AGENDA OF THE SEMINAR

Friday, 20th of February:

14.00 Welcome to participants

(Gilberth Bermudez, IBC-Secretariat/Thomas Hirsch, Bananen-Kampagne)

I. Consumption

Chair: Christopher Jones, UK Food Group

14.15 Introduction: Consumers behaviour. Patterns of consumption and consumer attitudes (Jan Devries, Institut für Markt, Umwelt, Gesellschaft - IMUG)

14.45 Exchange of views

15.00 Banana quality standards
a. EC Quality Standards (Frau Bicklemann, Bundesanstalt für Landwirtschaft & Ernährung)
b. Codex Alimentarius (Rainer Engels, GERMANWATCH)

15.30 Coffee break

16.00 Exchange of views

16.30 Banana consumption & consumers' expectations (Ulco Koers, AgroFair)

17.00 Northern banana consumption: its impact on southern producing countries

• German Zepeda, Coordinadora de Sindicatos Bananeros de América Latina

• Renwick Rose, Windward Islands Farmers` Association

17.40 Exchange of views

18.30 Dinner

19.30 Two Presentations

1. Biodiversity of Bananas (Suzanne Sharrock, INIBAB)
2. Bananas - Exotic Fruits: unsocial and ecological unsound? (Lázlo Máráz, Pro Regenwald)

20.15 Banana consumption in the South - an intercultural comparasion (slides)

• Norma G. Mugar, Alter Trade

• Kingsley Ofei-Nkansah, General Agricultural Workers’ Union of T.U.C

Saturday, 21th of February:

Sustainable Consumption

Chair: John Daly (Irish Fair Trade Network - IFTN)

08.45 Introduction to agenda of the day (John Daly - IFTN)

09.00 Political framework

a. WTO-Panel and the EC-Regime (Anne-Claire Chambron - Banana Link)

b. Agenda 21 (Hella Lipper, BanaFair)

09.30 Exchange of views

09.45 Coffee break

10.00 Sustainable bananas - a prospective market? Results of the EC consumer survey (Bettina Burkert, Bananen-Kampagne)

Comments of Consumer Organizations

• Frau Grunewald, Consumer Association Lower Saxony
• Ilse Friis Madsen, Green Families, Denmark

11.00 Exchange of views

Instruments for Sustainable Trade

Chair: Sue Longley (IUF)

11.30 Alternative Banana Trade - Pioneers in a niche market (Rudi Pfeifer, BanaFair)

11.45 Fair Trade Label - a jump to the supermarket (Jürgen Tölke, Fair Trade Labelling Organizations International - FLO)

12.00 Exchange of views

12.30 Lunch break

13.30 Campaigning for Codes of Conduct (Alistair Smith, Banana Link)

13.45 The process of setting ISO standards and their implications (Thomas Hirsch, Bananen-Kampagne)

14.00 Exchange of views

14.30 Panel discussion: Sustainable consumption and trade

• Arnd Spahn, IG BAU

• Doris Calvo, COLSIBA

• Jaime Rhon Davila, UROCAL

• Jeroun Douglas, Solidaridad

15.30 Coffee Break

16.00 The view from the South of the Conference (Gerardo Vargas, Costa Rica)

16.30 Final Discussion

16.50 Final conclusions (Sue Longley, IUF)

17.00 End