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Plenary sessions
Wednesday 18 November 2015
Keynotes
- Welfare and Coexistence
David Zilberman, University of California, Berkeley, United States - Labeling and Consumer Behavior
Jayson Lusk, Oklahoma State University, United States
Plenary Session 1: Low Level Presence - Threshold Policies
- Low Level Presence Policy Developments in Canada
Jim Everson, Soy Canada, Canada - Low Level Presence Policy Developments in Colombia
Javier Castellanos, INVIMA, Colombia - IGTC Perspectives on Low Level Presence
Teresa Babuscio, IGTC, Belgium - GAABT Perspectives on Low Level Presence
Beat Späth, EuropaBio, Belgium - The Economics of LLP Thresholds
Nicholas Kalaitzandonakes, University of Missouri, United States
Thursday 19 November 2015
Plenary Session 2: The Global Pipeline of GM Crops and its Implications for International Trade and Developing Countries
- Overview of the Global Pipeline of GM Crops
Claudia Parisi, European Commission – JRC – IPTS, Spain - The Brazilian Pipeline of GM Crops
Marcelo Freitas, Empresa Brasileira de Pesquisa Agropecuária, Brazil - The Chinese Pipeline of GM Crops
Lijuan Qiu, Chinese Soybean Association, China - Low Levels of GM Crops in International Food/Feed Trade
Masami Takeuchi, FAO, Italy
Plenary Session 3: The 'Opt-Out' Proposal of the European Commission
- Renationalising GM Cultivation in Europe: An Ethical Analysis
Frans Brom, Netherlands Scientific Council for Government Policy, Netherlands - GMOs Opt-Out: The Views of the EU Food and Feed ChainMarta Zuluaga, COCERAL, Belgium
- GM Import Opt-Out Proposal: FEFAC Perspective to Continue Supplying the EU Feed and Livestock Sector
Ruud Tijssens and Jaime Piçarra, FEFAC, Belgium - GM Soy Production in the Americas: Today and Tomorrow
Wellington Andrade, International Soy Growers Alliance, Uruguay
Friday 20 November 2015
Plenary Session 4: Socio-economic Issues of Coexistence
- Consistency of Assessment of Socio-Economic Considerations under the Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety with Other International Obligations
Karinne Ludlow, Monash University, Australia - Conceptual and Implementation Clarity of SECs and Biosafety Decision-Making
Jose Falck-Zepeda, IFPRI, United States - Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety’s Supplementary Agreement on Liability and Coexistence
Phil Goldberg, Shook Hardy & Bacon, United States - The Cost of Regulatory Delays on Genetically Modified Crops
Stuart Smyth, University of Saskatchewan, Canada
Plenary Session 5: GMOs, Coexistence, and TTIP
- Public Transparency in the TTIP Negations
David Bullock, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, United States - TTIP, Agrifood Trade and Regulatory Coherence
Alan Matthews, Trinity College Dublin, Ireland - TTIP: An Opportunity Not to Be Missed
Klaus Schumacher, COCERAL, Belgium
Parallel Sessions
Session A1: New Plant Breeding Techniques – Extending the EU Technology Graveyard?
- An Important Upcoming Decision at EU Level in Context (What Has Happened So Far, Scientific Advice vs Legalistic Approach)
Garlich von Essen - Why Europe Needs Modern Plant Breeding
Niels Louwaars - Perspective from a European Technology Provider
Michiel de Both - Perspective from a U.S. Company with a Product Ready for Europe
Tony Moran - A Public Research Perspective
René Custers
Session A2: Coexistence: Future Challenges
- The Current Status of GM/non-GM Canola Coexistence in Australian Broadacre Farming systems and likely future Challenges
Keith Alcock - Identity Preservation: Lessons from a Case Study Addressing GM and Non-GM Maize Supply Chains
Carlos Trindade, Fátima Quedas, and João Ponte
Session A3: Comparative Studies of GMOs or Trade Agreements
- The Effects of TTIP Market Access Reform on EU Consumer Demand for Meat
Amanda M. Leister and Andrew Muhammad - Trade Liberalization in the Presence of Domestic Regulations: Impacts of the Proposed EU-U.S. Free Trade Agreement on Wine Markets
Bradley J. Rickard, Olivier Gergaud, Shuay-Tsyr Ho and Wenjing Hu - The Product Line Strategy of a Seed Company in a Context with a Licensed GM TraitDelia Baghdasaryan, Etienne Campens and Stéphane Lemarié
Session A4: Socioeconomic Impact of Coexistence
- Positioning GM Food Product: Benefits, Risk and Loss Aversion Considerations
Amir Heiman - Indian Acceptance of Cisgenic Rice: Are All GMOs the Same?
