Welcome to the 2023 People’s Food Summit: Europe Part 3

Welcome to the 2023 People’s Food Summit: Europe Part 3! This unique event is a major 24-hour event in celebration of World Food Day, October 16, 2023, featuring exciting speakers from every region of our planet. Find the full schedule and more here: https://bit.ly/3tr5Wtr

And welcome back to Rome everyone uh we’re here on the this time we’ve moved up to the roof of the FAO building and I’m here with Oliver oliveros from the agroecology Coalition hi Oliver hi Hi how are you doing Oliver another Oliver the Olivers reunite so Oliver from the

Regenerative movement and Oliver from the agroecology movement exactly exactly and we’re both United under under common goals common Visions transforming food systems for agroecology so your group is a part of the Coalition absolutely one of the early members right we are one of the early members yeah absolutely know

That’s fantastic and so the agroecology Coalition is based here in r which is the city of uh of food really the city of food absolutely absolutely that’s why we’re here for and we really wanted to take advantage of you know what the city represents in terms of food and

Agriculture policy uh conversations and um you know uh make take advantage of our presence here and that’s the reason why the Coalition is is uh based here um take advantage of all the conversations happening around try to link with people like-minded people and hopefully an area to influence conversations around

Agroecology and sustainable Food Systems transformation and so here the FAO agroecology has been recognized with 13 principles oh well absolutely I mean uh it’s it’s more of the 10 elements of agricology the language that FAO uses uh where 197 member states has approved um several years ago was the 10 elements of

Agricology and these 10 elements of agricology are fully aligned with the 13 principles of agricology as enshrined in the highlevel panel of experts report of the comitan food security the CFS so these two are the anchor of the Coalition this is sort of like I always

Say this is our compass that guides our work the way we want to go uh as long as you know we are led by these principles we should you know we should be moving in the right direction so to speak uh so well as we were just discussing

Now uh our people’s food Summit was um based on creating an event that was an alternative to the United Nations uh food system Summit uh that happened in 2021 uh in New York uh and we were part of the NOS that boycotted this Summit because the uh presidency was uh held by

Um the people that were behind the agricultural Green Revolution uh in Africa um and your Coalition you’re working within this food system Summit could you explain the work you’re doing in promoting agroecology um in this space what are you trying to achieve well I think we’re

Trying to make a point of that when you talk about systems probably the food system Summit is one of the very few if not the only un labeled Summit even if it’s a UN General Secretary General’s uh uh Summit where you have the word system in it and

I think that’s a very good entry point to drive home the point that we need to think systems we need to think holistic and we need to think about people so the food system Summit initially was framed as a people Summit that’s one and what is also framed as a system Summit and

When you talk about people when you talk about systems I mean agricology comes to mind and for me and for us within the Coalition it’s no brainer that we need to for lack of a better word ride on that Summit to be able to drive home the

Point that if we want to transform Our Food Systems we really need to make sure that we’re systems thinking and that we are looking at the welfare of the people and the planet as well you have uh United now many different stakeholders so NOS countries farmer organizations uh and uh research institutions um

And you’re organizing work groups so you’re a very young Coalition you started maybe a year ago yeah almost two years almost two years ago the Coalition is currently composed of 47 member states and 140 and still growing organizations from research to Civil Society to Academia uh Grassroots

Movement and and whatnot and uh the work of the Coalition is really we wanted to focus on three work streams or three thematic are areas one really is to facilitating the co-creation and exchange of knowledge on agroecology and knowledge meaning uh both a scientific but also an equally important knowledge

That is coming from the ground um the practices uh that U Grassroots uh Frontline actors and food systems are are doing and even what indigenous uh groups indigenous peoples have been doing since timey Memorial so the idea there is for the coalition to facilitate exchange and co-creation of knowledge on

Agricology the second one is to use that body of knowledge as as sort of like an Evidence to push for increased investments in agroecology let’s face it agroecology has receive a lot of attention and it has been you know it has been recognized or continuously growing in terms of um um attraction but

We feel that the level of um Investments that are pouring on agricology is not commensurate to the level of recognition that it is having now or the level of recognition that it deserves so we really think that we need to push donors public and private to really invest more

On agroecology that’s a second work stream the third work stream is really to look at um um having more political engagement and political will and support towards agroecological transformation and using spaces like the CFS the food system Summit the three Rio conventions on climate biodiversity and desertification as an entry point to

Really push the agricology agenda saying that through agricology you’re able to address your climate biodiversity and land targets and then of course I think we really need to Anchor conversations around agricology on health and nutrition as well because I mean healthy food healthy planet right so that’s also

One of the things that um that gains um um the the uh the following from from the common uh people from the consumers and from so general public in general so we’re trying to address those three um work streams are working along those three work streams in so far as the Coalition is

Concerned there are huge Investments uh going um into new markets such as uh Africa and we’re seeing uh large corporations large seed companies large Agri chemical corporations um wanting to push products that if we’re talking about agroecology we’re talking about traditional food systems traditional farming systems traditional seeds right um

And the biggest investors aren’t talking about investing in those traditional systems but into more um well this American Products Chinese products big organizations such as Asa Africa uh for instance you know they they’re they’re really calling out they’re really sounding the alarm Bell on uh corporate takeover of Food Systems no absolutely I

Think we really need to be vigilant around this there’s very much you know Pro susceptibility to greenwashing and we all know that right and I think it’s really important to keep the agre eological principles we really need to uphold those principles because that’s our Compass we know that you know if you

Want to be truly agre eological and through Food Systems transformation in a sustainable way you need to look at principles around Equity fairness governance diversity um healthy soil healthy environment Etc so you really need to make sure that we are looking at uh all these interventions with those 13

Principles as our lens otherwise we could easily sort of like Get swayed by you know let’s face it I mean private sector has so much funds going towards marketing and branding you know so there’s much much more empowered and into that part so our only um I think

Our only ammunition against that is being true to our principles and making sure that we know our principles well and these are you know the principles that guide the work of the Coalition and that’s essentially the 13 principles of of agroecology yeah okay okay thank you thank you very much Oliver just before

We just before we leave off so um for uh any anyone who wants to join the Coalition uh and take part what are the benefits why join well first and foremost you will be you know engaging with uh cool people with like-minded people who are really keen on addressing

And pushing for a sustainable Food Systems through agroecology and it’s not only the people that you would normally work with because if you are from the Civil Society group the tendency is to Camp with the Civil Society groups this you would be able to interact with people from different angles from

Research from philanthropy to donor to private sector uh small and medium enterpris and they’re all talking agricology from where they’re sitting so that enriches your perspective in so far as agricology is concerned it will allow you also to learn from what they’re learning what are the challenges of scaling agricology

So that will give you some insights on the you know the challenges that they’re facing and how you know you are able to overcome that hopefully and then of course there are several things that were lining up as well in terms of uh those different work streams that I

Mentioned uh in terms of funding in terms of policy uh conversations so we wanted to to sort of like present agricology as a platform where members are able to not only source uh uh identify sources of funding but more importantly to influence how funding can be made by engaging in conversations

With donors both public and private but also for those who are engaging in policy conversations uh from Global to Regional and at the national level as well Oliver thank you very much thanks very much Oliver thank you fantastic thank you next up a presentation from Patrick worms the president of the

International Union for Agro forestry Oliver um your your audience might remember that I’m really into nature-based Solutions right I’m an agro Forester I work as a science policy adviser for a big research organization called World Agro forestry I am the President of something called the international Union of Agro forestry and

I help set up and I’m still the vice president of the European AGR forestry Federation and the reason I do that is not only because it’s really fun to watch things grow but also because watching things grow well is such a giant help in managing the consequences

Of our carbon greed because let’s face it we all love our carbon don’t we so perhaps I can I I I can start by by by explaining what I mean by this and how that how important this is and just launch into a presentation how about that buffering the climate is what we’ve

