• Opening address
  • Takahiro Inoue
• Welcoming remarks
  • Katsuyuki Nagayama

Keynote Addresses

• Status of the postharvest sector and its contribution to agricultural development and economic growth
  • Geoffrey C. Mrema and Rosa S. Rolle
• Linking farmers to markets
  • Guy Poulter

Session 1 Current status of rural economy and measures for increasing farmers' income and vitalization of rural economy

• Government measures to increase farmers' income and develop the rural economy in China
  • Suoping Li
• The Philippine rural economy: status and measures for increasing farmers' income and economic vitalization
  • Nerlita M. Manalili and Hadji C. Jalotjot
• Current status of the Vietnamese rural economy and measures for its vitalization and improving farmers' income
  • Le Van To
• Current status of the rural economy and measures for vitalizing it and increasing farmers' income in Indonesia: development of substantial Gedong Gincu mango plantations in West Java
  • Made Sudiana Mahendra, M. Suryadi and Padmono N.
• Postharvest innovation systems in South Asia: research as capacity development and its prospects for impact
  • Andy Hall and Rasheed V. Sulaiman
• Strategic alliances of cassava farmers with private and public sectors: a new approach for development of the cassava crop in Latin America
  • Bernardo Ospina Patiño and Rupert Best
• The challenges of globalization and opportunities for accessing value-added markets for African　producers
  • R.S.B. Ferris and P. Robbins

Session 2 Systems for ensuring high quality and safety

• Codex standards and food safety
  • Yukiko Yamada
• Grain quality from harvest to market
  • Joseph F. Rickman
• Safety of feed and animal products
  • Andrew W. Speedy and Daniella Battaglia
• Extending the pre-rigor state of fish by enhancing mitochondrial ATP synthesis
  • Shugo Watabe and Shiro Itoi

Session 3 Research on value-addition and novel utilization

• Issues facing the traditional fish products industry in Southeast Asia
  • Yeap Soon-Eong and Tan Sen-Min
• Development of an intermediate foodstuff from freshwater fish in China
  • Xichang Wang,Yutaka Fukuda,Shunsheng Chen,Masahito Yokoyama, Yudong Cheng, Chunhong Yuan, Yinghong Qu and Morihiko Sakaguchi
• Application of value-adding technologies in Thailand
  • Gassinee Trakoontivakorn
• Inventory of indigenous plants and minor crops in Thailand based on bioactivities
  • Kazuhiko Nakahara, Molay Kumar Roy, Najeeb S. Alzoreky, Vipaporn Na Thalang,and Gassinee Trakoontivakorn
• Functionalities of traditional foods in China
  • Li Lite, Yin Lijun, Zhang Jianhua,Zhang Xiaofeng and Zhao Lin
• Functional foods and their utilization in Japan
  • Makoto Shimizu

Summary and closing remarks

• Future directions for postharvest research
  • Toru Hayashi
• Closing remarks
  • Le Van To

Appendixes

• PhAction, The Global Post-harvest Forum, slides from PowerPoint® presentation
• List of poster papers presented during the symposium