The Second International Conference
on
Women in
Agriculture
June 28 - July 2, 1998Omni Shoreham Hotel
Washington, D.C.
AGENDA
| --SUNDAY, JUNE 28, 1998-- |
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| Noon | Luncheon--Regency Ballroom Speakers: Under Secretary Jill Long Thompson Chair, Second International Conference on Women in Agriculture |
| Mary Salce Convener, First International Conference on Woman in Agriculture Founder, Australian Women's Farm Foundation |
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| Concepcion Dancausa Trevino Director of The Women's Institute Ministry of Labor and Social Affairs Spain |
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| 2:00 pm | Regional Caucuses |
| 4:00 pm | Issue Caucuses |
| 7:00--9:00 pm | Reception--Regency Ballroom Host: The Inter-American Institute for Cooperation on Agriculture (IICA) |
| --MONDAY, JUNE 29, 1998-- |
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| 8:00--9:30 am | Breakfast--Regency Ballroom Speakers: Marsha Pyle Martin, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer Farm Credit Administration |
| Gilbert Normand, Secretary of State for Agriculture and Agri-Food and for Fisheries and Oceans Canada |
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| 10:00--11:30 am | Exhibit Space Time |
| 11:30--Noon | Opening--Regency Ballroom Speakers: Richard Rominger Deputy Secretary U.S. Department of Agriculture |
| Video Welcome from First Lady Hillary Rodham Clinton |
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| Noon--1:00 pm | A Salute From Australia Lunch Speakers: Andrew Peacock, Australian Ambassador to the United States |
| Kerry Sanderson Chief Executive Officer Port of Fremantle Western Australia |
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| 1:00--1:45 pm | Special Guest Speaker: Mrs. Tipper Gore |
| 2:00--3:30 pm | Breakout Session A-2 |
| Track 1 | Blue Room Biotechnology, Intellectual Property and Rural Women |
| Track 1 | Council Room Reducing Atmospheric Carbon Dioxide |
| Track 1 | Diplomat Room The Green Revolution |
| Track 1 | Congressional Room Transfer of Technology |
| Track 2 | Regency Ballroom Transition from Farm Laborer to Family Farmer |
| Track 2 | Garbo Room Doing Business in Remote Areas |
| Track 2 | Embassy Room Empowering Youth/Vitalizing Rural Communities |
| Track 2 | Forum Room Insurance Purchasing Groups |
| Track 3 | Governor's Room Healthy Women and Healthy Communities |
| Track 3 | Executive Room Building Community Capacity: Distance Learning |
| Track 3 | Capitol Room Community Based Housing |
| Track 3 | Calvert Room Community Food Systems |
| 3:45--5:30 pm | Breakout Session A-3 |
| Track 1 | Executive Room Ecological Sustainability and Organic Standards |
| Track 1 | Capitol Room Issues of Land Inheritance |
| Track 1 | Council Room Urban Agriculture |
| Track 1 | Governor's Room Women and Watershed Management |
| Track 1 | Diplomat Room Right to Farm vs. Rights of Others |
| Track 2 | Garbo Room Agricultural Risk Management |
| Track 2 | Calvert Room Link Between Agriculture Production and Marketing |
| Track 2 | Blue Room Access to Capital for Agriculture |
| Track 3 | Regency Ballroom Creeating Solutions in Daycare for Kids and Elders |
| Track 3 | Embassy Room Taking Control--Preventing Depression and Anxiety |
| Track 3 | Congressional Room Recognition of Women on Farms |
| Track 3 | Forum Room Domestic Violence |
| 7:00 pm--Until | Optional Nonconference Sessions |
| Capitol Room "Women Leaders of the World" documentary by Laura Liswood |
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| Council Room Book Signing by Asoka Banterage |
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| Forum Room "Agricultural Trip Around the World" video |
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| Calvert Room "Photo Novels" Slide Show by Carol Koetke |
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| Embassy Room "When Women Unite" video |
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| --TUESDAY, JUNE 30, 1998-- |
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| 8:00--9:30 am | Breakfast--Regency Ballroom Speakers: Margaret Lycette, Director Women in Development Office U.S. Agency for International Development |
| Princess Irene Ndagire Special Presidential Assistant on Poverty Alleviation Uganda |
