Plants for the Future will host an event on plant breeding’s role in food security, reducing environmental impact, and supporting the bioeconomy. Topics include optimising biomass, breeding multipurpose crops, and new opportunities for farmers.
- bioeconomy | circular economy | environmental impact | innovation | renewable resources
- Monday 2 June 2025, 14:00 - 16:00 (CEST)
- Bruxelles, Belgium
- Country
- Belgium
Practical information
- When
- Monday 2 June 2025, 14:00 - 16:00 (CEST)
- Where
- COPA-COGECA officeRue de Trèves 61, 1040 Bruxelles, Belgium
- Languages
- English
- Part of
- Website
- Event website
- Social media links
Description
Plant breeding is the heart of our agrifood systems and the future of a more circular bioeconomy. In the last 20 years, plant breeding alone accounted for 67% of crop productivity gains in the EU.
As part of the Green Deal goals, the EU aims to move away from the use of fossil fuels towards a more circular bioeconomy. To succeed, alternative sources of carbon must be leveraged. Plants have an important role to play in providing a broad range of biobased materials for diverse purposes, but care should be taken to avoid competition between food, feed and raw biomass for the wider bioeconomy.
With this event, we aim to highlight the importance of plant breeding and how it can play a key strategic role in ensuring food security, while reducing the environmental impact of our agrifood systems and providing sufficient biobased raw materials for a growing bioeconomy.
The event is targeted to agri-food stakeholders, policymakers and researchers. The event will take the form of a series of presentations given by experts that give voice to different parts of the issue, as well as a panel discussion with all of them. This will be a hybrid event to ensure maximum accessibility, with the physical location in Brussels.
