- February 03, 2025
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- February 03, 2025
On February 3, 2025, an introductory virtual meeting for participants in the 2025 U.S.-German Forum Future Agriculture will take place. The Aspen Institute Germany and project partner, the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, will welcome the sixteen participants of the 2025 cohort for an initial virtual meeting. As part of the project, the Institute is bringing together eight German and eight U.S. farmers and other agricultural stakeholders to promote innovative approaches to sustainable agricultural and rural areas and strengthen the transatlantic relationship overall. In addition to the fundamental social, economic, and political importance of agriculture for rural regions, this third cohort will focus in particular on the core issue of land use conflicts between renewable energy and agriculture in rural areas. In addition to virtual meetings, this year’s cohort will meet in Magdeburg, Germany, March 31st – April 4th, 2025 and in Boulder, Colorado, United States, May 19th-23rd, 2025. At these meetings, participants will discuss solutions for practice and policy, as well as transatlantic collaboration opportunities, visit best practices on the ground, and engage in exchanges with local representatives from policy, business, and academia. The project is supported by the Transatlantic Program of the Federal Republic of Germany with funds from the European Recovery Program (ERP) of the Federal Ministry of Economics and Climate Protection (BMWK).
