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Biodiversity Conservation, population growth and food production; a key challenge for the next decades
| Period | 09/12/2010 |
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| Event location | The Polak Room, Ground floor, Residence Palace Rue de la Loi, 155 - 1040 Brussels |
| Host | Belgian Biodiversity Platform |
| Event URL | http://www.biodiversity.be/955 |
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Email address: forsbacka@unric.org |
| Contributor | Vinciane Dutordoir |
| Geographical coverage | Bruxelles |
| Keywords | conférence |
16.30–16.40 Opening words Janos Tisovszky, Deputy Director, UNRIC
16.40–17.00 The International Year of Biodiversity – accomplishments, challenges and outcomes from Nagoya Andras Krolopp, European Policy Officer, International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN)
17.00–17.20 Film screening
17.20–17.40 Population growth, food production and land use Prof. Patrick Van Damme, head of Laboratory of Tropical and Subtropical Agronomy and Ethnobotany and Chair of the Centre for Sustainable Development of Ghent University.
17.45–18.15 How can we produce enough food without destroying our planet? Antje Koelling, Policy Coordinator, International Federation of Organic Agriculture Movements (IFOAM)
18.15–18.45 Discussion moderated by Janos Tisovszky
Kindly register with forsbacka@unric.org no later than Wednesday 8 December.
The conference language is English