AGENDA
WEDNESDAY, MARCH 24
4:00 p.m.BUSES DEPART FROM THE BANK (MC "North1818 H Street, NW)
5:00 p.m.ARRIVE AT WESTFIELDS AND CHECK-IN
(Conference Lobby 1)
6:00 p.m.RECEPTION (Upper Rotunda)
7:00 p.m. DINNER AND WELCOME
(Grand Dominion Ballroom)
Welcome: Alex McCalla, Director (RDV)
Speakers: Ian Johnson, Vice President (ESSD)
Stephen Denning, Program Director (ISGKM)
INFOFAIR MARCH 24-25 (Promenade & Adams)
INFOFAIR will open Wednesday evening and run all day Thursday
Coordinated by Julian Dumanski, Galina Arkusinski, Sanjiva Cooke,
Rosemary O’Neill, Geoffrey Matthews, Jaime Yepez, RDV
THURSDAY, MARCH 25
7:00 - 8:30 a.m. BREAKFAST BUFFET (Fairfax Dining Room)
8:45 - 9:00 a.m. PLENARY SESSION (Washingtonian Ballroom)
Chair: Alex McCalla (RDV)
9:00 - 10:00 a.m. Rural Development: The Political Dimension
Keynote Speaker: H. E. Francisco X. Aguirre-Sacasa, Ambassador of Nicaragua to the USA
10:00 - 10:30 a.m. COFFEE BREAK (Promenade)
10:30 - 12:30 PARALLEL SESSIONS
Results of Privatization
(Grand Dominion III & IV)
Chairperson: Joseph Baah-Dwomoh (AFTR2)
Speakers: John Nellis, Senior Manager (PSD)
Joel Joffre, Hydro Agri International, Paris
Alan Reade, Rhône-Poulenc Agro, Paris
- The Political Aspects of Decentralized and Community Based Program Implementation
(Jeffersonian I & II)
Chairperson: Luis Coirolo (LCSES)
Speaker: Norman Uphoff, Director, Cornell
University, International Institute for Food,
Agriculture and Development, CIIFAD
Panel: Tom Wiens (LCSES)
Rudolph Polson (AFTI2)
Ronald Zweig (EASRD)
- Towards Sustainable Intensification: The Farmer’s Perspective
(The Lincoln Forum)
Chairperson: Mohamed N. Ben Ali (EASRD)
Speakers: Dr. Thomas Francis Shaxson, Association
for Better Land Husbandry
Manolo Pereira, John Landers, Lauro Bassi,
Brazil No Till Specialists
- Access to Land
(Grand Dominion V & VI)
Chairperson: Cora Shaw (LCSES)
Acess to Land and Poverty Alleviation
Speakers: Gershon Feder (DECRG)
Klaus Deininger (DECRG)
Resource Access and Control in Drylands: Political and Ecological Perspectives
Speakers: John Bruce, Land Tenure Center, University
of Wisconsin
Brent Swallow, ICRAF, Nairobi
12:30 - 2:00 p.m. LUNCH (Washingtonian Ballroom)
Informal Progress Report on the OED Review
John Heath (OED
)
2:00 - 4:00 p.m.
PARALLEL SESSIONS
- Scratching Where the People Itch: The Politics of Stakeholder & Institutional Mapping in Rural Development Programs
(Jeffersonian I & II)
Chairperson: Ayse Kudat (ECSSD)
Speakers: Cyprian Fishy (AFTI1)
Bruce Harris (EASSD)
Estanislao Gacitua-Mario (LCSES)
- The Political Dimensions of Rural Poverty
(The Lincoln Forum)
Chairperson: Hans Binswanger (AFTRE)
Speakers: Robert L. Thompson (RDV)
Eugenia Serova, Russia
Emmanual Tumusiime-Mutabile, Uganda
- Access to Water
(Jeffersonian III & IV)
Chairperson: Ashok K. Subramanian (MNSRE)
Are We Shooting Ourselves in the Foot? Efficiency, Equity, Policies
Speaker: Ariel Dinar (RDV)
Water Resources Institutions and Poverty
Speaker: Ramon Lopez, University of Maryland
Sustainable Water Management to Help the Poor
Speaker: Mohan Munasinghe (ENV)
Sector Reforms and Irrigation Management Transfer in Andhra Pradesh, India
Speakers: Raymond Peter, Additional Secretary,
Irrigation Department, Hyderabad
Keith Oblitas (SASRD)
- Empowering Farmers by Supporting Producer’s Organizations
(Grand Dominion V & VI)
Chairperson: Willem Zijp (RDV)
Speakers: Marie-Helene Collion (AFTR3)
Pierre Rondot (AFTR3)
Panel: Bruno Vindl, French Ministry of Foreign
Affairs
Rashid Pertev, IFAP
Jean Delion (AFTR2)
Deepa Narayan (PRMPO)
4:00- 4:30 p.m. COFFEE BREAK (Promenade)
4:30 – 6:00 p.m. PARALLEL TECHNICAL SESSIONS
- Agriculture Education
(The Lincoln Forum)
Chairperson: Matthew McMahon (LCSES)
Speakers: Charles Maguire (RDV)
Anthony Willett (RDV)
Dr. Samuel Adjepong, Vice Chancellor,
University of Cape Coast, Ghana
- Enabling Women’s Participation in the Development Process: Politics or Policy?
