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The European Conservation Agriculture Federation (ECAF) with the support of the United Nations  Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) is organising the 8th World Congress on Conservation Agriculture on 21 – 23 June 2021 in the form of an online event.

With the title ‘The future of farming - Profitable and Sustainable Farming with Conservation Agriculture’, the congress will feature high level speakers such as Dongyu QU Director-General of FAO, Agriculture’s European Commissioner Janusz Wojciechowski, Norbert Lins chair of European Parliament’s Agriculture Committee, and representatives from the World Bank, IPCC, CGIAR, Global Farmer Network, amongst others.

CEMA Secretary General Jerome Bandry will take part to the conference on behalf of the European Agricultural Machinery Industry in the dedicated session for ‘private sector’ on 21st of June.

Full programme can be found here

Registration for the event is available here

CEMA and the FAO have an ongoing partnership with the aim to promote sustainable mechanization of agriculture. More details here