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Enabling poor rural people to overcome poverty
Conference on New Directions for Smallholder Agriculture 24-25 January 2011, Rome, IFAD HQ
PROGRAMME
Conference on New Directions for Smallholder Agriculture
Monday, 24 January 2011 08:00-09:00 Registration -1 Level of IFAD HQ (Conference rooms will also be located on this level) 09:00-09:20 Session 1 Inaugural Session (Italian Room) Opening: Henock Kifle, IFAD, Welcome address President of IFAD: Keynote address
Monday, 24 January 2011 14.30 -15.30 Session 3 Reporting back to plenary and discussion (Italian Room, Plenary) Panellists: Chairpersons of Breakout Sessions of Session 3 Facilitator: Akinwumi Adesina Rapporteurs: Mateo Mier and Antonio Ferreira 15:30-15:45 Coffee break
09:20-11:00 Session 2 Opening Plenary (Italian Room) Chair: Henock Kifle, IFAD Keynote paper: Peter Hazell, Imperial College, London Presentation: Ed Heinemann, IFAD: Key messages of Rural Poverty Report, 2011 Discussants: Mahabub Hossain, BRAC, Ashwani Saith, ISS and Bettina Prato, IFAD Rapporteurs (Sessions 1 and 2): Arindam Banerjee and Jennifer Smolak
15:45-17:45 Session 4 Small scale farming as a business: Creating an enabling business environment Breakout into four groups to discuss market, technology, input supply, and land and water issues (coffee served within groups) Breakout Session 5 Linking small farms to markets (Italian Room) Chair: Josefina Stubbs, IFAD Paper: Maximo Torero, IFPRI Discussants: Pravongviengkham,Laos, Prof. Wu laping, China Agricultural University and Ken Davies, WFP Rapporteur: Mateo Mier
11:00-11:15 Coffee break 11:15-13:15 Session 3 The state of small scale farming in the developing world
Breakout Session 6 Improving small farm technology and sustainable resource management (Oval Room 1) Chair: Rodney Cooke, IFAD Paper: Ruddy Rabbinge, Wageningen University Discussants: Pascal Kaumbutho, Kenya, Emile Frison, Bioversity International and Cuna Luigi, IFAD Rapporteur: Jennifer Smolak
Breakout by region to discuss trends in number and size of small farms, their characteristics and livelihood strategies, new threats and opportunities, and types of small farms to be targeted in a business approach Breakout Session 1 Africa (Italian Room) Chair: Marc Sadler, World Bank Paper: Steven Schonberger, Geoffrey Livingston and Sara Delaney, IFAD Discussants: Mathias F. Fonteh, Cameroon, Dyborn Chibonga, NASFAM (farmers’ organization, Malawi) and Jean-Philippe Audinet, IFAD Rapporteur: Jennifer Smolak
Breakout Session 7 Improving small farm access to modern inputs and financial services (Oval Room 2) Chair: Mohamed Beavogui, IFAD Paper: Akinwumi Adesina, AGRA Discussants: Trivelli Carolina, IEP, Colin Poulton, SOAS and Vineet Raswant, IFAD Rapporteur: Antonio Ferreira
Breakout Session 2 Asia (Oval Room 1) Chair: Mahabub Hossain, BRAC Paper: Ganesh Thapa, IFAD, Raghav Gaiha, Delhi University and Javed Hussain, ADB Discussants: Atiqur Rahman, IFAD and Esther Penunia (AFA, the Philippines) Rapporteur: Arindam Banerjee Breakout Session 3 Latin America (Oval Room 2) Chair: Ruben Echeverria, GD CIAT-LAC Paper: Julio Berdegué, RIMISP Discussants: Antonio Buainain, University of Campinas, Brazil, Susana Marquez, Director, Agropolis and Ruth Hall, University of Western Cape Rapporteur: Mateo Mier Breakout Session 4 Mid East and North Africa (S-149) Chair: Nadim Khouri, IFAD Paper: Thierry Mahieux (MEN consultant), Omer Zafar, IFAD and Mylene Kherallah, IFAD Discussants: Malika Martini, CGIAR, Ait Kadi, President, General Council for Agricultural Development, Morocco and Shantanu Mathur, IFAD Rapporteur: Antonio Ferreira 13:15-14:30 Lunch
