which focuses on providing a novel governance model based on multi-level stakeholder dialogues spanning the European Commission, through national and local administrations down to citizens, as well as creating the necessary tools for co-designing agriculture, forestry, and climate policies in support of the EU’s climate neutrality target.

His current research focuses broadly on nexus topics of land-use change, socioeconomic impacts, and drivers of climate change and land-use policy, as well as developing econometric and statistical tools for future projections of high-resolution climate change impact indicators. Methodologically, he is working on Bayesian spatial econometric and statistical models, as well as vector auto-regressions.

Before joining IIASA in 2015, he was employed at the Institute for Economic Geography at the WU Vienna University of Economics and Business in Austria. He completed his PhD at the institute, focusing on the modeling of spatial dependencies in economic processes. He still lectures in Applied Econometrics at the WU Vienna University of Economics and Business, as well as in Environmental Economics at the Vienna Diplomatic Academy.

Liam MacHale

Director of European Affairs, Irish Farmers’ Association Brussels

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Liam MacHale

Director of European Affairs, Irish Farmers’ Association Brussels

As Director of the IFA Brussels office Liam plays a crucial role in promoting and defending Irish farmers’ interests in Europe. Regular contact is maintained with top European civil servants responsible for beef, milk, cereals, sheep, pigs, veterinary questions, rural development, forestry, environment, horticulture, feedingstuffs, potatoes, horses and aquaculture sectors, etc., to ensure that Irish farmers’ interests are clearly understood.

The Brussels office also provides an effective communications link with EU decision-makers. This is achieved by holding formal and informal meetings with the Commissioner for Agriculture and Rural Development, Janusz Wojciechowski, and other Commissioners and cabinet officials. The office also deals directly with key Commission officials responsible for formulating policy proposals in agriculture, environment, trade and other areas.

The IFA office monitors Council of Ministers’ meetings and EU Summits where critical decisions are taken and gives policy briefings to members of the European Parliament including members of its influential agriculture committee.

IFA represents Irish farmers in COPA, which is the umbrella group of European farmers’ organisations and actively participates in COPA working groups across the entire spectrum of commodities and non-commodity areas. At international level, IFA is in contact with other farm organisations and attends meetings of the World Farmers’ Organisation (WFO).

Professor Erik Mathijs

Professor, Faculty of Bioscience Engineering at KU Leuven

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Professor Erik Mathijs

Professor, Faculty of Bioscience Engineering at KU Leuven

As seen by his title, Erik Mathijs is a professor at the faculty of bioscience engineering at KU Leuven and is also the vice-dean of education. He focuses mainly on questions regarding the transition into sustainable food economies, mainly questions on system innovations, how they emerge, what stands in their way and the development of tools and methods.

Leonardo Mizzi

Head of Unit, Sustainable Agri-Food Systems and Fisheries, EC, Directorate-General International Partnerships

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Leonardo Mizzi

Head of Unit, Sustainable Agri-Food Systems and Fisheries, EC, Directorate-General International Partnerships

Dr. Leonard Mizzi is Head of Unit at the European Commission, Directorate-General (DG) for International Partnerships - Sustainable Agri-Food systems and Fisheries, since 1st of January 2017. Prior to this post he was Head of Unit for 10 years in DG Agriculture and Rural Development, first in charge of agri trade and development issues (2007-2014) and from 2015-2016 leading the inter institutional unit hence relations with the European Parliament, Council and consultative bodies and well as steering the Civil Dialogue Groups.

He is a graduate in Public Administration from the University of Malta (BA Hons First Class); and has degrees from CIHEAM-Montpellier (Master of Science) and a Ph.D in Agricultural economics from the University of Reading (UK). He has been an author of a number of articles and publications on agri food issues and nutrition in the Mediterranean region.

Dr. Mizzi has a broad working experience in the Maltese public administration and the Maltese private sector. He first worked in the Economic Planning Division of the Office of the Prime Minister (Malta) and from 1996-2006 was the first Director of the Malta Business Bureau in Brussels- the office of the Malta Chamber of Commerce and Enterprise and the Malta Hotels and Restaurants Association.

He was also visiting lecturer at the Boston University (Brussels campus), Open University and Malta University. He often lectures at the College of Europe in Bruges.

His areas of specialisation are global food security governance, agriculture and food and nutrition security, the Mediterranean and Sub Saharan Africa.

Cédric du Monceau

Member of the Committee of the Regions

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Cédric du Monceau

Member of the Committee of the Regions

Cédric du Monceau is a Belgian politician and former director of WWF France. He grew up in Ottignies and pursued his education at Atlantic College in Wales before obtaining a degree in International Economics and Finance from the University of Louvain in 1979. Du Monceau’s career spans various sectors, including working at McKinsey&Co, serving as a director at the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development, and leading WWF France from 2000 to 2006, where he significantly expanded the organization’s membership and budget. Currently, he serves as the first alderman of Ottignies-Louvain-la-Neuve, responsible for urban planning and economic affairs, and has been actively involved in local and national politics since 2006.

