SCHEDULE

08:30 - 16:30 Mexico City / San José

09:30 - 17:30 Panama / Bogotá

10:30 - 18:30 Santo Domingo

11:30 - 19:30 Brasilia / Buenos Aires

16:30 - 00:30  Brussels

Agenda

Simultaneous interpreting in English, Portuguese and Spanish

08:30 - 08:35   

WELCOME             

  • Emilio Calvo Roldán. AL-INVEST Verde Director / Component 2

08:35 - 09:15    

OPENING   

  • Lloyd Day. Deputy Director General, Inter-American Institute for Cooperation on Agriculture (IICA)
  • Felice Zaccheo. Head of the Regional Programmes Unit for Latin America and the Caribbean, Directorate-General for International Partnerships of the European Commission (DG INTPA)
  • Antonella Cavallari. Secretary General of the International Italo-Latin American Organisation (IILA) / AL-INVEST Verde Programme 
  • Sonsoles Mories. Director of FIAP's Economic Development and Environment Area / AL-INVEST Verde Programme 
  • Víctor Carvajal. Minister of Agriculture and Livestock of Costa Rica

09:15 - 10:30    

OPENING PANEL: PERSPECTIVES FOR SUSTAINABLE TRANSITION IN LIVESTOCK SYSTEMS IN ALC AND THE EU   

  • Andreas Pilzecker. Policy officer at the European Commission's Directorate-General for Agriculture and Rural Development (DG-AGRI).
    • Mitigation of methane emissions from agriculture in the EU
  • Donald Moore. Executive Director of the Global Dairy Platform
    • Responsible and Sustainable Food Production in Livestock / Producción responsable y sostenible de alimentos en la ganadería / Producción responsable y sostenible de alimentos en la ganadería / Responsible and Sustainable Food Production in Livestock
  • Diego Gauna. Technical Coordinator of the Sustainable Livestock Platform IICA-IDB
    • Perspectives and characteristics in the transition of Latin American and Caribbean cattle systems

10:30 - 11:00    

PAUSE

11:00 - 12:15    

TECHNICAL PANEL I: MODELS FOR FINANCING OF SUSTAINABLE LIVESTOCK FARMING

Moderator: Martín Fraguío. Director of the Carbon Group Agroclimatic Solutions. Argentina

  • Sylvanie Jardinet. Cooperation Officer of the Delegation of the European Union to Costa Rica
    • Mechanisms and instruments for sustainable livestock production: the Costa Rican experience
  • Bruno Jacquet. Senior Rural Development Specialist at the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB)
    • Mechanisms and instruments for sustainable and resilient livestock production in LAC
  • Hugo Sanchez. Director of the Paraguayan Roundtable on Sustainable Meat.
    • Strategic priorities for sustainable investment in cattle farming

12:15 - 14:30    

PAUSE

14:30 - 15:45    

TECHNICAL PANEL II: TECHNOLOGIES AND PRODUCTION PRACTICES FOR SCALING UP MORE COMPETITIVE AND SUSTAINABLE LIVESTOCK SYSTEMS

Moderator: Sara Valencia. Sustainable Investment for Large-Scale Rangeland Restoration Program. Colombia

  • David Yáñez-Ruiz. Research Professor at the Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (CSIC) of Spain
    • European Re-Livestock Project: Combining innovations for more sustainable livestock farming.
  • Cristóbal Villanueva. Sustainable Livestock Specialist of the Livestock and Environment Programme of the Tropical Agricultural Research and Higher Education Centre (CATIE).
    • Experience in the implementation of Silvopastoral Systems in Mesoamerica
  • Humberto Sorio. Expert in regenerative livestock farming
    • Regenerative Livestock by Voisin Grazing System. Brazil

15:45 - 16:25    

PERSPECTIVES AND STRATEGIC CONCLUSIONS TO PROMOTE THE TRANSITION TO SUSTAINABLE LIVESTOCK FARMING

  • Dialogue. Strategic priorities for sustainable transition
    • Moderator: Diego Gauna. Technical Coordinator of the IICA-IDB Sustainable Livestock Platform.
  • Main conclusions for strengthening joint EU-LAC efforts
    • Ana Doralina Alves. President of the Brazilian Roundtable on Sustainable Livestock International Advisor 
    • Nazareth Porras. Regional Programme Officer for Climate Change and Sustainable Development in the Cooperation Section of the Delegation of the European Union in Costa Rica.

16:25 - 16:30    

CLOSURE

  • Andrea Carlo Monaco. Senior programme manager of AL-INVEST Verde / Component 2