Events program

• 08/11/2016 - 02:00 p.m. -06:30 p.m.   Memo
  Place: Biobased Industry Room
  

  GLOBAL WATER EXPO - Convegno

  Sustainable food and water nexus in the Mediterranean area

  Organized by: MIUR, MiPAAF-CREA, MATTM-ISPRA, Cluster Tecnologico nazionale Agro-Food, FEDERALIMENTARE
                     
  Ensuring safe, healthy, high quality food while developing sustainable, innovative and efficient systems with supply chains, water uses, processing and marketing are some of the challenges set by the European Union for the European Industry, which is the first industrial sector in EU with 310,000 companies, a Trillion of Euros of turnover and 4 Million of employees. This is particularly relevant in the Mediterranean area, where Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises (MSMEs) constitute a significant economic and employment driver, representing ~70% of total workforce and 99% of overall enterprises in the Region. Mediterranean food industries produce large quantities of products, often with unique qualities derived from Mediterranean natural advantages and local knowledge. Adoption of eco-innovation and sustainable business models, may represent the chance for SMEs to increase their competitiveness and give their contribution to the struggle of sustainability issues. Eco-innovation that can sparkle from a variety of sources (large companies, public research labs, universities, SMEs and community of users) needs to be adopted to create employment and territorial development and to enhance the emergence of young entrepreneurs in the agrifood sector. In the Mediterranean region, which is one of the most arid agricultural regions on earth, the interrelationship of sustainable food and water resources is particularly pronounced: ecologically sustainable solutions are required to guarantee long-term stable societies, job creation, good health and welfare while addressing environmental pressures. PRIMA Participating States are proposing to the European Commission the use of an art.185 TFEU as the most appropriate instrument to focus on the development of innovative solutions and the promotion of their adoption for improving the efficiency and sustainability of food production and water provision.
  
  Tentative Programme
  14:00-14:30 Welcome and Introduction
  Delegates from the EU commission, Representatives of MIUR, MATTM, MIPAAF, and Regional Ministers for Agriculture (Emilia-Romagna and Toscana)
  14:30-15:00 . OPENING
  Partnership for research and innovation in the Mediterranean Area (PRIMA)
  Angelo Riccaboni, Chair of PRIMA consortium
  
  15:00-16:00 . SESSION 1
  Sustainable management of water for arid and semiarid Mediterranean areas
   (Chairs: Giuseppina Monacelli, ISPRA . IT; Ali Rhouma, IRESA, Tunisia)
  
  Round Table with slides
  • Antonio Lo Porto, Chair of EurAqua, Chair of St. Advisory Board Water JPI, Researcher at IRSA-CNR, Italy
  Key research needs in the field of Water Resources Management: suggestions from the EU networks in the water sector: WssTP, Water/FACCE JPI´s and EurAqua
  - Lucio Ubertini &  Paolo Buonora, UNESCO
    Adriatic-Tyrrhenian: slow mobility between the two seas and novel water and terrestrial pathways.
  Discussion
  
  16:00-17:00 . SESSION 2
  Sustainable farming systems under Mediterranean environmental constraints
  (Chairs: Florence Jacquet, INRA . FR ; Cosimo Lacirignola, CIHEAM . IT)
  
  Round Table
  - Moez Jebara, Centre de Biotechnologie Borj Cedria, Tunisia
  Cooperation within the PRIMA programme to address the climate changes challenges to sustainable agriculture in Mediterranean
  - Michele Pisante, CREA, Italy
  Sustainable Crop Production Intensification: the innovations for Mediterranean area
  - Adel Aboul Naga, Animal Production Research Institute, Egypt,
  Sustainable farming systems in the dry area of the Mediterranean (facing global and local changes)
  Discussion
  
  17:00-18:00 . SESSION 3
  Mediterranean food value chain for regional and local development
  (Chairs: Francesco Capozzi, UNIBO . IT; Abdelkader Ait El Mekki, ENA Meknes Morocco)
  
  Round Table
  - Cristina Di Domizio - Federalimentare . IT
  The Mediterranean bioeconomy in the Roadmap of the National Technology Cluster Agrifood: from research and innovation to training
  - Andras Sebok, Vice chair of the European collaboration of the National Food Technology Platforms
  Benefits of a value chain approach for fostering innovation and resource efficiency of Mediterranean regional and local food chains
  - Tristan Camilleri, Ministry Sustainable Develop. Environ. & Climate Change, Malta
  The Maltese case study to increase sustainability in the Mediterranean aquaculture
  Discussion
  
  18:00-18:30 . CONCLUDING REMARKS
  Ian Gauci Borda, Representative of Malta Government, 2017 EU Presidency
  EU representative
  Italian Representative
  
  
  EN/IT translation will be provided
  
  

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