Fall 2006 Farm Business Development Meeting Utrecht, The Netherlands September 11 – 15, 2006 Conference Sponsored by: ICCO Agenda Summary Other Conference Presentations: 2006 Annual Conference Organic In A Day

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Monday, September 11

• Welcoming remarks and introductions
  Jill Dumain, Patagonia, Organic Exchange
  Hans Bruning, ICCO (pdf)
  Charles Ruys, Rabobank Foundation
  
  Update Since Farming Business Development Meeting In Turkey, Sept. 2005
  
• Global market conditions
  LaRhea Pepper, Organic Exchange (pdf)
  
• The Farm Development Program after 1 year - progress, lessons, challenges, questions
  Simon Ferrigno, Organic Exchange (pdf)
  Jeroen Klomp, ICCO (pdf)
  
• ICCO regions
  Jennie van der Mheen, ICCO
  Annet Smits, ICCO
  Tony Terpstra, ICCO
  
• Regional farm development plans
  Silvere Tovignan, Organic Exchange
  Prabha Nagarajan, Organic Exchange
  Alfonso Lizarraga, Organic Exchange (pdf)
  
• Feedback from Latin America and Africa regional workshops
  Kathleen Wood, Organic Exchange (pdf)
  Silvere Tovignan, Organic Exchange
  
  Lessons from Africa, India, Latin America: A Focus on Innovation
  
• Water management and conservation
  Agrocel
  Omprakash Mor, Eco-Farms India
  
• Gender and social improvement
  Prabha Nagarajan
  Silvere Tovignan, Organic Exchange
  
• Business development-Trading companies and farmer participation
  VOFA
  Davo Vodouhe, OBEPA
  Oro Blanco
  Peru Naturtex
  
  Breaking Patterns of Thinking
  
• New ways of doing business and building supply chain relationships
  Peter Tschannen, Remei
  Arjon Kalter, BoWeevil
  Davo Vodouhe, OBEPAB
  
• The farmer as researcher and innovator - African participatory ICS models and gender participation
  Omprakash Mor, EcoFarms
  Davo Vodouhe, OBEPAB
  Joerg John, ENDA/Koussanar, BioRe
  
• Farmer ownership and participation in business
  Texas Organic Cotton Marketing Cooperative
  APAEMA Peru
  Anje Wind, Rabobank(pdf)
  
• A Traceability System
  Esther Verburg, Made-By
  
  Tuesday, September 12
  
• Fairtrade Organic: What is it and What does it Look like in Practice?
  Agrocel
  Chetna Organic
  Helvetas Mali/Burkina Faso, Peru
  
• Experiences from Brazil
  Pedro Jorge, Esplar
  
• Price Risk Management
  Nick Hunsgate, Rabobank
  
• Lobbying Issues in the Cotton Sector
  Mariken Gaanderse
  
• Social Standard
  Trina Tocco, International Labour Rights Fund
  
  
• Working Groups: Part 1
  
• Market research
  Peter Tschannen, Remei
  
• Rotation crops
  Jens Soth, Helvetas
  
• Business models & farmer ownership
  Darlene Vogler, Texas Organic Marketing Cooperative
  
• FT organic
  James Vreeland, Peru Naturtex
  
• Research and dissemination/extension
  Dr Pawar
  
• Marketing and storytelling
  Rebecca Calahan Klein, Organic Exchange (pdf)
  
  
• Working Groups: Part 2
  
• Main components of Key Performance Indicators (KPIs), and how to have farmers developing their own goals and indicators
  Prabha Nagarajan, Organic Exchange
  
• Social and economic impacts and research
  Silvere Tovignan, Organic Exchange
  
• Farm Development website and information services
  Simon Ferrigno, Organic Exchange (pdf)
  
• Gender issues
  LaRhea Pepper, Organic Exchange
  
• Certification
  Mark Prose, Control Union
  
• Water
  Omprakash Mor, EcoFarms India (pdf)
  
  

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