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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 Friday, 2 April 2004
On
Friday, delegates met in Plenary sessions, as well as parallel sessions on implementing
action in the key areas of raising agricultural productivity, fostering economic
growth and improving markets and trade, building human capacity, improving nutrition
and health, and strengthening governance. More
REAL AUDIO will be posted to this site shortly |
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Plenary
Session: Implementing Action
| "Strategies
for Improving Food and Nutrition Security in Africa"--Keynote: Victoria
Sekitoleko, Subregional Representative, Food and Agriculture Organization
(FAO), Subregional Office for Southern and East Africa, Zimbabwe |
"Technological Options
for Africa's Small-Scale Farmers"--Keynote: Gordon Conway, President,
The Rockefeller Foundation |
Chair
Courage Quashigah, Minister of Food and Agriculture, Ghana (left) and Ouman
Ibrahima Toure, Mali | | | |
Plenary
Session: Panel Discussion: "Improving Implementation: What Can Lessons from
Success and Failure Teach Us?" |
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Peter Hazell, Director
of the Development Strategy and Governance Division, IFPRI, Rajul
Pandya-Lorch, Head of the 2020 Vision Initiative, IFPRI,
Chair Hamid Narjisse, Director, Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique
(INRA), Morocco, Herzon Nyanguto, , Kenya Institute for Public Policy Research
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Peter
Hazell, Director
of the Development Strategy and Governance Division, IFPRI, Wilberforce
Kisamba-Mugerwa, Minister of Agriculture, Animal Industry, and Fisheries,
Uganda, and Hans-Joachim Preuss, Secretary General, Deutsche Welthungerhilfe,
Germany
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Parallel
Sessions: Action Forums: Implementing Action in Key Areas
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Raising
Agricultural Productivity
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Pedro
Sanchez, Director of Tropical Agriculture, The Earth Institute at Columbia
University; Co-Chair, Millennium Project Hunger Task Force; and 2002 World Food
Prize Laureate, US (right)
Carlos Sere,
Director General, International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI), Kenya
Eugene
Terry, Implementing Director, African Agricultural Technology Foundation,
Kenya | |
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Florence Wambugu,
Executive Director, A Harvest Biotech Foundation International, Kenya
Glyvyns Chinkhuntha,
Executive Director, Freedom Gardens, Malawi
Seyfu Ketema,
Executive Secretary, Association for STrengthening Agricultural Research in Eastern
and Central Africa (ASARECA), Uganda |
Fostering
Economic Growth and Improving Markets and Trade |
| Esebius
J. Mukhwana, Director, Sustainable Agriculture Centre for Research Extension
and Development in Africa (SACRED), Kenya, Hans Jöhr, Corporate Head of
Agriculture, Nestec Ltd., Switzerland, Moderator Akinwumi Adesina, Associate Director,
Food Security, Rockefeller Foundation , Kenya, Benno Ndulu, Research Manager,
Development Economics Research Department, World Bank, US, and Rapporteur Nicholas
Minot, Research Fellow, IFPRI |
| Esebius
J. Mukhwana, Director, Sustainable AGriculture Centre for Research Extension
and Development in Africa (SACRED), Kenya, Hans Jöhr, Corporate Head of
Agriculture, Nestec Ltd., Switzerland (left) and Eleni Gabre-Madhin,
Senior Economist, Africa Region, World Bank, US (right) |
Above
photo: Chair Angeline Kamba, Member of UN/UNESCO World Commission on Culture
and Development, Zimbabwe, Moderator Soumana Sako, Executive Secretary,
African Capacity Building Foundation, Zimbabwe, and Kwadwo Asenso-Okyere,
Vice Chancellor, University of Ghana, Ghana |
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Improving
Nutrition and Health
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Rapporteur
Todd Benson, Research Fellow, IFPRI, Tola Atinmo, Professor of Nutrition
at the college of Medicine, University of Ibadan, and President of the Federation
of African Nutrition Societies (FANUS), Nigeria, and Chair Kabba Joiner,
Director General, West African Health Organization (WAHO), Burkina Faso
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Flora
Sibanda-Mulder, Senior Advisor, UNICEF-World Food Programme (WFP) Collaboration,
Italy, Ebrahim M. Samba, Regional Director, World Health Organiation Regional
Office for Africa (WHO/AFRO), Republic of Congo, and Robert Mwadime, Child
Survival and Nutrition Advisor, Regional Center for Quality of Health Care, Uganda
(left) and Amadou Kanouté, Regional Director, Office for Africa, Consumers
International, Zimbabwe
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| John
Githongo, Permanent
Secretary, Governance and Ethics, Government of the Republic of Kenya, Kenya,
Norah Owaraga, Executive Secretary, Uganda Change Agent Association, Uganda,
and Tom Arnold, Chief Executive, Concern Worldwide, Ireland |
| Meaza
Ashenafi, Executive Director, Ethiopian Women Lawyers Association, Ethiopia,
Tom Arnold, Chief Executive,
Concern Worldwide, Ireland, Chair Bethuel A. Kiplagat, Executive
Director, Africa Peace Forum, Kenya, and Moderator Charlotte McClain, Commissioner,
South African Human Rights Commission, South Africa |
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Plenary
Session: Panel Discussion: "Implementing Action in Key Areas"
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| Benno
Ndulu, Research Manager, Development Economics Research Department, World
Bank, US,
Kabba Joiner, Director General, West African Health Organization (WAHO), Burkina
Faso, Monty Jones,
Executive Secretary, Forum for Agricultural Research (FARA), Ghana, Angeline
Kamba, Member of UN/UNESCO World Commission on Culture and Development, Zimbabwe,
Rajul
Pandya-Lorch, Head of the 2020 Vision Initiative, IFPRI, Harris
Mule, Executive Director, Top Investment and Management Services, and former Permanent
Secretary in the Ministry of Finance and Planning, Kenya, and Bethuel A. Kiplagat,
Executive Director, Africa Peace Forum, Kenya |
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Benno
Ndulu,
Research
Manager, Development Economics Research Department, World Bank, US
Monty Jones,
Executive Secretary,
Forum for Agricultural Research (FARA), Ghana
Angeline Kamba,
Member of UN/UNESCO
World Commission on Culture and Development, Zimbabwe
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Plenary
Session
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| "What
African Countries Can Do To Support Implementation of Action for Food and Nutrition
Security in Africa"--Keynote: Augustin Fosu, Senior Policy Advisor,
UN Economic Commission for Africa, Ethiopia |
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"What
Industrialized Countries Can Do to Promote Agricultural and Rural Development
in Africa: Perspectives of a Development Organization"--Keynote: Bernard
Eisenblätter, Managing Director, Deutsche Gesellschaft fürTechnische Zusamenarbeit
(GTZ), GmbH, Germany (left) and Chair Mildred Namwiinde Mpundu, Executive
Director, Media and Communication, Step Out Media Communications and Business
Development Consultancy Services; and outgoing Assistant Features Editor, Times
Printpak, Zambia
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"What
Industrialized Countries Can Do to Support Implementation of Action for Food and
Nutrition Secruity in Africa: Perspectives form USAID" Keynote: Emmy B.
Simmons, Assistant Administrator, USAID, Bureau of Economic Growth, Agriculture,
and Trade, US
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