| 2003 World Congress May 18-20, 2003 Saint Louis, Missouri USA Hyatt Hotel, Union Station A New Age in Agriculture: Working Together to Create the Future and Dismantle the Barriers Agenda Sunday, May 18, 2003 Welcome - Rt. Honorable James B. Bolger, ONZ, Chairman, Advisory Board, World Agricultural Forum 1:00 P.M Keynote Addresses: The Role of Agriculture in the Global Economy Lennart Bage, President, International Fund for Agricultural Development Dr. Norman Borlaug, Nobel Peace Prize Laureate, President, Sasakawa African Association David Raisbeck, Vice Chairman, Cargill Jacques Diouf, Director General, Food and Agricultural Organization, United Nations, represented by Charles Riemenschneider Dr. Pedro Sanchez, Co-Chair, United Nations Task Force on Hunger, 2002 World Food Prize Laureate These leaders will focus on the growing polarity between civil society, business and governments and will present their arguments on how to create a more equitable and sustainable agricultural system 3:00 P.M Macroeconomic Perspective George Mallinckrodt, K.B.E, Chairman (retired), Schroders, plc 3:15 P.M Global Trends In Agriculture Joachim von Braun, Director General, International Food and Policy Research Institute 3:30 P.M Sustainable Agriculture Outlook Bart-Jan Krouwel, Head Directorate of Sustainability, Rabobank 3:45 P.M Sustainable Agriculture Initiative – A Response Of The Food Industry Jeroen Bordewijk, President, SAI, Executive Vice President, Unilever, Netherlands 4:00 P.M Roundtable Of Keynote Speakers Moderator: Dr. C. Ramasamy, Vice Chancellor, Tamil Nadu Agricultural University, India 5:00 P.M Roundtable - Impact Of Free Trade Agreements In Agriculture: The NAFTA Example Moderator: Jorge H. Cazenave, Cazenave & Asociados, Argentina With the advent of so many free trade agreements being negotiated, the leaders will reflect on 10-years of experience with NAFTA and the impact to the agriculture sector. The discussants will address the winners and the losers and provide insights for improving future agreements. Richard E. Bell, President & CEO, Riceland Foods, Inc., US Darren Coppock, CEO, National Association of Wheat Growers, US Lic. Eladio Ramirez Lopez, National Director, Confederación Nacional Campesina (CNC), Mexico William A. Kerr, Senior Associate, Estey Centre for Law and Economics in International Trade, Canada Mr. Adrian Measner, President & CEO, Canadian Wheat Board Raymond Offenheiser, President, OXFAM America Armando Paredes, President, National Agriculture Council, Mexico Ken Roberts, Deputy Associate Administrator, Foreign Ag Service, USDA 7:00 P.M Gala Reception for Invited Guests Sponsored by the BioBelt – St. Louis Monday May 19, 2003 8:00 A.M Policy Roundtable Moderator: Mr. Gary Blumenthal, President & CEO, World Perspectives The Ministers will discuss the critical barriers to the development of agriculture and food based economies, and the strategies to dismantle them, as well as natural resource management. Hon. V. Sobhanadreeswara Rao, Minister of Agriculture, Andhra Pradesh, India Dr. Memed Gunawan, Secretary General, Ministry of Agriculture, Indonesia Hon. Kipruto Rono arap Kirwa, Minister of Agriculture, Kenya Jaesoo Kim, Agriculture Counselor, Korea Hon. Alvaro Enrique Quijandría Salmón Minister of Agriculture of Peru Siphiwe Mkhize PhD, Minister of Agriculture, Embassy of South Africa in Washington, DC Frank Liu, Deputy Director, TECRO, Chinese Taipei David Walker, Deputy Chief of Mission, New Zealand Hideaki Kumazawa, Vice Agriculture Minister (retired), Japan 9:45 A.M Senator Christopher S. "Kit" Bond – U.S. Senator from Missouri 10:00 A.M Trade Roundtable - Eliminating the Barriers Chair: Rt. Hon. James Bolger, ONZ, Former Prime Minister of New Zealand Participants will discuss the greatest barriers to free trade and trade as an economic development tool Jorge H. Cazenave, Cazenave & Asociados, Argentina Osler Desouzart, VP Further Processing, Doux-Frangosul, Brazil Georges-Pierre Malpel, DG, Cerealiers de France Craig Norgate, CEO, Fonterra, New Zealand Mark Ritchie, President, Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy Peter Baxter, Deputy Chief of Mission, Australian Embassy, US 11:00 A.M Workshops 1, 2 & 3 - Trade: Creating the Future Trade Rules, Agriculture and Development Moderator: Bob Thompson, IPC Expert Presenter: Brian Chamberlin, Former President, New Zealand’s Federated Farmers Competition for Future Markets – Role of the Small Farmer Moderator: Noel Devisch, President, Belgian Boerenbond Expert