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| 10:00--11:30 am | Breakout Session B-1 |
| Track 1 | Governor's Room AgrAbility |
| Track 1 | Empire Room Food Safety and Farm Production |
| Track 1 | Regency Ballroom Women's Farm Work Counts |
| Track 1 | Forum Room Whole Family Approach to Farm Business Planning |
| Track 1 | Congressional Room Land Care |
| Track 2 | Calvert Room Linking Enterprise Development and Natural Resources |
| Track 2 | Garbo Room Rural Retirement Issues |
| Track 2 | Capitol Room Solar-Based Rural Electrification and Microcredit |
| Track 2 | Executive Room Women Farmers and the Global Economy |
| Track 3 | Blue Room Organizing Ag Women |
| Track 3 | Embassy Room A Study on Rural Women's Stress |
| Track 3 | Council Room Take Time to Care |
| Noon--1:30 pm | Lunch--Regency Ballroom Speaker: Senator Beatriz Paredes Mexico |
| 1:45--3:15 pm | Breakout Session B-2 |
| Track 1 | Forum Room Consumer Education |
| Track 1 | Calvert Room Escaping the Commodity Trap |
| Track 1 | Executive Room Gender Equality in Agriculture |
| Track 1 | Council Room Land Ownership |
| Track 2 | Garbo Room Getting Goods to Market |
| Track 2 | Regency Ballroom Holistic Business Management and Sustainable Agriculture |
| Track 2 | Empire Room Issues About Cooperatives |
| Track 3 | Governor's Room Extension Services for Women |
| Track 3 | Capitol Room Food Security |
| Track 3 | Blue Room Health Risks of Pesticides |
| Track 3 | Embassy Room Women in Leadership |
| Track 3 | Congressional Room Food Safety |
| 3:45--5:30 pm | Breakout Session B-3 |
| Track 1 | Embassy Room Role of Microbes in Food Security |
| Track 1 | Regency Ballroom Compare Cost: Traditional and Alternative Production |
| Track 1 | Capitol Room Coordinating Extension for Women |
| Track 1 | Congressional Room Livestock and the Environment |
| Track 2 | Empire Room Microenterprise Opportunities |
| Track 2 | Calvert Room Alternative Marketing Options |
| Track 2 | Blue Room Building Urban Rural Economic Partnerships |
| Track 3 | Council Room Children and Farm Safety |
| Track 3 | Executive Room Communication Networks for Women |
| Track 3 | Garbo Room Self Esteem and Success |
| Track 3 | Forum Room Women and Food Security During Complex Emergencies |
| 7:00 pm--Until | Optional Nonconference Sessions |
| Council Room Book Signing by Patricia O'Hara |
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| Forum Room Book Signing by Al Hall |
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| Blue Room Roundtable Discussion sponsored by the National Catholic Rural Life Association |
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| Calvert Room "City Farmers" video |
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| Garbo Room Research Priorities for Women in Agriculture Discussion Group |
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| Executive Room Using Computers to Access Markets |
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| --WEDNESDAY, JULY 1, 1998-- |
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| 8:00--9:30 am | Breakfast--Regency Ballroom Speakers: Phillipa Anderson Assistant General Counsel U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs |
| Elizabeth Aguirre de Calderon First Lady El Salvador |
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| 10:00--11:30 am | Breakout Session C-1 |
| Track 1 | Empire Room Organic Agriculture |
| Track 1 | Embassy Room Participatory Development and Agriculture |
| Track 1 | Calvert Room Soil Management |
| Track 1 | Regency Ballroom Gender and Agricultural Methods |
| Track 2 | Garbo Room Market Concentration, Market Power and Women |
| Track 2 | Congressional Room Rural Women and Law |
| Track 2 | Blue Room Microcredit |
| Track 3 | Forum Room Safe Motherhood |
| Track 3 | Hampton Room Agriculture Education |
| Track 3 | Executive Room Elderly in Rural Settings |
| Track 3 | Diplomat Room Ethics of Modern Agriculture |
| Track 3 | Capitol Room Farm Safety |
| Noon--1:30 pm | Lunch--Regency Ballroom Special Address By: Dan Glickman Secretary U.S. Department of Agriculture |
| Speakers: Kitty Higgins Deputy Secretary U.S. Department of Labor |
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| Teresa Sola Under Secretary, Women's Affairs Ministry of Foreign Relations Argentina |
