EDA Column | IDM
9 2017 | international-dairy.com · 35
cus efforts on, going forward to improve environmental
performance. The business perspective will
be given by representatives from two international
companies with strong sustainability profiles:
Fredrik Wellendorph (Tetra Pak Business Stream
Director for Dairy, Tetra Pak) and Patrik Hansson
(Head of Arla Sweden). They will present how they
take on the environmental challenges and opportunities
in their respective company and how they
turn that into business opportunities.
"EDA Break-Out
Sessions" on Thursday,
28 September 2017
Our Sustainability Break-Out Session will be
chaired by Richard Laxton, sustainability manager
at Arla Foods, who drives as chair of our EDA
Sustainability working group the pre-competitive
work on our sustainability agenda:
"If we don’t have the right answers to the sustainability
challenges for the dairy sector, we will
not stay the leading dairy industry at global level.
This Sustainability Break Out session will focus on
the basis of basically all agricultural activity: land
and soil. I am convinced that those questions will
be become an important, if not the most important
issues in the future debates. Within the EDA
Sustainability Working Group, we do prepare for
these discussions. I invite you to experience the
EDA Sustainability Break Out Session and to get
ready for the future."
With Pierre Barrucand (ATLA) we will dive into
the topic of "Dairy & Biodiversity – our natural
capital", and Anna-Karin Modin-Edman (Arla Foods)
will update us on the latest science on "Pasture
land and carbon sequestration". Jaap Petraeus
(FrieslandCampina) has accepted to brief us on the
Dairy Sustainability Framework and its B2B tool.
Our Trade & Economics Break-Out Session
will be chaired by Wim Kloosterboer, corporate
manager trade and dairy affairs at Friesland-
Campina, who is the leader of our EDA Trade
and Economics Committee.
Wim did set up a program that reflects both,
the broad range of pre-competitive trade and
economic topics on our daily dairy agenda and
the in depth assessment of those dossiers
within our EDA work.
Wim Kloosterboer will open the session in giving
an insight on where the European ‘lactosphère’
stands vis-à-vis some of our ‘hot’ topics, like the
discussion on the future of the Common Agricultural
Policy (CAP) in the Union, the positioning of
the dairy sector within the BREXIT dossier or the
changes in the global trade landscape.
With Pablo Recio Gracia, Eibens consulting
Beijing, we have one of the most experienced
specialist on the Chinese dairy markets who is
ready to share with us his overall assessment of
the market developments and outlook in China.
Prof Dr Holger Thiele, ife institute, Kiel will
fuel our discussion on the future CAP with
his essential knowledge on dairy markets and
price volatility.
The EDA Annual Convention in Stockholm will
not only provide you with enriching presentations
from high level speakers and give you an
update on key dairy subjects, but will also offer
you an excellent opportunity to meet colleagues
from the European and global dairy sector.
Register now on www.eda2017.eu
Note the date!
27 February – 1 M arch 2018
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