Outlook is a word often associated with uncertain weather conditions, but this year’s Outlook Conference is looking at an extremely variable and challenging future for the meat and livestock industry.
The event is being run by EBLEX and BPEX and attracts speakers from a
wide variety of backgrounds.
This year speakers include Bob Watson, Defra Chief Scientist who will
look at climate change, food security and the environment and Prof Robert
Pickard, Chairman of Which? who will address the diet and nutrition aspects of
red meat.
On a business footing, Richard Brown of Gira Consulting will examine
global trends in corporate meat
strategies.
The event takes place on Tuesday, February 3, 2009, at One Great
George Street, Central London.
In the afternoon parallel sessions will, as in previous years, look
at the market outlooks for the pig sector and in the cattle and sheep
sectors.
The event is being organised by Stephen Rossides, Head of Economic
and Policy Analysis Group for AHDB Meat Services, who said: “Our meat industry
is facing greater and more varied challenges than ever before in a fast-changing
world.
“The range of speakers we have will not only help identify those
challenges but also ways of meeting them.
“This is an extremely important conference for those in the meat and
livestock industry looking for the big picture and the strategic information on
which to make sound business decisions about the
future.”