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Assuring
Food and Nutrition Security in Africa by 2020
Prioritizing
Actions, Strengthening Actors and Facilitating Partnerships
Kampala, Uganda | 1-3
April 2004 | 
Harvest
Center
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Highlights from Thursday, 1 April 2004 On
Wednesday, 1 April, the International Conference on Assuring Food and Nutrition
Security in Africa by 2020: Prioritizing Actions, Strengthening Actors, and Facilitating
Partnerships, organized by the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI)
opened in Kampala, Uganda. Participants heard opening remarks, followed by plenary
sessions, panel discussions and regional forums. In the evening, the World Food
Prize 2004 Laureates and the winners of the Youth Writing Contest were announced.
Abdoulaye Wade, President of
the Republic of Senegal, Olusegun Obasanjo, President of the Republic of Nigeria,
and Yoweri Museveni, President of the Republic of Uganda
REAL AUDIO will be posted to this
site shortly, as well as larger versions of the photos |
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Plenary
Session: Welcome and Opening Remarks
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Joachim
von Braun, Director General, International Food Policy Research Institute
(IFPRI), Abdoulaye
Wade, President of the Republic of Senegal, and
Yoweri Museveni, President of the Republic of Uganda |
Yoweri
Museveni,
President of the Republic of Uganda, Abdoulaye
Wade, President of the Republic of Senegal, and Olusegun
Obasanjo, President of the Republic of Nigeria |
Isher
Judge Ahluwalia, Chair of the Board of Trustees, IFPRI (center) |
Plenary
Session: Taking Stock |
"Africa's
Food and Nutrition Security Situation--Where Are We and How Did We Get Here?"
Keynote: Isatou Jallow, Executive Director,
National Nutrition Agency (NaNA), The Gambia |
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| | "Looking
Ahead: Long-Term Prospects for Africa's Food and Nutrition Security"
Keynote: Mark Rosegrant,
Director of the Environment and Production Technology Division, IFPRI
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| | Moderator
Eleni Gabre-Madhin, World Bank/IFPRI | |
Plenary
Session: Panel Discussion: "Why Has Africa Not Yet Achieved Food and Nutrition
Security?"
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| Richard
Mkandawire, Agricultural Advisor, New Partnership for Africa's Development
(NEPAD) Secretariat, South Africa, Rajul Pandya-Lorch, Head of the 2020
Vision Initiative, IFPRI, Robbie Mupawose, Chairman, Barclays Bank of Zimbabwe,
Mandivamba Rukuni, Program Director, W.K. Kellogg Foundation, South Africa |
Richard
Mkandawire, Agricultural Advisor, New Partnership for Africa's Development
(NEPAD) Secretariat, South Africa, Rajul Pandya-Lorch, Head of the 2020
Vision Initiative, IFPRI | |
Josue Dione,
Director, Food Security and Sustainable Development Division, UN Economic Commission
for Africa, Ethiopia, Richard
Mkandawire, Agricultural Advisor, New Partnership for Africa's Development
(NEPAD) Secretariat, South Africa | | |
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Klaus
von Grebmer, Director, Communications Division, IFPRI, consults with Rajul
Pandya-Lorch, Head of the 2020 Vision Initiative, IFPRI,
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Digivote
- the Digital Opinion Poll of Participants
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Parallel
Sessions: Regional Forums: Priorities for Action: Perspectives from the Regions
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| West
Africa: Michel Benoit-Cattin, Associate Director for Economics
and Social Sciences, Scientific Direction, French Agricultural Research Center
for International Development (CIRAD), France, Uzo Mokwunye, Director,
The UN University, Institute for Natural Resources in Africa, Ghana, Mamadou
Kone, Minister of Scientific Research, Côte d'Ivoire, Rosanna Agble,
Chief Nutrition Officer, Ghana Health Service, Ghana, Achi Atsain, President,
West African Economic Association (WAEA); President, Network of Ivorian Intellectuals
for Peace, Democracy and Governance; and former Minister of Employment, Civil
Service and Social Welfare, Cote d'Ivoire, Kanayo Nwanze, Director General,
WARDA-The Africa Rice Center, Côte d'Ivoire |
| East
and Central Africa: Rapporteur
Steven Ware Omono,
Research Fellow and Regional Network Coordinator, IFPRI, Joseph Kinyua,
Permanent Secretary, Ministry of Agriculture, Kenya, Asha-Rose Migiro,
member of Parliament and Minister of Community Development, Women and Children,
Tanzania, Moderator Isaac Minde, Coordinator, Eastern and Central Africa
Programme for Agricultural Policy Analysis (ECAPAPA), Uganda, Chair Newai Gebre-ab,
Chief Economic Advisor to the Prime Minister, Ethiopia, and Director of Ethiopian
Development Research (EDRI), Ethiopia, Kankonde Mukadi, Professor, Protestant
University of the Congo, Democratic Republic of the Congo |
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Southern
Africa: Moderator Tobias Takavarasha, Chief
Executive Officer, Food, Agriculture, and Natural Resource Policy Analysis Network
(FANRPAN), Zimbabwe, Chair Bongiwe Njobe, Director General, National Department
of Agriculture, South Africa, Rapporteur Andrew Temu, Visiting Research
Fellow, IFPRI, and Ajay Vashee, President, Southern African Confederation
of Agricultural Unions, Zambia (right)
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Northern
Africa: El-Sayed Zaki, former Minister of Finance and Economic
Planning, Sudan, Chair Mohand Laenser, Minister of Agriculture and Rural
Development, Morocco, Mustapha Guelloz, Director General, President of
the Board of the Enterprise, Livestock and Pasture Office, Tunisia, and Mohammed
El Mourid, Regional Coordinator for North Africa Regional Programme, International
Center for Agricultural Research in the Dry Areas (ICARDA), Tunisia | |
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Plenary
Session
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| | | "Mitigating,
Preventing and Ending Conflicts in Africa" Keynote:
Graca Machel, President of the Foundation for Community Development, Mozambique;
former Expert of the Secretary General of the UN on the Impact of Armed Conflict
on Children; and former Minister of Education, Mozambique | |
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| Plenary
Session: Panel Discussion: "Priorities for Action: Perspectives from the
Region" |
Mamadou Kone, Minister
of Scientific Research, Côte d'Ivoire,
Bongiwe Njobe, Director General, National Department of Agriculture, South
Africa, Chair Per Pinstrup-Andersen, Chair of Science Council, CGIAR; Babcock
Professor of Food and Nutrition Policy, Cornell University, Chair
Newai Gebre-ab, Chief Economic Advisor to the Prime Minister, Ethiopia, and
Chair Mohand
Laenser, Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development, Morocco |
| Youth
Writing Contest Award Ceremony |
Omukama
(King) of Tooro Rukirabasaija Oyo Nyimba Kabambaiguru Rukidi IV presented the
Youth Writing Contest Award to Nelisiwe Mbali Mtsweni, South Africa, who recited
her winning essay entitled "Emancipation from emaciation." (below) |
Ambassador
Sigurd Illing, EC, made a statement on behalf of European Commissioner Paul Nielsen | | |
"Achieving
Sustainalbe Agricultural Growth in Africa: Lessons Learned from Experience"
Keynote: Norman
Borlaug, President, Sasakawa Africa Association, and Nobel Peace Prize Laureate
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| Announcement
of the World Food Prize 2004 Laureate |
Monty
Jones, Sierra Leone, won the World Food Prize for 2004, for his effort at WARDA
to develop New Rice for Africa (NERICA) | |  |
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