May 22-23, 2023National Conference"Biodiversity in the Food Sector"
Few other industries depend as heavily on intact ecosystems and their services as the food sector. However, overexploitation, pollution, habitat destruction, and the climate crisis have led to a steadily increasing species extinction for years – according to the World Biodiversity Council, approximately one million species worldwide are acutely threatened with extinction. So how can the food industry react to this development and develop more sustainable future strategies? What levers can be used to better protect ecosystems? These and other questions were discussed at the expert conference “Biodiversity in the Food Sector” on May 22 and 23, 2023, at the Evangelical Academy in Frankfurt am Main.
Info Desk
Basic Set of Biodiversity Criteria for Temperate Zones
Food for Biodiversity
Basic Set of Biodiversity Criteria for the Tropics
Food for Biodiversity
Biodiversity in Global Agricultural Supply Chains
Global Nature Fund, GIZ
Deforestation-Free Supply Chains – An Opportunity for Companies
Global Nature Fund, Oro Verde
Regionalwert Leistungen Flyer
Regionalwert Leistungen GmbH
Profit Participation Certificates Flyer
Regionalwert Leistungen GmbH
Regionalwert Leistungen Flyer English
Regionalwert Leistungen GmbH
Regionalwert Leistungen Social Media Hub
Regionalwert Leistungen GmbH
Insect-Promoting Regions Project
Bodensee-Stiftung, GNF
BioVal Website
BioVal
Lidl CRS Report
Lidl Deutschland
On the Way to Tomorrow: Sustainability at Lidl
Lidl Deutschland
Naturland Standards on Production
Naturland
Organic Expertise
Naturland International
Roots and Values
Naturland
Presentations
Keynote – Prof. Dr. Katrin Böhning-Gaese
Director of the Senckenberg Biodiversity and Climate Research Centre
Block 1 – What responsibility and levers does the food industry have to positively influence agriculture as the most important raw material provider?
The Food for Biodiversity Basic Set of Biodiversity Criteria
Nadja Kasperczyk, FiBL Deutschland
What are the priorities of the standards, what impacts are expected?
Rene Capote, GLOBALG.A.P. & Laura von Flemming, LIDL
Practical Initiatives by Companies
Andrea Schwalber
Cool Farm Tool
Megan McKerchar, Cool Farm Alliance
Biodiversity Check Agrícola
Marion Hammerl, Bodensee-Stiftung
Biodiversity Risk Filter
Leah Hupp, WWF
Thinking Beyond the Farm: The Landscape Approach
Patrick Trötschler, Bodensee-Stiftung
Block 2 – Challenges in the Food Industry (Processing and Trade)
New Reporting Standards: From Obligation to Opportunity
Tobias M. Wildner, Helmholtz UFZ and Value Balancing Alliance
Cost Absorption and Incentives for Improved Biodiversity Protection in Agriculture
Louisa Lösing, Global Nature Fund
Which Paths are Fair and Lead to the Goal? Methods and Experiences Using the Example of Regionalwert Performance Accounting
Christian Hiß, Regionalwert Leistungen GmbH
Block 3 – Working Groups
WG 1 – Internal Communication – Peter Zens
WG 2 – External Communication – Andrea Schwalber
WG 3 – Strategic Anchoring of Biodiversity – Stefan Schwarzer
Block 4 – Biodiversity in Global Agricultural Supply Chains, exemplified by the Tropics
The EU Deforestation Regulation and Biological Diversity
Franziska Rau, German Society for International Cooperation
Biodiversity for Tropical Crops in the Naturland Producer Standard
Eva Kohlschmid, Naturland
Food for Biodiversity Basic Set for the Tropics
Martin Schüller, Fairtrade Deutschland
From Farm to Fork – Success Factors for Mainstreaming Biodiversity in Agricultural Supply Chains
Thomas Schaefer, Global Nature Fund
Biodiversity in Global Agricultural Supply Chains. Case Studies for Biodiversity-Sensitive Design of Global Agricultural Supply Chains from Ecuador and Colombia
Ralf Buß, German Society for International Cooperation
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