Got to play at right and the reason we’ve got to play at that is because we have been so absolutely lousy at doing anything about our carbon emissions we’ve been talking about it since the 1990s we’ve realized this was a problem since the 1860s but while we’ve talked about it

We’ve done very very little to stop putting long lift greenhouse gases into the atmosphere and the reason for that as this chart shows is everybody’s getting on the fossil fuel bandwagon because fossil fields are great they heat you a house they give you food they allow you to travel they give you

Entertainment they make life a place of pleasure and comfort that the kings of Y might never have noticed but of course what we know here is that this is a massive problem and it’s a problem that leads in the European context to all of the disasters

Uh that seem to have come hot on the heels one of after another this summer the floods in Greece for example followed soon after by the floods in in Libya the various forest fires that have been striking the Mediterranean from Portugal in the west to Cyprus in the

East the storms and the only good picture I found was a picture from 2009 just to remind us that this is not a new problem we’ve known that these issues are going to be massive issues and we’ve known it for a long time we also know that agriculture so

Often portrayed as a solution to these issues is actually part of the problem right because it consumes an enormous amount of land and water and it employs a huge number of people and it generates a large number of greenhouse gases all why generating less than 5% of global

Wealth yes it’s the global wealth that feeds our bodies so it’s the global wealth that we love having in the fridge and on the dinner table but it is nevertheless a broken industry and it’s a broken industry that has a direct impact on um on the planet when we think

Of land degradation for example we tend to think of areas like the ones in Africa areas that look like this areas that are desertified and in which we expect people to have difficulty feeding themselves but that would be mistaken because in practice land degradation is affecting every part of the planet

Including the rich soils of the American Midwest the Brazilian serado the Chinese flood plane and Ukraine this is what that looks like that kind of land degradation it’s a big modern farming system but the guy plowed his land and prepared his seed bed just before there was some wind and the soil

Is blowing away or he planted his crops and wanted a little bit of rain to harvest his crops but with climate change the rain increasingly turns into storms and so your soil is being washed away and when you look at how much impact that has on the climate itself

You come up with figures that range from 20 to 30% sometimes even 40% depending on how you do your calculations it’s difficult to understand exactly how much carbon agriculture is putting into the air but we all agree it’s a lot the beautiful news is none of that

Is necessary we can grow all the food we need while locking down carbon and while fixing our delerious impacts on soils we can fix this and fixing it is not terribly complicated you don’t need big tractors and GMOs and the latest chemistry and all of that stuff you only

Need two things the management of trees and the management of livestock and sometimes that means the management of livestock in trees so let’s see what that means let’s see what these good agricultural systems look like they boil down into four categories the so-called silver pastoral systems those are the

Systems where you mix livestock with trees and clockwise from top left what you have here are examples from Poland where this guy is running mil cows under his apple orchard from Finland where the reindeer are munching on the lyen in the winter from Salon oh sorry from Bina

Faso where the cattle are eating the Stover the leftover material from the crops under these Shear trees and we all use Shia either in our beauty products or in our chocolate there’s a lot of sheia in chocolate and at the bottom left um the patanegra pigs that are

Running in the cork oak savanas of Portugal so all of these systems are called Silver pastoral because they are pastures animals under trees then you have the silver arable systems arable means farming and silver means trees so logically enough these are the systems where you put trees in farmlands and

Again from clockwise from top left where what you have are examples of a maze field in Zambia with trees that are legumes they fix nitrogen so they provide fertilizer to the maze at the top right you have an example of an energy crop that copies Tree on the

Right in alleys in England at the bottom right you have an agroforestry system in Sri Lanka where the agroforestry component are the small shrubby things and the crop are the big tall things the coconuts and at the bottom left you have an silver arable system with wheat and

Popers in France what they all have in common is that the trees are helping the crops to grow and protect them from extreme weather and the crops help the trees to grow and so suddenly you have two different things growing from your land that you can

Sell the third and the most important of sorry the most effective of these agricultural systems are the polycultures um they are also the most difficult to make work in the modern world because instead of growing one crop or one crop than one tree you’re growing 17 or 20 different things on a

Given plot of land it’s really really really complex it’s really really really effective in terms of using ecosystem services to put carbon in the soil to get biodiversity back and to grow a lot of high quality stuff but it’s really really difficult to make work in a market system because a guy who’s

Turning up with this crop to collect your I don’t know your bananas is not going to be interested in your vanilla so in here from the top left we have the chuga Gardens on the slopes of M Manjaro in Tanzania we have a modern oil palm Agro forestry system in Brazil at the

Bottom right we have a modern keyline system in New York state and at the bottom left we have a coffee banana vanilla clofa and I forget what else system in Uganda all of these systems are really really impactful and those amongst your listeners who understand permaculture will recognize that

Permaculture resembles a lot like this permaculture is a form of polyculture which is ideally adapted to the production of high value Goods such as fruits and vegetables now the four system I don’t have any illustration for because it would get us off into a beautiful rabbit

Hole but we don’t have the time and those are the grasslands grasslands well managed are a crucial part of managing the planet but what we have now is a framework a mental framework to understand what we can do and if we look at how powerful they are we can simply

Look at these charts here for example is the measured sequestration rate the amount of carbon being locked down by a popular Agro forestry system on a so-called 30-year rotation you let your trees grow for 30 years you cut them you plant them again and what you see is

That as the trees grow they capture a huge amount of carbon they’re putting carbon in the soil and they’re capturing carbon in their bodies in their wood if then you turn that popler into Timber to build a house that carbon is locked away for decades maybe centuries of course if

You turn it into toilet paper that carbon goes back into the atmosphere soon enough as it the toilet paper runs away in the sewage plant but you already see the idea of how trees are helping to capture down carbon and so if you look at the

Um what that could give if you do it at scale and this is a simple system it’s one type of tree popers planted in one type of farming system Aral and this is the annual increment in carbon it could lock down year after year after year it

Varies between 150 and 250 million tons of CO2 and that’s just for the UK and the UK is just one small island on the size of this planet that gives you some idea of the potential that AGR forest and how widely could you spread Agro forestry how big could it be well

Just look at this map what it does is it shows you the popul the the the the density of tree cover on agricultural lands across Europe red means there is no trees you really have to squint to see a little bit of green in southern Italy and southern Spain and Portugal um in

The mountainous area of central France each and every one of these fields could benefit from having trees on them and I don’t just mean that they could benefit us the wider public by helping to draw down carbon I mean that they could benefit the farmers themselves because

Trees help farming work better and what I’m going to do now is just explain very simply why trees are so important and when you think about it it’s obvious for example trees have much deeper roots and crops that means that they can suck up nutrients from deep in the soil build

Their bodies and their leaves with it and then in winter when the leaves in Autumn when the leaves fall down and rot the nutrients that the tree pump from deep in the soil is available at the surface of the field and therefore becomes available to crops so having a

Tree in your field is like having a fertilizer Factory in your in your field then especially as we get these increasing droughts and these increasing storms trees are really good at buffering things we all know that it’s wetter and cooler under a tree when there’s a drought what we may not

Realize is that trees are giant rain catching devices when there’s a storm all that water runs along the branches the trunk and the roots of the trees and get stored underground instead of rushing off in a big sheet into the nearest river so it’s a flood control

Measure too and we’ve measured that at scale and we’ve noticed that is when you have this intermediate tree density not too many trees as in a forest or not too few trees as in a degraded landscape that you have the most water recharg in the ground that’s what this chart shows

Um the red arrow pointing up is the amount of water that’s rain water that’s intercepted and transpired Again by the plants and obviously the more trees you have the more of this transpiration you have the yellow arrow pointing up is the amount of evaporation you have from the

