ICMSF Workshop

3 to 4 October 2017, The Netherlands

The ICMSF held a workshop on the role of food safety and stability in assuring global food security at Unilever Research Vlaardingen (URV) in Vlaardingen, The Netherlands from 3 to 4 October 2017.

Programme

3 October – Scene Setting and Information Sharing

9:00 Welcome and opening remarks Rob Hamer, Unilever
9:30 Introduction of Participants; Overview of workshop objectives; Megatrends scene setter Martin Cole, ICMSF
10:30 Morning break
10:45 Food security, food production and nutrition Mario Herrero, Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO)
11:30 People, demographics and health Anne-Katrin Bock, European Commission’s Joint Research Centre
12:30 Lunch
13:30 Biosecurity challenges – One Health Martyn Jeggo, Geelong Centre for Emerging Infectious Diseases, Deakin Univ. Medical School
14:30 Sustainability and environmental challenges Fumiko Kasuga, ICMSF and Future Earth
15:30 Afternoon break
16:00 Emerging food safety issues (incl. AMR, Food Waste, Sustainability) & One Health Markus Lipp, FAO
17:00 Plenary Discussion on Themes for Day 2 Martin/All
19:00 Workshop dinner

4 October – Working Groups to Develop/Define Themes and Output*

8:30 Agreement of themes and assignment of tasks Martin facilitates
9:30 Concurrent working groups develop plans for the themes identified from day 1 (quick report back before break)
10:30 Morning break
11:00 Continuing working group discussions on plans for identified themes and planning for theme gaps
12:00 Plenary working group feed-back and first discussions
12:30 Lunch buffet
13:30 Continuing discussions on plans for identified themes and planning for theme gaps
15:00 Wrap up discussion: next steps, who does what, what are we missing Martin
16:00 Close

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