WEDNESDAY, 15 June 2011

 PLENARY MEETING

Future of the Common Agricultural Policy in the context of innovation and food security – Sören KISSMEYER-NIELSSEN,  head of Unit of Rural Development Programmes of the Directorate General for Agriculture and Rural Development

• PRESENTATION (in English)

Opportunities of Estonian agriculture and food security – Mati KOPPEL, director of Jõgeva Plant Breeding Institute

• PRESENTATION (in Estonian)

Challenges related to global food security and the relevant role of Europe – Ruve ŠANK, representative of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations FAO

• PRESENTATION (in English)

WORKING GROUPS (simultaneous)

Working group A - Food Security

Food security – an obligation of each country or a global commitment? What can Estonia offer? Global challenges related to food security? What are the opportunities of Estonia to be represented on the world market? How could we make use of Estonian weaknesses (peripherisation and low density of population) for food production?

• Chair – Sirje POTISSEPP, director of the Association of Estonian Food Industry
• Rapporteur – Ants-Hannes VIIRA, Institute of Economics and Social Sciences, Estonian University of Life Sciences
• Food security – an obligation of each country or a global commitment? – prof. Kostas KARANTININIS, University of Kopenhagen, Denmark
  • PRESENTATION (in English)
• What is the unused potential of Estonia to ensure food security? – Estonian speaker – Olav KREEN, agricultural producer
  • PRESENTATION (in Estonian)
• Discussion

Worging group B - Environment and climate change

How to link two big goals – alleviation of climate change and assurance of food security? What are the main challenges agricultural producers have to face and how to link environmental public goods to that? How to find balance between the provision of environmental public goods and demand?

• Chair – Aleksei LOTMAN, spokesperson of Estonian Greens
• Rapporteur – Kalev SEPP, Institute of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences, Estonian University of Life Sciences
• The role of environmental public goods in delivering food security – Jana POLAKOVA, Instutute for European Environmental Policy (IEEP)
  • PRESENTATION (in English)
• What are the main challenges agricultural producers have to face and how to link environmental public goods to that? – Estonian speaker – Meelis MÕTTUS, agricultural producer
  • PRESENTATION (in Estonian)
• Discussion

Working group C - Territorial balance

Key factors of the viability of rural areas – local resource and alternative possibilities to use it (marketing, services etc). Local initiative and local resource as factors to achieve territorial balance.

• Chair – Roomet SÕRMUS, chairman of Estonian Chamber of Agriculture and Commerce
• Rapporteur – Rando VÄRNIK, director of the Institute of Economics and Social Sciences, Estonian University of Life Sciences
• What are the opportunities to give value added to local recourses through alternative market channels (especially using ICT as a tool) – John HANNAFIN, Tipperary Instutute, Ireland
  • PRESENTATION (in English)
• Example – local resource and alternative marketing channels – Estonian speaker – Merle VALL, director of the NGO Tasty South-Estonia
  • PRESENTATION (in Estonian)
• Discussion

  PLENARY MEETING

Working group A summary, main conclusions – Ants-Hannes VIIRA

• SUMMARY (in Estonian)

Working group B summary, main conclusions – Kalev SEPP

• SUMMARY (in Estonian)

Working group C summary, main conclusions – Rando VÄRNIK

• SUMMARY (in Estonian)