– Two years after the association was founded, Food for Biodiversity is hosting its second major conference.
– The conference will take place in Frankfurt am Main and is aimed at decision-makers in the food industry as well as an interested specialist audience.
– Over the course of one and a half days, the most important topics relating to biodiversity protection along the food supply chain will be discussed.
Bonn, 28.03.2023: Hardly any other industry is as dependent on intact ecosystems and their services as the food sector. However, overexploitation, pollution, habitat destruction and the climate crisis have been leading to a steady increase in species extinction for years – according to the World Biodiversity Council, around one million species worldwide are acutely threatened with extinction. So how can the food industry respond to this development and develop more sustainable strategies for the future? What levers can be used to better protect ecosystems? These and other questions will be discussed at the
“Biodiversity in the food sector”
on 22. and May 23, 2023 at the Protestant Academy in Frankfurt am Main
discussed. The event is being hosted by the “Food for Biodiversity” association, which is holding its second symposium two years after it was founded. The event is part of the “Unternehmen Biologische Vielfalt – UBi” project and is funded by the Federal Agency for Nature Conservation with funds from the Federal Ministry for the Environment, Nature Conservation, Nuclear Safety and Consumer Protection as part of the Federal Biological Diversity Program. The event starts on 22.05.2023 at 3 pm and ends on 23.05.2023 at 5 pm. The conference is aimed at decision-makers in the food industry and an interested specialist audience. Participation is free of charge, participants can register under this link.
Responsibility, challenges and solutions
In three thematic blocks and a mixture of keynote speeches, workshops and fishbowl discussions, the conference is dedicated to the most important issues surrounding biodiversity protection in the food sector. The first thematic block deals with the responsibility of the food industry in interaction with agriculture and highlights possible levers to positively influence this. The second thematic block deals with legal and regulatory challenges to which the sector must respond, and the third thematic block is dedicated to best practice examples of raw materials from tropical countries.
The “Food for Biodiversity” industry initiative
The Food for Biodiversity association was founded as an industry initiative in March 2021 with the aim of protecting biodiversity and contributing to the transformation of current food systems into sustainable and future-proof ones. The 27 members – including companies, associations, standard organizations, environmental associations and a research institute – are currently implementing pilot projects and working on the continuous improvement of important tools such as the basic set of biodiversity criteria and the recently introduced basic set of tropical criteria. The association is open to new members.
Further information and registration at https://food-biodiversity.de/aktuelles/.
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