Soil and obviously the fewer trees you have the more evaporation you have the surface runoff the orange arrow pointing to the left shows that the less trees you have the less obstacles you have to water simply running away and you have more and more water running off what’s

Interesting to us because we’ve got all these aquifers that are being pumped dry by our farming system is how we can encourage most of them the maximum amount of that water to come back down and that’s the blue arrow pointing down in the forests you don’t have a lot of

Water recharge because the trees use up all the water and transpire it again in the degraded land you don’t have a lot of recharge because it mostly evaporates away or runs off into the river but in the intermediate tree coverland the AGR forestry Landscapes that’s where you maximize groundwater recharge

Right it also helps deal with the pollution of fertilizers a big problem that you have in places like the us or Europe or now increasingly Brazil is that excess fertilizer runs off into the rivers or into the groundwater supplies and it’s difficult to get rid of it’s a

Pollutant that’s bad in drinking water so it’s bad for babies and pregnant woman it’s just a bit of a hassle and the best way of getting rid of it is to use less of it the second best way of getting rid of it is to have an agroforestry system because if you look

At the little drawing at the bottom in the AGR forestry system the tree roots go under the crop roots and all the fertilizer that the crops didn’t use gets absorbed by the trees and that’s why you find in the blue bar that the Agro forestry system has much less

Leeching of nitrogen than the red bar which is the pure agricultural system I told you a while ago that the crops protect the trees well here’s an example here’s what happens when you do real hard signs in AGR forestry you dig all all around your tree and you count the number of

Rootlets and that gives you this kind of graph on the left you have a graph that shows you the density the root density meaning the meters of rootlets per cubic meter of soil by depth the deeper you go the fewer Roots you have in the agroforestry

System on the right most of the rootlets are between one and a half and 3 MERS down because close to the surface there’s no room the crops root the crop roots are using it so when you have a drought in the forestry system the tree starts growing there’s no more water in

The Agro forestry system the tree keeps growing because down down deep at one and a half two meters there’s still water even when there’s a drought near the surface and it’s because of all of these impacts and because they are so ignored that when I see a picture like this I go

Good Lord we have to educate our Farmers because this picture which comes from the website of a big um agrochemical company is supposed to suggest how bounous how productive your field is going to be if you use their products instead once you understand how Agro ecosystems work you see a late

Summer Landscape in uh sorry an early Summer Landscape in Europe um probably 14 to 16 hours of sunlight which is not used there’s no photosynthesis it rains in the summer in Europe that water is not used either at least in this system when you harvest your Aral crops you

Continue using sun and water and that’s why the land equivalency ratio the amount of land that you need to have the same productivity as one hectare of AGR forestry by monocropping your crops and by monocropping your Forest is always larger than what you get in Agro forestry and that’s raw cash Farmers

Make more money from Agro forestry now why is that so useful from a climate change perspective it’s because incentives make the world go around farmers are not going to plant trees if it’s going to cost them money but we want Farmers to plant trees not only because of the carbon that locks down

But also because good management is a protection against climate change here is a fire that killed over a 100 people in Portugal a few years ago it burned in land that was abandoned and not managed these lands which were just 10 kilm away which are managed as a silver p system

When the fire turns up there nothing much happens it’s only the grass that burns the trees don’t burn because there’s no shrubs there’s no fuel on the ground here’s what happened in that French storm I told you about so many trees were destroyed by the winds that they had become valueless the Sawmills

Couldn’t keep up this is a picture taken of a nro forestry system a silver arable system in the same area the next summer six months later as you’ll notice there’s not a single Gap in those tree lines Why the trees have much deeper Roots they are squatter they can resist

The wind which a plantation can’t and these kind of Landscapes can easily disappear if you remember what our ancestors did which is to plant Hedges because Hedges diminish wind speeds they capture sediment that’s flying across the air they keep the soil in place and the same thing happens for this kind of

Erosion all you have to do do is use key lines to help them to slow down the water and help the water deposit its sediments now do you want to take my word for it no take the word of the ipcc the International Panel on climate change because what the ipcc is saying

Is that these principles which all together are known as agroecology farming that works with natural processes they Rock they support food security nutrition Health well-being livelihoods biodiversity sustainability and ecosystem services and then if you’re a scientist you love these two words in parenthesis there high confidence high confidence simply

Means they’ve looked at thousands of scientific papers and the consensus is overwhelming that this works but that then leads us to a question if this is the future why does the world look like this more and more well there’s a number of reasons one is yes we’re clever animals but we still

Like to divide things up into smaller bits and pieces to manage them so we’ve got ministries of Agriculture and ministries of Forestry and ministries of environment and ministries of Finance but the world doesn’t look like that in the world all these bits and pieces are mixed up and the nutrients the water the

Genes everything flows it’s a life dynamic system the next problem we have especially in Europe is labor is really expensive Social Security costs and all the extra income taxes that people have to play but borrowing money is cheap even today when interest rates are much higher than they were a couple of years

Ago it’s still much much cheaper to borrow money to buy a tractor than to pay some workers then we all love progress right we don’t like the old ways but the old ways mixed up the shops and the producers and the housing and the factories whereas the new ways put

Everything into their own little corner factories over here education over there housing here all connected by roads needing Petrol gas and cars and by the way this wasn’t just an issue for the capitalist world this was an issue for the Communist world as well this is a poster from Soviet times showing how

Great Soviet agriculture is there’s no green in it there’s no animals in it there’s just a fertilizer Factory and an army of tractors marching proudly into the future then another reason is yes we are clever animals but even as adults we sometimes behave like toddlers you know what it’s like those

Of you who have children know that when they are four or five years old and you put the presents at Christmas under the tree and they open that present they will not play with their old toys ever more they will just play with their new present they forget what

They already have and we were the same we found these wonderful tools fertilizers pesticides uh mechanized agriculture these are powerful tools just imagine how powerful they are you have a pet problem you spray something it’s gone for thousands of years pest problems meant lower crops sometimes they meant famine suddenly all you had

To do was spray a cheap chemical on it and it’s gone fertilizer just imagine the labor of carrying fertilizer in the form of manure around and growing your food now all you have to do is pour it out of a bag these are extraordinary P

Tools and I’m glad we have them but we behave like toddlers we forgot the old tools we have and that’s leading to problems it’s also leading to a problem of inflence these tools are cheap but because they work so well you can sell them to hundreds of millions of farmers

Around the world so you make a huge pile of cash whereas advising people to manage their trees and their livestock better that makes less cash and that means with all of that cash that they have they can do more marketing they can do more lobbying they can buy more

Influence they can do more research and then Market is growing year after year after year and it’s leading to Insidious things like the feed the world say oh my God we’ve got climate change and our population are growing we need to grow 70% more food to feed everybody or we’ll

Have mass starvation and what that means is we need to increase Global calorie production so we can only do that really on large Farms with big tractors and specialized seeds and better fertilizers in other words we have a discourse that is geared to kicking small farmers off

The land to kicking agroecology of the land and to replace it with more of the same on the mistaken at least bizarre assumption that you can fix the problem of modern agriculture by doing more modern agriculture however even with all of that they are losing they are

Losing and the reason they are losing is because farmers are not stupid Farmers know trees are important and all already today we know that over 40% of all agricultural land on the planet has more than 10% tree cover and that’s Rising year after year yes it’s rising slowly but it is rising not

Diminishing and again the scientists they know it too if in agriculture you want to do something to boost mitigation and adaptation and desert and reduce desertification and reduce land degradation and increase food security what can you do apart from increased food productivity which is like asking

Mommy for more pocket money what you can do is use Agro forestry it’s the cheapest and most effective tool we have at our disposal and imp I didn’t talk about grazing but improved grazing management delivers almost as well and that ladies and gentlemen is why I am an

