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Slow Trade Conference 2007 Programme:

24. April 2006, 11.00 – 18.00 hrs.


Slow Trade: New Trade Rules towards a Sustainable Global Agriculture


 

Place: Katholische Akademie, Berlin
Organized by Heinrich-Böll-Stiftung and MISEREOR

 

 

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PROGRAM

 

 10.30 hrs. Arrival and Registration

 

11.00 hrs. Welcome and Introduction

 

Barbara Unmüßig, Board of the Heinrich Böll Foundation

Prof. Dr. Josef  Sayer, Director of Misereor

 

 11.20 hrs. Presentation of Slow Trade – Sound Farming


Wolfgang Sachs & Tilman Santarius, Wuppertal Institute
Followed by questions and answers

12.00 hrs. Comments on the Reform Proposals

Peter Rosset, CECCAM, Mexiko/USA
Dr. Franz-Josef Feiter, COPA – COGECA, Brussels
P. V. Sateesh, Decan Development Society, India
N.N.,  European Commission, DG Trade
Chair: Christiane Grefe, DIE ZEIT

13.00 hrs. Lunch Break

14.00 hrs. Discussion Forums

Forum 1 
Integration into the Global Market? Trade Rules in Support of Small Farming as an Engine of Development
 
Input 
Oduor Ongwen, SEATINI, Kenya 
Arze Glipo, IRDF/APNFS, Philippines

Comments 
P. V. Sateesh, DDS, India 
Christoph Kohlmeyer, German Development Ministry
Will Martin, The World Bank, Washington, D.C.

Chair 
Alicia Kolmans, Misereor

Forum 2 
Market Access and Differentiation – Qualified Market Access in Support of the Multifunctionality of Agriculture
 

Input 
Tilman Santarius, Wuppertal Institute 
Souleymane Bassoum, AGRECOL, Senegal

Comments 
N.N., European Commission, DG Trade
Sergio Schlesinger, FASE,Brazil
Kristian Möller, EUREPGAP

Chair 
Jörg Haas, Heinrich Böll Foundation

 

Forum 3
How can Remunerative Prices and a Reasonable Public Support be Guaranteed?

Input 
Daniel de la Torre Ugarte, APAC, University of Tennessee, USA
Rita Schwentesius, CIESTAAM, Universidad de Chapingo, Mexiko

Comments 
Heino von Meyer, OECD
Yves Leduc, Dairy Farmers of Canada
Maria Heubuch, AbL

Chair 
Mute Schimpf, Misereor


 

Forum 4
Trade Liberalization and Agricultural Market Concentration
 

Input 
Sophia Murphy, IATP, USA
Gonzalo Fanjul, Oxfam Spanien

Comments 
Br. David Andrews, National Catholic Rural Life Conference/Agribusiness Accountability Initiative
Christian Ruck, Member of Parliament, German Chr. Democrats, Development Committee
Romuald Schaber, German Dairy Farmers BDM


Chair  
Lili Fuhr, Heinrich Böll Foundation


Forum 5 
Elements of a New Architecture for the Regulation of Agricultural Trade

 

Input 
Wolfgang Sachs, Wuppertal Institute
Aileen Kwa, Trade Expert, Geneva 

Comments 
Jean Feyder, Ambassador of Luxemburg at the WTO, Geneva
Cornelia Berns, German Ministry of Agriculture
Thilo Hoppe, Member of Parliament, German Green Party, Chair of the Development Committee

Chair
N.N.

16.00 hrs. Coffee Break


16.30 hrs. Panel Discussion
 

Time for a New Beginning in the Regulation of International Trade in Agriculture

Doaa Abdel Motaal, 
WTO Counsellor of the Director General, Geneva
Karin Kortmann, State Secretary to the German Federal Minister for Economic Cooperation and Development
Ulrike Höfken, Member of Parliament, German Green Party, Chair of the Committee of Agriculture
Martin Khor, Director of the Third World Network
Gregor Maria Hanke*,  Bishop of Eichstätt

Chair Christiane Grefe, DIE ZEIT


18.00 hrs. Closing Words

* to be confirmed