NEWS FEED & ADDITIVE MAGAZINE October 2022 91 FEFAC published its 2nd Sustainability Charter Progress Report, providing an overview of the past year on the FEFAC activities and deliverables in relation to the five ambitions that were included in the FEFAC Feed Sustainability Charter 2030 released in September 2020. These ambitions jointly provide a comprehensive approach on how the European Feed Industry can contribute to the development of more sustainable livestock and aquaculture value chains. A key highlight was the publication “Circular Feed – Optimised Nutrient Recovery Through Animal Nutrition” in June 2022, which includes an invitation to regulators to proceed with a systematic review of legislative bottlenecks in the EU regulatory framework in order to facilitate a higher level of circularity in EU food systems through innovative animal nutrition solutions. The 2nd Charter Progress Report points out the importance of increasing the focus on Ambition V on the socio-economic environment and resilience of the livestock & aquaculture sectors in view of the severe conditions faced by the livestock sector, which endured the exacerbating effect of the Ukraine crisis of a global market rally for feed grains, which already started at the end of 2021. All recent events show that the sustainability of the food system is highly complex and requires a truly holistic approach, integrating the resilience of EU agri-food systems and food security impacts as well as climate change and biodiversity targets. The EU needs to draw the right lessons from the Ukraine crisis, which clearly sets the priority on increasing the EU’s energy autonomy, but this must be done without undermining EU and global feed and food autonomy’s objectives. FEFAC releases 2nd Sustainability Charter Progress Report The Members’ Council of Zuivelcoöperatie FrieslandCampina U.A. has appointed Sandra Stuijk and Herman Bakhuis to the Cooperative Board with effect from 13 December this year, on the binding recommendation of the Chairmen's Council. “We are pleased that Sandra Stuijk and Herman Bakhuis will join the Cooperative Board with their experience and knowledge. I warmly welcome them both,” said Sybren Attema, Chairman of the Board of Zuivelcoöperatie FrieslandCampina U.A. Sandra Stuijk has been active in FrieslandCampina's Youth Work since 2017. Until the beginning of this year, Stuijk was a member of the board of FrieslandCampina Young Farmers. She also works as a finance specialist in Wholesale Food & Agri at Rabobank. She has a dairy farm in Alphen, North Brabant, the Netherlands. Besides dairy cattle, the farm also has a small-scale arable farm where sugar beet and carrots are grown. Herman Bakhuis is currently active as vice chair of LTO Netherland Dairy Farming and as a board member at ZuivelNL. He was also a member of the Members' Council and chairman of the Chairmen's Council of Zuivelcoöperatie FrieslandCampina U.A. until 2017. Bakhuis has a dairy farm and a recreational farm at two locations in the municipality of Hellendoorn, Overijssel, the Netherlands. New Cooperative Board members appointed at FrieslandCampina Herman Bakhuis Sandra Stuijk
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