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Introductions
- Conference Overview
- Overview & Executive Board
- Conference program
- Delegate listing
- General Information
- Sponsor Profiles
- Speaker Profiles
- Council Sessions
- Opening council session (members)
- Bill Hejl, President, WABCG
(593KB) - Outlook on sugar prices and trade one year after historic price surge - Nick Wainwright, Czarnikow Sugar
- Outlook on ethanol prices and trade - can ethanol be traded globally in a large
- proportion? - Lindsay Jolly, Senor Economist, ISO
- Brazil: a world sugar market share of 50% toward 2010? what about ethanol? - Maria Christina C. G. Pacheco, Financial Director, ORPLANA
- Commodity prices is sugar influenced by oil, bio fuels and the broader commodity index? - Terry Sheales, Chief Commodity Analyst, ABARE
Session 4 - Energy Outlook for Beet and Cane (1,076KB)
- Outlook on sugar prices and trade one year after historic price surge - Olivier Crassard, Secretary, WABCG
- Bio-fuels - an ethanol world leader company point of view - Mark Schneider, Director, Investec Bank
- New EU energy bill: a10% blending target toward 2020? what impacts on growers? - Nicolas Rialland, Executive Officer, Ethanol Expert CGB
Session 5 - Trade & Politics | World & Regional Levels (AVAILABLE FROM SUZI MOORE CANEGROWERS OFFICE)
- Update on WTO doha round: what perspectives or alternatives to the multilateral negotiations? - David King, General Secretary, WABCG
- ACP at the time of restructuring: how the Jamaican sugar industry will cope with the EU
- price decrease? - Allan Rickards, Chairman, All-Island Jamaica Cane Farmers of Association
- The EU experience what does the future hold? - Jos Van Campen, President, CIBE
- What have Irish farmers moved on to one year after the end of Irish sugar beet farming? - Richard Fitzgerald, farmer delegate, Irish Farmer Association
- US farm bill and US energy policy (Live Video Link) - US Senator Kent Conrad, North Dakota, Chairman Senate Budget Committee US
- Farm bill and US energy policy (Live Video Link) - US Congressman Collin Peterson, Minnesota, Chairman of House Agriculture Committee
Session 6 - Farm Practices PART A (AVAILABLE FROM SUZI MOORE AT THE CANEGROWERS OFFICE) PART B (1.5MB)
- Adoption of best practice - Eoin Wallis, Executive Director, BSES Limited
- Biotech beet in the US: the story so far - Tom Schwartz, Executive Vice President, US Beet Sugar Development Foundation
- Tropical beets: a complement to cane in dry areas? - Staffan Nilsson, Agriculture Manager for Tropical beet, Syngenta Seeds
- What is it all about? BSES CSIRO technical briefing - Ross Gilmour, Manager Research & Development, BSES Limited
- Graham Bonnett, Program Leader, CSIRO Plant Industry
Session 7 - Promotion, Health and Consumption (1,283KB)
- Promoting sugar consumption: a necessity for beet and cane growers - Andy Briscoe, President CEO, Sugar Association US
- How is sugar replaced in diet food? - Claude Risac, Executive Director, CEDUS
- Consumption trends will Asia lead the way? - Ian White, Managing Director, Queensland Sugar Limited
Session 8 - Innovation (1,584KB)
- What is on the Horizon? - Peter Twine, CEO, CRC Sugar Biotechnology
- Biogaz and wind power A Farmer Case Study - Jurgen Winter, Representative of the German Beet Growers for international affairs, DNZ
- Carbon Credit Trading. Any interests for growers? - Andrew Jones, Climate Policy and Projects, Hyder Consulting
Session 9 - Food Security & Sustainable Development (1,500KB)
- Social impacts of block farming in Africa: the Tanzanian case - Dr. Georges Mlingwa, Chairman, Tanzanian Sugar Cane Growers Association
- Remarks by incoming president
- Invitation to 10th world beet and cane growers conference - Nick Wells, NFU Sugar Board, National Farmer Union Sugar Board
- Invitation to the 28th WABCG council in Turkey
- Closing remarks by outgoing chairman - Bill Hejl, President, WABCG
Our Sponsors
On behalf of the World Association of Beet and Cane Growers, and the hosts of the 9th World Sugar Farmer’s Conference 2007 - Australian Cane Growers Council and Queensland Cane Growers Organisation we take this opportunity to gratefully acknowledge the generous support of our sponsors.
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