Sustainable Food Systems - Food for All Forever 

The right technological solutions combined with the right policy directions for the future can effectively contribute to a sustainable and equitable global food system. A new global food system should assure that everybody has access to sufficient food without doing damage to the natural environment and while reducing poverty.

The Danish Academy of Technical Sciences, ATV, and the international Council of Academies of Engineering and Technological Sciences, CAETS, hereby invite you to Copenhagen to participate in an international conference on 29 June 2010.

From DK and beyond, ATV aims to bring leaders and experts from universities, industry, agriculture, NGOs and GOs together. ATV wishes to facilitate an open debate, a free exchange of ideas and discussion of new future-oriented solutions. Our joint challenge is to identify the real problems and the effective answers which - at the same time - will increase food production, reduce poverty and hunger and reduce over-exploitation of natural resources.

There will be four plenary, interactive solution sessions:

• Looking towards 2050 and beyond
  Income, distribution, population, food security, natural resources and climate

• Reforming the food production system
  Molecular biology, industrial agriculture, agro-ecological methods, aquaculture, 
  land and water efficiency

• Rethinking the food processing chain
  Infrastructure, distribution, energy efficiency, recycling, packaging and storage facilities

• Moving towards economic incentives, improved governance and full costing
  Institutions, earmarking of payment, green taxes, ecosystem services, market-orientation
  and policy reforms

Confirmed speakers include

• Minister for Development Policy Søren Pind, MP, Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Denmark

• President Karl Almås, SINTEF Fisheries and Aquaculture, Norway
• Director General Shenggen Fan, International Food Policy Research Institute, IFPRI 
• President Marion Guilou, French national Institute for Agricultural Research, INRA , France
• Chairman Thomas Harttung, International Centre for Research in Organic Food Systems,
  ICROFS 
• Chief Economist and Senior Vice President Justin Yifu Lin, The World Bank 
• Professor Robert L. Paarlberg, Harvard University, USA
• Professor Per Pinstrup-Andersen, Cornell University, USA
• Coordinator and Former Brazilian Minister of Agriculture Roberto Rodrigues,
  Getulio Vargas Foundation Agrobusiness Center,GV Agro, Brazil
• Professor R. Paul Singh, University of California Davis, USA
• Manager Ola Svending, Stora Enso, Finland

• Journalist Kim Bildsøe Lassen, Danish Broadcasting Corporation, DR (moderator)

The full programme will be available April 2010. By bringing different stakeholders together networking will be an essential part of the conference.

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