Bioacademy 2001
On 21 – 23 June 2001, an international conference entitled “Ecological Agriculture: a Strategic Step on the Way of Creating and Pan-European Model of Farming” took place in Lednice. The conference was organized by the Austrian Federal Ministry of Agriculture, Forrestry, Environment and Water Management, Czech Ministry of Agriculture, Mendel University of Agriculture and Forrestry in Brno and Czech and Austrian associations of ecological farmers. Its aim was to increase the exchange of experience in the field of ecological agriculture between the EU and candidate countries.
The conference was attended by representatives from more than twenty European countries. Amont the notable guests, there were Jan Fencl, the Czech Minister of Agriculture, Wilhelm Molterer, his Austrian counterpart, Joachim Heine, the deputy director of the Agricultural Directorate of the European Commission in Brussels, Libor Sečka, the Czech ambassador with the EU, Josef Plank, the agricultural councillor of Lower Austria, and other guests.
Papers were given by leading experts in ecological agriculture and human nutrition from the Czech Republic, Austria, Sweden, Germany, Great Britain and Denmark. The range of topics was relatively large and included ecological agriculture and the EU agrarian policy, the support of ecological agriculture, organic food from the point of view of human nutrition, the safety and quality of food, the system of inspection in ecological agriculture, the development of the markets with organic products, and research, consultancy and education in ecological farming.
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