Dear friends of the Global Food Summit,

Interview

Sustainability

This year we were again at the Global Forum for Food and Agriculture (GFFA) from January 16 and 18, 2020. We were particularly pleased to meet Dr. Máximo Torero Cullen, Assistant Director-General, Economic and Social Development Department (ES) of the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) at the GFFA. He presented the concept of an International Digital Council for Food and Agriculture. 
"We welcome FAO's efforts in connection with this concept and call on FAO bodies to support the process of its establishment," said the GFFA in the final declaration. On March 25, 2020 Dr. Máximo Torero Cullen will co-open the Global Food Summit in Munich.

On the podium at the Alphazirkel

Preparing companies for the future

The Alphazirkel, the forum for family entrepreneurs, invited to a discussion round on January 23, 2020 at the Bayerischer Hof in Munich on the topic "What else can we eat? On the podium was Stephan Becker-Sonnenschein, Head and Founder of the Global Food Summit. His conclusion of the event: "It was a highly exciting discussion that showed that technical progress already enables solutions for sustainable food production. We just have to let it happen and try it out."

On February 5, 2020 Stephan Becker-Sonnenschein gave a lecture on food innovations at the winter seminar of the Arbeitskreis Unternehmensführung in the Diepholz-Nienburg-Verden area. On the topic of "Food for a changing society", the participants were particularly interested in identifying changes and mastering the challenges facing companies in the agricultural sector.

Becker-Sonnenschein travels to innovation fair in Israel

Speech at the Genossenschaftsverband Bayern

Always looking for innovations. From February 23 to 26, 2020 Stephan Becker-Sonnenschein, Head and Founder of the Global Food Summit, plans to travel to Israel to participate in the innovation fair "Israel Industry 4.0". The "II4 Week" is the central B2B event in Israel for companies involved in the Internet of Things (IoT). And Israel is one of the world's largest IoT players. New industrial manufacturing of the future, but also new methods of agriculture and food production will bear Israeli hallmarks to a large extent. Stephan Becker-Sonnenschein wants to get his own impression of this as a member of a delegation from the Bavarian State Ministry of Economic Affairs, Regional Development and Energy. Bavaria is this year's state partner of the II4 Week.

On February 28 and 29, 2020 the honorary members of the executive and supervisory boards of dairy cooperatives will meet in Grainau. Prof. Dr. Regina Birner from the Hans Ruthenberg Institute for Agricultural Sciences in the Tropics will open the meeting with a lecture: "Global food security and sustainable development - dairy cattle farming in an international perspective".
Afterwards, Stephan Becker-Sonnenschein from the Global Food Summit will present: "Between desire and reality: future trends in laboratory meat and more".

Dr. Anke Kwast

Sophie Ryan (tbc)

Prof. Dr. Michael John Gorman

Maximilian von Löbbecke is both speaker and sponsor at the Global Food Summit 2020. 
His company 365FarmNet is active in the field of precision farming and supports farmers in digital farm management, enabling them to optimize their operations and processes. This not only simplifies documentation, but also enables farmers to plan crop rotations and fertilisation, field routes and much more in a more targeted manner by evaluating the data.
We are already looking forward to hearing Maximilian von Löbbecke's speech on the subject of "Digital Farming: Hype meets Reality".

Lobsters, shrimps, crabs - their meat is considered a delicacy by many people. But the edible part of the animals is in strong disproportion to the amount of residues left over from the preparation, the hard, indigestible shells. Worldwide, between six and ten million tons of these are produced annually. Waste? Not at all. Rather, it is a valuable raw material that is still largely lost unused. Professor Thomas Brück from The Technical University of Munich plans to speak at the next Global Food Summit in Munich in March about new ways to recover this treasure.

Please also read the article here 

It is official: The deadline for the Call for Abstracts passed on January 31, 2020. We would like to thank for 15 contributions, which have all been accepted and already been published on our homepage. 
In addition to publication on our homepage, the abstracts and posters will also be presented for two days at the Global Food Summit. The highlight there will be the poster tour on March 26, 2020.

This year, for the first time, the winners of the first national abstract competition from Bangladesh will be in Germany. The competition has been initiated by Dr. S M Abdul-Awal, Professor of Biotechnology & Genetic Engineering at the University of Khulna. We congratulate Fabliha Bashashat Rodosy, Rahagir Salekeen and Ramisa Nowshin, who beat nine other finalists in the final on January 21 this year. The three winners of the competition will be travelling to Germany in March and introduce themselves at the Global Food Summit. Their trip is supported by the German Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development with the help of the "ONEWORLD without hunger" programme.

Between vertical farming and alternative protein sources - on March 24, 2020 everything in Munich will revolve around the nutrition of the future.

f3, the magazine for intelligent innovations in the fields of agriculture, food, forestry and energy, is taking a look at current and future trends in the agricultural and food scene together with us as its cooperation partner. Here you can find the program and the registration for the event.


We talked to Eva Piepenbrock, f3's head of editing, about the barn evening and about changes in agriculture.

Read the interview here.