Episode 14 episode of Food for Europe is dedicated to the new EU Organic Awards which will acknowledge different actors of the organic value chain- launch date for applications March 25 – and many of the issues surrounding organic production and consumption.

Key speaker is Commissioner for Agriculture, Janusz Wojciechowski, who is joined by the awards partners and leading organic producers:Barbara Altmann (Rapunzel, German organic manufacturer and supplier), Kurt Sannen (Belgian organic livestock farmer and chair of the farmers’ interest group of the International Federation of Organic Agriculture Movements, IFOAM), Lone Andersen (Danish organic dairy farmer and a vice-President of the agriculture umbrella body COPA-COGECA), together with Peter Schmidt (President of the European Economic and Social Committee’s Agriculture, Rural Development and the Environment section), and Uroš Brežan