A high level panel has been formed for the 2013 Cropworld Global summit to help meet the challenges of working towards a sustainable agricultural production cycle.
The CropWorld Global Steering & Advisory Committee will be used to direct industry and international bodies on achieving a sustainable global supply chain with initiatives across water and irrigation, crop protection and other concerns that are seen as crucial to ensure a move to sustainable food and water production.
Members of the high level panel will be set the ambitious goals of identifying new ways to sustainably feed the world's growing population. Featuring a mixture of prominent government and agency representatives, the Committee includes European MP Robert Sturdy; the British Crop Production Council's Dr. Colin Ruscoe and Dr. Julian Smith, the Food and Environment Research Agency's (FERA) sector leader in international development and food and supply chain.
Other participants include Bayer CropScience, Lindsay Irrigation, BASF and Coca-Cola.
The panel's raison d'etre will see it harness the combined powers of industry and international agencies for a collaborative approach to the world's pressing agricultural supply chain issues. Greater private sector research into biopesticides and synthetic chemistries that protect crops has been identified as one key theme for future development.
"As we consider the rapidly expanding world population and the ever increasing demand for an abundant, healthy, and affordable food supply; it will be essential for industry, government, and other stakeholders to find new innovative ways of working together to yield sustainable agricultural solutions for the future,” said Dr. Maximilian Safarpour - Director, Global Regulatory & Government Affairs, BASF Corporation.
CropWorld Global's Steering & Advisory Committee is now finalising the event's key themes and has identified 'decreasing the yield gap', 'increasing supply', 'developing sustainable crops', 'reducing water and waste issues', and implementing a 'responsible supply chain' as the areas it wishes to address.
Terri D'Elia, Exhibition Director at CropWorld Global, added:
"We are delighted that the world's biggest thought leaders in agricultural and water have joined the CropWorld Steering & Advisory Committee. We now have a tremendous opportunity to help work towards providing safe, sustainable and adequate amounts of food globally.
“Over the next 10-years, food is forecast to become 30% more expensive, with the worldwide demand requiring production to rise 50% by 2030 - it is one of the greatest challenges to international food producers, scientists and governments today and I strongly believe we can help work towards meeting these increasing international pressures."
The event will be held in Amsterdam between the 29 and 30 October 2013.
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