EIA Working Group Sustainability Agriculture held a Meeting on January 14, 2025

EIA Working Group Sustainability Agriculture held a Meeting on January 14, 2025

The EIA Working Group Sustainability Agriculture held a Meeting on 14th Jan  2025, from  4.00 to 5.00 pm

Participants : Giulia Giuffrè, Irritec – Giusy Inferrera, Irritec – Ido Raanan, Netafim – Javier Juárez, Azud – Bruno Molle, IrrigationEurope – Stefania De Pirro, Rivulis – Davide Vandelli (Ocmis) – Daniele Zironi (Ocmis) – Francesco Dubini (TEHA, guest) – Giulia Avallone (TEHA, guest)

Apologies : Thibaut Scholasch, Fruition Sciences – Amnon Amir, consultant – Moshi Berenstein, Netafim – Serkan Özdoğan (Poelsan) – Fleur Martin (EIA communication) – Sophie Gendre, Arvalis – Ramunas Rederis, consultant – Santi  Singla (Regaber)  – Pablo Carnicero, Regaber – Paolo Antini, Sentek – Søren Busk (Crysberg) – Xavier Corbella, ITC – Marco Bezzi, WiseConn Europe

 

Introduction

Giusy Inferrera welcomed the participants and opened the meeting.

  • Call to order, competition law
  • Approval of agenda
  • Approval of minutes of last meeting

Ocmis: Davide Vandelli and Daniele Zironi introduced Ocmis and their activities.  

 

  1. EU Taxonomy

Francesco Dubini described the agenda and participation details of the Advocacy Roundtable on Sustainable Irrigation to be held on Jan 28th , attached documents tentative and confidential. Bruno will send a draft of his presentation to be held during the event and a suggestion of questions to be discussed during the roundtable. Giusy shared the Roundtable’s list of participants and draft agenda with the participants.

 

  1. Certification labels

Global irrigation alliance: The advocacy roundtable could possibly be a first step towards the certification label project. The taxonomy project can help in establishing contacts and creating involvement with partners and organizations to create a global irrigation alliance and proceed with a common certification. 

 

  1. Plastic collecting and recycling in agriculture

The need of a budget for communication on plastic recycling has been restated. There will be a change in the EIA structure for communication and we will wait to refer to the new person in charge of communication, once he/she is selected. We will talk with Bruno and Moshi to define a budget for this activity. Bruno will look for materials that can support the topic for newsletters, communications and social media posts. Ido will analyze the last FAO report https://www.fao.org/climate-change/areas-of-work/plastics-in-agriculture/en

to see if irrigation plastic recycling is somehow addressed and draft a “recycling best practice code” that we can use in our approach to FAO or other potential partners or other communication materials.

  1. Communication

TEHA will issue a report after the roundtable for communication purposes. Journalists have been invited to the event.

  1. People of influence

The roundtable will be useful for networking. Javier Juarez proposed to contact FAO to understand how we can collaborate.

 

Minutes drafted by Giusy Inferrera