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PLENARY MEETING: PRODUCTION AND GRAIN MARKET, FOOD PROVISION OF POPULATION – EXPECTATIONS OF GLOBAL CHANGES Global financial economic crisis forms new risks in ensuring the world food security. The fundamental element of the world food security is the expansion of grain production. Limited land, water and innovation recourses, inaccessibility of innovation production technologies for many countries, different directions of national agricultural policies put more tough restrictions on the growth of grain production. Existing institutions of the global food security maintenance were established in another epoch and nowadays they demand modernization of their activity in the questions of coordination of grain production programs and grain market, affordability of grain and its products for people. President of the Moderator – German Gref, Chairman of the Board, “Sberbank” of Jacques Diouf – Director-General, Food and Agricultural Organization of the United Nations Elena Skrynnik – Minister of Agriculture of the Ilse Aigner – Federal Minister of Food, Agriculture and Consumer Protection of Sheila Sisulu – Deputy Executive Director, the United Nations World Food Programme Klaus Rohland – Country Director and Resident Representative of the World Bank in Thomas Mirow – President, the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development Christopher Mahoney – Director, Glencore Grain B.V., CONFERENCES (held simultaneously) Hall 4.2 CONFERENCE 1 GRAIN PRODUCTION AND FOOD SECURITY PROVISION IN A MIDDLE AND A LONG-TERM PERSPECTIVE Role of grain in global food security, development potential. The world financial crisis and its consequences for grain production and grain availability securing for consumers. Expected scripts, middle and long-term tendencies of change in grain production and consumption. How will the world balance and the situation of the grain market look like in the perspective? What place will Moderator – Stefan Tangermann – Professor, Basic speakers: Wayne Jones – Head of the Agro-food Trade and Markets Division, the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development Carl-Albrecht Bartmer – President, the German Agricultural Society (Deutsche Landwirtschafts-Gesellschaft – DLG) Alexander Sarris – Director, Trade and Markets Division, Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations Brian Wright – Professor, Riad Balaghi – Head of Department of Environment and Natural Resources of INRA-Morocco Josef Schmidhuber – Senior Economist, ESAG, Food and Agricultural Organization of the United Nations Dmitry Rylko – Director General, the Institute for Agricultural Market Studies (IKAR) Wang Ying – Director of the Department of International Co-operation, Ministry of Agriculture of William Meyers – Co-Director, Food and Agricultural Policy Research Institute (FAPRI), Naoki Hayashida – Deputy Director-General for International Affairs Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries of Hermanus Uersteijlen – Director DG Agriculture, European Commission 10.00-12.30 Hall 4.1 CONFERENCE 2 PROGRAMS OF FOOD AID: PROBLEMS, WAYS AND MECHANISMS OF INCREASE OF EFFECTIVENESS IN MODERN CONDITIONS Financial crisis and global food security –prognoses and assessments. Are modern mechanisms of food aid appropriate to long-term objectives to reach the global food security? How should the role of international institutes of the food aid change? Moderator – Sergey Kiselev – Professor, Head of Agroeconomics Department, Basic speakers: Yan Kubish – Deputy Secretary General of the United Nations, Executive Secretary of the United Nations Economic Commission for Europe David Nabarro – Assistant Secretary General in the United Nations, Coordinator for the Global Food Security Crisis Sheila Sisulu – Deputy Executive Director, the United Nations World Food Programme Alexey Meshkov – Ambassador extraordinary and plenipotentiary of the Russian Federation to the Italian Republic, Constant Representative of the Russian Federation to Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations Michael Mishner – Head of the Foreign Agricultural Nicole Menage – Chief, Food Procurement Service, the United Nations World Food Programme Sergey Lisovskiy – Member of the The Council of Federation of the Federal Assembly of the Klaus Rohland – Country Director and Resident Representative of the World Bank in Chris Moore – Senior Global Public Policy Advisor, the United Nations World Food Programme Tnastda Nanda Kumar – Secretary, Department