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Meet our 3 first speakers:
2 opening remarks and one keynote speech on
sustainable transition, carbon farming & precision agriculture
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Apex-Brasil and the European Landowners Organization invite you to join the dialogue inspired by the Farm to Fork Strategy on Monday, 23 November, 2PM (CET - Brussels time).
Food and Agriculture are in a necessary transition. In 2020, there is an increasing awareness of the profound impacts of our agricultural activities on this planet. But how to proceed? What is already done and need more visibility? How can policy makers help in Europe and in Brazil? This webinar will focus on carbon farming and precision agriculture.
More information regarding our 2 panels, in Brussels and in Brazil coming up soon.
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H.E. Marcos Galvão is the Brazilian Ambassador to the European Union since February 2019. Previously to the Brussels’ post, he was Secretary-General of the Brazilian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Ambassador to the World Trade Organization and to Japan. His activity abroad included positions in Washington, London and Asuncion.
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Thierry de l’Escaille, Secretary General of ELO since 1996, deputy CEO of the RISE Foundation and an administrator in numerous organisations of national and EU wide importance with a strong relation with private property, the profitability of land, environment and finance. Trained as a lawyer, he also runs an agricultural family farming enterprise with properties in Belgium, France, and the Netherlands.
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Dr. Jonathan Brooks, Head of Division Agricultural and Resources Policies at OECD, is working mainly in the areas of agricultural policy, trade and development. He is currently responsible for work on global food security and has led OECD reviews of agricultural policies in Brazil (2005) and Chile (2007). Jonathan Brooks has a Ph.D. in Agricultural Economics from the University of California.
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Meet the moderators
Open the debate from Brussels to Brazil
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Renata Maron is a TV presenter and one of Brazil's most popular agriculture journalists. She has 17 years of professional experience on TV, and she was ranked, in 2019, in the top 10 most influential journalists, by LinkedIn. Renata also presents a column on Brazilian agricultural news at RFD-TV, an agri-specialized TV in the USA.
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Jurgen Tack, Scientific Director at ELO, obtained a PhD in Biology at the VUB. From 2016 on he’s the General Administrator of Landelijk Vlaanderen, the Flemish Landowners’ Organization active in the field of nature, forestry and agriculture.
Also editor-in-chief for ‘De Landeigenaar’, a magazine for landowners, Jurgen is at ease with public speaking and moderating online and live events of various scales.
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The Brazilian Trade and Investment Promotion Agency (Apex-Brasil) works to promote Brazilian products and services abroad, and to attract foreign investment to strategic sectors of the Brazilian economy. Apex-Brasil organizes several initiatives aiming to promote Brazilian exports abroad. The Agency´s efforts comprise trade and prospective missions, business rounds, support for the participation of Brazilian companies in major international trade fairs, arrangement of technical visits of foreign buyers and opinion makers to learn about the Brazilian productive structure, and other select activities designed to strengthen the country’s branding abroad.
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The European Landowners’ Organization (ELO) is a unique federation of 60 national associations from the 28 EU Member States and beyond, which represent the interests of landowners, land managers and rural entrepreneurs at the European political level. Independent and non-profit, the ELO stands for all rural entrepreneurs, promoting a prosperous countryside through the dynamism of private landownership and stewardship.
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