The Covid-19 pandemic has revealed serious shortcomings in globalizing agri-food supply chains, from globalization to security, from safety to risk management and from farm to fork.

AgriBusiness Forum 2021 focused on addressing these challenges, boosting the "green" and "digital" transition and assessing climate change impact, in line with the CAP2021-2027 and the EU Recovery Fund strategy.

The AgriBusiness Forum sets an inclusive platform to shape robust, comprehensive and coherent dialogue towards viable, sustainable, traceable and resilient agri-food systems in Greece and the World, in the context of globally and nationally emerging trends and constraints, including the "One Health approach".

The IV International Conference of the AgriBusiness Forum was held on October 6-7, 2021 in Athens, Greece. The conference highlighted the "Transition of Food and Agriculture systems into a green and digital era". It featured 9 high-caliber sessions, 45 focus areas and 50 speakers from Greece and around the world.

The conference was physically attended by speakers and delegates representing leading businesses, financial services, innovative farmers, policy makers, research and academia. ABF2021 was also offered online with reduced registration fees. AgriBusiness Forum is committed to advancing knowledge for the digitization and digital transformation of the agri-food value chain from farm to fork and is an important platform to boost innovations and integrate partnerships towards viable, sustainable, traceable and resilient agri-food systems in Greece and beyond.

The conference was opened on Wednesday, 6 October 2021 by Mr. Giannis Balakakis, Chairman of the Organizing Committee of the Agriculture Business Forum and President of the Geo-Routes Institute, and Mr. Nabil Gangi, Deputy Director for Europe and Central Asia of the United Nations International Food Organization.

The conference was attended by 50 speakers, each of whom were experts in their respective fields, and there were also important participants from Turkey.

In the second session titled "Building Modern Rural Economies by Strengthening Women Entrepreneurship", topics such as the challenges faced by women in accessing markets, risk management in the agricultural sector, Green Entrepreneurship and Digital Platforms, Women Entrepreneurship were discussed. The session was coordinated by Fatma Dirkes, President of the European Banking and Financial Services Education Association and Vice President of the Frankfurt School of Finance, Ilia Tamarashvili, Director General of Upper Rural Development at the Ministry of Agriculture and Environment, Nardane Kuşçu, Founder of Narköy Organic Farm, Tulin Akın, Founder of Tabit Information and Communication Technologies, Marina Tosheska, President of the North Macedonia Rural Development Association, Meral Güzel, Director of UN Women Partnership, Alia El-Yassir, UN Women Representative for Europe and Central Asia.