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Farm to Fork 2021 Conference - Building sustainable food systems together

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14-15 October 2021. Farm to Fork 2021 Conference - Building sustainable food systems together

This event provided a forum for discussion on the challenges and opportunities linked to the transition to sustainable food systems, as well as on possible further areas of intervention.

The conference was hosted  by the European Commissioner for Health & Food Safety, Ms. Stella Kyriakides, the European Commissioner for Agriculture, Mr. Janusz Wojciechowski and the European Commissioner for Innovation, Research, Culture, Education and Youth, Ms. Mariya Gabriel. The European Commission Executive Vice-President, Mr. Frans Timmermans opened the Conference with a video message.

The Farm to Fork conference 2021 focused on the progress made on the initiatives foreseen in the strategy’s action plan, support the EU efforts to achieve a global transition to sustainable food systems and put emphasis on transition enablers.

The links include the recordings
 

The 2021 UN Food Systems Summit as a support to the global transition to sustainable food systems

Keynote speeches informing on the results of the 2021 UN Food Systems Summit and reporting on the EU Food Systems Summit citizen dialogues. 

  • Martin Frick @15:36:15 reported on the outcome of the UNFSS. 
    "The UNFSS was a big experiment. The future of multilateral cooperation is depending on the maximum inclusiveness. There was however a low level of trust from the civil society about the UNFSS. There [still] is a trust gap. Indigenous people often complained they are neglected. It was important to relate with the private sector, despite the distrust of the civil society towards the corporate food industry. This was not a summit of negotiations and political agreements, rather on actions. The Glasgow Climate Action will include discussion on the food systems."
  • Tom Arnold @15:50:00, reported on the report : Everyone at the table: Co-creating knowledge for food systems transformation 
    "Many countries are at very early stage at creating a more sustainable food systems. The business of learning will be very important: learning from each other. I think the political will is there. But what is equally important: food matter but it is inter connected and farming matters.  In March 2022 we will come up with a recommendation on a new science-policy interface"
  • Joanna Sullivan
    Joanna Sullivan

    Moderator

  • Martin Frick
    Martin Frick

    United Nations

  • Ladislav Miko
    Ladislav Miko

    EU Food Systems Summit citizen dialogues

  • Tom Arnold
    Tom Arnold

    International cooperation on food system science

Carbon farming and Horizon Europe R&I mission on soil health and food are initiatives of the farm to fork strategy. During the session, the two complementary initiatives were presented. The discussion focused on the opportunities and challenges for carbon farming to provide input to the formulation of the communication on the EU Carbon Farming Initiative; and on the successful implementation of the R&I mission on soil health in synergy with carbon farming initiative.

 

The session (1) showcased the projects selected under the Horizon 2020 Green Deal call topic “Testing and demonstrating systemic innovations in support of the Farm-to-Fork Strategy”; (2) informed what is already planned in the first years of Horizon Europe focusing on the funding opportunities in the Work Programme 2021-2022 and (3) discussed what to do next, focusing on R&I priorities that are likely to deliver impact as fast as possible before 2030, in particular what is still missing, what should be further intensified, of what more is needed and of what less, and how can we stimulate the uptake on the ground.

Carla Montesi @33:33 stressed the importance of S&T for international partnerships to achieve global challenges. The first priority is strenghtening capacities. The second is the use of local expertise and operational knowledge. The third is an evident based policy and governance.

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