The papers for the various Forums of the Scientific-Technical Symposium: EXPOLIVA 2009 may refer to any of the following areas of knowledge, which, generically, are related to Olive Groves and Oil.

 

FORUM ON OLIVE GROVES AND THE ENVIRONMENT

·          Production factors: climate, soil and tree

·          Plantation planning and design

·          Advances in growing techniques: irrigation, fertilisation, pruning, soil management, etc.

·          Sustainable development in Olive Groves

·          Integrated production

·          Ecological cultivation

·          Plant improvement and crop protection

·          Olive grove mechanisation

·          Harvesting techniques

·          Use of olive biomass

·          Use of olive oil industry by-products

·          Traditional, intensive and super-intensive production systems

·          Conditionality

·          Traceability

·          Olive groves and climate change

·          Advances in pest and disease control

·          Productivity and water use efficiency

 

FORUM ON THE OLIVE OIL INDUSTRY, TECHNOLOGY AND QUALITY

·          New methods of describing virgin olive oils

·          Production factors that determine oil yield and quality

·          Process automation and optimisation

·          Comprehensive use of the by-products of two-phase centrifugation

·          Development of new technologies for processing olives, obtaining oil and preserving quality

·          Quality assessment and standardisation

·          Traceability

·          Advances in the design of olive oil industries

·          Production and quality control systems

·          Biomass, biofuels and bioplastics

·          Refining systems

 

ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL FORUM

·          Economy of olive farms and their future development

·          The promotion of quality virgin olive oils and information systems

·          Supply and demand

·          Structure of the olive oil industry and related companies

·          Product marketing strategies

·          Product differentiation

·          Brand policies, design and intangible management

·          Producer and distributor brands

·          Logistics and commercial distribution

·          Olive oil company management: economy of knowledge

·          International olive oil trade. Factors for its development

·          Origin and destination markets

·          Spot, futures and options markets

·          Concentration of supply

·          Description of demand

·          Electronic commerce systems

·          Economy of olive by-products

·          Olive groves and rural development

·          The labour market in the olive sector

 

FORUM ON OLIVE OIL CUISINE, HEALTH AND CULTURE

·          Historical aspect of olive growing and of the olive oil industry art, sociology, science and economy

·          Anthropological factors of olive cultivation

·          Mediterranean cuisine, olive oil culture

·          Communication and dissemination of olive oil culture

·          Interpretation and museum discourse in the olive sector

·          Olive landscapes

·          Healthy effects of the Mediterranean cuisine

·          Lifestyles and promotion of olive oil culture

·          Olive oil and catering

·          Mediterranean diet and sport

·          New uses of olive oil

·          Olive oil in the world