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US-AFRICA AGRIBUSINESS CONFERENCE
Sunday, November 7, 2004
Reception – Monterey Institute for International
453 Van Buren Street
Steven J. Baker, President, MIIS
Daniel Albert – Mayor of Monterey
Monday, November 8, 2004
Welcoming Remarks
Moderator Bill Guyton, President, World Cocoa Foundation and
CCA Board Member
Welcoming Address – Chuck Ahelm, Undersecretary, California
Department of Food and Agriculture
Introductory Remarks: Bill Niebur, Vice President, Research,
Product Development-Discovery, Pioneer Hi-Bred, A Dupont
Company
Plenary
Overview of the US-Africa Agribusiness Relationship
Moderator Ambassador Robert Perry, Corporate Council on Africa
Carol Peasley, Assistant
Administrator, Africa Bureau, U.S. Agency for International
Development
Mary Sue Shore, Senior Advisor for African Affairs to the
President of the Overseas Private Investment Corporation
Sindiso Ngwenya, Assistant Secretary General, COMESA
Plenary
Partnerships for Progress
Moderator Judith Chambers, President, Emerging Market
Solutions
Peter
Francombe, Managing Director East Africa, Seminis Seeds
(3MB)
Sabina Khosza,
Secretary General, Organizing the Small Scale Farmer for
Market Access, National African Farmers Union (South Africa)
(6MB)
Raouf Ghariani – President. African Seed Trade Association
Susan Muthoni Ndugi, Managing Director, Redhill Flowers Kenya
Limited
Lunch
Introductory Remarks – Van Yeutter, Vice President, Cargill
Vangile Titi, Deputy Director General, Department of
Agriculture
Workshop I
Issues and Strategies for Market Access /Growth
Moderator Paul Ryberg, African Coalition for Trade
Jeff Boisineau, Frost Wines, Specialty Product Branding for
the US Market
Sas Mwine, President, Commerce Africa, Success Stories with
Seafood
Jim Simon, Director USAID
ASNAP project, Developing the Market for Natural Products
(26MB)
James Hershey, Director,
World Initiative for Soy in Human Health, American Soybean
Association, Developing the Soya Market in Africa (108MB)
Workshop II
The “Business of Technology”: Creating Value Along the Chain
Moderator Donna Ramaeker-Zahn, Research Director, Global
Technology Acceptance
Director, Crop Genetics Research and Development, Pioneer
Hi-Bred, a Dupont Company
Thandiwe Myeni, Ubongwa
Farmer’s Association, Biotechnology for Small Holder Farmers
the Makhatini Cotton Experience in South Africa
Balu Bumb, Program Leader,
Market Development Division, International Fertilizer
Development Corporation, Fertilizer Supply in Africa
Diran Makinde, Development of the Biotechnology Business in
Africa Africabio
Shashi Raval, CEO, Novariant, Inc., Advances in Precision
Farming
Thomas L. Piatkowski, Highlands Soil and Water, New
Technologies for Soil Fertility
Workshop III
Real Business Examples and Opportunities: EAST AFRICA
Moderator Margaret Polski, Africa Bureau, U.S. Agency for
International Development
Sam Kirima, General Manager/Marketing, Kenya Tea Development
Authority, Creating Value Along the Chain for Tea
Dr. Moses Onim, Managing Director, Lagrotech Seed Company
(Kenya), Seed Market Development for Rural Farmers
Deo Munyazikwye, Mubuku
Grower’s Association of Uganda
Christopher Doswell, Market, the Sasakawa Global 2000
Experience, Market Challenges for Maize Production in Ethiopia
Stephen Njukia, Regional
Agricultural Trade Expansion Support Program, Maize Without
Borders (16MB)
Workshop IV
Sustainable Development: A Viable Business Model for
Moderator John Riggan, Chairman and CEO, TCC Group
Robert Yapo, Sustainable Tree Crops Program Coordinator,
International Institute of Tropical Agriculture, Sustainable
Tree Cropping for the Cocoa Industry
Rob Horsch, Monsanto Company – Sustainable Business Models for
the Small Scale Farmer
Ali Deroua, Managing Partner, Alexim LDA/Technoserve
Development of Small Holder Cashew Production in Mozambique
Kristen Penn, Land O Lakes, Developing the Dairy Sector in
Africa
Dr. Irvin Widders, Director, Bean/Cowpea CRSP, Michigan State
University .Sustainable Food Based Solutions for Nutrition: A
Public-Private Partnership Alliance
Workshop V
Agri-Financing
Moderator Mima Nedelcovych, Managing Director, Shaffer Global
Group
Jim Lucchesi, Senior Business Development, U.S. Export-Import
Bank
Joyce Cacho, Independent
International Consultant, Finance Strategy, Food & Agr
Investment
Nkem Onwuamaegbu,
Underwriter, Multi-Lateral Investment Guarantee Agency/ The
World Bank Group
Jim Emery, Principal
Strategy Officer, International Finance Corporation, IFC
Financing for Agribusiness in Africa (28MB)
Workshop VI
Business Partnerships and Opportunities: WEST AFRICA
Moderator Esther Dassanou, WAIBL director, Corporate Council
on Africa
Cheikh Ngane, National Organization of Agricultural Products
Exporters of Senegal
Patrick Noyes, Crustamer
Seafood Company , Benin (24MB)
Giftie Sefa-Boakye, Ghana Fresh Produce Ltd,
King Romeo Lumor, Kings Cocoa Processing Company Ltd
Claude Noumedem,
Corcam-National Association of Small Producers, Cameroon,
Dinner
Moderator Ambassador Robert Perry, Corporate Council on Africa
Introductory Remarks, Jerry Steiner, Executive Vice President,
Monsanto Company
H.E. Leonard Ngaithe, Ambassador, Embassy of the Republic of
Kenya
H.E. Mukhisa Kituyi, Minister of Trade and Industry, Republic
of Kenya
Tuesday, November 9, 2004
Plenary
AGOA, NEPAD and the WTO
Moderator: Rosa Whitaker, The Whitaker Group
Alec
Arago, District Director for Congressman Farr (67MB)
Bill Jackson, Deputy Assistant U.S. Trade Representative,
Africa
H.E. Aziz Mekouar, Ambassador, Kingdom of Morocco and Chair,
the US-Morocco Free Trade Agreement
Anthony Carroll, Vice President, Manchester Trade, Integrating
AGOA, NEPAD and the WTO
Workshop VII
Market Issues and Strategies, cont.
