Enabling poor rural people
to overcome poverty
10-11 April 2008
Rome - Italy
- 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
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
- UNEP: Empowering rural communities by planting energy crops in developing regions
Martina Otto, Head, Policy Unit, Energy Branch - Division of Technology, Industry & Economics, UNEP
- 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?