Conference Presentations

2009 Conference Proceedings [PDF]

Monday, October 5

Food Security in a Challenging economic Environment
Speaker	Presentation
Harmel Cazeau	Impact de la crise financière sur la Sécurité Alimentaire en Haiti
Mamaru Tsidku Belete	Water-Irrigation for Food Security in Amhara National Regional State
Victor Dukhovny	Water and Food Security in Central Asia
M. Gopalakrishnan	Food Security in a Challenging Economic Environment
Daniel Uza	Implementation and Status of Food Security Initiatives in Nigeria since the 2008 Food Crisis
Dave Conley	Aquaculture and Food Security

Tuesday, October 6

Access to Finance and Agricultural Credit: Problems, Challenges and Opportunities
Speaker	Presentation
Jonathan Campaigne	Access to Finance and Agricultural Credit
François Dagenais	Importance of credit to develop the agri-food sector in Haiti for better food security
Vincent Giard	Access to finance and credit: challenges and opportunities

Investments Needed for Agricultural Development
Speaker	Presentation
Marco Ferroni	Investments Needed for Food Security and Agricultural Development
DEREJE Biruk Gebremedhin	Small Scale Water Harvesting: Its Contribution towards Food Security Under the Prevailing Impacts of Climate Change in Amhara Region of Ethiopia
Christopher Delgado	The World Bank Group Agriculture Action Plan
Michael Hamp	IFAD and Investments in Agricultural Development: Access to Finance for the Rural Poor
Mario Renaud	Investments needed for Agricultural Development

Research and Capacity Building: Where are the Priorities?
Speaker	Presentation
Ikenna Onyido	Research and Capacity Building, Priorities for Agriculture and Food Security in Nigeria
Said Silim	Targeting Priorities for Food Security in the Semi Arid Tropics
Dyno Keatinge	Research & Capacity Building in Response to the World Crisis of Malnutrition & Poverty
Paul Mapfumo	Not available
Ephraim Mukisera	Research & Capacity Building Priorities: The case for Kenya

Response of International Agencies to Ongoing Challenges of Food Security
Speaker	Presentation
Henk-Jan Brinkman	WFP Response to the Food and Financial Crises
Christopher Delgado	Two Recent Examples of an Operational Approach to Food Security at the World Bank
Joe Dewbre	Food security in S, M & L run

Wednesday, October 7

Markets and Trade: How They Affect Food Security
Speaker	Presentation
Neil Conklin	Markets, Trade and Food Security
Henk-Jan Brinkman	The World Food Programme’s World Hunger Series - Hunger and Markets
Douglas Hedley	Markets and Trade: Food Security Issues
Maximo Torero	Markets and Trade: How They Affect Food Security

Biofuels: How They Affect Food Security
Speaker	Presentation
Alex Ablaev	Russia: Biofuel and Food Security
Shi-You Ding	From Biomass to Biofuels - Does It Affect Food Price?
Jose Geraldo Eugenio de Franca	Biofuels in Brazil: Do they affect food security?
Ronghou Liu	Research and Development of Biomass Conversion Technology in Shanghai Jiao Tong University

Climate Change: The Challenges for Food Security
Speaker	Presentation
Galina Stulina	Climate change and food security in Central Asia
Bert Drake	Climate change and agriculture
Sam Gameda	Climate Change and Food Security: Agricultural Production under Climate Change
Bano Mehdi	Climate Change: Impacts on Crop Production and the Environment

Plenary Session
Speaker	Presentation
Chandra Madramootoo - Summary presentation	Download summary presentation

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