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2008
National Agricultural Council
“Agriculture Vision 2020: Competitive, Sustainable and Socially Responsible”
GENERAL PROGRAM
Timothy C. Mack
President, World Future Society
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Global Agri-Food Forum
2008
10: 45 – 12:30 Panel I. The Global Agricultural Markets in the Next Decade.
Merritt Cluff
Senior Economist, Commodities, FAO Rome
Anita Regmi
Senior Economist, USDA-ERS, USA
Klaus Frohberg
Professor, University of Bonn, Germany
Moderator
José de Jesús Brambila Paz
Professor-Researcher, Colegio de Postgraduados
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Global Agri-Food Forum
2008
12:45 – 14:30 Panel II: What is the market now demanding of agriculture?
Michael A. Bourlakis
Senior Lecturer, Brunel University, Business School, UK
Richard Greubel
Group Vicepresident and International President, Tyson Foods, USA
Moderator
José Gaitán Gámez
Director, Agribusiness Center, ITESM
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Global Agri-Food Forum
2008
16:45 – 18:30 Panel III: Structuring a competitive food and agricultural industry
This panel will explore how those countries which will be the
leaders in the next decade are looking at and structuring their food
and agriculture sectors. Particular emphasis will be placed on those
actions by both government and the private sector that are being
implemented to facilitate the agribusiness to maintain and enhance
competiveness to meet future requirements of their domestic and
external markets, while remaining social and ecologically
responsible.
Suresh Pal
Principal Scientist, National Center for Agricultural Policy, India
Edilson Guimaraes
Secretary of Agricultural Policy, Brazil
Gustavo López
Agritrend, Argentina
Moderator
Antonio Yúnez Naude
Professor-Researcher, Econimic Studies Center, El Colegio de
Mexico
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Global Agri-Food Forum
2008
9:00 – 11:00 Panel IV: New strategies and tools to meet the future requirements
of the markets
Tamara A. White
Secretary/Treasurer, International Food and Agricultural Trade
Policy Council, USA.
Carlos Seggiaro
Specialist, NGO Fortalecer Foundation, Argentina
Moderator
Kenneth Shwedel
Rabobank México
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Global Agri-Food Forum
2008
11:30 – 13:30 Panel V: Successful cases meeting the new market demands
Sukhpal Singh
Professor, Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, India
Moderator
Roberto Félix Carvallo Garnica
Director of Sectoral Competitive Intelligence, FOCIR
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Global Agri-Food Forum
2008
16:00 – 17:45 Panel VI: México: What strategies should be implemented to have
a competitive, sustainable and socially responsible agriculture in
2020?
Based on what was presented during the Forum, this panel will
identify some of the possible strategies and policies that both the
public and private sectors in Mexico should put into practice to
strengthen the role of agriculture as a key development factor for the
country, under the criteria of competitiveness and sustainability.
Ronald Knutson
Professor Emeritus, Texas A&M University, USA
Moderator
Manuel Molano Ruiz
Adjunct Director, Mexican Institute for Competitiveness
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Global Agri-Food Forum
2008
17:45 – 18:05 Closing Remarks by Alberto Cárdenas Jiménez
Secretary of Agriculture (SAGARPA)