Optimist it is because not only do we have the tools that we need to manage our our Agro ecosystems suck down carbon and make them more resilient to the increasingly dire weather conditions we are getting but these tools are either cheap or they make Farmers money and the

Only reason they’re not spreading more rapidly is because we live in an environment in which the people who dominate the discourse are the people who sell the chemicals but even they are beginning to realize that simply more chemicals is not going to be enough so

We are at the cusp of a revolution in agroecology in the management of our Landscapes and I’m convinced that by the time my children reach my age the farming Landscapes of the world will look completely different to what they look like today thank you well thank you

Patrick worms our dear friend for that tremendous presentation on agroforestry and always staying very European now we’re going to meet uh German in Portugal Mr Philip burer from climate Farmers climate Farmers seeks to scale up the transitioning of conventional systems to regenerative organic philli the floor is yours nice

Yeah pleasure to be here everybody it’s kind of a first time that I’m actually participating in a conference from the village where it all started for me so in case you’re wondering what the what the weird background is I’m sitting in the choosa mountain range in central Portugal um in a formerly abandoned

Village as you can see around me um we basically bought the village here and about a plan in 2017 and that is what got me on the path towards regiona of Agriculture got me interested in it and then in 2019 I did a one-year pilgrimage visiting all the

Ventive farmers I could find in Western Europe wasn’t that many at that point there was 60 farmers and I stayed and worked with those farmers and from those conversations with the farmers developed the idea of climate Farmers which I founded together with my co-founder Evo

Dian in summer of uh 202 20 and um what I will be sharing with you here is the Ser of change that we’re having so it’s basically a little bit distilled as much as possible into a 5 to 10 minute conversation the learnings that we have made in working with Farmers across

Europe and supporting them in the transition to regenerative agriculture so I think uh seeing that you’re all here in this conference I’m assuming we can all agree on this one the current agricultural system has failed us in many different ways not only in providing us with nutritious

Food but also in staying in line with the uh planetary boundaries which I’m sure you have all heard about um agriculture is currently responsible for 24% of all greenhouse gas emissions and it’s responsible for crossing four of the nine planetary boundaries especially also the biodiversity loss being one of

The crucial ones due to uh a lot of our practices that we currently are using the good thing is we do have a potential solution with rega of Agriculture we know already that it really helps with the biodiversity crisis that it really helps with also water shortages through

The sequestration of water in the soil it helps with CO2 emissions through Co CO2 sequestration it helps with adaption to climate change and also with quite practical issues that farmers are experiencing in terms of the rising Fuel and fertilizer costs which are many times uh well lower in regenerative agriculture

Practices um so what are we uh talking about when we’re talking about Regina of Agriculture we are talking about agriculture which is focusing on building up soil Health as part of that um it reverses erosion it uh builds biodiversity and it captures carbon and all of these things we already know for

A long time um there are papers from V University from the 80s and 90s already talking about these benefits however uh despite the hype that we have especially experienced in the last two years and the many commitments that we have heard from uh Global Food corporates on the

Topic nowadays we still don’t see weina of Agriculture being adopted at scale now I think this is a good point to mention that we and as climate farmers and me personally are working in the European context so everything that I’m saying in this presentation is applicable for the European context I

Don’t really know what’s going on in the rest of the world but I know that in Europe we still don’t have more than a few thousand Farmers practicing Regina of Agriculture um and uh we have 10.5 million farmers in the Europe Union so if we are now at 0.1% and that’s already

Quite a lot and there still a very long way to go um if we are talking about scaled regenerative agriculture what do we mean um we believe that uh what we need to get to is 10% of All European Farmland to be under regenerative management because we have seen that it

Has an amazing effect when you bring Farmers on regenerative Farms farmers are not impressed by PowerPoint presentations but they are impressed when they’re going on a farm they’re seeing the effects of regenerative Agriculture and we believe that if we have 10% then we have enough model farms

For other Farmers to visit and from there on we see an avalan effect because we can see how it actually works in practice in order to get there we also believe that we need to recognize that Reg of Agriculture makes sense economically Farmers on firsthand business people they need to run a

Profitable farm and so we need to show that Reg generative agriculture is profitable and not only benefiting the planet but actually also benefiting the farm and the well-being of the farmer by providing more financial income how do we get there we have two ways and two la which is knowledge and

Finance on the knowledge side of things we very much focus on the mindset over the last 50 years farmas have consecutively been pushed to focus exclusively on yield and uh nothing else for example through the common agricultural policy where you get rewarded based on size of farm and uh

What you’re planting but not really looked at what’s going on on the farm and what the ecosystem services are so we are supporting farmers in this mindset shift away from a focus on need towards a focus on soil health and on checking what are actually the inputs on

The direct environment of the farm that I’m in um in terms of adequate financing we believe that we need to measure what regeneration is taking place and then we need to pay a society for the Regeneration that’s going on there this could be through subsidies but it could

Also be through other mechanisms for example right now we’re also speaking with insurance companies who were to pay major damages to um due to flooding uh for example my hometown G in West Germany got flooded two years ago and there was 31 billion euros in Damages in

Those floods which you might remember in Germany and the Netherlands these floods would not have happen in the same way if we would have healthy soils which would be absorbing water um so this is one of the many interesting areas that we could be looking into um among others also for

Example carbon sequestration and biodiversity increase which we will later be getting to so we have been testing a lot and we’ve been speaking a lot with Farmers especially in 2020 and in 2021 and since last year we are actively uh engaged in five key projects which we believe are bringing most value

For farmers and for uh systems change towards more regenerative practices the first part is a farm Enterprise analysis so we are sitting down with Farmers that are getting in contact with us and we’re helping them to analyze what the current situation on their Farm is what the prediction on the

Farm would be in terms of uh impact of climate change what the um profitable parts of the farm are and which parts of the farm would make most sense to transition towards regenerative agriculture we do not recommend to transform an entire farm at once but to start with parts of the farm because

It’s a step-by-step Journey um we also providing our Farmers with a free community because many of the farmers that I visited on my farm tour in 2019 have reported to me that they were very surprised there’s actually other people doing the same thing I was very surprised that all of these leading

Reg generative Farmers did not know of each other so uh we organized the conference where we brought all of them together in the world’s only farmers Castle in southern Germany and we are organizing online and offline events for farmers and we also connect them via WhatsApp initially we tried to do and

Mighty Gathering and everything but it was very hard to get Farmers on these platforms and they love to engage with each other but they all had WhatsApp and they wanted to stay on WhatsApp so this is what we’re using right now and here we see a lot of Engagement and a lot of

Support that farmers are giving res in terms of practices but also just life in general then uh we got a lot of feedback from our Farmers that they um want to have support and figuring out what the transition towards reg of Agriculture could look like in their context but

It’s very hard to filter who are the ones that can actually help them and that know what they’re talking about and who are the ones which have a fancy website but not much behind this and that’s why we built a farmer backed consultant agency where all of the

Consultants are verified by Farmers from our community so that farmers that Booker consultant through us know that they actually by booking someone that can really help them and they can also check with other farmers who that consultant has worked with in the past then we’re working on something

Which we call a transition blueprint now the transition towards reg generative AG is very context specific but despite that there are still certain patterns which you can follow so what we’re looking at is as we said already we start with with a mindset of the farmer

We look at what is the personal context who are the different stakeholders um what do the stakeholders want um for the personal life balance then we look at the farm business context um which are the parts of the farm which can best be improved which are no profitable what is

Ecological context of the farm what is the soul type what are the weather conditions then we’re making an implement a plan together with our um experts and we match them with other peers and then we’re collecting data on uh the transition process on a yearly basis and report back to the farmer how

The transition is going um in order to do this we developed our own MV technology which is monitoring reporting and verification which is a combination of satellite imagery here we’re using Sentinel 2 which is a freely available satellite from the European Union as well as soil

