2021 Racing to scale nature positive farming

How do we make agriculture more nature-positive whilst improving farm economics?

Wednesday, March 10, 2021

10:30 - 12:00 (CET)

SYSTEMIQ and partners invite you to consider how a European agriculture system that is 75% nature positive by 2030 could benefit farmers, consumers, climate and nature. What would it take to get there? This session opens up a discussion on the challenges and critical interventions to shift the system, and invites reactions from across the European food and farming landscape.

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European agriculture is at a crossroads. The Green Deal, 2030 climate plan, Farm to Fork and Biodiversity strategies, as well as the proposed reform of the Common Agriculture Policy, have all contributed to defining the ambition, and even several elements of the delivery, of a more sustainable farming system in Europe. Arguably, however, this has not yet developed into a coherent or holistic approach necessary to command broad support from political and civil society leaders. Furthermore, private sector commitment will be essential both to align on the ambition and drive its delivery.

A growing number of companies are making commitments to models of agriculture that aim to reduce emissions, regenerate soil and promote biodiversity – summarised as ‘nature positive agriculture’.

With that in mind, SYSTEMIQ and partners including the One Planet Business for Biodiversity and IUCN are organising a ‘fishbowl event’ on what it would take to make 75% of European agriculture nature positive by 2030 and put in place the technical, financial and commercial building blocks to facilitate that transition. The purpose of this round table will be to invite reactions to the proposal, and discuss what it will take to achieve.

Confirmed speakers (in alphabetical order)

Rupert Simons

Director for the EU Food and Land Use Action Platform

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Heike Zeller

Consulting group aHEU Regionale Vermarktungsstrategien (Moderator)

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Agenda

Mar 10, 2021

10:30 - 12:00 (CET)

Wednesday, March 10, 2021 - 10:30 - 12:00 CET

10:30 - 12:00 (CET)

Racing to scale nature positive farming

Introduction by the moderator – Heike Zeller (5 mins)
Presentation of the vision by SYSTEMIQ – Rupert Simons (10mins)
Followed by a ‘goldfish bowl’ discussion (65mins)

Respondents

Luc Bas, Director, Europe Regional Office, IUCN
Mateusz Ciasnocha, Farmer; CEO, European Carbon Farmers; Regenerative Agriculture Fellow, COP26 – Climate Champions; Junior RIS Project Manager, EIT Food
David Cleary, Global Director for Agriculture, The Nature Conservancy
James Ede, Sustainability Manager – Europe, Middle East and Africa, Cargill Starches, Sweeteners & Texturizers
Florence Jeantet, Managing Director, OP2B
Petra Laux, Acting Chief Sustainability Officer, Syngenta Group and Head of EAME Business Sustainability, Syngenta
Christine Müller, Policy Officer, DG Climate Action, European Commission
Galina Peycheva-Miteva, Farmer, Financial Manager, Trakia-RM
Dr. Felix Prinz zu Löwenstein, President, German Federation of Organic Farmers, Food Processors and Retailers
Bas Rüter, Global Head Sustainability & Climate, Rabobank
Michael Scannell, Deputy Director-General, DG for Agriculture and Rural Development, European Commission
David Wilkinson, Purchasing Director, PepsiCo