Agenda Vientiane Rubber WS 14-15nov.2024 Final

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Regional workshop:

Promoting Sustainable Natural Rubber Production, Trade and Investment in Mainland


Southeast Asia

Agenda

Day 1 (14 November 2024): Field visit to rubber processing factories and smallholder
plantations in Vientiane
8:00 Bus departs from New Rose Hotel
8:00 - 12:00 Visit Thai Hua Rubber Company: Company’s production and experiences in CO2
credit
Visit rubber smallholders
12:00 - 13:00 Lunch at Nam Ngum Reservoir
13:00 - 17:00 Visit the rubber collection point "Lan Yang" at km 52 and smallholders
17:00 Bus returns to New Rose Hotel

Day 2 (15 November 2024): Workshop, New Rose Hotel, Vientiane


For online participation:
- Time: Nov 15, 2024 08:30 - 17:00 GMT+7
- Zoom link: https://zoom.us/j/99622103549?pwd=FvHJTaoLthG3tXCbpIxXyQDauH2i0l.1
- Meeting ID: 996 2210 3549
- Password: 074279

Time Activity In-charged organisation


8:00 – 8:30 30 min. Registration Lao Rubber Association
8:30 – 8:40 10 min. Welcome notes Mr. Vilayvanh Phomkhe,
Founder and Advisor of LRA
8:40 – 10:30 110 min. Part 1. Overview of the country’s rubber sector: Production,
processing, trade and legality/ sustainability requirements for
each stage
Facilitator: Dr. Junzuo Zhang, China-UK Collaboration on
International Forest Investment and Trade Programme (InFIT)
8:40 – 9:00 20 min. Overview of Cambodia’s rubber sector Mr. KHUN Kakada, Director,
General Directorate of Rubber
of Cambodia
9:00 – 9:20 20 min. Overview of Laos’s rubber sector, Dr. Bounthong Bouahom
domestic and foreign direct investment Lao Rubber Association
and implications for legality
9:20 – 9:40 20 min. Overview of Myanmar’s rubber sector Dr. Yu Sein
Myanmar Sustainable Natural
Rubber Association (MSNRA)
9:40 – 10:00 20 min. Overview of Vietnam’s rubber sector Mr. Vo Hoang An
Viet Nam Rubber Association
10:00 – 10:30 30 min. Q&A
10:30 – 10:45 15 min. Tea break

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10:45 – 12:00 75 min. Part 2. Cross-border trade and investment and implications for
global legality framework, including the EUDR
Facilitator: Dr. Bounthong Bouahom, Lao Rubber Association
10:45 – 11:00 15 min. Overview of China's natural rubber Xi Yang/Genyuan Xu
industry and the development of Wanxiang Agricultural
Yunnan's agricultural natural rubber Development Group
industry Corporation Limited Liability
Company
11:11 – 11:15 15 min. Smallholder production and cross- Dr. Jean-Christophe Diepart
border trade in Cambodia (Online and Rada Kong
presentation) The School for Field Studies,
Center for Environmental
Justice and Mekong Ecologies
11:15 – 11:30 15 min. Rubber production and trade in Dr. To Xuan Phuc
Mainland Southeast Asia: The Forest Trends
interconnectedness and implications
for EUDR
11:30 – 12:00 30 min. Q&A
12:00 – 13:30 90 min. Lunch break
13:30 – 15:00 90 min. Part 3. Private sector initiatives in sustainable rubber production
and trade
Facilitator: Dr. To Xuan Phuc, Forest Trends
13:30 – 13:45 15 min. China’s Sustainable Natural Rubber Xuan Zhou
Production Guidelines CCCMC
13:45 – 14:00 15 min. Sustainable rubber production and Ms. Nguyen Thi Hai
trade: A case study of EUDR- Dak Lak Rubber Investment
compliance in Southern Laos Joint Stock Company (DRI)
14:00 – 14:15 15 min. Smallholder sustainable rubber Mr. Supadetch Ongsakul
production in Thailand Thai Rubber Association
14:15 – 14:30 15 min. Sustainable rubber production in the Dr. Vu Tan Phuong
Mekong countries Vietnam Forest Certification
Office/PEFC
14:30 – 15:00 30 min. Q&A
15:00 – 15:15 15 min. Tea break
15:15 – 16:50 95 min. Part 4. Discussion: Regional collaboration for sustainable rubber
production, trade and investment
- Information/data exchange
- Supply chain study /cross-border visit
- Strengthening sustainable production and cross-border trade
- Piloting initiatives on capacity building of companies and smallholders
Facilitator: Dr. To Xuan Phuc, Forest Trends
16:50 – 17:00 10 min. Closing remarks Representative from LRA /
Ministry of Agriculture and
Forestry of Lao PDR

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