
Dialogue Session: Green Transition of the Global Agricultural Production - 6 May
Plenary Dialogue Session
13:00 – 13:05
Welcome remarks
Moderator Dr. Brent Loken
13:05 – 13:10
Opening remarks
The Danish Minister for Food, Agriculture and Fisheries Rasmus Prehn
13:10 – 13:30
Setting the scene: Transformations based on science and facts
Craig Hanson, Vice President of Food, Forests, Water and the Ocean, WRI
Martin Frick, Director, Global Office Berlin, WFP
Rob Vos, Director, IFPRI
Martien van Nieuwkoop, Global Director, Agriculture and Food, WB
Dialogue Session: Green Transition of the Global Agricultural Production
Moderator: Paul Holmbeck, Director Holmbeck EcoConsult, World Board member IFOAM Organics International
13:30 – 13:35
Welcome and introduction to session 1
Moderator Paul Holmbeck, Director Holmbeck EcoConsult
13:35 – 14:15
Session 1: Key challenges and concrete solutions
Presentations from 4 speakers (8 min. each)
Máximo Torero Cullen (Chief Economist, FAO)
Tim Searchinger (Senior Research Scholar at the Princeton School of Public and International Affairs and Senior Fellow and Technical Director, World Resources Institute)
Karen Mapusua (President, IFOAM Organics International)
Pekka Pesonen (Secretary General, Copa-Cogeca)
14:15 – 14:20
Sum up from session 1 and introduction to session 2
Moderator Paul Holmbeck, Director Holmbeck EcoConsult
14:20– 14:50
Session 2: Key challenges and concrete solutions
Presentations from 3 speakers (8 min. each)
Josephine Akia Luyimbazi (Country Coordinator, PELUM Uganda)
Gernot Laganda (Chief of Climate and Disaster Risk Reduction, WFP)
Million Belay (General Coordinator, Alliance for Food Sovereignty in Africa)
14:50 – 14:55
Sum up from session 2 and introduction to session 3
Moderator Paul Holmbeck, Director Holmbeck EcoConsult
14:55– 15:25
Session 3: Panel debate and discussion
Q/A from speakers and participants
15:25– 15:30
Wrap up and summary of the main points from speakers
Moderator Paul Holmbeck, Director Holmbeck EcoConsult
Plenary Dialogue Session
15:30 – 15:55
Panel debate
Moderator Brent Loken
Dr. Afton Halloran, Independent Consultant in Sustainable Food Systems Transition
Peter De Koning, Director, Amsterdam Declarations Partnership
Jacob Ravn, CEO and Ph.d., Access2Innovation
Paul Holmbeck, Director Holmbeck EcoConsult, World Board member IFOAM
15:55 – 16:00
Closing remarks
Moderator Dr. Brent Loken