Pacific Economic Cooperation Council

Tuesday, July 10, 2007

0830-0900

Welcome Address:

• Li Zeren, Deputy Secretary General, China National Committee for Pacific Economic Cooperation

Opening Address:

• Walter J. Armbruster, Chair, Pacific Food System Outlook, PECC; and President, U.S. Farm Foundation

Introduction Address:

• William T. Coyle, Senior Coordinator, Pacific Food System Outlook, PECC; and Senior Economist, Economic Research Service, USDA

0900-1015

Roundtable Discussion (Part I)

• Australia: Don Gunasakera, ABARE
• Canada: Brad Gilmour, Agriculture and Agrifood Canada
   Canada: Demographics and Urbanization as Drivers of Change in Agri-Food Value Chain (3.18 MB)
• Chile: Eugenia Muchnik, Program Head, Agroindustrial Area, Fundacion Chile
   Urbanization and the Changing Retail Food Sector: Are Rural Areas Being Left Behind? (208.5 kB)
• China: Dinghuan Hu, Professor, Institute of Chinese Agricultural Economics Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences
• Japan: Keiji Ohga, Professor, Nihon University; and Mr. Takeshi Terada, Deputy Diector, Food Policy Planning Division, Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries
• Korea: Dr. Yunshik Kim, Research Fellow, Center for Agricultural Policy, Korea Rural Economic Institute
   Growers’ Responses to the Changes in Retail Market in Korea (178.79 kB)

1015-1030

Coffee Break

1030-1200

Roundtable Discussion (Part II)

• Indonesia: Ronnie S. Natawidjaja, Director, Center for Agricultural Policy and Agribusiness Studies (CAPAS), Faculty of Agriculture - Padjadjaran University
   Urbanization and the Changing Retail Food Sector in Indonesia (1.01 MB)
• Malaysia: Nasir Shamsudin, Professor, Department of Agribusiness and Information Systems, University Putra Malaysia
• New Zealand: Dr. Peter Bailey, Research Economist, New Zealand Institute of Economic Research
• Chinese Taipei: Ching-Cheng Chang, Research Fellow, The Institute of Economics, Academia Sinica
   Urbanization and the Changing Retail Food Sector: Are Rural Area Being Left Behind? (1021.1 kB)
• Thailand: Ruangrai Tokrisna, Associate Professor, Dept. of Agricultural and Resource Economics, Kasetsart University, Bangkok
• Vietnam: Pham Quang Dieu, Researcher, Institute of Argricultural Economics, Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development
   Urbanization and the Changing Retail Food Sector: The Case of Vietnam (272.38 kB)

1200-1220

Identifying the Key Issues/Policy Implications (open discussion)

1215-1230

Closing Address:

• Walter Armbruster, Chair, Pacific Food System Outlook, PECC; and President, U.S. Farm Foundation
• William Coyle, Senior Coordinator, Pacific Food System Outlook, PECC; and Senior Economist, Economic Research Service, USDA