Originally initiated through the Agribusiness and Executive Seminars of Prof. Dr. Roy Goldberg at the Harvard Business School/USA, IAMA (the International Food and Agribusiness Management Association) became a worldwide organization with members from the business society and science.

Due to its history initially dominated from the USA, for the first time IAMA will organize its international Forum (conference) in Germany ( More information ). It will be organized in Frankfurt on June 22nd/23rd 2011. There will be a broad range of topics starting from global issues like sustainability to water, sourcing of raw materials, transparency, food security for the total supply chain, globalization in buying and in distribution and others.
 

The French SIAL (Salon International de l'Alimentation) is one of the most famous food-exhibitions worldwide. On October 17th-21st 2010 it will have its 24th session in Paris. There will be:

The ability of pesticides to reduce crop damage due to pest infestation and diseases, along with the output of the expanding nature of chemical fertilizers and irrigation practices, is responsible for the substantial increase in land productivity and therefore farm income. Gradually, however, the adverse long-term effects of external input use on the environment and human health has become an urgent issue of significant importance and has given rise to an ongoing debate regarding their “appropriate” use.

The seminar in Chania/Crete from September 2nd till 4th 2010 will focus on the external costs of farming activities with particular emphasis placed on both on-farm and external agricultural input use like pesticides, chemicals, water, animal waste in terms of damage control to farm output, adverse long-term effects on the environment, and consumers’ and operators’ health, as well as the effects of any imposed regulations on the use of inputs. ( more: via E-Mail )
 

On Cyprus the Intercollege Larnaca and the Friends of Nature Cyprus organized the 1st International Conference on Biodiversity . The Conference was opened by Dr. Lola Sanchez from the Intercollege supported by Dr. A. Djoghlaf/Executive-Secretary of the Convention on Biological Diversity, Mr. Ch. Theopemptou/Cypriot Commissioner for the Environment and the Spanish Ambassador, H.E. Mr. Juan Jose Urtasun Erro in his function for the EU-presidency.

More than 150 participants followed the 30 speaker-slots. The origin of the speakers ranged from Costa Rica, Cyprus, Germany, Greece, Spain, Switzerland, Turkey, UK, Ukraine to the USA. Prof. Dr. B. Hallier represented the EHI Retail Institute with the topic “From Crisis Management to proactive Corporate Social Responsibility” . The papers will become available as a book. ( more via E-Mail )
 

Under the coordination of Prof. Dr. Schiefer from the University of Bonn/Germany nine partners from Belgium, Denmark, Germany, Great Britain, Greece, Hungary and Sweden started an EU-project to increase transparency within the Food Business.

The project got an Advisory Board consisting out of Michael Coomans/formerly DG Enterprise/EU, Prof.Colin Dennis/formerly Campden BRI/UK, Prof. Dr. Klaus Grunert/Aarhus/DK, Herman Hagspiel/fairea/AT, Prof.Dr.Bernd Hallier/EHI Retail Institute/DE, Dr.Hans Joehr/Nestle/CH, Dr. Jan Maat/Unilever and Wageningen/NL, Dr. Anton Mangstl/Director WAICENT/FAO/IT, Dr. Herman-Josef Nienhoff/Q&S Quality System/DE, Gabor Palotas/Univer Product PLC/HU, Jörg Pretzel/GS1/DE, Daniele Rossi/Federalimentare/IT, Prof. Jeane-Claude and Villetaz/HEVS, Eureka/Euragri/CH