2009 - CAES Workshop

CAES-CATPRN Workshop
Beyond the Three Pillars: The New Agenda in Agri-Food Trade

Date	Friday, October 23, 2009
Venue	Hôtel Hilton Québec, 1100 René Levesque East, Québec, Québec, Canada G1R 4P3, Tel: 1-418-647-2411, Fax: 1-418-647-6488.
Registration	Advance registration has been extended to October 18^th. The advance registration fee is $125 and includes lunch and two refreshment breaks. It will be possible to register on site however we encourage you to register in advance to aid in our planning. You may register and make payment either online or by downloading a PDF registration form and sending it in with payment via regular mail. Please click [REGISTER NOW] to register for the workshop. OR Please click [HERE] to download the PDF registration form that you can fill out and fax or mail with payment.
Accommodation	Rooms have been blocked at a reduced rate at the Hôtel Hilton Québec. Reservations can be made directly online. Use "CAES Annual Workshop" when making a booking. The group code is CAEA09.
Description	Since 1986 and the start of the Uruguay Round the focus in agri-food trade research has been on the three topics central to the Uruguay-Doha rounds – market access, export subsidies and domestic support. Over this long period, a spate of new issues have come to the fore in agri-food trade – trade and the environment, food safety, private standards, consumers right to know, trade in biofuels, geographic indicators, bioterrorism – to name only a few. While work on these agri-food trade issues has been going on, it has not received a great deal of attention yet the issues are increasingly defining the international trade reality for agribusiness firms. The 2009 CAES Workshop will showcase this work and provide a venue for industry, government and academics to "get up to speed" on the trade issues that will require their attention over the next decades. Please refer to the [PROGRAM] for schedule and other details.
Speaker presentations	Ian Sheldon (Ohio State University) - Environmental Tariffs Tim Josling (Stanford University) - Geographic Indicators Dennis McGivern (Vice President, Informa Economics, Memphis, TN) - Country of Origin Labelling Greg Anderson (University of Alberta) - Security, Bioterrorism and Border Thickening Jill Hobbs (University of Saskatchewan) - Public and Private Standards for Food Safety and Food Quality Bruno Larue (Laval University) - New Border Taxes Ryan Cardwell (University of Manitoba) - Trade Barriers and Foreign Investment in Agribusiness Pascal Ghazalian (University of Lethbridge) - Trade Barriers and Foreign Investment in Agribusiness James Gaisford (University of Calgary) - Climate Change and Trade in the Post-Kyoto Era Samira Bahkshi (University of Saskatchewan) - Agri-food Labour Standards and Trade Agreements William Kerr (University of Saskatchewan) - Agri-food Labour Standards and Trade Agreements After the formal paper presentations there will be a panel discussion on the research needs of agri-food stakeholders in these (and other new) increasingly important areas of agri-food trade. Who should attend: Individuals from governments, academia, policy think tanks, consulting firms, agriculture interest groups, NGOs, and people from other institutions who have an interest in keeping abreast of issues in the international trade environment.