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Pacific Economic Cooperation Council

Event 

Title:
Pacific Food System Outlook 2005
When:
10 May, 2005 - 13 May, 2005
Where:
Horizon Hotel Kunming - Kunming
Category:
PECC Events

Description

PACIFIC FOOD SYSTEM OUTLOOK

The Region’s Changing Retail Food Sector: Consequences for Consumers, Producers, and Trade

 

Annual Meeting
May 10-13, 2005
 

Kun Ming, China

 

 

Tuesday, May 10

 

0900 - 1800

Registration

1900 - 2100

Welcoming Dinner Speech

  • Amb.Guo Jia Ding, Executive Vice Chairman, China National Committee for Pacific Economic Cooperation
  • Mayor of  Kun Ming (TBC)

Wednesday, May 11

0900 - 0915

Opening Session

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

Welcome Address

  • Mayor of Kun Ming (TBC)
  • Executive Vice Chair of China National Committee for Pacific Economic Cooperation (TBC)

Introduction:

Putting the retail food sector into the context of the Pacific Food System Outlook project

  •  Bill Coyle

 0935 - 1200

Panel:

The Changing Map of the Retail Food Sector in the Asia-Pacific Region

Evidence from selected countries:

1200 - 1330

 Lunch

1330 - 1500

Perspectives from the Private Sector

Moderator: Salvador Catelo, Philippines

Understanding Packaged Food Trends in Asia Pacific

1500 - 1530

Break

1530 - 1730

The Impact on Trade and Agriculture: The Policy Response

Moderator: Eugenia Muchnik, Chile

Discussant:

  • Keiji Ohga, Japan

1830 - 2100

Dinner Speech

  • Hong Fu Zeng; Former Vice Minister, Ministry of Agriculture, PRC;
    Chairman, Food and Agricultural Resource Development Sub-Committee, CNCPEC

Thursday, May 12

0800

Field trip to:

a) Kunming Shuanglong Shunhong Food Limited Company
b) Golden Palace Park

1130 - 1330 c) Lunch and watching folk dances at Long Du International Recreation Resort
  d) The Kun Ming Botanical Garden
 

e) Kunming Dragon Park

1900 - 2100

f) Dinner Speech by Ms. Yang Pei Qing,Vice Chair of China National Committee for Pacific Economic Cooperation; President, Chinese Advertising Association

Friday, May 13

0930 - 1230

General discussion: economy by economy evidence of impacts of retail food changes on the food sector and trade.

Participants will make a 10-minute presentation on the status and future of the retail food sector, focusing on the key/unique issues in his/her economy. Our goal in the roundtable is to reach a consensus regarding the key 4 or 5 issues/policy implications about changes in the region’s retail food sector we want to present at the APEC Meeting, Busan, Korea in November 2005.

Moderators: Walt Armbruster and Bill Coyle

 
1230 - 1430  Lunch

1430 - 1700

Meeting wrap up

  • Mary Bohman, ERS-USDA

 

Future directions:

  • Bill Coyle, ERS-USDA
 

Closing  remarks:

  • Li Zeren, China National Committee for Pacific Economic Cooperation
  • Walter Armbruster, Farm Foundation

1900 - 2100

Closing dinner

Venue

Map
Venue:
Horizon Hotel Kunming
Street:
No. 432 Qingnian Road
ZIP:
650021
City:
Kunming
State:
Panlong District
Country:
CHINA