SPACE 2022 will be held from Tuesday 13 September to Thursday 15 September at the Rennes Exhibition Centre.
In such an unstable overall climate, food sovereignty has become a major concern. During the Covid crisis, players in the agricultural sector demonstrated their strength by making sure the food supply chain continued to function for citizens. Currently, farmers are again faced with numerous challenges as certain areas of the world are confronted with the risk of famine and shortages. The FARM initiative supported by the European Union and France is a response to the food security challenge at hand. Its goal is to encourage the agricultural sector to produce enough to sustain trade relations and emergency food assistance in the coming weeks, without losing sight as local food production as a priority.
The compelling nature of this challenge is part of a larger picture, one in which climate issues require immediate action. The Climate Law includes a legally binding obligation upon which the European Union has to reach climate neutrality by 2050. The objective calls for an at least 55% reduction in greenhouse gas emissions by 2030.
Espace for the Future, located in Hall 4, will be focused on Livestock farming and climate: reducing the impact. Presentations of technical solutions, daily round tables, breeder testimonials and on-farm videos will inform SPACE Expo goers and help them develop ideas on these topics.
It is therefore an Expo firmly focused on the future that is currently taking shape for the month of September. In that mindset, its organisers aim to further solidify that dynamic by giving voice to the youth enrolled in agricultural training programmes.
Nearly 1,100 exhibitors are registered to participate in this next edition, of which 185 are new and 318 are from countries outside France. This year, the poultry farming industry will occupy halls 10A and 10B, while that of animal nutrition will be well-represented in halls 9 and 5.
In 2021, 35 products, services and equipment were awarded prizes from the panel of experts. Two of the winners took the microphone to talk about the impact of Innov’Space at the Expo’s Podcast Space.
On the Friday of the 2021 edition, SPACE went fully virtual to account for the switch to a shorter three-day event. This strategy was mainly designed to keep ties strong between exhibitors and the trade show’s international audience thanks to digital tools specially developed for the occasion. And, now we can continually offer information and services all year long without having to dedicate a specific day to them. These tools offer extensive content and features: a platform for scheduling BtoB meetings, a marketplace, webinars, podcasts, web TV programmes, the Innov’Space prize-winner list, product descriptions, an interactive map, the conference schedule and animal presentations, etc.
The web portal digital.space.fr and the mobile application app.space.fr will be available to help users prepare their visit to the Expo. These interfaces will be further enhanced with new features to make them even more easy to use.
The SPACE podcasts The Voice of Farming and SPACE TV by Web-agri video reports will also be available all year round from these digital tools.
The conference programme will be full and varied again this year based on the room reservations. The extent of the topics covered makes SPACE an absolutely unique meeting place for the livestock farming industry.
For further information: www.space.fr