Food and Sustainability! – The Future of Sustainability in Food Systems

YDIRE International Webinar

19th of April from 9.30 to 11.30 EET (GMT+2:00 Helsinki) in Zoom
SCHEDULE (here in pdf and below):

9.30: Opening and moderation

• Silvia Gaiani, Senior Researcher, University of Helsinki Ruralia Institute, Finland
• Rumy Narayan, Project Researcher, University of Vaasa, Finland

9.35: Sustainability in large Finnish companies

• Helena Kekki, Director in Corporate Sustainability – Chief Executive Officer at FIBS, Finland

9.55: Sustainable food systems: driving food waste prevention through technology and behavior change

• Steven Finn, Vice President at Leanpath and Professor at UPenn, USA

10.15: Building sustainable food systems with Smart Agriculture

• Hannu Haapala, Head of the Smart Bioeconomy research group at JAMK University of Applied Sciences, Finland

10.35: Building a sustainable and resilient food system with cellular agriculture

• Maija Itkonen, CEO & co-founder of Onego Bio, Finland

10.55: Consumer insights into promoting sustainable food consumption

• Harri Luomala, Research Professor in food consumption at School of Marketing and Communication, University of Vaasa, Finland

11.15-11.30: Discussion session

Registration link is here at E-lomake.

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”Ydire – Through cooperation and digitalisation towards resilience in short food supply chains” is a project funded from the appropriations of the REACT-EU instrument as part of the actions taken by the European Union in response to the COVID-19 pandemic.