Safeguard Buzzing Table: Protecting and Restoring Pollinators in Agricultural Ecosystems

This Safeguard Buzzing Table is a stakeholder consultation dedicated to exploring how wild pollinators and agriculture can thrive together while safeguarding biodiversity, food security, and resilient ecosystems. 

Building on the insights of the Safeguard findings, this session will examine how the EU existing policies affect/shape pollinator-friendly practices and will look ahead to emerging opportunities and barriers. The event will gather farmers, policymakers, and researchers to foster practical, collaborative approaches to pollinator-friendly agriculture and to define shared pathways and positive actionable steps for pollinators recovery. 

The Buzzing Table is part of the Safeguard hybrid workshop, “Transforming landscapes with pollinator research: Safeguard workshop on pollinator-friendly land management”, jointly organised with IEEP, which holds a session in the afternoon.

Registration here.  If you would like to attend online, connect to the Buzzing table here.

Preliminary agenda

10:00 Registrations

10:30 Welcome and opening, Grace Bond, IUCN

10:35 Setting the scene: SAFEGUARD research outcomes, Zafarani Uwingabire, INRAE

10:50 Panel session moderated by Delphine Dupeux, European Landowners’ Organisation (ELO)

• Andreas GUMBERT, Policy Officer, European Commission Directorate-General Environment (DG ENV) Directorate D – Biodiversity
• Antonia LÜTTEKEN, Policy Officer, DG Agriculture and Rural Development (DG AGRI) Directorate B – Environmental Sustainability
• Laurent Govaert, Landgoed Hoeve Engelendael estate

11:40 Q&A session

11:55 Closing remarks, Grace Bond, IUCN

12:00 End of the event