Presentations made at the first ICO World Coffee Conference
| Thursday 17 May 2001 | |
| The World Coffee Crisis | Dr. Jorge Cardenas, Chairperson, World Coffee Conference |
| Opening address | Kate Timms, Head of Agriculture & Food Industry Directorate, MAFF, UK |
| Welcome speech | Celsius A. Lodder, Executive Director, ICO |
| Friday 18 May 2001 |
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| Digital Capital, Business Webs and the World's Coffee Economy | Don Tapscott, President, Digital4Sight, USA |
| Globalization and Developing Countries | Professor Joseph Stiglitz, Brookings Institution, USA |
| Strategies for Developing Countries Dependent on Primary Commodities | Robert Thompson, Director of Rural Development, World Bank |
| Global Trends - Comments | Roberto Junguito, Executive Director, IMF |
| International Trade, Commodities and Services/Tourism | Rolf W. Boehnke, Managing Director, Common Fund for Commodities |
| - Session Two: Primary Products and Development |
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| Coffee, Primary Products and the Economic Development of Latin America | Paulo Paiva, Inter-American Development Bank |
| Primary Commodity Producers | Dr. Juan M. Santos, Minister of Finance, Colombia |
| H.E. Gnassingbé Eyadema, Chairperson of OAU, President of Togo | |
| Agriculture, Coffee and the Economic Development of Asia | Dr. Supachai Panitchpakdi, Director General Designate, WTO |
| The Role and Performance of Futures Markets in Coffee | Brian Williamson, Chairperson, LIFFE |
| - Session Three - Major Supply and Demand Trends |
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| Presentation of the Session Chairperson | Michael Neumann, Neumann Gruppe GmbH |
| Growing the World's consumption | Gordon Gillet, Senior Vice President, Nestec Ltd. |
| Douglas Burns, Vice President, Kraft Foods | |
| Consumption and Production | Helmut Ahlfeld, Director, F.O. Licht |
| Cecafé Presentation | Jorge Esteve, Chairperson, Cecafé |
| US Coffee trends: 1991 - 2001 | Robert Nelson, President, NCA, USA |
| Coffee: Rise or Fall ? | Klaus Jacobs, Klaus Jacobs Foundation, Switzerland |
| The Diversion and/or Destruction of Triage as a means to improve prices | Mick Wheeler, Overseas Rep., Papua New Guinea Coffee Industry Corporation |
| Coffee: An Asian Perspective | Ong Siong Kai, Chief Executive, Hiang Kie Group, Singapore |
| Coffee Trends in Europe | Roel Vaessen, Secretary General, European Coffee Federation (ECF) |
| Orientations of Vietnam Coffee Industry | Doan Trieu Nhan, Chairperson, VICOFA |
| Overview of the coffee market in Japan | Tatsushi Ueshima, UCC Ueshima Coffee Co. Ltd, Japan |
| Champagne Reception and Conference Banquet |
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| Statement | Agbeyome Messan Kodjo, Prime Minister of Togo |
| Statement | Vinicius Pratini de Moraes, Minister of Agriculture, Brazil |
| Saturday 19 May 2001 - Session Four: Institutions and Development |
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| Review of the influence of the world of coffee on scholarship within the social sciences |
Professor Robert Bates, Eaton Professor of the Science of Government, Harvard University |
| Role of the National Coffee Federation of Colombia | Professor Rosemay Thorp, Oxford University |
| Issues for Producing Countries | Ambassador Sergio Amaral, Chairperson of the ACPC |
| - Panel discussions |
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| Why has coffee control succeeded in the past? Can it succeed in the future? | Professor Christopher Gilbert, Research Professor of Finance, Free University of Amsterdam |
| Coffee institutions and economic development in producing countries | Diego Pizano, Federacion Nacional de Cafeteros de Colombia |
| The Specialty coffee revolution | Orin Smith, President and Chief Executive Officer, Starbucks, Specialty Coffee Revolution |
| - Session Five: Scientific and Technological aspects | |
| Project: coffee and health | Professor Darcy Lima, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil |
| Coffee and health | Professor P. Martin, Vanderbilt University, USA |
| Promoting good news about coffee | Dr. Daniel Steffen, Kraft Foods, Chairperson, Scientific Committee, NCA |
| Towards an integrated knowledge system for smallholder coffee farmers | Dr. Peter Baker, CABI, UK |
| Sustainable coffee | Dr. Gabriel Cadena, Director of the National Coffee Research Centre, CENICAFE |
| Research priorities for coffee in the new millennium | Dr. R. Naidu, Director of Research, Central Coffee Research Institute, India |
| The Coffee Berry Borer and coffee research at the United States Department of Agriculture | Dr. Fernando E. Vega, US Department of Agriculture |
| Chairperson's closing remarks, Dr. Jorge Cardenas | |