European and African Heads of State attend IFAD annual meeting to speak for poor rural people
Rome, 11 February 2010 – The Presidents of the Italian Republic and of the United Republic of Tanzania – Giorgio Napolitano and Jakaya Mrisho Kikwete – will address the opening of the annual meeting of the International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD) on 17 February.
Held at IFAD’s Rome headquarters for the first time, the two-day meeting of the Governing Council will draw representatives of IFAD’s 165 Member States. The Governing Council is the highest decision-making body of the UN’s rural poverty agency.
A major highlight of this year’s meeting, the 33rd session, is a plenary panel on the afternoon of the first day, From summit resolutions to farmers' fields: climate change, food security and smallholder agriculture.
In addition to President Kikwete, panellists will include: Sir Gordon Conway, Professor of International Development at the Centre for Environmental Policy, Imperial College of London; Haydee Castillo, Coordinator of the Women’s Forum for Central American Integration; Dr Nahed Taher, CEO of Gulf One Investment Bank; Ajay Vashee, President of the International Federation of Agriculture Producers; and Kevin Cleaver, Associate Vice-President of IFAD. The panel will be moderated by CNN anchor Jim Clancy.
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Date and venue
- Date: 17 February 2010
- Venue: IFAD
Via Paolo di Dono 44
Rome - Italy - Press conference: 12:00
- Plenary panel: 15:00
Panel and side events
Panel discussion
17 February, 15.00 – 17.30
Theme: “From summit resolutions to farmers' fields: Climate change, food security and smallholder agriculture”
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Side events
18 February, 10.00 – 12.00
- Natural resource management in sub-Saharan Africa: successes, challenges and future directions
- The role of smallholder agriculture and family farming in Asia and Latin America and options for South-South cooperation
- Adapting management of water resources to climate change in the Near East, North Africa and Central and Eastern Europe
- The Rural Poverty Report 2010 – Highlights and feedback on work in progress
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- Tentative schedule of events
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- Food security
Contacts
Katie Taft
Media Relations & External Communications Unit
Tel: +39 06 5459 2627
email: k.taft@ifad.org
Jessica Thomas
Tel: +39 06 5459 2215
email: j.thomas@ifad.org
