Swedish Embassy in Washington holds “Urban Agriculture Summit”

Urban Agriculture – How do we feed people in the urban era?

House of Sweden, 2900 K Street, NW, Washington, DC
November 16, 2011, 1 pm – 5 pm (refreshments will be served)
This is hosted by the Embassy of Sweden and Plantagon and its partners. There is no cost to attend.

As more and more people move to ever-expanding cities, farming will be pushed further away from population centers. The inevitable result of this ”urban sprawl” is longer transportation routes and less fresh products.
Especially low-income urban areas will be affected.

Join Swedish clean-tech and American know-how in a half-day seminar on how to use urban agriculture technologies to create a more sustainable city of tomorrow.

Where consumers will have access to healthy and nutritious food in their neighbourhood.

All consumers; regardless of income level and where they live.

Urban Agriculture Summit 2011

13:00 – 13:05 Welcome by moderator Nils Bruzelius, Environmental Working Group
13.05 – 13.10 Opening address, HE Jonas Hafström, Swedish Ambassador to the U.S.
13:10 – 14:00 Prof. Oren Lyons, Chairman Plantagon (keynote) – “Food security from a global climate change perspective and diminishing land access”
14:00 – 14.15 Tomas Norling, Swedish Trade Council/SymbioCity – “Swedish government’s cleantech collaboration project SymbioCity”
14:15 – 14.30 Eva Nygren, CEO Sweco Group – “Sustainable engineering and design”
14:30 – 15:00 Coffee
15:00 – 15.15 TBD; Representative EWG / Representative US City (San Francisco, Portland, Chicago, Boston & Syracuse invited, to be confirmed)
15:15 – 15:30 Hans Hassle, CEO Plantagon – “Feeding people in the urban era”
15:30 – 16:15 Round table discussion on how urban agriculture will affect our daily lives of tomorrow moderated by Nils Bruzelius
Participants: Prof. Oren Lyons, Hans Hassle, Mats Hellström (Former Swedish Minister for Foreign Trade and Agriculture), Tomas Norling, Eva Nygren, EWG/US city
16:15 – 17:00 Reception (refreshments)

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