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High-Level Expert Forum on “How to Feed the World in 2050”
12-13 October 2009 FAO Headquarters, Rome Viale delle Terme di Caracalla, 00153 Rome Red Room (Building A, First Floor)
Programme
Chair Hafez Ghanem, Assistant Director-General, Economic and Social Development, FAO Sunday, 11 October | 13.00 – 18.00 | Registration Turkish Registration Centre | Monday, 12 October | 08.30 – 12.00 | Registration Turkish Registration Centre | 09.30 – 10.00 | Welcome Address Jacques Diouf, Director-General, FAO | 10.00 – 10.30 | Keynote Address Alain de Janvry, Professor, Agricultural and Resource Economics, University of California at Berkeley | 10.45 – 12.30 | Panel 1: Global Agriculture towards 2050: The Outlook for Food and Agriculture in a Dynamically Changing Economic and Demographic Environment | Presenter | Josef Schmidhuber, Senior Economist, FAO | Moderator | Javier Blas, Correspondent, The Financial Times | Panelists | Csaba Csaki, Professor Economics, Corvinius University Kwanchai A. Gomez, Director, The Asia Rice Foundation Michiel Keyzer, Director, Centre for World Food Studies Homi Kharas, Senior Fellow, Brookings Institution Kitty Smith, Administrator, ERS/USDA | 14.30 – 16.00 | Panel 2: Available Resources (land, water, genetics), limits and challenges from climate change and new demands (bioenergy) | Presenter | Cary Fowler, Executive Director, Global Crop Diversity Trust | Moderator | Marcela Villareal, Director, Gender, Equity and Rural Employment Division, FAO | Panelists | Emile Frison, Director General, Bioversity International Herman Kumara, Secretary General, World Forum of Fisher People Hosny El Lakany, Adjunct Professor, Forest Resources Management Department, University of British Columbia Balgis Osman-Elasha, Senior Researcher, Higher Council for Environment & Natural Resources Luigi Sampaolo, Vice President Climate Change and Environmental Policy, ENI | 16.15 - 17.30 | Panel 3: The technology challenge: Increasing productivity and protecting the environment | Presenter | Shivaji Pandey, Director, Plant Production and Protection Division, FAO | Moderator | Robert Paarlberg, Professor of Political Science at Wellesley College | Panelists | Markus Arbenz, Executive Director, International Federation of Organic Agriculture Movements Elisabeth Gauffin, Vice-President, International Federation of Agricultural Producers Estrella Penunia, Secretary General, Asian Farmers’ Association for Sustainable Development Mariam Rahmanian, Executive Director Center for Sustainable Development and Environment Mike Robinson, Chief Scientific Advisor, Syngenta Foundation | Tuesday, 13 October 2009 | 9.30 – 11.00 | Panel 4: Investment needs, sources and instruments | Presenter | Eugenia Serova, Senior Advisor, Technical Cooperation Department, FAO | Moderator | Stefan Tangermann, Professor Emeritus, University of Göttingen | Panelists | Bernard Bachelier, Director, Fondation Farm Baba Dioum, General Coordinator, Conférence de Ministres de l’Afrique de l’Ouest et du Centre Roberto Ridolfi, Head of Unit EuropeAid Cooperation Office, European Commission Mark Rosegrant, Director Environment, Production, Technology Division, International Food Policy Research Institute Imran Matin, Deputy Executive Director, BRAC | 11.15 – 12.30 | Panel 5: The policy challenge: Support, trade, aid and investment policies | Presenter | Gerard Viatte, Former Director of OECD Agriculture | Moderator | Ivy Drafor, Methodist University College of Ghana | Panelists | Ken Ash, Director Trade and Agriculture, OECD Elenita Dano, Senior Advisor, Third World Network Alain de Janvry, Professor, Agricultural and Resource Economics, University of California at Berkeley Eugenio Diaz Bonilla, Excecutive Director for Argentina and Haiti, Inter American Development Bank Martin Khor, Executive Director, The South Center Albert Ramdin, Assistant Secretary General, Organization of American States | 14.30 – 16.00 | Panel 6: Special Session on Africa | Presenter | Steve Wiggins, Research Fellow, Overseas Development Institute | Moderator | Thomas Yanga, World Food Programme | Panelists | Karen Brooks, Sector Manager Africa, Agriculture and Rural Development Unit, The World Bank Makanjuola Olaseinde Arigbede, President, Union of Small & Medium Scale Farmers of Nigeria, Mahmoud Solh, Director General, ICARDA Kwesi Atta-Krah, Deputy Director-General, Bioversity Babatunde Omilola, Coordinator, Regional Strategic Analysis and Knowledge Support System (ReSAKSS), International Food Policy Research Institute | 16.15 – 17.15 | Panel 7: Towards eliminating hunger | Presenter | Hartwig de Haen, Professor Emeritus, University of Göttingen | Moderator | Kevin Cleaver, Assistant President for Program Management, IFAD | Panelists | Hans Binswanger-Mkhize, Honorary Professor, Tshwane University of Technology Ismael Serageldin, Head, Library of Alexandria MS Swaminathan, Head, Swaminathan Foundation. Ruth Oniang’o, Director, The Rural Outreach Program Hafez Ghanem, Assistant Director-General for FAO's Economic and Social Development Department
| Closing Address | Jacques Diouf, Director General, FAO | |
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