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The Food Economy: Global Issues and Challenges
On 18-19 October 2007 the OECD Directorate of Trade and Agriculture, the Dutch Ministry of Agriculture, Nature and Food Quality and the Dutch Agricultural Economics Research Institute (LEI - Wageningen UR) organise the 2nd Conference on the policy and research agenda of the future food supply chain, in The Hague, The Netherlands
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Will globalization dictate the food economy?
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What will be the main elements of future food policy?
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Do governments or private actors determine (international) product standards?
These important questions will be addressed during the Conference on the Food Economy which aims at debating social, industry and policy developments with respect to food and anticipating research needs.
Key note speakers will address the state-of-the-art in the food economy and provide a perspective for the future. Workshops will be organised around three main themes:
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Value added creation and supply chain management in a globalising world;
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Towards a new food policy: supply chain developments and interactive policy making;
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Transparency and social responsibility in an international context.
The conference will bring together major actors worldwide from industry, policy and science to discuss developments in globalization versus regionalization, value added creation, supply chain management, product and production standards, social concerns, private versus public responsibilities and policy initiatives with important implications for the production, distribution and consumption of food.
The conference will be held in English.
The web site of the conference, www.foodeconomy2007.org, contains the history, the programme and a registration form which you are invited to complete and to send.
Conference Location:
Kurhaus Hotel
Gevers Deynootplein 30
2586 CK Den Haag
The Netherlands
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