Expert Panel #6

Bioeconomy and global food security - Challenges seen in an international perspective

Frans HermansClaudia MüllerDirk StratmannAidarbek Saparov (tbc)Vitaliy KovalOliver GierlichMaryna Kovalova
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Export routes under fire, demographics under pressure, climate change and shortage of skilled labour are clearly noticeable: The challenges for agricultural production are growing internationally from year to year. This makes it all the more important for enterprises, which produce sustainably and innovatively, preserve resources and contribute to global food security in a circular manner, to take efficient and responsible action. Bioeconomic principles can enhance efficiency and lower cost pressure in a special way – and thus strengthen the resilience and predictability of one’s own economic base.
The following issues are of key importance in these times of ever-changing and perpetuating crises:
• What experiences are producers and policy-makers gaining internationally when applying bioeconomic principles?
• What role do state-of-the-art technologies play in this regard today and tomorrow?
• And how can this economic approach become more widespread in the future?

These questions will be discussed during a panel discussion using the example of a central player in global agricultural production, the region of Eastern Europe/Central Asia, with high-level participation from Ukraine and Kazakhstan.

Organizer

German Agribusiness Alliance (GAA) Leibniz-Institut für Agrarentwicklung in Transformationsökonomien (IAMO)

Panelists

Keynote Speakers

Frans Hermans

Frans Hermans

IAMO

Claudia Müller

Claudia Müller

Parliamentary State Secretary

Federal Ministry of Food and Agriculture

Moderators & Panelists

Dirk Stratmann

Dirk Stratmann

Ländersprecher Ukraine/Zentralasien

German Agribusiness Alliance

Aidarbek Saparov (tbc)

Aidarbek Saparov (tbc)

Minister

Agrarministerium der Republik Kasachstan

Vitaliy Koval

Vitaliy Koval

Minister

Ministerium für Agrarpolitik und Ernährung der Ukraine

Oliver Gierlich

Oliver Gierlich

Managing Director & CFO

Bayer Ltd. in Kiew

Maryna Kovalova

Maryna Kovalova

Chief Marketing Officer

SmartFarming Group