Analysis as well as l through the help of our academic Partners such as for example bigan um with this we have one tool which we’re having for Farmers to get paid which is what we call our regeneration credit where we’re essentially measuring the increase in carbon in the soil the increase in water

Retention in the soil the increase in biodiversity and are also involved in some studies on nutrient density in reg generative Agriculture and all of this we bundle together and then we match the farmers with corporates in their direct local proximity who want to compensate their CO2 emissions by supporting a

Farmer in the transition to Regent agriculture here we’re very much focusing on the local factor on reestablishing a relationship between the corporate and the farmer so we also enable the companies which are buying the credits from a farmer to visit that farm as well so they can see with their

Own eyes what’s going on on the farm um and closing off with some of the farmers which we are working with such as for example Francisco Alves who is a 700 Hector farmer in southern Portugal who had a lot of issues with Stout um he is doing holistic management now and he’s

Integrating trees into his farming and he now has green grass in June which has before been unheard of in his regions and um this is some of the practices which he’s having such as keyline design uh the multispecies Agro forestry system and also an olive and Island growth that

Is planted together with us on 30 hectares of the farm another farmer is bened ganadera who’s a 400 hectare farmer in southern Spain and this is a very interesting one because we see that women are one of the driving for forces in regenerative agriculture to additionally there’s less than 10%

Female farmers in agriculture in regenerative agriculture we see this numbers substantially higher and we see many women who are taking over the farm of their parents as the first women in their family history and then taking it on the regenerative pass so is also the case with batricia who is the fourth

Generation and the first uh female farmer who’s running the farm there um she is also establishing holistic grazing and there a multispecies grazing system here where she’s combining essentially sheeps goats and cows as it would also happen in nature and then last but not least we have Juan Manuel

From aan oilo who’s also from southern Spain who is an Arab crop farmer who is with us also integrating animals on the farm and especially establishing better Water Systems which he’s financing through the Regeneration credits um he’s currently working on building a lagoon on his farm in order to have a natural

Way of increasing his own water storage capacity he’s doing no till and direct seeding practice I es and also integrating multispecies grazing systems and if you are curious now you can just go to climate Farmers or you can find me on LinkedIn and you can get

In touch if you are interested in either supporting farmers in your supply chain and transitioning to Regent of Agriculture or supporting some of our Farmers by purchasing our regeneration credits from them looking forward to hear from you and wishing you a great conference thank you philli and thank

You climate Farmers for all the work you are doing to help facilitate the transition to regenerative agriculture here in Europe so what we would love to do is actually uh make Pawns in the field so like big pawns that also gigantically increase biodiversity so it’s a fantastic thing to have in your

In your field anyway and uh somehow come up with a system to to store the water that the the pwns capture in autumn and winter when it actually rains and use that water again um in the garden in in spring and Summer I was actually always um sort of wrestling with the Divide between nature and culture that we make in our society and uh I wanted to study biology and art at the same time it was not allowed by the exam Committee of the university and I always had the feeling that this split

Is something uh we should somehow um come to a new ways of living together with non-humans plants animals microbes uh and have a sort of fundamental different society and how can we actually tackle issues that are so urgent right now climate change biodiversity loss but also uh a loss of

Community at the same time and when I was was looking into that together with my partner Ricardo Cano Spanish biologist we sort of figured out that the way to come to a human and nature inclusive landscape that could actually address all those issues is regenerative farming the agricultural plots that we

Have now are sort of lost plots I would say they’re completely um made for fossil fuel agriculture which means that you can only come there 10 times a year you plow you mow you spray you harvest and you go home but you’re not bound anymore to the

Ground and for this kind of Agriculture you need to be there so we were really looking for a place where we had to trust that we could be here long term and we found that here in this specific plot where state of Ro because the uh the baroness who actually owns this plot

Is also a transition coach so she immediately understood what her Farm was about a real y she’s she’s real baress yeah yeah she lives over there in a real baress house yeah this was still grass field in uh April so lots of work but the market Garden is it’s really amazing how fast

Uh you can actually build a quality Market Garden uh with with just this this simple uh ingredients of compost uh wood chips and just uh embracing all kinds of life and then it goes really fast our soil life is now really thriving my plants I mean it’s the end of October and they’re

Still growing so uh yeah that that has been Amazing putting up the water system too late that was really challenging because uh we especially had quite already a very dry spring and of course very dry summer so the water system was not in place uh I think until June fully that was super challenging yeah yeah because

That meant like 2 hours extra of of work uh watering the Garden yeah we are also working with another entrepreneur who has uh cow and he graes the uh actually um uh nature areas and he is collaborating with us I called it like Le cow so he comes in he graes our field and sort of in exchange for uh part of the Le

And uh then it can leave the cows for as long as the holistic racing allows for it so that gives us the the input for the of the of the cows which is wonderful but we are uh have a plot of five hectar so you cannot have cows

There permanently so we have our chickens permanently and the cows come in and Out so what we would love to do is actually uh make Pawns in the fields so like big pawns that that also gigantically increase biodiversity so it’s a fantastic thing to have in your in your field anyway and uh somehow come up with a system to to store the water

That the the pawns capture in autumn and winter when it actually rains and use that water again um in the garden in spring and summer so how can we come up with a system that we can actually store the water from the ponds in some kind of

Prototype perhaps that could work as a regenerative prot type for a lot more farmers and uh water the garden with that without disturbing the pond in the most crucial months in uh spring in which for of course amphibians and for a lot of other species it’s an essential

Habitat that would be great yeah I think we we need to come up with a solution for for the water issue because it’s it’s a very urgent issue and uh I really believe if we do nothing about it then they might even um uh put in a stop on the on the pumping

Which would be disastrous we want to create a resilient forest garden basically which is a has an integrated Market Garden which is more efficient in a way and then the forest garden has more a long-term goal of yeah creating fertility over a longer time storing water creating shade and we

Actually farming about onethird of what we could Farm here so we we would like to regenerate that that part of the Land I I studied uh cinematography in Holland and um that was uh before 2006 already uh and then in 2006 I decided to to come to Portugal I realized uh that I wanted to do something more with ecology so I wanted to use those skills that I had developed for making uh documentaries

And um something that was more into yeah ecology and I I studied nutrition so I was um already into food and into healthy food and but I definitely felt that I didn’t know enough about where food came from and uh how it was produced and how that had influence on

Our health as well I think in 2011 we really seriously got to doing that making a documentary about Ern Scotch who um yeah inspired us immensely we spent 15 days with Ernest gach which was amazing and changed our Liv life we we after a few days we put our camera on

The tripod and we decided to really go handson I think what we have learned besides the fact that this is a Mediterranean climate and has very hot summers uh so we will need always a lot of water yeah I mean there’s like four or five months is Without Rain sometimes

Yes yeah we we want to create a resilient forest garden basically which is a has an integrated Market Garden which is more ient in a way and then the forest garden has more a long-term goal of yeah creating fertility over a long time storing water creating shade and we

Actually farming about onethird of what we could Farm here so we we would like to regenerate that that part of the land it needs obviously quite an investment for the labor and for the compost and seeds and plants and trees and and and tools that we need need and water you

Know irrigation all those things to set up that that part of the land I think our farming is really based on these permaculture principles where diversity is Key so I think the goals for the future for lug Tera and our little family is to make a very nice Diversified Homestead with a lot of different angles where people can learn where people can uh yeah come and experience um how food is being produced on a sustainable way how

The soil can be treated differently and how how we can create soils that are more rich in carbon and more rich in organic matter over time this is uh this is essential to to new farming and to regenerate land yeah definitely We want to go on with uh definitely planting more trees in the next year we have kind of a sponsorship model for um fruit trees and nut trees so yeah people can support that us so that we can buy the trees and management because yeah the management is really important is

