Join 13th Virtual Global Forum for Food and Agriculture (GFFA) from 18 to 22 January, which will focus on how agriculture can provide the world long-term with food for a balanced diet despite pandemics and climate change.
At the GFFA, around 2,000 international participants from politics, industry, science and civil society discuss agri-food policy issues. GFFA is an international conference on central issues of global agricultural and food policies, held in Berlin annually, during the International Green Week.
Representatives from politics, business, science, and civil society will convene to engage in a constructive exchange on the following four key questions:
- How can food systems emerge stronger from the COVID-19 pandemic?
- How can the agricultural sector help prevent further pandemics?
- How can food systems become more climate-resilient?
- How can food systems improve in mitigating climate change?
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It is the world’s largest conference of agriculture ministers, attended by around 70 agriculture ministers and high-level representatives from more than ten international organisations, such as FAO, OECD, WFP, and the World Bank.
At the conference, the agriculture ministers formulate a common political position on the respective GFFA subject in the final communiqué, which has to date always been unanimously adopted. These results are fed into further international discussions on agricultural policy.
Speakers of Forum
Matthias Berninger, Senior Vice President Public Affairs & Sustainability, Bayer AG, Germany
The Honourable Marie-Claude Bibeau, Minister of Agriculture and Agri-Food, Canada
Bruce Campbell, Director CGIAR Research Programme on Climate Change, Agriculture and Food Security (CCAFS)
Qu Dongyu, Director General of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)
Monique Eloit, Director-General of the World Organisation for Animal Health (OIE)
Michael Fakhri, UN Special Representative on the Right to Food and Professor at the University of Oregon School of Law
Maria Flachsbarth, Parliamentary State Secretary to the Federal Minister for Economic Cooperation and Development
Rt. Hon Lord Goldsmith, UK Minister of State, Minister for Pacific and the Environment
Taras Kachka, Deputy Minister of Economic Development, Trade and Agriculture of Ukraine
Agnes Kalibata, UN Special Envoy for the 2021 Food Systems Summit
Delanie Kellon, Executive Director of the Global Feed LCA Institute (GFLI)
Julia Klöckner, Federal minister of food and agriculture
Christiane Lambert, President of COPA, European farmers’ trade union
Norbert Lins MEP, German Member of the European Parliament and Chair of the Agriculture and Rural Affairs Committee
The Hon David Littleproud, Minister for Agriculture, Drought and Emergency Management, Australia
Sofía Monsalve Suárez, Secretary General of FIAN International
Elizabeth Nsimadala, President of the Pan Africa Farmers Organization (PAFO)
Joachim Rukwied, President of the German Farmers’ Association
Pavan Sukhdev, President of the World Wide Fund For Nature (WWF International)
Johann Swinnen, Director General International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI)
Shirley Tarawali, ILRI Assistant Director General and Chair of Global Agenda for Sustainable Livestock (GASL)
Thanawat Tiensin, Chairperson of the UN Committee on World Food Security (CFS)
Martien Van Nieuwkoop, Director of Global Agriculture and Food, Worldbank
Sunny Verghese, Chair World Business Council for Sustainable Development (WBCSD), CEO Olam International
Janusz Wojciechowski, European Commissioner for Agriculture