Breakout Session 8 Improving access to land and water (S-149) Chair: Gary Howe, IFAD Paper: Niasse Madiodio, IFAD Discussants: Ruth Hall, University of Western Cape, Rudolph Cleveringa, IFAD and Rushidan I Rahman, BIDS Rapporteur: Arindam Banerjee 18:00
Departure bus to hotel (from IFAD main entrance)
18:30-22:00 Reception and dinner at Aran Park Hotel (BY INVITATION ONLY) Dinner Speaker: Sir Gordon Conway, Imperial College, London Facilitated by: Khalid El-Harizi, IFAD Rapporteurs: Mateo Mier and Antonio Ferreira
24-25 January 2011, Rome, IFAD HQ
Tuesday, 25 January 2011
Tuesday, 25 January 2011
09:00-10:00 Session 4 Reporting back to plenary and discussion (Italian Room, Plenary) Panellists: Chairpersons of Breakout Sessions of Session 4 Facilitator: Michael Hamp, IFAD Rapporteurs: Antonio Ferreira and Arindam Banerjee
12:15-13:15 Session 5 Reporting back to plenary and discussion (Italian Room, Plenary) Panellists: Chairpersons of Breakout Sessions of Session 5 Facilitator: Thomas Elhaut, IFAD Rapporteurs: Jennifer Smolak and Mateo Mier
10:00-12:00 Session 5 Small scale farming as a business: Building human capital and resilience
13:15-14:30 Lunch
Breakout by three groups to discuss entrepreneur, empowerment and climate change issues (coffee served in session) Breakout Session 9 Creating the entrepreneur farmers needed today and tomorrow (S-149) Chair: Peter Hazell, SOAS/Imperial College Paper: Xiaobing Wang and Jikun Huang, Chinese Academy of Social Science Discussants: Kurt Hoffman,TransAfrica and Maggie Kigozi, Executive Director, Uganda Investment Corporation Rapporteur: Jennifer Smolak Breakout Session 10 Empowering women and vulnerable groups to become successful farmers (Oval Room 2) Chair: Marcella Villareal, FAO Paper: WMH Jaim, Department of Agricultural Economics, BAU Discussants: Amita Shah, GIDR, India, Rosemary Vargas-Lundius, IFAD and Maria Hartl, IFAD Rapporteur: Arindam Banerjee Breakout Session 11 Prospering despite climate change (Oval Room 1) Chair: Elwyn Grainger Jones, IFAD Paper: Camilla Toulmin, Director, IIED and Nahu Senaye Araya, Nyala Insurance, Ethiopia Discussants: Francesco Tubiello, Get Carbon, Kwesi Atta-Krah and Dhrupad Chowdhury, ICIMOD Rapporteur: Antonio Ferreira Breakout Session 12 Creating off-farm opportunities (Italian Room) Chair: Ashwani Saith, ISS, the Netherlands Paper: Rajeev Gupta, Indian Grameen services, Vijay Mahajan, BASIX and Martine Dirven, RIMISP Discussants: Steven Wiggins, ODI and Costas Stamoulis, FAO Rapporteur: Mateo Mier 12:00-12:15 Break
14:30-17:00 Session 6 Actors and roles: Who does what? (Italian Room, Plenary) Facilitator: Mishal Husain, BBC Panellists: Sir Gordon Conway, Imperial College, London Ait Kadi, President, General Council for Agricultural Development, Morocco Kavita Prakash-Mani, SYNGENTA Esther Penunia, AFA John Coonrod, The Hunger Project, Washington Franklin Moore, USAID Prabhu Pingali, Deputy Director, Agricultural Development, Bill and Melinda Gates Foundations Kevin Cleaver, IFAD and Hafez Ghanem, FAO Rapporteurs: Jennifer Smolak, Arindam Banerjee, Anonio Ferreira and Mateo Mier 17:00-17:30 Session 7 Concluding (Italian Room) Henock Kifle, IFAD Rapporteurs: Jennifer Smolak, Arindam Banerjee, Anonio Ferreira and Mateo Mier
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