Diego Canga explains the Commission’s new Vision for Food and Agriculture
On Tuesday 11 March, the Official Spanish Chamber of Commerce in Belgium held a new lunch-debate in the framework of its ‘Business Circle’ platform, in which the Deputy Director-General for Agriculture and Rural Development of the European Commission, Diego Canga Fano, spoke on ‘Feeding the Future: Sustainable Agriculture and Food Vision’.
After the welcome cocktail, the President of the Chamber, Pablo López-Álvarez, opened the lunch by briefly reviewing the biography of Diego Canga, one of the most veteran Spanish civil servants in Brussels, with more than 30 years of experience in the European institutions.
He was followed by Lorena van de Kolk, Managing Director of Schuttelaar & Partners, the company sponsoring the event. Van de Kolk explained that the search for sustainability is “in the DNA” of the consultancy firm, which celebrates its thirtieth anniversary in 2025.
The new Vision for Food and Agriculture
As for the main speech, Canga focused his intervention on the Commission’s new Vision on Food and Agriculture presented last February. In this regard, the rapporteur explained the four pillars of the new approach, which involve creating an attractive, competitive, sustainable and fair agricultural sector.
In this regard, the speaker outlined a series of actions aimed at achieving this vision, such as the development of a Bioeconomy Strategy, the diversification of trade relations with new international partners, the matching of decarbonisation with competitiveness and the reconnection with the rural environment through the updating of the EU Rural Action Plan.
The presentation was followed by an extensive question and answer session in which topics such as bioeconomy, animal welfare and the European position in the new international trade landscape were raised.
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