Emanuele Paolo Sicuro

Policy Officer, DG CLIMA, European Commission

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Emanuele Paolo Sicuro

Policy Officer, DG CLIMA, European Commission

Since March 2025 Emanuele has been a Policy Officer at DG Clima. Previously Emanuele joined Cargill’s Government Relations Team in 2017 where he focused on EU Climate, Energy & Environment policy, contributing to advancing Cargill’s sustainability agenda by promoting decarbonization in agriculture, manufacturing, and energy.

Before that Emanuele was working for FuelsEurope (European Petroleum Refiners Association) already focusing on Emission Trading System and international climate negotiations and before that he has also collaborated with IsAG (Istituto di Alti Studi in Geopolitica e Scienze Ausiliarie), Rome-based think tank and published a report titled: “Energy Security and the role of Natural Gas”.

He holds a Master’s degree cum laude in International Relations from the University of Rome, La Sapienza and a post-graduate Master’s in European Studies from the Université Catholique de Louvain and the European Desk of the Belgian-Italian Chamber of Commerce. Emanuele has recently completed the Executive Programme Leadership in Commodity Trade & Supply Networks offered by Erasmus University, in partnership with Singapore Management University and the J.P. Morgan Center for Commodities.

Emanuele speaks Italian, English, French and Portuguese. When he is not working, you may find him cooking, playing the guitar or riding his motorbike.

Mark Titterington

Director-General, SpiritsEUROPE, Co-founder and member of the Advisory Council, Forum for the Future of Agriculture

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Mark Titterington

Director-General, SpiritsEUROPE, Co-founder and member of the Advisory Council, Forum for the Future of Agriculture

Mark joined SpiritsEUROPE as their Director-General in September 2025, having enjoyed a long career in the agri-food sector, principally at Syngenta where he held several senior leadership and executive level positions in corporate affairs and business sustainability in the EAME region and globally. After leaving Syngenta in 2017, Mark became the CEO of EngineeringUK before joining Indigo Ag, where he held a variety of different roles before becoming Head of Corporate Affairs and a Member of the Executive Team in 2024. Mark is a Co-founder and a former Director of the Forum for the Future of Agriculture. He is now a Member of the Forum’s Advisory Council and a Senior Fellow at the Transatlantic Policy Network.

Agenda

Nov 07, 2025

09:30 - 12:30 (CET)

Committee of the Regions conference room VMA 21, Rue Van Maerlant 2, 1040 Brussels

09:00 - 09:30 (CET)

Arrival and registration

09:30 - 09:55 (CET)

Opening

Welcome

• Mark Titterington, Member of the Advisory Council, Forum for the Future of Agriculture

Report from Day 1

• Lee Ann Jackson, former Head of Division, Agro-food Trade and Markets, OECD

Opening comments

• • • Cédric du Monceau, Member of the Committee of the Regions
    • Tassos Haniotis, Special Advisor for Sustainable Productivity, Forum for the Future of Agriculture; Senior Guest Research Scholar, IIASA

Report from Day 1

• • • Lee Ann Jackson, former Head of Division, Agro-food Trade and Markets, OECD

 

10:00 - 11:15 (CET)

The environmental footprint of the outlook

Presentations of OECD-FAO outlook footprint

• Ana Luisa Barbosa, Spatial data scientist, JRC (Joint Research Centre), European Commission
• Tamas Krisztin, Senior Research Scholar, International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA)

Panel discussion including questions and answers

• Ana Luisa Barbosa, Spatial Data Scientist, Joint Research Centre (JRC), European Commission
• Edward Davey, Head, World Resources Institute Europe UK Office; Senior Advisor, Food and Land Use Coalition; Advisor, New Economy for the Amazon and Congo Basin, WRI (World Resource Institute)
• Tamas Krisztin, Senior Research Scholar, International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA)
• Erik Mathijs, Director, SFERE (Sustainable Food Economies Research Group) KU Leuven
• Emanuele Paolo Sicuro, Policy Officer, DG CLIMA, European Commission
• Moderator: Mark Titterington, Member of the Advisory Council, Forum for the Future of Agriculture

11:15 - 12:20 (CET)

Policy implications

Panel discussion including questions and answers

• Anne-Catherine Dalcq, Walloon Minister for Agriculture, Rural Policy, Nature, Hunting, Fisheries and Forests
• Tamas Krisztin, Senior Research Scholar, International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA)
• Liam MacHale, Director, Irish Farmers’ Association
• Leonard Mizzi, Head of Unit, Sustainable Agri-Food Systems and Fisheries, EC, DG INTPA
• Moderator: Mark Titterington, Member of the Advisory Council, Forum for the Future of Agriculture

12:20 - 12:30 (CET)

Concluding comments

Conclusions and closing

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