Canadian Studies Program
International & Area Studies
University of California at Berkeley
Canada-USA Agricultural Policy and the WTO
a conference

Friday, May 9, 2003

Schedule
Participant bios
Abstracts, papers, and notes - see links under each participant. More will be posted as available.

Conference schedule. The Goldberg Room, 297 Simon Hall, School of Law.  All panel sessions are free and open to the public and the press.

8:45    Welcome

Thomas G. Barnes, Co-Chair of Canadian Studies, UC Berkeley
W.R. Gomes, U.C. Vice President, Division of Agriculture and Natural Resources
 

9:00   Background: what's new with agricultural policy?

Katherine Baylis (Agricultural and Resource Economics, UC Berkeley)

9:15-10:45.  Panel 1.  Trade negotiations and the WTO

Michael Hawes (Chair and panelist) (Political Studies, Queen's University; Executive Director of the Canada - U.S. Fulbright Program)
Timothy Josling (Institute for International Studies, Stanford)
Joseph Cooper (Resource Economics Division, Economic Research Service, USDA)
Cooper abstract
Cooper PowerPoint presentation
 

11:00-12:30. Panel 2.  Agricultural policy and the bioterrorism threat

Calum Turvey (Chair and panelist) (Agricultural, Food and Resource Economics; Director, Food Policy Institute, Rutgers)
Adobe Acrobat link to "Overview of the Bioterrorism Act" and  "Agricultural Policy and the Bioterrorism Threat"
For further information see the Rutgers Food Policy Institute site at  www.foodpolicyinstitute.org
Karl Meilke (Agricultural Economics, Guelph)
Meilke abstract
Meilke PowerPoint presentation
Simon Kennedy (Director General of Strategic Planning, Agriculture Canada)
(see below under keynote dinner)

12:30 - 2:00. Buffet luncheon.

Keynote speaker: Gordon Rausser (Agricultural and Resource Economics, UC Berkeley)
Rausser PowerPoint presentation

2:00-3:30. Panel 3.  Exporting agricultural policy: sustainable development

Rita Ross (Chair and panelist) (Canadian Studies Program,  UC Berkeley; Anthropology, California State University, Hayward)
Ross notes
Roberto Gonzalez (Anthropology, San Jose State University)
Brian Wright (Agricultural and Resource Economics, UC Berkeley)
Wright PowerPoint presentation

6:30. Keynote dinner (by invitation). Hotel Durant.

Keynote speaker: Simon Kennedy (Director General of Strategic Planning, Agriculture Canada)
Kennedy abstract
link to PowerPoint presentation: "Canadian Agricultural Policy in a Global Context"

This conference is made possible through the generous support of the Government of Canada
through the Canadian Consulate General, Los Angeles.
The Canadian Studies Program would also like to recognize the ongoing support of
International and Area Studies at the University of California at Berkeley.

Link to a related background talk by
The Honourable Sergio Marchi, P.C., M.P.
Canada's Ambassador to the WTO


 


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