Anna Trettenero studied agricultural science and graduated cum laude from the University of Padua, Italy 1992. Scholarship: University of California at Davis 1989-90. Anna Trettenero runs a 100 Ha row crop farm in North Eastern Italy where she pioneered Conservation Agriculture (No-till associated with crop rotations and cover crops). Co-founder and managing partner of 1MWe biogas in the Province of Pavia, Italy, in operation since 2012, where thermal energy is re used for Alfalfa dehydration. Plant own engineering. Co-founder and managing partner of an innovative start-up, based at the business incubator of the Province of Bolzano, Italy, for isolate vegetable protein production. Vice President of the Italian Young Farmers Association 2004-2007; Bioenergy Group Coordinator. Attended Fuel Ethanol Workshop, USA 2004 Edition with the presentation “Building a strategy for Ethanol production in Italy”. President of Confagricoltura Venezia Farmers Union 2007-2013. ECAF, European Conservation Agriculture Federation, Board of Directors 2011-15. EIP-AGRI Focus Group “Enhancing renewable energy production on farm” 2017-18. Panelist at the EU Event Sustainable & circular bioeconomy the European way in Bruxelles Oct 22nd, 2018. Fluent: Italian, English, Spanish and French.