Aaron Shew, Lanier Nalley, Bruce Dixon, Diana Danforth, Rudy Nayga, Anne-Ceclie Delwaide - Gaining Societal Acceptance of Biotechnology: The Case for Societal Engagement
Rene Van Acker, Michael Lohuis, Camille Ryan, Eric Sachs
Session B1: Who Profits from Patents on Plant-related Inventions?
- What Intellectual Property Protection Exists for GMOs and Native Traits?
Dominic Muyldermans - Case Study on Ogura Oilseed Rape: Who Benefits from Intellectual Property Rights?
Willem Ruster - The Patent Holder’s Perspective
Claire Lemontey - A Licensee’s Perspective
Rob Huijten - An Oilseed Crusher’s Perspective
Julie Roïz
Session B2: Coexistence at Crop, Farm, and Landscape Level (I)
- Modeling the Distribution of Adventitious GM Cross-Pollination in Agricultural Maize Fields
Anna Nadal, Enric Melé, Joaquima Messeguer, Marina Melé-Messeguer, Montserrrat Palaudelmàs, Gisela Peñas, Xavier Piferrer, Gemma Capellades, Joan Serra and Maria Pla - Cytoplasmic Male Sterility (CMS) as a Biological Confinement Tool for Maize Coexistence: Optimization of Pollinator Spatial Arrangements
Heidrun Bückmann, Gemma Capellades, Kateřina Hamouzová, Josef Holec, Joaquima Messeguer, Anna Nadal, Xavier Piferrer Guillen, Maria Pla, Joan Serra, Josef Soukup, Katja Thiele, and Joachim Schiemann - Coexistence between Transgenic MON 810 Maize and Hives: Pollen and Flour Flow by Pollinator Bees and Honey Labelling
Eugénia de Andrade, Maria Lopes, Mónica Rodrigues, Ana Chegão, Fátima Quedas, Amélia Lopes
Session B3: Labeling, Standards, and GMOs
- Labeling Demands, Coexistence and the Challenges for Trade
Stuart Smyth, William A. Kerr and Peter Phillip - Standards for GM Labeling and Trade
Jason A. Winfree and Jill J. McCluskey - Effects of a Home-Country Process Standard in the Case of GM Products
Dragan Miljkovic - Food Labels, Information and Trade in GMOs
Wallace E. Huffman and Jill J. McCluskey
Session B4: The Contribution of Future Traits
- Use of an Iterative Delphi Forecasting Study to Identify Arable Crop Traits that Could, In the European Context, Enhance Economic Performance, Benefit the Environment, or Have Nutritional Advantages
Ian McFarlane, Philip Jones, Julian Park, and Richard Tranter - Next Biotech Plants: New Traits, Crops, Developers and Technologies for Addressing Global Challenges
Agnes Ricroch and Marie-Cecile Henard-Damave
Session C1: Coexistence at Crop, Farm, and Landscape Level (II)
- An Analysis of the EU-US Agricultural Trade Liberalization under the TTIP Agreement
Qianqian Shao, Maarten Punt, and Justus Wesseler - Will the Institution of Coexistence be Re-defined by TTIP?
