Place: InterContinental Hotel, Kiev, Ukraine.

The Conference objectives include :

Discuss the growing influence of climate change onto the agricultural sector, determine driving factors of agricultural and regulatory policy in the Black Sea region, reveal the interdependance of the capital markets and the development of the world agriculture, analyse the growth of Asian economics and their role in the global market, forecast the prospects of the agrarian sector in the 2011/2012 season.

«Black Sea Region: Reset. Mission Possible» is a international platform offering to the participants great possibilities and necessary data for better consideration of the newest market drivers, promotes improving their business strategies in the fast changing world, opens broad opportunities for contacts with large agrarian companies, traders, sellers and buyers of grain and oilseed.
 

Topics to be discussed: 
 
• Increasing role of the regional factor in the world agricultural market

• Black Sea region and the satisfaction of the growing demand for food

• Capital markets as a major factor in the development of agriculture

• 2011/2012 season — stability or further volatility in the global grain and oilseed markets?

• Preliminary results of the 2010/2011 season. The agricultural sector of the Black Sea region: growing factors

• New sources of financing of the agricultural sector

• Harvest forecast for grain and oilseeds in 2011 in Ukraine, Russia, Kazakhstan

• Agro-holdings in agricultural development of the Black Sea region

• China and India — their influence on the global demand of grain, oilseeds, vegetable oil

• Grain and oilseed margin and the crop pattern in 2011-2013

• Access to new markets and improvement of the export logistics
 

In 2010 "Black Sea Grain — 2010" conference was attended by over 550 representatives of trade companies and farmers. Leading exporters, grain buyers, agro-holdings, banks and insurance companies traditionally participate in the Conference. Ukrainian and foreign companies from 50 countries expressed their interest in the Conference in 2010. Networking enabled participants to widen significantly their contacts and partnerships, promote exchange views on key market trends.

In previous years the Black Sea Grain Conference was sponsored by companies such as: Glencore/Serna, Bunge Limited, Alfred C. Toepfer International, Cargill, Inc., NWG, Allseeds Group, CHS, Nibulon, Silo Bag, ING Bank, Credit Agricole CIB, Finansbank (Holland) N.V, Forum Bank, ASOS GRAIN, Zerno Trade.