A new vision for agriculture
momagri, movement for a world agricultural organization, is a think tank chaired by Pierre Pagesse, President
of Limagrain. It brings together, managers from the agricultural world and important people from external
perspectives, such as health, development, strategy and defense. Its objective is to promote regulation
of agricultural markets by creating new evaluation tools, such as economic models and indicators,
and by drawing up proposals for an agricultural and international food policy.
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Editorial

Food Security and Agricultural Strategies:
What Room for Multilateral Governance?


A Momagri and Madariaga-College of Europe Conference, in Cooperation with the Committee of the Regions



Wednesday 17 November 2010

Committee of the Regions
Room JDE 52 - Rue Belliard 101
B – 1040 Brussels

PROGRAMME



9:00-9:30 Registration and Coffee

9:30-9:45 Welcoming address
    Pierre Defraigne, Executive Director, Madariaga – College of Europe Foundation

    Jacques Carles, Founder and Executive Director, Momagri
9:45-10:15 Introduction: Agriculture as a Strategic Challenge of the 21st Century: Food Security, Environment, and Economic Development
    Henri Nallet, Vice-President of the Jean Jaurès Foundation, Vice-President of the Foundation for European Progressive Studies (FEPS)
10:15-12:30 Panel 1: Les stratégies agricoles des grandes puissances de la planète: quels points de convergence et de divergence?
    Chair: Gerhard Stahl, Secretary General, Committee of the Regions

    Daniel de la Torre Ugarte, Associate Director of the University of Tennessee's Agricultural Policy Analysis Center (APAC)

    Paolo De Castro, Member of the European Parliament, Chair of the Agriculture and Rural Development Committee

    Eduardo Pereira e Ferreira, First Secretary, Head of the Agricultural Section, Brazilian Mission to the EU

    Michel Terestchenko, President, Ukraine-Agri, ATS-Ukraine, Group Linen of Desna

    Andrzej Kwiecinski, Senior Agricultural Policy Analyst, Trade and Agricultural Directorate, OECD
12:30-14:00 Buffet Lunch

14:00-15:30 Panel 2: What Ways Forward for the World’s Most Vulnerable Farmers? Meeting the Challenge of Agricultural Development to Resolve the Problem of World Poverty
    Chair: Philippe Lebailly, Professor, Agricultural Faculty of Gembloux

    Kostas Stamoulis, Director, Agricultural Development Economics Division, Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)

    Frédéric Landy, Professor of Geography, University of Paris X –Nanterre; Associate Fellow, Centre for India and South Asia Studies (CNRS-EHESS)

    Philip Mikos, Head of Unit, Sustainable Management of Natural Resources, DG Development, European Commission
15:30-17:00 Panel 3: Ensuring the Coexistence of Different Agricultures on the Planet: Is the New Global Context Fitting for International Food and Agricultural Governance?
    Chair: Christian Pèes, Vice-President of COGECA, Vice-President of Momagri; President of Euralis

    Bertrand Munier, Chief Economist, Momagri

    Doaa Abdel Mottal, Counsellor, Office of the Director General, WTO

    Reimer Böge, Member of the European Parliament, Member of the Committee of Budgets
17:00-17:30 Conclusion: Integrating the Agricultural Challenge as a Key Element of the Emerging System of Global Governance
    Jacques Carles, Founder and Executive Director, Momagri
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