Moderator Julie Howard, Executive Director, Partnership to Cut
Hunger in Africa
Boreima Wankoye, Achat Service International, The Commercial
Potential for Tree Crops in Africa (117MB)
Karen Coachman, Managing Partner, Ghanapine Inc., The Ghana
Pineapple Story
Eugenia Akuete, NAASAKLE Ltd Processing and Packaging and the
African Market: Case Study – Ghana and the Shea Butter
Business
Emah Anyang, DFO
Enterprises and Rod Hirsch, Oakland Export Assistance Center,
U.S. Department of Commerce, The Small Business Entrepreneur,
Challenges and Opportunities in Accessing the African Market
Charlotte Opal, New Products
Manager, Transfair USA The Growing Market for Fair Trade
Certified Products
Workshop VIII
Business of Technology, cont.
Moderator Reid Lohr, President, the EDI Group, Inc.,
Ambassador Mattie Sharpless, Special Assistant to the Deputy
Under Secretary, USDA/FAS, The Role of Science and Technology
in Ag-business Development
Ronnie Jordan, R.O.T. A International, The Business of Organic
Farming in Africa – Case Study: Guinea-Bissau
Paul Polak/Jane Hajovsky,
IDE Low Cost Irrigation Technologies for Small Holder Farmers
Tony Livoti, Executive
Director, Monterey Bay International Trade Association, Role
of E-commerce for Trade Promotion
Workshop IX
Business Partnerships& Opportunities: SOUTHERN AFRICA
Moderator Ronald Ramabulana, Agribusiness Field Operations
Manager, Promoting Agricultural Linkages Program (a USAID/South
Africa program)
Alberto Fischbein, Director, MITC Investimentos SARL, Angola
Roger Rakotamalala, President, Lemur International –
Madagascar Natural Products: Vanilla and Essential Oils
Jacob Mwale, Zambia Trade
and Investment Project (ZAMTIE), Issues in Reaching the US
Market Zambia
Gary Mullins, Deputy
Project Director, South African Business International
Business Linkages-Promoting Agribusiness Linkages Program,
Developing Strategic Partnerships: Case Studies from South
Africa
Lunch
Moderator- Bill Guyton, President, World Cocoa Foundation and
Board Member, Corporate Council on Africa
Dr. Jim Butler, Deputy under Secretary of the U.S. Department
of Agriculture, Farm and Foreign Agriculture Services
Workshop X
Emerging Policy Issues and Trends
Moderator Phil Morgan, MIIS
Mary L. Madell,
USDA/APHIS, Phytosanitary Issues
Luke Mbewe, Chief Executive, Zambia Export Grower’s
Association, Phytosanitary Issues and the U.S. Market –
African Perspective
Steve Price, CEO, Public Interest Intellectual Property
Advisors, Inc., A New Initiative to Provide Intellectual
Property Advice for Resource Constrained Institutions
Luis A. Solorzano,
Acting Director of Investigations, Supervisory Investigator,
Food and Drug Administration, Bioterrorism and Agricultural
Trade
Workshop XI
Transportation and Logistics
Moderator Larry Julihn, Samuels International confirmed
Mima Nedelcovych, Mananging Director, Schaffer Global Group,
Overview of Transportation and Distribution Issues Affecting
US-Africa Trade
Haile Ghebrecristos, CEO Afra Air Cargo, Air Transport between
the US and Africa – Case Study of Afra Air
Amer Chaudry, Executive Vice President, American Eagle Food
Products Group, Issues Related to Packaging and Facility
Registration
Workshop XII
Business Partnerships and Opportunities: NORTH AFRICA
Moderator Don Humpal, Development Alternatives, Inc
Mustapha Haddouch, CEO,
Haddouch Gourmet Imports Marketing and Distribution of
Specialty Foods in the U.S, Morocco (3MB)
Mounir Adhourm, Tunisian Foreign Investment Promotion Agency,
Business Climate and Investment Opportunities in the
Agribusiness Sector in Tunisia
Dr. Ismael Chikhoune, President and CEO, US-Algeria Business
Council, Agribusiness Opportunities in Algeria
Plenary
Summary and Adjournment
Jeff Hill, U.S. Agency for International Development, Africa
Bureau
Jerry Martin, Development Alternatives, Inc.
Sarah Logue, California Department of Agriculture
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