Mariusz Maciejczak - Ex-post Assessment of Genetically Modified (GM) Low Level Presence (LLP) in Canadian Flax
Helen Booker, Eric Lamb, and Stuart Smyth
Session C2: Segregation in Food and Feed Supply Chains & GM Pipeline of New Events, Crops and Target Markets
- A Framework for the Socio-Economic Analysis of the Cultivation of GM Crops
Jonas Kathage, Manuel Gómez-Barbero, and Emilio Rodríguez-Cerezo - Uncertain and Irreversible Benefits and Costs from the Adoption of Bt Maize: Results from the MISTICS Model
Maarten Punt - Dairies Investment Decision in Voluntary GM-Free Labeling Standards in Germany
Thomas J. Venus, Maarten Punt, and Justus Wesseler
Session C3: Practical Implementation of Coexistence in Europe (PRICE)
- An Exploration of the Constraints to Further Expansion of GM Maize Production in Portugal Through a Comparison of GM and Conventional Growers
Philip Jones, Richard Tranter and Fátima Quedas - Estimating Adventitious Presence and its UncertaintyAntoine Messéan and Arnaud Bensadoun
- Segregation of GM and Non-GM Feed and Food Supply Chains in the EU: Future Scenarios
Francesca Passuello, Stefano Boccaletti and Claudio Soregaroli
Session C4: Public Engagement, Societal Acceptance of GMOs and Implications for Coexistence
- The Art of Risk Communication and Consumer Engagement in Food Distribution
Sylvain Charlebois - GMOs, the Media and the Public
Dominique Brossard - Humanizing Science to Build Trust and Advance Innovation
Eric Sachs
Session D1: Adoption of GM Crops with Coexistence Measures in the EU: Economic Assessment Based on an Original Farm Survey
- Coexistence of Genetically Modified Soybean Crops with Conventional and Organic Farming
Ivelin Rizov and Emilio Rodríguez-Cerezo - Cost of Coexistence Measures and Potential Adoption of GM Crops by Farmers: Comparison from a Choice Experiment in 4 EU Countries
Pascal Tillie and Emilio Rodríguez-Cerezo - Burden and Attitudes of Farmers towards Coexistence Measures: Results From a Survey in the EU
Thomas J. Venus
Session D2: Regulatory challenges of Coexistence
- Class Action Lawsuits and Anti-GM Litigation: The Legal Frontline of Coexistence
Martin Phillipson - Stacked-transgenic Events in Conventional Maize Seed Lots: Consequences of Unintentional Releases into Crop Fields
Ana Chegão, Mónica Rodrigues, Fátima Quedas, Eugénia de Andrade - Deciding over Controversial Issues: Voting Behavior in the Council and the European Parliament on GMOs
Monika Muehlboeck and Jale Tosun - To Mobilize or Not: Political Attention and the Regulation of GMOs
Simon Schaub and Jale Tosun
Session D3: Welfare Effects of TPP and GMOs
- Trans-Pacific Partnership, GMOs, and Japan's Agricultural Trade
Andrew Schmitz, David Zilberman and Manhong Zhu - TPP and GMO Regulatory Systems: Any Hope for Successful Negotiations?
Crina Viju, William A. Kerr and Stuart Smyth - TTP and GMO Regulations: Trade Creation or Diversion for U.S. Corn, Cotton and Oil Seeds Exports
Osei Agyeman Yeboah, Saleem Shaik and Afia Fosua Agyekum
Session D4: EU Regulations of New Biotechnologies and Implications for Coexistence
- Genetically Engineered Crops’ Approval Times in the US and the EU
Richard Smart, Matthias Blum and Justus Wesseler - Identification of the Regulatory Steps and Costs for Registering the INBIOSOIL Encapsulated Biological Control Agent
Michael Ilegems and Francesca Tencalla - The Economics and Environmental Benefits of Biological Control of Western Corn Rootworm Diabrotica Virgifera Virgifera and Wiireworms Agriotes Spp. in Maize and Potatoes for Selected Countries in Europe
Emmanuel Benjamin and Justus Wesseler