UNITED NATIONS CONFERENCE
ON TRADE AND DEVELOPMENT
Innovative Tools for Agricultural Finance: Exchanging
International Experiences
A pre-event for UNCTAD’s Expert Meeting on
Financing Commodity-Based Trade and Development
Geneva, 15 November 2004
Session 1: 9.30-11.00
Chair:
Using the supply chain to enhance producers'
finance
Lakshmi Puri, Director, Division on International Trade in Goods and
Services, and Commodities, UNCTAD, Geneva
Speakers:
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Cindy van Rijswick, Food & Agri Research Department, Rabobank, The
Netherlands, "Global Food & Agriculture Developments"
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Chris Goromonzi, Executive Director, Pivot Capital Partners, South Africa,
“Financing indirect exporters in the supply chain: the case of export
agriculture”
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Edwin Moyo, CEO, TransZambezi Industries Ltd., Zambia, “Banks' equity
investments in agricultural intermediaries as a tool to provide campaign
and investment finance to producers”
Commentator: Calvin Miller, Senior Officer Rural Finance, FAO, Italy
Coffee break
Session 2: 11.30-13.00
Chair:
Speakers:
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The role of inspection agencies and collateral
management
Nicholas Budd, former partner, Denton Wilde Sapte, France
André Soumah, Executive Chairman, ACE Audit Control & Expertise,
Switzerland, “Enhancing and facilitating structure trade and commodity
finance by using an integrated risk management solution”
Bogdan Rascanu, Business Development Manager, Agricultural Services,
Société Générale de Surveillance, Switzerland, “Using information
management to optimize the risk/reward equation for agricultural trade
finance”
Matthieu Delorme, Vice President, Collateral Management, Cotecna,
Switzerland, “Using innovative internet-based communication technologies
to streamlining and simplifying the administration of inventories held in
collateral”
Lunch – sponsored by Rabobank
Session 3: 14.30-16.00
Chair:
Innovative approaches to mitigating risks in
agricultural finance
Chotisak Asapaviriya, President, SME Bank, Thailand (to be
confirmed)
Speakers:
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Nick Hungate, Rabobank, The Netherlands, “Price risk management as a
tool to leverage access to finance”
Hardy Pemhiwa, Executive Director, New Africa Capital Partners, Kenya,
“Experiences with innovative agricultural finance in Eastern and Southern
Africa”
Alex Valdez Buenaventura, Chairman – RBP and Chairman - PAICOR,
The Philippines, “A pro-active role of banks in creating agricultural finance
possibilities: the Philippines' experience”
Coffee break
Session 4: 16.30-18.00
Chair:
Widening horizons: how new tools can support
agricultural finance
Lamon Rutten, Officer-in-charge, Finance, Risk Management and
Information, Commodities Branch/DITC, UNCTAD, Switzerland
Speakers:
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K.G. Karmakar, Executive Director, National Bank for Agricultural
Development (NABARD), India, “Experiences with Kisan Credit Cards”
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Gustavo Bernal Villegas, President, National Agricultural Exchange,
Colombia, “Developing capital market instruments for medium-scale
agricultural borrowers”
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P.H. Ravikumar, Managing Director & Chief Executive Officer, National
Commodity & Derivatives Exchange, India, “Trading in dematerialized
warehouse receipts: opportunities for banks and other financiers”
Commentator: Julio Alem Rojo, Executive Director, Centro de Investigacion y
Desarrollo Regional (CIDRE), Bolivia