Executive Council meeting
IFFI’s theme for the 2025 program is ‘Sustainable Business, Resilient Companies’. IFFI-affiliated companies are increasingly struggling to maintain their competitive positions in international markets, putting the sustainability of their businesses under significant pressure. Challenges such as restrictive CO2 and N emissions regulations, electricity grid congestion, reduced raw material availability and a shortage of skilled labor are just a few of many obstacles the food ingredients industry will need to navigate in 2025.
Piet Adema, former Minister of Agriculture, Nature and Food Quality, joins the first Executive Council meeting this year to kick off the annual program by highlighting the economic perspective of the Dutch AgroFood industry. It reflects the competive position of the European AgroFood industry in a global perspective, having a direct impact on the international business of the manufacturers of food ingredients. Both from a sourcing and a selling point of view.
In a plenary session the Executive Council members can ask questions about the economical perspective of the AgroFood industry and in particular the impact of todays industry policy on the short and long term. Will Europe still be a stronghold when it comes to primary production providing raw materials for food ingredients? In what way will regulation affect the licence-to-operate of farmers and manufacturers? How will the European market and Non-European market absorb costprice increases due to regulation restrictions?
For the Executive Council members it promises to be a high quality meeting where insights will be shared related to industry policies, economical perspectives and business outlooks.