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| 1:45--3:15 pm | Breakout Sessions C-2 |
| Track 1 | Congressional Room Sustainable Production |
| Track 1 | Empire Room Value Adding Through Cooperatives |
| Track 1 | Regency Ballroom Women Managing Sustainable Agriculture |
| Track 1 | Garbo Room Women on Small Scale Farms |
| Track 2 | Blue Room Strategies to Expand Trade Opportunities |
| Track 2 | Capitol Room Life-long Education of Women in Agriculture |
| Track 2 | Hampton Room Making Decisions |
| Track 3 | Calvert Room Gender Discrimination |
| Track 3 | Forum Room Girl Power |
| Track 3 | Embassy Room Menopause and Beyond |
| Track 3 | Executive Room Outmigration |
| Track 3 | Diplomat Room Rural Women, Policy and the Process of Change |
| 3:45--5:30 pm | Breakout Session C-3 |
| Track 1 | Executive Room Sustaining Women Farmers in America: Our Work, Hopes, and Challenges |
| Track 1 | Calvert Room Food Preservation and Women |
| Track 1 | Regency Ballroom Relationship Between Retiring and Beginning Farmers |
| Track 1 | Forum Room Climate Change and Rural Livelihood: The Agricultural Connection |
| Track 2 | Congressional Room Women and Sustainable Rural Development |
| Track 2 | Blue Room Women, Business and Agriculture |
| Track 2 | Empire Room Entrepreneurial Characteristics of Farm Women |
| Track 3 | Capitol Room Migrant Workers and Nutrition |
| Track 3 | Diplomat Room Food Security and Public Policy |
| Track 3 | Hampton Room Increasing Rural Women's Access to Health Information |
| Track 3 | Garbo Room Networking for Change |
| Track 3 | Embassy Room Rural Youth, Coalition Building, Self Esteem |
| 7:00 pm--Until | Optional Nonconference Sessions |
| Council Room "The Farmer's Wife" video |
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| Forum Room African Seeds of Hope Roundtable Discussion |
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| Special Tour Trolley Tour of Washington, DC at Night (Cost: $11.50. Please see the Conference Registration Cashier for Ticket Information) |
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| --THURSDAY, JULY 2, 1998-- |
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| 8:00--9:30 am | Breakfast--Regency Ballroom Speakers: Audrey Tayse Haynes Director, White House Office for Women's Initiatives and Outreach |
| American Women in Agriculture Panel |
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| Moderator: Evelyn Rominger |
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| Panelists: Alice Baesler President, Ag Women's Leadership Network Carol Ann Gregg President, American AgriWomen Deb Lundgren National Farmers Union Sheila Massey President, Women Involved in Farm Economics Linda Reinhardt President, Farm Bureau Women Shirley Sherrod The Federation of Southern Cooperatives |
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| 10:00--11:30 am | Breakout Session D-1 |
| Track 1 | Embassy Room Natural Resource Management for Farmers |
| Track 1 | Capitol Room Bioregionalism |
| Track 1 | Calvert Room Women in Agriculture Development |
| Track 1 | Empire Room Women Migrant Farmworkers |
| Track 1 | Executive Room Limited Resources and Minority Women in Agriculture |
| Track 2 | Blue Room A Guide to Coalition Building |
| Track 2 | Hampton Room Farm Business Information Systems |
| Track 2 | Diplomat Room Microenterprise Opportunities |
| Track 3 | Regency Ballroom Lideres Campesinas Theatrical Play |
| Track 3 | Congressional Room Rural Telehealth |
| Track 3 | Garbo Room Solutions to Come from Gender Analysis |
| Track 3 | Forum Room Meeting the Needs of Isolated Rural Women |
| Noon--1:30 pm | Lunch--Regency Ballroom Speakers: Julia Taft Assistant Secretary of State for Population, Refugees and Migration U.S. Department of State |
| Sissel Ekaas Director, Women and Population, United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization |
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| 2:00--5:00 pm | "One-on-one" Sessions With Experts Agriculture Issues--Hampton Room Economic Issues--Garbo Room Community Issues--Executive Room |
| 7:00 pm | Banquet--Regency Ballroom |
| Also invited: | Secretary Donna Shalala, Attorney General Janet Reno, Secretary Alexis Herman, Administrator Aida Alvarez and Administrator Carol Browner. |
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