Farm Africa to take centre stage at Euro food and farming forum

05 October 2012

Farm Africa is counting down to next month’s European Food and Farming Partnerships (EFFP) conference where it has been picked as the chosen charity.

At the ninth EFFP get-together of movers and shakers, Farm Africa has been invited to speak and to show films of the charity’s work, joining a line-up which includes Birds Eye CEO Martin Glenn, the BBC’s Sheila Dillon and Anna Hill, and National Farmers Union president Peter Kendall and Jim Moseley, president of the Food and Drinks Federation.

The conference, a valuable networking opportunity which will take place at the St Pancras Renaissance Hotel in London on November 13, brings together people and businesses from across the food supply chain, including farmers, food processers, retailers, manufacturers and caterers.

Farm Africa Trustee Richard Macdonald welcomed EFFP’s choice of Farm Africa as its chosen charity:

“Farm Africa is delighted to have been selected as EFFP’s chosen charity for the 2012 conference “More with less – driving performance, sustainably”. All of us in UK Food plc are now involved in global supply chains and are concerned about production across the world. A prosperous and productive agriculture sector in Africa is ever more important. Farm Africa has built an excellent reputation for working at the intersection of building food security and incomes through improved production, enterprise development and market linkages whilst at the same time creating and maintaining sustainable agricultural natural resource management.”

In a video message introducing this year’s conference, Stuart Thompson from EFFP sets out some of the big and pressing issues this year’s conference will focus on:

• Rising grain commodity markets
• Severe availability and quality challenges
• Growing sustainability issues
• Greater risks and uncertainty
• And a continuing weak economy across Europe

You can watch the video on EFFP's website