Often forgotten and cost a lot of money and time so it would be like adopting a tree basically Yeah yeah I studied organic farming in small University near buin and I kind of specialized on Agro forestry doing that so I wrote my both theist The Bachelors and the Masters in this um topic field and yeah I had a lot of time during the studies to kind of look out

Inside the box so we went traveling a lot and um gain experience on different Farms on yeah different conditions and I was yeah more and more impressed by alternative systems like permac agroecology AGR forestry reg regenerative agriculture and rest and then when we started to farm it was more

Less kind of work at That yeah the farm more or less found us we have to F because uh the land is owned by the church and they were looking for people to set up their organic farm and take care about the land and that was exactly what we wanted at that point we got

Together felt very easy going negotiations yeah well it sounds pretty easygoing but it took quite a long time to get all the regulations done be started more or less without any contracts for two years until we got the con for the F place but then everything F yeah one of the biggest

Brings I would say is the the day is only like 24 hours and there’s really a lot of stuff to do and you set up with different um branches have the market Garden get tickets we have we took an abandon place we had a lot of construction all the Principle learn what it Means yeah well we want to go on developing the farm holistically so we just need kind of an organism so and we’re going to go on with uh definitely planting more trees in the next years Sy and Forestry system one of the main plans for the

Next yeah I think the biggest thing is really need to finance the trees so that we have kind of a sponsorship model for fruit trees and nut trees so yeah people can support that us so that we can buy a lot of money and time so it would

Be like adopting a tree basically yeah what we are trying to do here is to make um the farm better and more efficient on the same surface we want to be even more independent from the the company where we sell uh transplants from temperature

And humidity we have to um be able to to control it better we are thinking about um some kind of passive solar Greenhouse system with 3 or 4,000 we can do This I basically started really small um I had a sort of a a vegetable garden project with my brother I was mainly into the vegetable growing itself and started um as some research uh on that field and so I stumbled upon guys like Jean Martin forer and Elliot Colman

Um and Curtis Stone on YouTube they were basically um about uh intensive organic farming on a real small acreage um so that fitted into my context um and um that was the starting points for me to to Experiment the region around hent was known for for its ornamental flowers growing um and they were mostly grown um in in heated green houses but um at a certain points um it wasn’t viable anymore to um to heat these green houses so there are a lot of green houses

Abandoned or or not really in use anymore they are a bit old but basic structure of these green houses is perfect for non-heated um organic uh vegetable growing year round we found it online and this is a really small plot um the greenhouse seems big but the the plot itself is is

Like a half hectar so uh I think most farmers who were thinking about this place if this could be interesting we’re we’re looking for something bigger uh but I was already into this intensive um farming I already experimented with that and I could think this is was possible

In here so I was the only one who D to jump and uh to do this we are experimenting with um the with between uh the plants so often there there’s still if the the cabbages are really small for example there’s still like 40 cm off half a meter between

Them with uh the possibility to grow something in between that it it’s much more faster yeah it’s try and error um but if something fit together like um onions and carrots or leaks and carrots um yeah it gives you an extra Harvest out of the same surface so it’s really cool I have

Some examples that work and um I think that the book of family be um has like um 35 uh possible systems where vegetables grow together so they already um have a large library of things that that could work what we are trying to do here is in

The following years is to make um the farm better and more efficient on the same surface so if we finish a crop um we we try to replant it um then if it’s possible the next week or the same day um so that’s just an always evolving process of of making this more

Efficient we are already working in the greenhouse so this is a perfect uh place to um to to to grow the the transplants um but we want to be even more independent from the The the company where we sell uh transplants from but then temperature and humidity we have to um be able to to control it better um so we are thinking about um some kind of passive solar Greenhouse system I think because we we can incorporate it in the in the in the main

Greenhouse we can with 3 or 4,000 we can uh do this yeah cool let’s make it happen thanks okay I really would like to reduce drastically reduce our water consumption here um in the producing of vegetables and therefore I would love to um install drip irrigation for the for big big parts of

The field um and combine that with a mouse But my husband and I we’ve always been interested into being member of of a CSA but most of the others are a few kilometers far from hitaka and I always thought it doesn’t make sense to drive myself once a week for 20 kilm to then have a a low carbon produced vegetable

In my basket and that’s why we really wanted to have our CSA here in Haka everybody told us that it would be very difficult to find a gardener and we were lucky to had some interested gardeners to to appear and to introduce themselves and youa said he’s somewhere in France

And he’s looking where he wants to settle down and we thought okay maybe he wouldn’t call again and then he called Next he was already in Haka because he was watching for a flet yeah it was basically like that after my four years training in biodynamic

Agriculture I took like one year off to um yeah roam around a bit and see what life’s like without farming and then at some point I was on my way back from Portugal already um when I somehow bumped into this uh work offer of the um um CSA here in h

And yeah that’s when I immediately felt like this resonance yeah that’s that could be something and then I caught up um Julie’s husband and yeah 10 days 10 days later I was in Kaka already and then we actually signed your flat contract before you signed our contract that’s true that’s true very Trusting uh this piece of land was already here and it always here and not used for more than 15 years uh it belongs to a a former Farm on the other side of the road and then it was too small for normal agricultural um usage and it was too

Much in the city as well and that was perfect for us actually we are in our first season we started um with the planning in January only I came in December we started in January and then we had 45 members 45 shares already in February and now we are yeah at the kind

Of end of our first season with 65 uh shares we’re supplying 65 households with veggies we will see we know from other csas or from people who went off from these CSA that they some said okay it’s too big I don’t know the others anymore more I

Don’t feel that this is a community and also we have this land and we’re very proud that one third I think of all the members we have have walking distance to this area to get their their vegetable once a week we Harvest for the members

Once a week they come here to the field to pick up their box and there are some some veggies that are abundant and then sometimes we um offer the members also to harvest some stuff for themselves we try to to keep this uh 3 hours we have to pick up the

Uh vegetables also as a community institution and uh there’s also supports in the gardening Squad yes I I would really recommend just to start that’s actually we we started with nothing you couldn’t really imagine that it would work and we said it was bare land really just brown brown patch of

Earth yeah and and we also Incorporated uh all the other Farmers here who are not doing biological agriculture to to take part of uh we we we try to get a good uh relationship to them and I think you really mentioned it very well um that they didn’t feel like being uh

Taught by us that this is much better what they do but they they are also part of uh agriculture Community even if they have another approach mhm I really would like to reduce drastically reduce our water consumption here um in the producing of vegetables and therefore I would love to um install drip

Irrigation for the for big big parts of the field um and combine that with a mouch but you as climate farmers and maybe as um people who um can donate for us U maybe you could help us with um uh financing the whole drip irrigation and

Yeah do you have a rough idea how much that would cost I would say it would be round about ,000 for big parts of the field Y and so now we’re going to go to Sweden with a very last minute video that was sent by our friends Jin herfi and Dr

Sophie Gerber from the Global Alliance of organic districts that are going to present the work they are doing in the Scandinavian region it’s a pleasure and an honor to be invited to participate in this version of The People’s food Summit we are now in Europe we are in

Scandinavia which is the countries of Norway Sweden and Finland and now specifically we are in Sweden close to the city of Stockholm and Sophie Gaba and myself y hat we will take you through this event we will start explaining a little bit of the place we are here at

Silol we will say something about an EU project kismat and then the B District Sula then we will speak about diet for wi planet and then we will take a tour from a farm with the Fantastic friends o c to the dairy and where we produce the

Milk so this will be travel together with you in the people food Summit so Sophie what could you say about this place sh beh home yes as you might see we are sitting in one of of the green houses here at qu bolm and qu bolm is a biodynamic garden

