ABOUT CEJA

Donato Fanelli

  Rural development and Leader

  Multifunctionality & Entrepreneurship

  Quality Products & Consumer Orientation

  School Fruit Scheme

Donato Fanelli has been with Coldiretti since he was 14 years old, becoming national Vice-President in 2003 and then National President of Coldiretti Young Farmers in 2005. In addition, he has always been involved at European level within CEJA since 2002. Donato Fanelli took over his father’s farm in 1999 and started modernising production and marketing through innovation. He is now producing table grapes and cherries that he exports to England, Germany and Sweden, and will enlarge his business over the next years.

Ingrid Pettersson

  Lifelong learning, Research and Innovation

  Contact with CEJA’s partner organisation CERYC

  Women in Agriculture

Ingrid Pettersson has been a member of the Swedish regional LRF Youth board for the last seven years, both as Vice-President and President, and member of the national board for the last three years. She was responsible for international issues and regularly participated in CEJA seminars and events. Ingrid Pettersson grew up on a farm owned and run by her father and uncles and already took an active part in the daily work of the family farm during her childhood and youth, especially regarding crop production and dairy cows. Today, a small amount of forestry has been added to the family farm. After finishing her agricultural studies, Ingrid Pettersson worked on different farms, mainly with pigs, both as an animal-keeper and as a foreman.

Rok Sedminek

  Climate change, Environment and Sustainability

  EU Enlargement

  Potential New CEJA members

Rok Sedminek is President of the Slovenian Rural Youth organisation ZSPM and a member of several committees in the Chamber of Agriculture and Forestry of Slovenia, including the agriculture, hop growing, horse breeding, educational, social welfare and rural family committees. He studied at the Šentjur high school to become an agricultural technician. Since the year 2000, Rok Sedminek has been a co-owner of a 60 hectare farm specialising in animal husbandry.

  Bioenergy and Renewables

  Competitiveness and the market situation

  Risk Management

  Food chain and relations with Agrifood industry

Julien Valentin joined the French young farmers organisation, Jeunes Agriculteurs, in 2000 as administrator of his county, he then received a mandate in the county administrative council in 2004, and finally a mandate as Vice-President from 2006-2009. Nowadays, Julien Valentin is a member of the national administrative council. Julien Valentin set up in Champagne-Ardennes in 2002 and he juggles between his activity as a farmer and his engagement as a union activist in the young farmers association Jeunes Agriculteurs. New technologies are one of the major focuses in his activities and on his farm he grows wheat, beet, corn, rape, carrots and grass seeds.