Planning the Common Agricultural Policy

BIOPOLITICS INTERNATIONAL ORGANISATION

Climate Change and Impact on Agriculture

Planning the Common Agricultural Policy

in view of the Copenhagen Climate Change Conference

Hellenic American Union

22 Massalias St., Athens – Thursday, 26 November 2009

Keeping Farmers Competitive

09:30 - 10:00 Registration

10:00 - 11:45 Climate change – planning the Common Agricultural Policy

Chair: Agni Vlavianos Arvanitis

Leonardo da Vinci FarmForward Project

Kyriakos E. Georgiou,Senior AdministrativeOfficer,
CyprusCenter for European and International Affairs

Climate change –recommendations for a new strategy

ProfessorAgni Vlavianos Arvanitis,President and Founder, Biopolitics International Organisation

Climate changes and their impact in agriculture in Greece – a

critical aspect for medium and long term environmental policy

planning

Assistant Professor Costas Cartalis,Member of Parliament,

President of the Standing Committee for the Environment,

Hellenic Parliament

Sound forest management – a key to survival

H.E. Sverre Stub, Ambassador of Norway

Greeting – The environmental policy of the City of Athens

George Dimopoulos, Deputy Mayor of Athens

European Union and Common Agricultural Policy

2003 – 2008 reforms and implementation in Greece

Professor Christos Avgoulas, Department of Plant Production,Agricultural University of Athens, f. General Secretary,Ministry of Rural Development and Food

Climate change: sustainable agricultural development under the new Common Agricultural Policy

Professor Fotios Gravanis,Director of the Technological Research Centre of Thessalia, Member of the Governing Board of the Open University of Cyprus, Professor Emeritus,Technological Education Institute of Larissa

Discussion

11:45- 12:15 Coffee break

12:15- 13:30 New technologies – sustainability – environment

Chair: Professor Evangelos Vergos

Introduction to new technologiesfor sustainable rural development

Professor Evangelos Vergos, Director,

Department of Lifelong Learning,AmericanFarmSchool

Precision agriculture –implementation of new technology for the sustainable management of agro-environmental systems

Professor Athanasios Gertsis,PerrotisCollege, AmericanFarmSchool

Implementationof precision agriculture – economic approach

Dr. Christos Karydas, Lab. of Remote Sensing and GIS,School of Agriculture,AristotleUniversity of Thessaloniki

Discussion

13:30 - 14:30 Lunch break

14:30 - 15:45 Environment, agriculture and youth – roundtable

discussion

Chair: Dr. Christos Efthymiopoulos

The value of environmental education

Dr.Christos Efthymiopoulos,Researcher,Academy ofAthens

Local quality agreement, a tool for social capital

Natural environment and the rural population

Dimitrios Mihailidis,Journalist, Contributor for AgrOrama

New farmers, certified crops, biodiversity

Theodoros Vasilopoulos,Special Secretary, Hellenic Union of Young Farmers

16:00 - 17:00 Press Conference at the roof garden of the H.A.U.

Co-chairs:

Professor Agni Vlavianos Arvanitis, President of B.I.O.

Kyriakos E. Georgiou, Senior Administrative Officer,
CyprusCenter for European and International Affairs

B.I.O. Team

George Daoularis, Elena Efraimiadou, Natali Lekka, Christos Axarlis, Angeliki Efstathiou,

Thanassis Kontogiannis,

B.I.O. Sponsors

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