Programme:
 
 
The presentations will include:
   
World Grain outlook 2009/10 and observations for 2010/11 by Dan Basse, President, AgResouce, Chicago.
Food security through land purchasing, stock piling and government financing is part of the industry. How big will it become?
Quality issues and regulation affecting the current grain markets by Johny Boerjan, President, SGS Agricultural Services, Geneva.
Legal issues, contractual maintenance and avoiding the problems before they arise by Brian Perrott, Partner, Holman Fenwick Willan, London.
The Freight Market remains an important commodity - what is the outlook in the near future and what are the issues in the current economic environment? by Socrates Leptos-Bourgi, Partner, Assurance, PricewaterhouseCoopers, Piraeus.
The agricultural supply chain is subject to earnings and volume volatility. Financial institutions, input suppliers, traders, logistics & processing companies can manage such risks by Bernard Belk, Co-Head Global Agriculture Corporates, Swiss Re, Zurich and Michael Denton, Partner, Oliver Wyman, New York.
Commodity price risk management products that grains and commodity hedgers are using and risk management concepts for corporate hedgers by Jose Antonio Parciero, Marketer, Cargill Risk Management, Geneva.
Australia, an open playing field after deregulation, how does it work and what are the likely future developments by Andrew Crane, CEO, CBH Group, Perth
   
     
For more information on GlobalGrain 2009 please email:
Andrew Osborne at andyos@globalcommoditiesgroup.com
For more information on the programme and papers
please email James Dunsterville at james@globalcommoditiesgroup.com