2011 Annual Conference

Opening statement on priorities for the CAP

Franz Fischler – Chair, FFA2011,
Chairman, RISE Foundation

Keynote: The CAP in the spotlight

Keynote Address: Commissioner Dacian Ciolos

Responses:

• Padraig Walshe – President, COPA
• Ken Ash – Director of Trade and Agriculture, OECD
• Lester Brown – Founder andPresident, Earth PolicyInstitute

Moderator: Stephen Sackur – BBC World

Coffee Break

Session I: Knowledgebased Agriculture

Opening Address:

Aalt Dijkhuizen – Chairman of the Executive Board Wageningen UR

Responses:

• Maurice Moloney – Director and Chief Executive, Rothamstead Research Institute
• Roel Bol – Programme Director, Biobased Economy, Dutch Ministry of Agriculture
• Christoph Büren – Vice President of SAF – agriculteurs de France

Moderator: Tim King – European Voice

Session II: Sustainability and environmental security in farming

Keynote address: Commissioner Janez Potocnik

Responses:

• Mairead McGuinness – MEP, EPP group and Member of the Agriculture and Rural Development Committee
• Jaqueline McGlade – Executive Director, European Environment Agency
• Carl-Albrecht Bartmer – President, DLG

Moderator: Stephen Sackur

Session III: Competition &sustainability, rewards & transparency along the food chain

Keynote speech:

• Lester Brown – Founder and President, Earth Policy Institute

Session IV: are rural areas the losers of globalisation?

Provocation Speech: Dirk Ahner – Director General, DG REGIO

Discussion:

• • Benoit Coppée – Président, la Foire de Libramont
  • Allan Buckwell – Policy Director, CLA; Chairman, ELO Policy Group
  • Hildegard Kuhlmann – Head of division “Farm diversification and regional marketing”,Chamber of Agriculture North RhineWestphalia

Moderator: Stephen Sackur

Coffee Break

Session V: CAP reform for better farming.

Panelists:

• Paolo De Castro – MEP, S&D, Chair Agriculture and Rural Development Committee
• Reimer Böge – MEP, EPP, Rapporteur multi-annual financial framework, Budget Committee
• George Lyon – MEP, ALDE, Rapporteur CAP post 2013, Agriculture and Rural Development Committee
• Corrado Pirzio-Biroli – President, ELO, Vice Chairman, RISE Foundation

Moderator: Tim King

Concluding remarks and conclusions from the student forum

Franz Fischler – Chair, FFA2011, Chairman, RISE Foundation