Programme Day 1: Thursday, 5 November 2015
12:30-13:00 Registration and sandwiches
Theme: Production and consumption of agricultural goods in the Baltic region
Moderation: Sonja van Renssen
13:00 – 13.10 Opening address and welcome by WWF
13:10 - 13:35 Phocoena phocoena – The Baltic harbour porpoise by Frollein Brehm’s Life of Animal (Barbara Geiger)
13:35 – 13:55 Environment Protection Agency (UBA) – Germany, Dr. Lilian Busse,
National perspective on the production and consumption of agricultural goods –.
13:55 – 14:15 Ministry of Agriculture Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, State Secretary Dr. Peter Sanftleben
Agriculture policy for a greener Baltic Sea - successes and challenges from North Germany
14:15 -14.45 Prof. Dr. Helena Kahiluoto (Natural Resources Institute Finland)
Nutrient management in planetary boundaries: Global to local
14:45-15:30 Q & A round with the speakers
15:30 – 16:00 Coffee Break
Theme: How to foster sustainable resource management?
16:00 - 16:15 Presentation of Baltic Sea Farmer of the Year Award (film clip)
16:15 – 17:45 How to find solutions on taking action to change the trends and reduce the effects to the Baltic Sea.
-How consumers can actively promote biodiversity? - A pioneer project for biodiversity in cooperation with farmers, retailers and consumers. presented by: Dr. Karin Stein-Bachinger, Leibniz-Centre for Agricultural Landscape Research (ZALF) e.V.
-Panel discussion with the following
- Markus Eerola – Finnish national winner of the Baltic Farmer
- Marta Szkaradkiewicz - Agriculture Supported by the Community (ASC), Poland
- Dr. Karin Stein-Bachinger, Leibniz-Centre for Agricultural Landscape Research (ZALF) e.V. )
- Dr. Reinhold Stauß, (State Agency for Agriculture, Environment and Rural Areas of the German Federal State Schleswig-Holstein)
- Catarina Heilborn, Diet Strategist for Haninge Municipality, Sweden
17:45 – 18:00 Wrap up of first day and outlook for the workshops next day
18:00 – 19:00 Mingle Session
19:00 – 01:00 WWF Baltic Sea Farmer of the Year 2015 Ceremony
Day 2: Friday, 6 November 2015
9.00 – 9.10 Introduction to theme: What needs to be put in place to deliver Baltic friendly production and consumption?
Introduction of workshops
9:15-10:50 Workshop Breakout sessions :
Three parallel workshops address: What are the necessary steps and tasks for Hoseholds, consumers, producers, farming and policy makers:
a) “Eating for the Baltic” (moderation: Ottlia Thoreson, WWF Baltic Ecoregion Programme)
b) Production with reduced impact and nutrient losses (moderation: Lennart Gladh, WWF Sweden
c) Policy driven tools (moderation: Dietrich Schulz, UBA Germany)
10:50-11:20 Coffee Break (with snacks) in the main conference room
11:20-12:30 Plenary: Report back from workshops by rapporteurs and moderators
Discussion
12:30 – 13:00 What next? – Summary and Action to be taken
Anders Alm – Ministry of Environment & Energy, Sweden
- Paula Biveson – Project Director, Baltic Sea Action Group
- Ari Kultunen– Expert, International Projects at ProAgria
- Staffan Lund - Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences
- Kaspars Zurins – Latvian Rural Advisory & Training Centre
13:00 – 13:10 Closing words – Dietrich Schulz (Umweltbundesamt)
13:15 (latest) End of conference
Information: All participants of the conference have the possibility to visit the Ozeaneum with reduced entrance fee of 8.- EUR (instead of 16.- EUR)
