Regional Forum for the Future of Agriculture Sofia - November 29, 2017
The European Landowners’ Organization (ELO), Syngenta, BAALO (Bulgarian Association of Agricultural Landowners) and NAABS (National Association Bulgarian Black Sea) hosted the Regional Forum for the Future of Agriculture on Wednesday, November 29, 2017 in Sofia, Bulgaria (Grand Hotel Sofia)
The conference addressed three key questions:
• Panel 1: How the Sustainable Development Goals can help address global agriculture issues?
• Panel 2: Where is the Common Agricultural Policy reform going?
• Panel 3: How can competitiveness and environmental protection coexist within the Bulgarian agriculture landscape?
Agenda
Nov 29, 2017
Welcome
Welcome and Introduction by Pierre-Olivier Drege, ELO President
Welcome by Verginiya Krasteva, Deputy Minister of Agriculture, Food and Forestry
Welcome by Stayko Staykov (BAALO President) & Dimitar Kanariev (NABBS Chairman)
Welcome by Emil Milivojevic, SDF Commercial Director for South East Europe
Panel 1: How the Sustainable Development Goals can help address global agriculture issues?
Keynote speaker: Robert Flies, Former Advisor to the Director in the DG Environment,
European Commission
– Respondent: Prof. Dr. Hristina Yancheva, Rector, Agricultural University Plovdiv
– Respondent: Juan Gonzalez- Valero, Head public policy and sustainability, Syngenta
– Respondent: Michael Salm zu Salm, FCS President
Moderator: Nikolai Doinov, TV journalist
Panel 2: Where is the Common Agricultural Policy reform going?
Keynote speaker: Allan Buckwell, RISE Foundation
Respondent: Vladimir Urutchev, MEP
– Respondent: Ventsislav Varbanov, Chairperson, Bulgarian Association of Agricultural Producers (BAAP)
– Respondent: Rangel Matansky, National Alliance of Cattle Breeders in Bulgaria
Respondent: Pierre-Olivier Drege, ELO President
Moderator: Nikolai Doinov, TV journalist
Lunch
Panel 3: How can competitiveness and environmental protection coexist within the Bulgarian agriculture landscape?
Keynote speaker: Verginiya Krasteva, Deputy Minister of Agriculture, Food and Forestry
– Respondent: Nikolay Kantchev, Deputy Minister of Environment and Water
– Respondent: Galina Peytcheva-Miteva, Member of the Board of Managers, Bulgarian
Association of Agricultural Land Owners (BAALO)
– Respondent: Mariela Yordanova, Deputy chairman, National Grain Producers
Association
Moderator: Nikolai Doinov, TV journalist
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