Sustainability in the Food Chain
Bi-lateral workshop,
hosted by Defra and the Italian Embassy
29-30 November, 2007
Venue:
Italian Cultural Institute
39 Belgrave Square
London
SW1X 8NX
Conference Objectives:
- To promote cooperation between Italy and the UK on
sustainable food-related issues
- To exchange information and share knowledge, with a
particular focus on carbon methodology and industry
- To identify and recommend priority areas for cooperation
Co-Chairs:
Colin MacLeod, Team Leader, Food Chain Programme, Defra
Professor Salvator Roberto Amendolia, Scientific Attaché,
Italian Embassy
Programme:
Day 1
Plenary
Session
13:30 Welcome
- Giancarlo Aragona,
Italian Ambassador
- Jonathan Shaw,
Minister for Marine, Landscape & Rural Affairs and Minister for the
South East, Defra
The European Picture
- Oliver Wolf, Institute for
Prospective Technological Studies, Joint Research Centre, European
Commission
The
National Pictures
Introducing Defra’s
Food Chain Programme
Bronwen Jones, Food Chain
Programme Manager, Defra
The Italian Approach to
Food Chain Sustainability
Francesco Zecca, Ministry for
Agricultural Policies, Italy
15:00
Coffee Break
15:30
Workshops: Challenges for sustainable food production & consumption
1.
Integrated Sustainability Criteria: Issues for Industry
Objective: To explore how government, industry and
academia are looking beyond carbon dioxide emissions and indeed, the
environmental aspects of sustainability to issues such as traceability
and food quality.
Main Speakers:
Sustainability at
Langmead Terra Mia
Jo Birch, Langmead Terra Mia
MIPAAF Project on Food
Quality
Giuseppe Maiani, Director of
Human Nutrition Unit, National Institute for Research on Food and
Nutrition, Italy
Contributions:
Desertification and
Sustainable management of agro-ecosystems
Massimo Iannetta, ENEA, Italy
Environmental
management in the agro-food system
Stefano Canese, ENEA, Italy
SINAB, The National
Information System on Organic Agriculture
Luigi Guarrera, IAMB, Ministry
for
Agricultural Policies, Italy
2.
Moving Beyond Consumer Labels
Objective: To explore consumer
expectations of government and industry and consumer responses to
labels and to discuss whether labelling can achieve the behaviour
change we need to improve the sustainability of food.
Main Speakers:
Opinion Leader Research
Rachel Muckle, Social Science
Research Manager, Defra
Carbon Labelling and
the Consumer
Dr Steve John, Director of
Government Affairs, PepsiCo
17:00
Plenary: Summary of results from afternoon workshops
Questions and Answers
Facilitated by Colin MacLeod and Roberto Amendolia
19:30
Dinner at The Jolly Hotel, Caxton Street, London, SW1H0QW.
Speaker: Jody Scheckter, Founder of
Laverstoke Park
“The biggest
small-holding in the world”
Programme:
Day 2
09:00
Introduction to Morning workshops
The Commitment of the
Food & Drink Industry
Massimiliano Boccardelli,
Federalimentare, Italy
09:15
Workshops: Forward Look for Food Chain
Sustainability
3.
Forward Look: Establishing International Standards
Objective: To discuss the future of international standards, in
terms of their development and potential uses, the PAS 2050 will be
used as a case study.
Main Speakers:
The Future of PAS 2050
Guy Shrubsole, Food Chain
Programme, Defra
Voluntary certification
of products and processes with CO2 weighing: an Italian case study
Claudio Fabris, Bios srl Italy
Contributions:
Retailers use of
Private Labels in Italy
Cristina Mora, University of
Parma, Italy
Hints on
Agricultural Sustainability: reducing CO2 emissions of tractors and
innovation of perishable products logistic
Paolo Menesatti, CRA,
Italian Agricultural Research Council
Sustainability Scoring Chart
Jeanette Lonfield,
Sustain, UK
4.
Forward Look for Industry: Roadmaps
Objective: To develop an understanding of the role of roadmaps in
improving the sustainability of the supply chain, using Defra’s milk
roadmap as a case study. The workshop will then explore potential
opportunities for collaboration.
Main Speakers:
Livestock
and Livestock Products
Pauline Crellin and Mark Holden,
Defra
Contributions:
Life-Cycle Assessment
and its role in the sustainability of the food chain
Bruno Nortanicola, University
of Bari, Italy
Innovation and
Sustainability in Food Systems
Chris Foster, Manchester
Business School, UK
Coop and Sustainability in the Food Chain
Albino Russo, Coop, Italy
11:00
Coffee Break
11:30
Final Plenary: Summary of Recommendations from morning workshops
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