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EU-ASEAN workshop to focus on sustainable food

The third workshop of the EU-funded “Farm to Fork” project will take place via videoconference on November 24-25, with the participation of experts, policy makers as well as public stakeholders from EU and ASEAN countries.
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Bangkok (VNA) – The third workshop of the EU-funded “Farm to Fork”project will take place via videoconference on November 24-25, with theparticipation of experts, policy makers as well as public stakeholders from EUand ASEAN countries.

Issues such as climate change, loss of biodiversity, and the degradationof lands and oceans are threats to humans and the life on Earth in general, accordingto organisers.

In response to these threats and as part of the Green Deal, in 2020 the European Commission proposedambitious EU actions and commitments to transform food systems (the Farm toFork Strategy) into global standards for competitive sustainability, theprotection of human and planetary health, as well as the livelihoods of allactors in the food value chain.

The main purpose of this technical workshop is to provide a platform to expertsfrom the EU and ASEAN countries to discuss and identify where and how EU-ASEAN cooperationcould be reinforced and coordinated, targeting sustainability and resilience offood systems.

Themed "Dialogues on Sustainable Food Systems: from production to consumption", discussionswill cover the following main topics: Dialogue on Soil health and innovation;Dialogue on sustainable use of pesticides; and Dialogue on food loss and waste.

All three topics should allow looking into strategies, policies and practices,harnessing the multiple stakeholders of the food systems and the differentlevels of changes that would be desirable.  Presentations from speakerswill be followed by discussions on existing collaboration, the way for future collaborationthat could support the transition at global level

This series of workshops are funded by the European Commission’s Service forForeign Policy Instruments (FPI) under the Farm to Fork Strategy (F2F), whichis the EU plan to contribute to solving food challenges, and, to this end,proposes pathways for change towards sustainability that providesenvironmental, health, social and economic benefits./.
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