Biodiversity Conference "Belowground life & biodiversity for a healthy soi...
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Belowground life & biodiversity for a healthy soil
“It is a small world” (after all)
European Parliament- Paul-Henri Spaak -P4B001
Agenda
14h30 Welcoming speech & moderator: MEP, Franc BOGOVIČ
14h35 Opening: Alain SCRIBAN, Special Adviser, European Landowners’Organization
14h40-15h00 Keynote “Soil biodiversity: why we need to think big to care for a small world”
Prof. Dr. Gerard GOVERS, KU Leuven
15h00- 15h30 Panel 1: Driving forces that influence biodiversity in agricultural soils
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Carbon farming, Christine MÜLLER, Policy Officer, DG Climate Action- Land Use and Innovation Finance
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The key to the maintenance and protection of biodiversity lies in sustainable soil management, Galina PEYCHEVA-MITEV, Farmer, Bulgaria
Q&A 15h30-15h45
BELLEUROPA AWARD CEREMONY ***Coffee break***
16h00- 16h30 Panel 2: Policy and strategic framework for soil quality
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Soil life requires a paradigm shift in EU agricultural policy and practice, Celia NYSSENS, Policy Officer for Agriculture, EEB
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Soil biodiversity, Andrea VETTORI, Deputy Head of Unit, DG ENV- Soil Unit
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Ronald VARGAS, FAO, Secretary of the Global Soil Partnership
Q&A 16h30-16h45
16h45- 17h15 Panel 3: Innovation to improve soil health
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Defining, measuring and managing soil health, Yara, Koen VAN KEER
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Are biostimulants key enabling technologies to improve soil health? CropFit - Ghent University, Maaike PERNEEL
Q&A 17h45-17h45
17h55-18h00: Concluding remarks: MEP, Alvaro AMARO
Organiser ELO- European Landowners' Organization
Organiser of Biodiversity Conference "Belowground life & biodiversity for a healthy soil"
ELO is committed to promoting a sustainable and prosperous countryside and to increasing awareness relating to environmental and agricultural issues. Engaging various stakeholders, ELO develops policy recommendations and programmes of action. ELO organises interdisciplinary meetings gathering together key actors from the rural sector and policy makers at the local, regional, national and European level. Its ability to do all of this assures ELO its unique position among the think tanks in the agricultural, environmental and rural activities’ sectors.