on Agriculture and Co-operation, Government of 10.00-12.30 Hall 7.1 BUSINESS-FORUM 1 Grain production potential in the Black Sea Region ( Moderator – Alexander Tkachev – Governor of the Basic speakers: Vladimir Petrichenko – Director General, the «ProZerno» company Nikolay Demianov – Deputy Director General, International Grain Company (“Mezhdunarodnaya Zernovaya Kompaniya”) Elena Skrynnik – Minister of Agriculture of the Russian Federation Yurii Melnyk – Minister of Agriculture of Ukraine Arman Evniev – Minister of Agriculture of the Republic of Kazakhstan Gilles Mettettal – Director for Agribusiness, the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development Andrey Samoylenko – Director, RIAS Group of Companies Daniil Briman – Chairman of the Board, The Union of Russian Brewers 14.30-17.00 Hall 4.2 INNOVATIONS AND BIOTECHNOLOGIES IN GRAIN PRODUCTION The questions of the development and using of the biotechnical achievements, selection and seed growing are the main condition for stable development of grain production development. In what is the potential of innovation development of grain production and how to «download» the new cycle of the technological development? Biotechnologies: for and against. Reinhold Stephanes – Minister of Agriculture, Livestock and Food Supply of Brazil John Atkin – Chief Operating Officer, Syngenta Crop Protection AG Sirkka–Liisa Antila – Minister of Agriculture and Forestry of Finland Viktor Korzun – Head of Cereals Biotechnology, KWS LOCHOW GMBH Meurig Raymond – Deputy President, National Farmers Union, Great Britain William Wilson – Professor, North Dakota State University Gong Xifeng – Deputy Director General , Bureau of International Cooperation, Chinese Academy of Agriculture Sciences Hall 4.1 FINANCING OF THE PROGRAMS OF GRAIN PRODUCTION DEVELOPMENT AND WORLD GRAIN TRADE
Grain production development is impossible without boosting investments in the technological reequipment and infrastructure development, however the financial crisis has decreased the opportunities both of the long and short-term bank crediting. What measures should be taken by business and authority for the expansion of access to credits and at the same time minimizing risks of financial institutes? Priority directions of investment crediting. What role should international organizations play to stimulate investments? Moderator – Charles Riemenschneider – Director, Investment Centre Division (TCI), the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations Yurii Trushin – Chairman of the Board, the Russian Agricultural Bank Gilles Mettettal – Director for Agribusiness, the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development Alexander Solovyev – Deputy Chairman of the Board, “Sberbank” of Russia Kirill Podolsky – Director General, the «Valars» Group of Companies Tatiana Crooijmans – Chief Executive Officer, Rabobank ZAO Heike Harmgart – Principal Economist, the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development Gary Blumenthal – President, the World Perspectives, Inc. Anatoly Ballo – Management Board member, Deputy Chairman of the State Corporation “Bank for Development and Foreign Economic Affairs (Vnesheconombank)” Oscar Chemerinski – Director, the International Finance Corporation (IFC) Hall 7.1 BUSINESS-FORUM 2 THE WORLD GRAIN TRADE: NEW CHALLENGES, RISKS, POSSIBILITIES In the conditions of the crisis new risks of the grain business are indicated: the availability of credits decreases, the effective demand declines, the intensification of markets’ regionalization, frequent protectionism occasions. How will the development of financial markets influence on the grain production and trade? What perspectives of the grain business in the new season are opened in the next years? Stefan Tangermann – Professor, University of Göttingen Abdolreza Abbassian – Secretary of the Intergovernmental Group on Grains, Food and Agricultural Organization of the United Nations Christopher Mahoney – Director, Glencore Grain B.V., Rotterdam, The Netherlands Pavel Skurikhin – Chairman of the Board of Directors of «Siberian agrarian holding» group Lamon Rutten – Joint Managing Director, the Multi Commodity Exchange of India (MCX) Andrey Igoshin – President, “Pava” company Vincent Peterson – Vice-President for Overseas Operations, U.S. Wheat Associates, Inc Zsolt Vincze – Assistant Vice-President, R.J. O'Brien & Associates Vladislav Lukasik – President of the Agricultural Market Agency (Poland) | 
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