Global Grain Geneva 2025: Positioning for Certainty in an Uncertain World
Global Grain Geneva, the flagship annual meeting of the international grain and oilseed trade organized by Fastmarkets, returns this November with a programme designed to deliver clarity and competitive advantage. The 2025 edition is built around the right speakers and the right sessions to make the event truly global, with content spanning every critical region and issue shaping supply, demand, and trade flows.
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As the grain, oilseeds, and freight sectors face new supply risks, trade fragmentation, climate volatility, and regulatory shifts, Global Grain Geneva 2025 is shaped to provide unmatched access to insight, counterparties, and strategies to stay competitive in a changing world.
What defines the 2025 agenda
The programme goes beyond market outlooks to embrace a broader, more holistic perspective. Geopolitical and macroeconomic drivers such as financial markets, water scarcity, and decarbonisation policies will be addressed alongside traditional crop forecasts. This reflects an industry increasingly influenced by forces outside pure supply and demand.
The regional lens has also widened. Delegates will gain perspectives from India, the Black Sea, the United States, and South America, with sessions tracking emerging protein markets, shifting import strategies, and evolving exporter roles. These regional insights provide a clearer picture of how trade flows are being reshaped.
Sustainability runs as a thread through the entire conference. From logistics and freight to production and policy, the agenda places environmental regulation and ESG commitments firmly on the table, showing how climate policy is driving change across the supply chain.
Technology and innovation are positioned not as side sessions but as core themes. With digitalisation, AI, and predictive analytics transforming how risk is managed and trade is conducted, the 2025 programme demonstrates how technological integration is becoming fundamental to competitiveness.
Key themes in focus
Food security and resilience
Experts will examine how nations can secure supplies in a world where climate pressure and political risks remain elevated. Importer procurement strategies and contingency planning are central to these debates.
Biofuels and energy transition
Fastmarkets’ David Alley will present the outlook for biofuels demand, while panels explore how energy mandates are influencing trade patterns and long-term consumption.
Freight and logistics innovation
With most traded grain moving by sea, efficiency and sustainability in logistics are paramount. Sessions will highlight new infrastructure, multimodal solutions, and the digitalisation of shipping networks.
Regional trade dynamics
Sessions will spotlight Asia-Pacific demand growth, MENA’s evolving import policies, India’s expanding role, and South America’s continuing importance in balancing global markets.
Sustainability pressures
Debates will focus on decarbonisation, water scarcity, and the long-term risks climate change poses to global agriculture.
Networking at scale
With millers, exporters, importers, crushers, policymakers, investors, and analysts all represented, Global Grain Geneva provides the most diverse network in the sector. Participants from more than 55 countries will be on site, making it a truly global meeting point for dialogue, deal-making, and strategic alignment.
Miller passes – free again in 2025
Miller passes are once again complimentary, reaffirming the event’s commitment to keeping millers at the heart of the conversation. Eligible professionals working in procurement, operations, trading, or logistics within milling companies can attend the main conference sessions at no cost. Applications are subject to approval to ensure the pass remains dedicated to the core milling community.
Tickets can be purchased from the official event page: Global Grain Geneva 2025 – Fastmarkets
