Hosted by PAN Europe, IBMA and IOBC.
Where: Online Webstreaming
When: 28 October 2022, 09:00 - 12:00 CET
Language: Croatian/English
Programme: The meeting will be chaired by Natalija Svrtan.
9.00: Start of the meeting
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Welcome by Natalija Svrtan, PAN Europe / Earth Trek
Welcome by MEP Biljana Borzan
9.10: Keynote speeches
- Vice-President Dubravka Šuica, Democracy & Demography, responsible for the EU Long Term Vision for Rural Areas
- "Is a 2050 chemical pesticide-free world possible?" - Christian Huyghe - Scientific Director of Agriculture, INRAE
09:35: State of the environment and agricultural production
- Soil fertility and yield of cultivated crops – prof. dr. sc. Ivica Kisić, the Dean of the Faculty of Agronomy, University in Zagreb
- Horizon 2020, SPRINT project and case study in Croatia - Marija Polić Pasković, dipl. ing. agr., Institute for Agriculture and Tourism
- True price of pesticides use - dr. Darko Znaor
10:20: Alternatives and tools to transition to agroecology
- The transition from conventional to organic agriculture - Nevenka Belak
- Policy tools helping farmers in transition to agroecology (maize) - Lorenzo Furlan
- Adaptation of Croatian agricultural producers to the transition to an ecological production system, Amalka Vukelić, Croatian Chamber of Agriculture
11:00: How to ensure serious pesticide use reductions in Croatia
- Biocontrol as a solution to reduce the use of synthetic pesticides - Martina Borić, IBMA representative
- Biological control solutions and their benefits - their essential role for a full agroecological transition working with nature - Jennifer Lewis, IBMA
- Agroecological wheat cultivation on a large scale – Felix Wäckers
11:40: Debate with participants
11:55: Closing word - Martin Dermine, PAN Europe
Recording (soon!)
