Programme

10:00 | Introductory remarks 

• Maria NIKOLOPOULOU, President of the EESC Sustainable Development Observatory

10:10 | Presentation of the IPES-Food report on The New Geopolitics of Food

• Katarina Jurikova, General Coordinator, IPES-Food

Debate with Members

10:40 | Debate on Advancing SDG 7: Fostering the energy transition for sustainable and resilient agri-food systems

Moderated by: Katalin SÜLE, Vice-President of the EESC Sustainable Development Observatory

• George Karagiannakis, presentation of the pilot project "Electrification of Agriculture using RES (PV)" in Ptolemaida, Greece (tbc) 
• Wildpoldsried village, Germany (tbc)
• Prof. Dr.-Ing. Peter Pickel, University of Bonn, Institute of Agricultural Engineering, Chair for Agricultural Robotics & Engineering, to present his experience and work on alternatives to fossils fuels for tractors, and the barriers for their development    

Debate with Members

11:45 | Debate on Advancing SDG 11 through Sustainable Public Food Procurement for Resilient Cities and Communities

Moderated by: Joe HEALY, Vice-President of the EESC Permanent Group on Sustainable Food Systems

• Giulia Listorti, PhD, Team Leader, Sustainable Supply Chains and Bioeconomy Unit, Joint Research Centre, European Commission

Stakeholders' views:

• Laura SAUQUES, IFOAM, co-leader, EU Food Policy Coalition Task Force on Public Food Procurement 
• Wiebke WARNECK, Political Secretary Food, Drink, and Tobacco Sector, EFFAT 
• Tamara BURNING, Chief Procurement Officer from the City of Ghent
• Representative of the COCOREADO project, concrete example on how to encourage young people in rural areas to co-create innovative solutions that improve the conditions for the sustainable public procurement of local and seasonal food (tbc)

 Debate with Members, Antje Gerstein (EESC INT section President)

12:50 | Concluding remarks

• Maurizio REALE, President of the EESC Permanent Group on Sustainable Food Systems