And an educational center with vocational training and it has been since 1974 so there’s a long experience in this place for uh sustainable regenerative farming and gardening and it’s a very beautiful place with a beautiful Park uh beautiful growing and green houses and it’s close directly to the Baltic

Sea uh and during the season the place is full of students studying uh biodynamic and regenerative uh gardening and agriculture um and it’s also a a restaurant uh making food directly from what is produced here at kolm and at the neighboring farms uh and you can also come as a customer and buy

These things in a small farm shop you can say is a when we talk about this uh food from local market it’s a serom mileage kind of it is and I forgot to say it’s also self-sufficient on the inputs more or less we have a the compost here just

Behind the green houses the manure comes from the neighboring Farm and the cows there H combined with all the uh local resources here from so so here we can say we are not only we’re not only saying the Hallelujah but we are doing it h we are

Doing it for real full scale at Sil that’s that’s good so now I will tell you a little bit about we have been so lucky we have a uh EU project that’s a project in the Baltic Sea region so we have some money from the governments in order to do what

We would like to do and this uh project is called kismat I I wondered a long time what it was didn’t you sopi because is it the abbreviation or something but what is the meaning of kissman it’s actually uh Turkish for Faith oh this is a very good project and

The name is Faith so this is we have kind of yeah the future in our hands and and we have to take care now because as we all know the situation is not so very uh positive as Antonio guz the General Secretary of United Nations says we are

On a highway to climate health and we are still on the accelerator so what we would like to do with like-minded people like you participating in the in the people’s food Summit we have to now take the actions and show really in another Direction could we call it uh what do we

Call that Innovation is it like uh yeah what we don’t want to do business as usual we would like to do radical yeah and maybe even disruptive innovation what do you mean by disruptive by disruptive I mean that we do something that is not inside the system but goes beyond the system and

Create something new so so it’s it’s not what we tried to do it it’s not greenwashing we would like to do some real changes in the world like Mahatma Gandhi said be the change you would like to see in the world and this is what we

Would like to to to do here we would like to to make a model uh and show real practical example of what we call radical Innovation and what you say the disruptive so we we we have to do something now and and time is for

Action now I would like to to say a little bit of this U uh speak about the kissma project it’s a three-year project U and um and and the the kissm project tried to look into the challenges of uh local and Regional uh author ities how they can

Change their attitude how they can change their actions in order to have a truly sustainable uh food system and also we include the business sector so these three regional local um authorities and business sector will work together in order to see U what we can do for the circular economy and and

How what we can do for the farmers it’s very important for us Sophia and me that that we make it possible for the farmers to to produce what is good both for the soil and also for the for human beings for the help and also taking care of the others and not

Only the the the farmer but also Farmers Family sop exactly we’re talking about uh ecological uh economical and social sustainability so we want to maybe not just create sustainable uh Food Systems but also um thriving uh good enjoyable food systems for all people taking part those eating those producing and everything that’s in

Between and also we we have a special Focus for example here in Sweden and you have to look into your country now here in Sweden I think the middle age of a farmers is 58 years so if we don’t do something soon we don’t have any food I

Mean we have to engage young people in farming and there maybe we have to to do some Innovation on make a 3D model of sustainability how we can invite young people with their capacity in in the whole food chain not only farming but but other other in in the food

So what about the 3D model would you engage in that sopie absolutely uh when we are talking about the 3D model we are thinking about new ways of connecting what we today call Consumers those eating food and those producing food and those uh processing Distributing cooking food so

That we can find new kind of relationships that are not just linear but create new ways of um being and acting together yeah this is what Sophia is saying is actually what you think about the the 17 development goals from United Nation when you see that isolated

Nothing will happen but if you put them together you can say you can create music it can be concerted action and and what is happening what we think will happen if you put people together and look into the holistic view of the all the 17 development goals we call it concerted

Actions and then we should create a new kind of tone in the world something we can rely on something that can be a development and and and not only people I think some people are scared now some people are scared that we the environment is not very good we have in

The world now we have heat waves and we have rain and we have extreme weather so I I think people are scared so we need to put into the world now practical examples that gives a new direction for human integration in nature so this is what we try to do in

Kissm I mean we it’s just a project but as we see it being together with all of you all around the world it’s not a project any longer it must be a lifestyle a life style that we look into Humanity 3.0 what is humanity in the

Future we would like to to do that so in this um kmet project we have Partners from countries around the Baltic Sea and here you can here you can see the Baltic Sea there are about 11 countries surrounding the Baltic Sea and many of these countries are now involved in this

Kiss project three years project in order to create examples of the world we are looking at and now Sophia this is yours yeah we we want to tell you a little bit more about our part in this project which is actually piloting the first bio District in uh the Nordic and Baltic countries

Um as you might know uh the uh organic District or biodistrict movement is a global movement it’s all around the world uh started in Italy and this is for the first time that we are creating something like this in Sweden and the Nordic countries and the Baltic region

And we have decided to do this in what we called surland surland is a a region uh that includes parts of of Stockholm which is the capital of Sweden uh but also uh several uh smaller cities and a lot of Farmland pretty Diversified Farmland although it’s dominated by serial

Production uh the challenge here is that since we are very much in the north we have a very short season so we have to produce a lot in a few months of the year and then we have to eat in a way that we can live from these few months

All over the year with some exchange of course with you uh in the rest of the world but if we want to look at what kind of resources do we have in our landscape in Sera we have to think differently in the way we take care of

The land in the way we handle the land and also in the way we eat and consume so what this uh bio district is trying to do now is to connect people who are active in different ways in this area connect different kind of actors who are interested in an uh in

The development of a sustainable food system in a transition to uh organic regenerative farming and consumption um and find together uh new ways of organizing the food system so we uh are in uh primary producers Farmers um gardeners uh processor Distributors municipalities in Sweden we have this

You will talk more about this just then uh but in Sweden we have this peculiar thing that all school children have a free warm meal each day in schools and this is organized by the municipalities so if we can include all the municipalities in this region serving all the school childrens in

Sweden a meal 5 days a week and get them involved in the transition to a healthy and sustainable food we have already come a long way so one important part of this project is to involve also the municipalities and their kitchens what will you say

Sophia we are now here in again we are now in Scandinavia in Sweden very close to the North Pole so but but we still have okay weather now but but in in kind of end of October November it will be cold and and a bit dark but but what

Would you say what is the percentage of of first of all agriculture land organic here in in in this area in this area about 20% of the land is grown organic and and what about we talk about municipalities and consumption of of organic food how much is that proc o

Imately in this area it depends very much on which municipality because they have uh very they are the municipalities are very autonomous but we have one uh uh municipality in which we are right now soia they have about 70% organic food in their school meats and then we

Have municipalities who are very low and most of them I would say are somewhere in between maybe around 40% organic food but but we can say that in Sweden the aim is within 2030 to have 30% organic land and when it comes to uh public meals 60% within 2006 so they are

Actually looking and it’s up to us to do it I mean we have to involve people in order to have this to happen so and and you say that we are including people here but but how do we do that okay we are doing this in in

Different ways uh we started with um the farmers and the gardeners uh and uh started to create working groups because it’s a huge area and we are addressing a lot of different kind of actors uh and we decided let’s start with a primary producers let’s start with the the base of food

Production so we first uh invited uh uh organic farmers and gardeners uh to a meeting where we together formulated what are the challenges of today’s food system in general in Sweden and in this area and where would we like to be what are our goals and how are we going to

Get there so this was uh the first group of people we involved uh we are also involving people from uh gastronomy um working with food culture uh both public meals but also um out of house house restaurants and and kitchens um then we have one working group working with uh social

Inclusiveness integrating people who are uh unemployed maybe have disabilities um uh immigrants and things like that how can they be integrated in a a sustainable food system in a good way uh we have one working group working with um the uh availability of food how is

