9th Geneva Roundtable on Trade-related Issues
Room XI
Palais des Nations
Geneva, Switzerland
Friday, 2 May 2003
Import Procurement of Basic Foodstuffs and Financing Mechanisms
in the Context of
the WTO Marrakesh Decision on LDCs and NFIDCs
The Roundtable will review the experience of net food-importing developing countries in international food procurement, including short-term difficulties they face in financing normal levels of commercial imports of basic foodstuffs. The Roundtable will have as a background paper a document entitled “Mechanisms for Financing Imports of Basic Foodstuffs by Net Food-Importing Developing Countries and Possibilities for Improvement”. Representatives of food import agencies, private traders and food import financing institutions will participate as resource persons.
9th Geneva Roundtable on Trade-related Issues
on the theme:
Import Procurement of Basic Foodstuffs and Financing Mechanisms
in the context of
the WTO Marrakesh Decision on LDCs and NFIDCs
PROVISIONAL PROGRAMME
Room XI, Palais des Nations
Friday, 2 May 2003
Opening:
09:45 – 10:00
Introduction and welcome remarks.
Session I:
10:00 – 11:00
Food import procurement and its financing: current practices and the experience of net food-importing developing countries.
11:00 – 11:30
Discussion
Session II:
11:30 – 12:15
Addressing weaknesses in financing the imports of basic foodstuffs in the context of the Marrakesh Decision on LDCs and NFIDCs
12:15 – 13:00 Discussion
Panellists
FAO Secretariat
Bruno Charuel
Director
Crédit Agricole Indosuez
Geneva, Switzerland
Ashraf El Attal
CEO/Chairman
Egyptian Traders Co.
Cairo, Egypt
Kiprono Kittony
Managing Director
National Cereals and Produce Board
Nairobi, Kenya
John Magnay
Chairman
Uganda Grain Traders Ltd
Kampala, Uganda
Lamon Rutten
Chief, Finance and energy
Division on International Trade in Goods and Services, and Commodities
UNCTAD
Ousmane Sy Ndiaye
Secrétaire Permanent
UNACOIS
Dakar, Senegal
Grant Taplin
Ex-Directeur
IMF Geneva Office
Geneva, Switzerland