Global Forum for Food and Agriculture 2020

Dear Guests,

With the GFFA, the Federal Ministry of Food and Agriculture (BMEL) is addressing two particularly important challenges to global food supply that require global cooperation.

We would like to discuss with you how agriculture can provide the world long-term with food for a balanced diet despite pandemics and climate change. To this end, we have prepared a background paper that is now available. You can download it as a pdf file here

The GFFA will in 2021 once again be the platform for all relevant actors from politics, business, science, and civil society to discuss internationally interconnected responses to decisive world food issues

Especially in times of crisis, the GFFA as an event format stands for:

international cooperation; and
multilateral solutions.

The BMEL will therefore definitely host and organise the GFFA in 2021. The GFFA will either be held on site in Berlin as usual in January 2021 – or the event will take place in a virtual format due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

We very much look forward to being able to welcome you in January 2021.

Your BMEL

We provide a platform for world food affairs

The Global Forum for Food and Agriculture (GFFA) is an international conference on agri-food policy issues.
For the past twelve years it has been held at the beginning of the International Green Week in Berlin.
Over four days, approximately 2,000 international visitors from politics, industry, science and civil society discuss a central topic/theme.
On the fourth day of the conference, the world’s largest informal Conference of Agriculture Ministers takes place – a highlight of the GFFA.
Approximately 70 agriculture ministers from around the world as well as high-level representatives from more than ten international organizations adopt a joint political communiqué on the respective central theme.
High-ranking guests, such as Prince Charles, Ban Ki-moon, Angela Merkel and Josefa Sacko have in recent years contributed to GFFA with keynotes speeches.
146 countries with their delegations have previously participated in the GFFA.