10-11 April 2008
Rome - Italy

Background papers

• Biofuel expansion: Challenges, risks and opportunities for rural poor people
• Proceedings and discussions at the  roundtable on “Bio-fuels” at the Thirty-first Session of IFAD’s Governing Council, February 2008
• Agenda
• Bios of speakers and moderators

Presentations

Risks and rewards for small-scale producers

• Sustainable Use of Jatropha for Rural Development
  Richard Burge, Director, Kimberley Burge        
  

• Jatropha marketing and promotion
• Case study
  Abiodun Olaniyi, President, Centre for Jatropha Promotions & Biofuels-Jakolgate International  
• Improving plant performance 
   Janet E. Hawkes, Strategic Partner, RPM Ecosystems
• Pro-poor Jatropha investments: Problems and solutions
  Andreas Renner, Director Development Investments, GEXSI  - The Global Exchange for Social Investment

Country perspectives: Food and fuel development

Keynote Address: Perspective of Bioenergy and Jatropha in Latin America and the Caribbean
Christopher Hansen, Deputy Director General, Inter-American Institute for Cooperation in Agriculture

• Perspective of bioenergy and Jatropha in Uganda
• Paper
  William Kyamuhangire, Associate Professor, Department of Food and Technology, Makerere University  
• Perspective of bioenergy and Jatropha in China
  Heinz-Peter Mang, Bioenergy Advisor and Manager, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Beijing University of Science and Technology
• Bio-electricity in rural areas: Tanzania
  Pierpaolo Garibaldi, Expert, Ministry for the Environment, Land and Sea of Italy

Roundtable on financing Jatropha development

Private sector support to pro-poor Jatropha development

• Syngenta International AG,
  Dilip Gokhale, Head of Bio-fuel Development

• Founder of D1 Oils,
  Karl Watkin
• Cazenave and Associates
  Antonio Tomás Parsons, Director, Agricultural Adviser, Manager and Producer

Multilateral perspectives

• Overview of International Financing Institutions Working on Bio-fuels: the World Bank and Inter-American Development Bank
  Judy Siegel, President, Energy and Security Group

Foundation perspectives

• Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, Prabhu Pingali, Head, Agricultural Policy and Statistics Division  
• Syngenta Foundation, Marco Ferroni, Executive Director 

Policies and programs for Jatropha development for the rural poor

• Opportunities for smallholder farmers in developing countries
  Daniel De La Torre Ugarte, Associate Professor and Associate Director, Agricultural Policy and Analysis Center, University of Tennessee  

• Jatropha projects in Southern Africa
  Annie Sugrue, Coordinator, Citizens United for Renewable Energy and Sustainability South Africa

• Lessons learned: A Brazilian programme for procuring feedstock from the smallholders
  Edna de Cássia Carmélio, Bio-fuel Adviser, Brazil

• Experience with Jatropha in Peru and Honduras
  Peter Thoenes, Economist, Trade and Markets Division, FAO

Summary of UNEP’s roundtable

• UNEP: Empowering rural communities by planting energy crops in developing regions
  Martina Otto, Head, Policy Unit, Energy Branch - Division of Technology, Industry & Economics, UNEP 

Breeding

• Keynote address:  Towards the development of new Jatropha varieties: Molecular and biochemical analysis of toxic and non-toxic Lines
  Ian Graham, Professor, Centre for Novel Agricultural Products, Department of Biology, University of York
  

• Genetic markers for Jatropha biodiversity evaluation and breeding
  Yan Hong, Director, Plant Biotechnology Group, Strategic Research Program, Temasek Life Sciences Laboratory

• A system approach to identify desired crop traits for breeding of Jatropha curcas
• Claims and facts on Jatropha
  R.E.E. (Raymond) Jongschaap, Researcher, Plant Research International, Wageningen University

Agronomy and improving output and production

• Technology interventions for increasing Jatropha yields
  Vibha Dhawan, Vice Chancellor, Tata Energy Research Institute (TERI), School of Advanced Studies

• Understanding the Jatropha system
• High yielding plants
  Reinhard K. Henning, Consultant on Jatropha Curcas and other Biomass and Renewable Energy Technologies
• Pro-poor  Biodiesel initiative for Rehabilitating Degraded Drylands
  Suhas P. Wani, Principal Scientist, ICRISAT India 

Post-harvest technologies, rural electrification and alternative by-products from Jatropha

• Experience in use of by-products in India with focus on rural electrification
  Jai Uppal, Senior Adviser, Center for Alternate Energy Research (CAER)

• Alternative by-products from Jatropha
  Frederique Rosa e Abreu, General Coordinator of Agroenergy, Ministry of Agriculture, Livestock and Food Supply of Brazil

Group discussion: Can we make Jatropha work for the poor?

• Jatropha breeding
• Jatropha agronomy
• Jatropha platform  

Event sponsored by Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) United Nations Foundation Prince Albert II of Monaco Foundation Jump to Background papers Presentations Country perspectives: Food and fuel development Roundtable on financing Jatropha development Policies and programs for Jatropha development for the rural poor Summary of UNEP’s roundtable Breeding Agronomy and improving output and production Post-harvest technologies, rural electrification and alternative by-products from Jatropha Group discussion: Can we make Jatropha work for the poor?