Presenter: Leonardo Montemayor, President, Philippine Federation of Free Farmers Agricultural Markets Moderator: Gerard Viatte, Former Director, OECD Expert Presenter: Dr. Paul Aho, Principal, Poultry Perspective Speaker: Global Food Safety Initiative Fons Schmid, Chairman, Global Food Safety Task Force and Vice President Food Safety, Royal Ahold, The Netherlands 2:00 P.M Technology Roundtable – Eliminating the Barriers Chair: Dr. Sharad Joshi, Farm Leader, Shetkari Sanghatana, India Participants will discuss barriers to technology transfer, technology acceptance, technology development and natural resource management. Dr. Suresh Babu, Senior Fellow, IFPRI Robert Fraley, Executive Vice President, Monsanto Hans Jöhr, Assistant Vice President, Nestle Ltd, Switzerland Javed Jabbar, Former Minister of Information, Pakistan Shivaji Pandey, Director, Maize Program, CIMMYT, Mexico 3:00 P.M Workshops 4, 5 & 6 - Technology: Creating the Future Impact of Technology on Agriculture Moderator: Charlie Fischer, CEO, Dow Agrosciences Expert Presenter: Dr. Ganesh Kishore, Vice President-Technology, Dupont Intellectual Property Rights Moderator: Dr. Stuart Greenbaum, Dean, Olin School of Business, Washington University Expert Presenter: Whitney Wilson, Partner, Bryan Cave, LLP Small Farmers Moderator: Ken Baker, President, KMB Associates, Belgium Expert Presenter: Dr. Marco Quinones, Africa Area Director, Sasakawa-Global 2000, Ethiopia Tuesday, May 20, 2003 8:00 A.M Sustainability Roundtable – Eliminating the Barriers Chair: Mr. Andrew Bennett, President, Syngenta Foundation, Switzerland Participants will discuss the barriers to sustainability advances and management of global resources including water. Jason Clay, Acting Vice President, WWF, US Mr. Jean-Yves Dupre, Director of Environment, Danone, France Rebecca Calahan Klein, President, The Organic Exchange, U.S. Mr. Stephan Tanda, CEO, Solae, LLC Dr. Jose Zaglul, President of Earth University, Costa Rica 9:00 A.M Workshops 7, 8 & 9 – Sustainability: Creating the Future Millennium Goals & Agriculture/Hunger Moderator: Judith Symonds, Executive Director, Future Harvest Expert Presenter: Margaret Kruk, UN Millennium Project Management of Worlds Resources (from an Ag/Food perspective) Moderator: Phillipe Dusser, French Oil Seed Producers Expert Presenter: Jason Clay, Acting Vice President, WWF Water Expert Presenter and Moderator: Aly Shady, Co-Founder, World Water Council, Canada 11:30 A.M Recommended Actions Workshops 7 - 9 12:30 P.M Lunch - Video: Seeds of Hope: Feeding the World Through Community-Based Food Systems Oran Hesterman, Program Director, Food Systems and Rural Development, W. K. Kellogg Foundation 1:30 P.M Public-Private Partnerships Roundtable Chair: Ernest S. Micek, Chairman and CEO (retired) , Cargill, Inc. Participants will discuss how to enable developing countries to take advantage of trade systems, technology and other tools to develop a sustainable agriculture and food system. Michael Fernandez, Pew Initiative on Food and Biotechnology Jim Hershey, Program Director, World Initiative for Soy in Human Health (WISHH) Oran B. Hesterman, Program Director, Food Systems and Rural Development, Kellogg Foundation Robert B. Horsch, Vice President, Monsanto Ralph Paige, Executive Director, Federation of Southern Cooperatives/Land Assistance Fund Frank Tugwell, President & CEO, Winrock International Jake Walter, Mozambique Country Director, TechnoServe Curtis A. Reintsma, Global Development Alliance Secretariat, USAID 2:30 P.M Consumer Needs Roundtable Chair: Dr. Thomas Haggai, Chairman and CEO, IGA, Inc. Grocery Manufacturers and others in the food value chain, including consumer groups will discuss consumers needs, rights and concerns, and how they impact agricultural policy. Mr. Mark Baum, Executive Vice-President, Grocery Manufacturers of America Dr. Leif Kjaergaard, Senior Vice President, Danisco, Denmark Dr. Bjarne Pedersen, Senior Policy Officer, Consumers International, United Kingdom Mr. Fons Schmid, Vice President, Royal Ahold, The Netherlands 4:00 P.M Agriculture At The Local Level Chairs: Gov. Bob Holden, Missouri Governors will address the most important issues of production agriculture, both international and local, with a focus on the interrelationship of policies. Marcelo Muniagurria, Lieutenant Governor of Santa Fe, Argentina Charles “Chuck” Hartke, Director of Agriculture, Illinois Hon. David Jiménez Sardón, Governor of Puna, Peru |
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