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