The Brazilian Roundtable on Sustainable Livestock was invited by the Brazil-Germany Agripolitical Dialogue (APD) for a one-week exchange in Berlin to participate in a series of discussions on the impacts of the European Union's Green Deal on Brazilian agriculture.
Luiza Bruscato, Executive Director of the Brazilian Roundtable, is representing the organization in these discussions, along with Mauro Armelim, Executive Director of Friends of the Earth, one of the Roundtable's associates.
Yesterday, June 12, in the morning, they visited the German Ministry of Agriculture, where they discussed aspects of German organic production and the guidelines and impacts of the European Green Deal on German and Brazilian production.
In the afternoon, they met with the WWF team in Germany, including Roberto Maldonado and 10 other collaborators, to learn about the NGO's projects in Latin America and the guidelines used in these initiatives.
Later this week, the executives will meet with DRV/Grain Club and the Science and Politics Foundation; visit an ecological farm in Brandenburg; and participate in an event at the Brazilian Embassy in Germany. Stay tuned!
**Action Mesa 13.06**
June 13: On the second day of the mission, Luiza Bruscato participated in a meeting at the Science and Politics Foundation (Stiftung Wissenschaft und Politik, www.swp-berlin.org) about the new European Union rules for deforestation-free supply chains and Due Diligence.
**Brazilian Roundtable in Berlin: Ecological Farm in Brandenburg**
Today, June 14, the delegation of the technical mission in Berlin, which includes Luiza Bruscato, Executive Director of the Brazilian Roundtable on Sustainable Livestock, visited an organic livestock farm in Brandenburg, Germany.
The farm, called Sielmanns Naturlandschaft, produces cattle organically through grazing, animal welfare, high-quality feed, free-range cattle throughout the season, land care, among other actions. With a high density and variety of insects in the area, both flora and fauna benefit equally.
Located on a former military training ground "Döberitz," the 3,650-hectare area near Berlin and Potsdam is home to nearly a thousand endangered animal species. The site is preserved by the Heinz Sielmann Foundation.
Visitors can explore the landscape on about 55 kilometers of hiking trails, with rest areas and an observation tower that offers a unique panoramic view. There are also about 13 kilometers of marked paths available for horseback riding.
Later this week, the executives will meet with DRV/Grain Club and participate in an event at the Brazilian Embassy in Germany. Stay tuned!
**Check out the agenda for the first days of the technical mission in Berlin.**
[Link to news article](https://pecuariasustentavel.org.br/noticias/mesa-brasileira-em-berlim-14/)
**Brazilian Roundtable in Berlin: Brazilian Embassy, DRV, and Grain Club**
On the fifth day of the technical mission, Luiza Bruscato, Executive Director of the Brazilian Roundtable, along with the group invited by the Brazil-Germany Agripolitical Dialogue (APD), attended an event at the Brazilian Embassy in Berlin and met with two German non-governmental organizations: DRV and Grain Club.
In the morning, the delegation participated in the event "Agriculture and Livestock in Brazil: Offering Agricultural Products While Controlling Deforestation," promoted by the Ministry of Agriculture and Livestock, the Embassy, and APD.
Luiza presented the Brazilian Roundtable on Sustainable Livestock and her views on the European Union Deforestation-free Products Regulation (EUDR). The event also featured presentations from Friends of the Earth - Brazilian Amazon, represented by Mauro Armelim, and the Brazil Climate, Forests, and Agriculture Coalition, represented by Carolle Alarcon.
The debate was moderated by Eduardo Sampaio Marques, Agricultural Attaché in Berlin, and the main themes were deforestation, public policies, and agricultural modernization in Brazil, which has contributed to increasing productivity and reducing environmental impact. Company actions to promote the sustainability of agriculture were also presented.
Daniel Leitão, head of the political sector, and Flavia Magrini, head of the environmental sector at the Embassy, also participated in the debate.
Watch the event in full: [Link to event](https://lnkd.in/eZif5WUX)
[Link to news article](https://pecuariasustentavel.org.br/noticias/mesa-brasileira-em-berlim-15/)
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On the same day, in the afternoon, the group met with executives from Grain Club (https://grain-club.de/), an agribusiness alliance formed by four German agricultural associations, and DRV (www.raiffeisen.de), an organization that encompasses all cooperatives in the German agricultural and food industry.
As an important link in the food value chain, DRV's 1,693 members represent companies in the production, marketing, and processing of plant and animal products, achieving sales of 85.6 billion euros per year. Farmers, gardeners, and winemakers are the owners of the cooperatives and members of the entity.
Grain Club represents the different chains of the grain, oilseed, and animal feed industries, from wholesale and foreign trade of agricultural raw materials to their processing. The entity's main action is to take an official position on agricultural and trade policy issues that affect the participating associations and their member companies.
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