The food going to come from the primary producer to the consumer um how is it going to be processed distributed and uh end up at the consumers in a way that it is still of high quality it is healthy and it is Affordable for the consumer

But but still gives enough money for the farmer to give live a good life I I think this is just fantastic and and and we are involved in this International network of of echo regions or biod districts and and we are so happy to have friends all over the world and and

For us um organic District biod district is is a is a modern way of organizing democracy and putting food and people people in the center because we we have the challenges of of biodiversity loss we have the challenges of climate we have the challenges of of of Public

Health people are not getting the food they they deserve and also because of some crisis in in Clos related countries here we have food sufficiency how can we secure food for people uh in our municipalities we saw that in one municipality if something happened we

Had only food for 3 days we have to look into this we have to have to do local food for local markets and if we need to import we would like to import from you we would like caca from friends that have a organic District or people that have a regenerative agriculture bananas

All these things we cannot produce here uh then we need to have a new system of international trade we have to break the big companies role and yeah so we do something for the people with good food so as Sophie mentioned we have a

Concept of of a we call it diet for a green planet and the inspiration for this concept is the book of of Francis MOA it was in the 17th she called it diet for a small planet and she was the first actually author that presented this

Figure to say that if we should live sustainable and if you should take care of the resources in an effective way we need to look into the food we eat so that we need to reduce the unnecessary meat consumption and maybe we eat have to eat more whole grain and more cereals

And and here you can see the staple here what energy we use when you produce one kilo of beef and what energy you use if you produce one kilo of cereals we we are not saying at all that that you should not have animals and eat meat but we have to

Reduce the the amount and the unnecessary meat and not to speak about we have to look into Animal Welfare so the the food we eat or the the meat we eat should come from farms that take care of the animals here in Sweden for example we eat per cap something like 60

Kilos meat every year in Denmark they eat 120 kilos per carer in the US 140 kilos in India 7 kilos so we have to see how we can reduce unnecessary meat consumption in our society and this is kind of the background for what we call diet for Green

Planet and salian municipality which is the municipality we sit now we have a lot of like-minded people that serve 15,000 meals every day according to the concept of diet for we pl um they have 90 kitchens and the point with the kitchen is that they as fully sufficient they produce the food

From start not doing this with the scissors and and just warming they do it from from from the start with the ingredients it’s a very good concept and there are about 200 people working in the diet unit um 70% is organic this is a fantastic figure 70% of all food served

In school is organic and and not at all no increased cost per unit it’s the same price as conventional because they have thought about the holistic system taking from the from Seasons reducing unnecessary uh products and this is this is now the criterias of diet for

We it should be tasty and nutricious you cannot offer food that is taste bad so you have to see that this this is this is good food um organic and from ecological regenerative agriculture and and one of the I would say one of the examples of of organic regenerative agriculture is

The matter the matter is in is what is it in international certification for regenerative farming yeah so this is in fact the only uh it’s the only International certification I think for for for organic at least on a global scale yes yeah and it’s not only that it

It they certify Farms but they also certify processors so and we will see that later in the program with how we treat the milk with with where we treat the milk carefully so then um Regional products and this is the main the core of the kisma project local food for local

Market and a seasonal product I mean you may be maybe you don’t have seasons but here in Scandinavia we have four seasons in the countries you you have just two seasons wet seasons and dry season but but here in Scandinavia we have these these four seasons and then very important balanced diet

Vegetables and whole grain meat and and not at all reduction of food waste and there we have other issues than than you have in other countries uh we have issues that people throw away food after eating but in in other countries you have what we call Post Farm Gate uh that

You you don’t have storage facilities you canot cool it down you lose a lot of product here but here in Scandinavia we have a fairly good system for for storage so that here our problem is that we we throw away too much food

And I this is um this is I think it’s a very we invite all the network to join the global movement of diet for Green Planet and you think that is a good idea Sophie I think it’s a splendid idea because uh the good news is that what is

Good for the planet is also good for human beings so it’s it’s healthy for our planet and it’s healthy for those eating it uh and I think it’s when we look at how it’s working here it’s very interesting that this is working with school children so we we start actually

With uh the future we start with those who are going to eat in the future and it’s also a a cultural task to make children eat what is good for them and what is good for the planet and find this um good and taste as well and

We Sophia and me we have been in many of these School restaurants and what I think is good it’s a social issue that they really have chefs professional people that make food at the kitchen and you can see they are smiling so it’s not only that we do the food according to

Diet for Green Planet but we we look after the people who’s doing it that they have a good time producing good food for the children with a smile I think that the in the organic Movement we should always remember the smile we have to have humor

We have to enjoy life with good products and take care so thank you very much this is was an introduction from Sophia and me and then as an in the next session we will look into how we uh we produce milk I mean we will go to the

Farm ITB Farm then we will go to Y and then we will see how the milk is distributed as a social initiative so good to be with you all We Are One World in one planet one people thank you thank you so this is milk but where does it actually come

From milk comes from cows this is our friends who produce this fantastic drink so I will now take you into a story from the cow to the B to the dairy and out as it comes like this in a glass of milk so it’s all starts at en Farm in Y

Where they grow biodynamic biodynamic is that you grow in respect of nature in respect of human beings and a circulation agriculture so from there it goes into a tank and from the tank it goes into the dairy and in the dairy it’s a very gentle processed very little

Pumping and it’s only pides not homogenized so this is a very interesting story and we need to take care of the cows of Nature and the product that human being should get in order to be healthy so let food be your medicine and Medicine be your food welcome thank you

Hello Max now we are at itan G Farm uh who are you I’m Max Gyer a farmer here in yna itan b um biodynamic farmer and what would you say what is the difference between your cows and other cows and how you work with them uh

I would say the big difference is uh they still have uh the horns left um and we are not feeding them any power feed so uh they only get fed the grass and um we have a pretty unusual uh race and that’s brown Swiss uh it’s a it have a higher fat

Higher protein in the milk and uh yeah the milk tastes tastes better right great thank you Max we pick up the milk uh from the goat uh and uh we pum that to the mutag tank receiving tank upstairs only once with pump and then uh from upstairs uh to the

Pasteurizer the milk uh free fall and without pumping then uh the Fuze Pump It manage the level uh of the product uh pasturized according to the speed of the pasturization so the milk is pasturized at minimum temperature of 72° uh if if the temperature is low then

Is the automatic valve goes uh uh open the milk uh come back to the balance state so then is we have 100% sure about the posterized milk is uh good at temperature so when uh during posterization uh the milk uh the third uh pH the milk is cooled down to

4° and uh stor in a storage tank uh also upstairs the same flow of the pastu pasturization pump it goes upstairs and uh there is a storage T and after that uh when we finish pasturization it’s a filling process the filling process also you open the tank uh well and it free

Fall come to the filling machine downstairs then there is also no pump uh uh in only twice when the mutag tank that is a pump that is a safe pump it will not damage the product uh and the fizer pump it is the pump it is a centrifugal pump it is internationally

Used uh we cannot change that but for a low speed it is okay for a product we never have any problem with that um yeah and uh our product is safe with low temperature and uh uh low or almost no mechanical uh damages uh uh on the milk or other

Products that is the cation to Dee yeah if it is a high pasturization it is for yogurt uh products it is a up to 82° that is also in the diary World everyone knows but normal people They don’t know what the temperature is so a special thing with this milk and

How we provide it to the consumer is that it’s given and transported by the Curative hopes by social initiatives it is clock aoran it is noiva and M who transport the milk every week from the dairy and to the cons consumers and this is so important because we give these

People very good job they like it and the consumer really love it when they come to deliver the milk thank You Thank thank you Josh and Sophie so that’s it for us uh here in Europe and we’re now going to hand it over to our good friend Precious Peri who’s going to present the African segment be well be happy and take care Bye