(Grand Dominion III & IV)
Chairperson: Hilary Sims Feldstein, International Center
for Research on Women
Speakers: Margaret Lycette, Director of the Office of
Women in Development, USAID
Gita Gopal (AFTH4)
Carmen Diana Deere, University of
Massachusetts
- Recent Developments in Rural Finance
(Jeffersonian III & IV)
Chairperson: Sushma Ganguly (AFTRE)
Speaker: Jacob Yaron, (PSDSE)
Carlos Cuevas (AFR)
Rodrigo Chaves (ECA)
Kathryn Funk (ECA)
- Climate Change and Poverty
(Jeffersonian I & II)
Chairperson: Bob Watson (ENV)
State of Knowledge on Global Warming and Its Main Implications
Speaker: Michel Siméon (AFTE1)
Coping with the Impact on Agriculture of Increased Climate Variability, Using Climate Forecast and Adapting Technology
Speaker: Arne Dalfelt (AFTE1)
Increasing Carbon Sequestration (soil, forest, grass land) – What can we do?
Speaker: Lasse Ringius (AFTE1)
Decreasing Carbon Emissions – Rural Energy
Speaker: Charles Feinstein (ENV)
Discussants: Francois Falloux (AFTE1)
Christian Pieri (RDV)
- The Political Dimensions of Rural Poverty
– Continuation of 2:00-4:00 Session (Hamilton)
7:00 - 8:00 p.m. DINNER (Washingtonian Ballroom)
Speaker: Norman Borlaug, Nobel Laureate
FRIDAY, MARCH 26
7:00 - 8:30 a.m. BREAKFAST BUFFET (Fairfax Dining Room)
8:30 - 10:30 a.m. PARALLEL SESSIONS
- Hazard Management
(Grand Dominion I & II)
Chairperson: Jan Lodding, IAEA, Vienna
Natural Hazards in the Rural Environment
Speaker: Alessandro Palmieri (RDV)
Natural Resources Data Management System, India
Speaker: Dr. Yudhbir, ITT Institute, Kanpur
Promoting Community’s Resilience: The Role of Rainfall Insurance
Speaker: Jacob Yaron (PSDSE)
Social Aspects: Awareness and Training of People at Risk
Speaker: M. Bulmer, Air and Space Museum
Washington, DC
- Biotechnology: What Does it mean for the Bank
(Grand Dominion V & VI)
Chairperson: Ashok K. Seth
Speakers: Dr. Cathy Ives, Director, Applied Biotech
Support Project, Michigan State University
Dr. Cyrus Ndiritu, Director, Kenyan
Agricultural Research Institute
Peter Gregory (RDV)
- Political Dimensions of Food Safety, Trade, & Rural Growth
(Grand Dominion III & IV)
Chairperson: Hans P. Binswanger (AFTRE)
Speakers: Kevin Walker, Director of Animal Health,
IICA
Michel Siméon (AFTE1)
John Farquhar, Food Marketing Institute
Steven Wilson, NOAA-Fisheries
Luis Coirolo (LCSES)
Lynn Brown (RDV)
Cees de Haan (RDV)
- International Perspectives: IFAD, FAO, UNDP
(Jeffersonian I & II)
Chairperson: Nwanze Okidegbe (RDV)
Speakers: Yahiya Bouarfa, Director of Africa I, IFAD
Gary Howe, Director of Africa II, IFAD
Santiago Funes, FAO
Thelma Awori, Director for Africa, UNDP
10:30 - 11:00 a.m. COFFEE BREAK (Upper Rotunda)
11:00 - 12:30 p.m. PARALLEL SESSIONS
- Community-Based Water Resource, Inland Fisheries and Aquaculture Development Experience from Asia
(Jeffersonian I & II)
Chairperson: Ronald Zweig (EASRD)
Speakers: Theodore Herman (EASRD)
Imtiazuddin Ahmad (Dhaka)
Benson Ateng (SASRD)
Harideep Singh (New Delhi)
Lars Soeftestad (EDIEN)
- Rural Infrastructure
(Grand Dominion III & IV – 2 hours)
Chairpersons: Alex F. McCalla (RDV)
Tony Pellegrini (TWU)
Speakers: Bachir Souhlal (AFTR3)
Paul Bermingham (EMTTI)
Moctar Thiam (AFTT2)
Arun Sanghvi (AFTG1)
Jennifer Sara (TWUWS)
Philippe Dongier (TWUWS)
Panel: Hans Binswanger (AFTRE)
Maryvonne Plessis-Fraissard (AFTT2)
Jean-Paul Chausse (AFTRE)
Yahiya Bouarfa, IFAD
Christopher Gerrard (OED)
- Forestry Issues and Reforms
(Grand Dominion V & VI)
Chairperson: Geoffrey Fox (EASRD)
Forestry Reforms in Cambodia
Speaker: Jim Douglas (RDV)
Hang Sun Tra, Coordinator, Secretariat of
the National Committee to Manage and
Execute Forest Policy
Johan Lejeune, FAO
William Magrath (ECSSD)
12:30 - 2:00 p.m. LUNCH (Fairfax Dining Room)
2:00 - 3:30 p.m. PLENARY SESSION (Washingtonian Ballroom)
Findings & Recommendations from Thursday Sessions
Gert Van Santen (MNSRE)
The State of Rural Development
Alex McCalla (RDV)
Questions from the floor and General Discussion
Final Thoughts and Close
Alex McCalla (RDV)
4:00 p.m. BUSES LEAVE WESTFIELDS FOR THE BANK
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