Pre-Congress Workshop of the EAAE Congress,  29th August 2023

The EU Farm to Fork Strategy (F2F) aims to speed up the transition to a sustainable food system. The F2F Strategy targets a 50% reduction in the overall use and risk of chemical pesticides and the use of more hazardous pesticides by 50%, which should be achieved by 2030. The three EU Horizon-funded projects BrightSpace, GeneBEcon, and RATION presented their work and cooperation in economic modelling, tackling issues related to the Farm to Fork Strategy.

The EU-funded GeneBEcon project and the Cyprus University of Technology are organizing the Science-Policy Symposium about New Genomic Techniques in Plants and Microalgae and their impact on agriculture, aquaculture, food security and bioeconomy. The Symposium will be held at the Municipal Cultural Centre Panos Solomonides, Limassol, Cyprus on October 6th, 2023, from 09:00 – 14:00. The Symposium will be held under the auspices of Cyprus’ Ministry of Agriculture, Rural Development and Environment.

The three EU Horizon-funded projects BrightSpace, GeneBEcon, and RATION co-organized a Pre-Congress Workshop in the frame of the 2023 Congress of the European Association of Agricultural Economists which was held in Remmes, France. The three project presented their work and cooperation in economic modelling, tackling issues related to the Farm to Fork Strategy.

RATION in collaboration with two other EU projects, Brightspace and GeneBEcon, is organizing a Pre-Congress Workshop with the title “Challenges for Implementing the EU Farm-to-Fork Strategy – Pests, Plants, and Profits – Inter-model Cooperation Between the Brightspace, GeneBEcon, and RATION Projects” in the morning of the 29th of August, 2023. The event will be linked with the XVII Symposium of European Association of Agricultural Economists. The workshop will be free for attendees and will be held in the Congress venue Couvent des Jacobins, Rennes.

On the 23rd of March 2023 the first workshop of the Stakeholders Forum of RATION was launched. The workshop was organized remotely with the participation of over 70 people including 50 members of the Stakeholders Forum and 20 representatives-members of the RATION project network. In the frame of the workshop the Coordinator Prof. Dimitrios Karpouzas presented the overall vision of RATION and of the objectives of the Stakeholders Forum.