Green Rio will participate in the side-event promoted by the Embassy of Brazil in Berlin.
The Minister of Agriculture and Livestock, Carlos Fávaro, will close the seminar.

From January 18 to 21, 2023, the 15th edition of the Global Forum for Food and Agriculture will take place in Berlin. This event will bring together 70 Ministers of Agriculture from different countries, including Minister Carlos Fávaro, who will present the new position of the Brazilian government in agricultural-environmental management. The environmental law proposed by the European Union will be on the agenda.

On January 20, the Embassy of Brazil in Berlin will promote the seminar “HOW CAN BRAZIL AND GERMANY TRANSFORM FOOD SYSTEMS?”, a side event of the Global Forum for Food and Agriculture 2023 and Minister Fávaro will close the seminar. The theme “Challenges of reconciling Sustainable Agriculture and Food Security” will open the seminar that will also address Bioeconomy, Blue Economy and Bilateral Cooperation. Since 2017, Green Rio has hosted the German-Brazilian Bioeconomy Workshop, which will have its seventh edition in 2023.

HOW CAN BRAZIL AND GERMANY TRANSFORM FOOD SYSTEMS?

Side Event of the Global Forum for Food and Agriculture 2023

Program Overview

14:45 Reception

15:00 Opening

Eduardo Sampaio Marques, Agricultural Attaché

15:10 Reconciling sustainable agriculture and food security

The challenge ahead
    Roberto Jaguaribe, Brazilian Ambassador to Germany
    Roberto Perosa, Secretary for Trade and International Relations (Brazilian
       Ministry of Agriculture and Livestock)

Challenges for sustainability in Brazilian Agriculture
       Ingo Merlchers, Director of the Agro-Political Dialogue Germany-Brazil

Challenges for sustainability in German Agriculture
     Friedrich Wacker, Former Director-General for EU Affairs, International
       Cooperation and Fisheries (German Ministry of Food and Agriculture)

16:00 The role of bioeconomy and blue economy

Brazilian strategy on bioeconomy
    TBC

Bioeconomy in Germany
    Tilman Schachtsiek (Ministry of Food and Agriculture)

What about blue economy?
    Burkhard Hormann, Colossal Fish

The past and the future of bilateral cooperation
    Maria Beatriz Bley Costa, Green Rio

16:50 Q&A session

17:10 Closing remarks – Ways forward

Carlos Fávaro, Brazilian Minister of Agriculture and Livestock

17:30 Networking cocktail

Concordo com termos de uso e políticas de privacidade do Green Rio