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Greening the EU’s agri-food agenda: What is the role for digitalisation?
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Oct 01, 2024
14:00 - 16:00
Location:
Rue du Trône 14-16, 1000 BrusselsEPC Conference Centre3rd Floor.
Venue: European Policy Centre
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The European Policy Centre is delighted to invite you to the hybrid Policy Dialogue on ‘Greening the EU’s agri-food agenda: What is the role for digitalisation?’. The event is supported by CropLife Europe.
The European Policy Centre is delighted to invite you to the hybrid Policy Dialogue on ‘Greening the EU’s agri-food agenda: What is the role for digitalisation?’. The event is supported by CropLife Europe.
The current climate change and ecological crises highlight the need to make our food systems more sustainable and resilient and reduce their impact on land and resources. Data and digital solutions have great potential to green the entire agri-food supply chain. Artificial Intelligence (AI), Big Data, the Internet of Things (IoT), drones, robots, sensors, blockchain, apps, and online platforms could revolutionise the agri-food sector. They could help reduce its environmental footprint, optimise operations, boost food productivity, promote sustainable diets, reduce food waste, and enhance the EU’s food security. While digital solutions are already in use to some extent, utilising their full capacity to align EU’s green and agri-food agendas is still work in progress.
This Policy Dialogue aims to explore the state of play, prospects and challenges with using data and digital solutions to help make European agri-food system more sustainable and resilient. It will discuss how the EU’s policies and financial tools can support these efforts. This is the final event as part of the EPC project ‘Digitalisation for a sustainable and resilient agri-food system’. It will focus on key findings and recommendations of a new EPC Discussion Paper which will be published on the same day.
Please note that a welcome lunch will be provided from 13.30.
Participation is open to EPC members, media, and EU officials
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The Sustainable Prosperity for Europe (SPfE) Programme explores the foundations and drivers for achieving a sustainable, resilient and competitive European economy.
Prospering within the planetary boundaries requires rethinking our economic model, including our production and consumption patterns, as well as our energy, mobility and food systems. It requires addressing the climate emergency and environmental degradation, as well as becoming smarter with the resources we have. The transition to the world we want must bring both businesses and people along, if it is to succeed.
The Paris Agreement and the Sustainable Development Agenda provide the direction for travel globally and in Europe, and the SPfE Programme engages in a debate on the drivers and the means for achieving our goals. The Programme focuses on areas where working together across the EU can bring significant benefits to the member states, citizens and businesses and can ensure sustainable prosperity within the limits of this planet.
