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The Risk Talk series organised by the Swiss Re Centre for Global Dialogue brings together international experts and practitioners to discuss current and future economic, political and societal risks and opportunities. At more than one billion, the number of hungry people in the world remains unacceptably high. And as the world population is estimated to exceed 9 billion by 2050, global food production must increase by 70% in order to meet this challenge.
Green Economy: Opportunities and Risks for Agriculture. Wednesday, 23 May 2012, from 15.30 to 19.15
Dialogue on Thursday, 15th December, organized by Biovision and the Swiss Agency for Development with the Millennium Institute, the More and Better Network, and IFOAM, the international umbrella organization of ecological agriculture.
UNECE Regional Preparatory Meeting on the 1st of December in Geneva
The range of products on offer in any given supermarket is vast. Agricultural products are often available year round, regardless of the season. Products are imported from all over the world. In addition to this is the flood of labels, of which it is hardly possible to have an overview, advertising sustainable, environmentally responsible and socially just products. In the sustainable supermarket CLEVER, visitors learn hands-on how they can behave responsibly towards nature, environment and their fellow man during their daily shop.
With the United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development (UNCSD), a major international summit is coming up in 2012. Food and agriculture is of high relevance for its themes. In this context Biovision is organizing two international dialogues in Rome and Addis Ababa on 20th and 21st of October 2011.
Only available in german: Kulinarische Reise nach Ostafrika: Donnerstag, 9. Juni, 18 – 23 Uhr; Spenglerei Winterthur, Gärtnerstrasse 18
Only available in german: Biovision Mitgliederanlass vom Donnerstag, 19. Mai 2011, 19.30 Uhr in der Kulturhalle 12 in Bern
Biovision Symposium: Saturday 20th November in Volkshaus Zürich, Switzerland, (Large Auditorium, Stauffacherstrasse 60) free entry
Biovision Symposium, 21 November 2009 in Volkshaus Zurich (Large auditorium, Stauffacherstrasse 60), free entrance.
Event for World Food Day with Hans Rudolf Herren Friday, 9th of October 2009, 14 to 18 o'clock
Präsentation of the global Agriculture report IAASTD by Hans Rudolf Herren