Monday 24 January

08.00-09.00

Session 3: The state of small scale farming in the developing world
Breakout by region to discuss trends in number and size of small farms, their characteristics and livelihood strategies, new threats and opportunities, and types of small farms to be targeted in a business approach

Breakout Session 1: Africa
Chair: Marc Sadler, World Bank
Paper: Steven Schonberger, Geoffrey Livingston and Sara Delaney, IFAD
Sub-Saharan Africa: The state of smallholders in agriculture
Discussants: Mathias F. Fonteh, Cameroon, Dyborn Chibonga, NASFAM and Jean-Philippe Audinet, IFAD
Rapporteur: Jennifer Smolak

Breakout Session 2: Asia
Chair: Mahabub Hossain, BRAC
Paper: Ganesh Thapa, IFAD, Raghav Gaiha, Delhi University and Javed Hussain Mir, ADB
Smallholder farming in Asia and the Pacific: challenges and opportunities
Discussants: Atiqur Rahman, IFAD and Esther Penunia, AFA
Rapporteur: Arindam Banerjee

Breakout Session 3: Latin America
Chair: Ruben Echeverria, GD CIAT-LAC
Paper: Julio Berdegué, RIMISP
Latin America: The state of smallholders in agriculture
Discussants: Antonio Buainain, University of Campinas, Brazil, Susana Marquez, Agropolis and Ruth Hall, University of Western Cape
Rapporteur: Mateo Mier

Breakout Session 4: Mid East and North Africa
Chair: Nadim Khouri, IFAD
Paper: Thierry Mahieux (NEN consultant), Omer Zafar, IFAD and Mylene Kherallah, IFAD
Financing smallholder farmers and rural entrepreneurs in the Near East and North Africa
Discussants: Malika Martini, CGIAR and Shantanu Mathur, IFAD
Rapporteur: Antonio Ferreira

Session 3: Reporting back to plenary and discussion

Panellists: Chairpersons of Breakout Sessions of Session 3
Facilitator: Rudolph Cleveringa, IFAD
Rapporteurs: Mateo Mier and Antonio Ferreira

Session 4: Small scale farming as a business: Creating an enabling business environment
Breakout into four groups to discuss market, technology, input supply, and land and water issues.

Breakout Session 5: Linking small farms to markets
Chair: Josefina Stubbs, IFAD
Paper: Maximo Torero, IFPRI
A framework for linking small farmers to markets
Discussants: Phouan Parisak Pravongviengkham, Laos, Wu Laping, China Agricultural University and Ken Davies, WFP
Rapporteur: Mateo Mier

Breakout Session 6: Improving small farm technology and sustainable resource management
Chair: Rodney Cooke, IFAD
Paper: Ruddy Rabbinge, Wageningen University (Presented by Douglas Wholey, IFAD)
Improving small farm technology and sustainable resource management
Discussants: Pascal Kaumbutho, Kenya, Emile Frison, Bioversity International and Cuna Luigi, IFAD
Rapporteur: Antonio Ferreira

Breakout Session 7: Improving small farm access to modern inputs and financial services
Chair: Mohamed Beavogui, IFAD
Paper: Akinwumi Adesina, AGRA (presented by: Colin Poulton of SOAS)
Improving small farm access to modern inputs and financial services
Additional Presentation: Vineet Raswant, IFAD
Discussants: Carolina Trivelli, IEP, Colin Poulton, SOAS and Vineet Raswant, IFAD
Rapporteur: Jennifer Smolak

Breakout Session 8: Improving access to land and water
Chair: Gary Howe, IFAD
Paper: Niasse Madiodio, ILC (Presented by Michael Taylor, ILC)
Access to land and water for the rural poor in a context of growing resource scarcity
Discussants: Ruth Hall, University of Western Cape, Rudolph Cleveringa, IFAD and Rushidan I. Rahman, BIDS
Rapporteur: Arindam Banerjee

Dinner speech On Being a Smallholder a paper by Gordon Conway | Download presentation

Reception and dinner

Dinner Speaker: Sir Gordon Conway, Imperial College, London
Facilitated by: Khalid El-Harizi, IFAD
Rapporteurs: Mateo Mier and Antonio Ferreira

Tuesday, 25 January

Session 4: Reporting back to plenary and discussion

Panellists: Chairpersons of Breakout Sessions of Session 4
Facilitator: Michael Hamp, IFAD
Rapporteurs: Antonio Ferreira and Arindam Banerjee

Session 5: Small scale farming as a business: Building human capital and resilience

Breakout by three groups to discuss entrepreneurs, empowerment and climate change issues

Breakout Session 9: Creating the entrepreneur farmers needed today and tomorrow
Chair: Peter Hazell, SOAS/Imperial College
Paper: Xiaobing Wang and Jikun Huang, Chinese Academy of Social Science
Creating the enterpreneur farmers needed yesterday, today and tomorrow
Discussants: Kurt Hoffman, TransAfrica and Maggie Kigozi, Uganda Investment Corporation
Rapporteur: Jennifer Smolak

Breakout Session 10: Empowering women and vulnerable groups to become successful farmers
Chair: Marcella Villareal, FAO
Paper: Mahabub Hossain, BRAC and WMH Jaim, BAU
Empowering women and vulnerable groups to become successful farmers
Discussants: Amita Shah, GIDR, Rosemary Vargas-Lundius, IFAD and Maria Hartl, IFAD
Rapporteur: Arindam Banerjee

Breakout Session 11: Prospering despite climate change
Chair: Elwyn Grainger Jones, IFAD
Paper: Camilla Toulmin, IIED and Nahu Senaye Araya, Nyala Insurance, Ethiopia
Prospering despite climate change
Paper: The Ethiopian experience on micro insurance by Nahu Senaye Araya
Discussants: Francesco Tubiello, Get Carbon, Kwesi Atta-Krah, Bio Diversity, and Dhrupad Chowdhury, ICIMOD
Rapporteur: Antonio Ferreira

Breakout Session 12: Creating off-farm opportunities
Chair: Ashwani Saith, ISS, the Netherlands
Papers:
- Non Farm Opportunities for Smallholder Agriculture, by Rajeev Gupta, Indian Grameen services, Vijay Mahajan, BASIX
- Non-farm rural employment and rural poverty reduction: What we know in Latin America in 2010 by Martine Dirven, RIMISP
Discussants: Steven Wiggins, ODI and Costas Stamoulis, FAO
Rapporteur: Mateo Mier

Session 5: Reporting back to plenary and discussion

Panellists: Chairpersons of Breakout Sessions of Session 5
Facilitator: Thomas Elhaut, IFAD
Rapporteurs: Jennifer Smolak and Mateo Mier

Session 6: Actors and roles: Who does what?

Facilitator: Mishal Husain, BBC
Panellists:
Kevin Cleaver, IFAD
Sir Gordon Conway, Imperial College
John Coonrod, The Hunger Project
Hafez Ghanem, FAO
Kavita Prakash-Mani, SYNGENTA
Maggie Kigozi, Uganda Investment Centre
Heike Kuhn, Embassy of Germany
Esther Penunia, AFA
Franklin Moore, USAID
Prabhu Pingali, Bill and Melinda Gates Foundations
Rapporteurs: Jennifer Smolak, Arindam Banerjee, Antonio Ferreira and Mateo Mier

Session 7: Concluding

Concluding Remarks: Henock Kifle, IFAD
Rapporteurs: Jennifer Smolak, Arindam Banerjee, Antonio Ferreira and Mateo Mier