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Second Global AgriKnowledge Share Fair IFAD, Rome, 26-29 September 2011 Provisional programme Table of contents Table of contents 1 Why a ShareFair? 2 What is in it for me? 2 Logistical information 3 How to get to IFAD 3 Registration 3 WiFi 3 Travel agency 3 Banking facilities 3 Social media presence 3 Webcasting 3 Highlights of the programme 4 26 September 2011 4 27 September 2011 4 28 September 2011 5 29 September 2011 5 Art for AIDS 5 About the keynote speakers 6 Etienne Wenger 6 Rob Burnet 6 Michele Payn-Knoper 6 Mark Davies 6 Share Fair Themes 8 Climate change and green innovations 8 Food security 8 Gender 8 Knowledge sharing, networks and CoPs 8 Livestock 8 Markets and private sector 9 Mobile technology and social media 9 Water 9 Young people 9 Share Fair Map 10 Share Fair sessions 11 26 September 2011 12 27 September 2011 16 28 September 2011 26 29 September 2011 36 Acknowledgements 44 1 Why a Share Fair? Welcome to the Second Global AgriKnowledge Share Fair. This four-day event is jointly organized by Bioversity International, Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD), Technical Centre for Agricultural and Rural Cooperation (CTA), The Consultative Group on International Agricultural Research (CGIAR), and World Food Programme (WFP), in partnership with regional and international partners. It provides a forum to learn and share knowledge, experience and innovations on emerging trends relating to agriculture, climate change, food security, mobile technology, social media and other rural development related issues. What's it for me? The Share Fair promises to deliver a wealth of knowledge. Over 160 presenters will share their creative and innovative experiences and knowledge. Participants will have an opportunity to learn, share, connect and influence future rural development activities. 2 Logistical information HOW TO GET TO IFAD VIA A. BALDOVINETTI VIA LAURENTINA • Metro (underground) - IFAD Headquarters is a 15 minute walk from VIA DEL SERAFICO the Laurentina Metro station. The VIA D. DI BONINSEGNA VIA SIMONE MARTINI station is the last stop on the Metro Line B, which directly connects with the VIA PAOLO O DI DONO AN VIA LUIGI LILIO S city centre of Rome. The station also PI A. VIA VIA serves as a bus terminal. Tickets for A. DI BO public transportation can be purchased NA VIA IU TO at Metro stations (self-service DI VIG M NA machines), tobacco shops, and STAZIONE SHUTTLE M VIA DI VIGNA MURATA UR LAURENTINA BUS AT newspaper kiosks. They have a A VIA METRO A STOP LU C validation time of 75 minutes including A GA UR one underground transport and IC O unlimited bus travel. For more information consult the ATAC site REGISTRATION (www.atac.roma.it). Participants are requested to register at the registration desk, located in the atrium. You are reminded to wear your meeting badge to gain access to the meeting rooms. WIFI • Shuttle bus service - A shuttle bus WiFi facilities are available in all meeting rooms. Participants are kindly requested to service runs from Monday to Friday bring their own laptops and/or tablets. (with the exception of IFAD holidays) TRAVEL AGENCY from 7:40 to 9:25 am between Assistance with travel arrangements may be obtained from the IFAD travel agent, Laurentina Metro Station and IFAD Carlson Wagonlit Travel, located on the ground floor in room B-011. The office is Headquarters and from 16:45 to 18:50 open from 9.00 – 17.00. from IFAD Headquarters to Laurentina. BANKING FACILITIES The pick-up and drop-off point at A branch of Banca Popolare di Sondrio is located on the ground floor, close to the Laurentina station is on Viale Luca main reception area. The bank is open from 8.30 to 13.30 and from 14.30 to 16.00. Gaurico, on the main road behind the The Share Fair social reporters will be using blogs, Twitter, Facebook, videos, station. The drop-off and pick-up at photography and on the "Daily Corriere" – the Share Fair daily newspaper to report live and share what is happening at the fair with the outside world. IFAD Headquarters is the regular yellow bus stop adjacent the main entrance of SHARE FAIR'S SOCIAL MEDIA PRESENCE Interested in tweeting, writing, blogging, photography and interviewing keynote the guardhouse (between via Paolo di speakers and participants? Join the social reporting team by sending an email to Dono, 44-82). email@example.com. Social reporter's first meeting is scheduled for 25 September at 16: in the Italian Conference Room where we will meet every day at 17:30. The Share Fair brand has a strong social media presence. Social reporters will keep • Airports - The two main airports in the outside world informed of the exciting events through blogs, tweets, posting Rome are Leonardo da Vinci (Fiumicino) interviews and pictures on the following social media channels using #sfrome Airport and Ciampino Airport. Fiumicino Twitter: http://twitter.com/sharefairs, http://twitter.com/ifadnews, Airport is 36 km west of Rome and http://twitter.com/faonews Ciampino Airport is 16 km southwest of Blog: http://blog.sharefair.net/ and http://ifad-un.blogspot.com Rome. Fiumicino can easily be reached by public transport on Line B. From Blip.Tv: http://sharefair.blip.tv Ciampino Airport there are Terravision Flickr: http://www.flickr.com/groups/sharefair09/ shuttle buses connecting with Termini Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/KnowledgeShareFair Station. There is no direct rail connection The "Daily Corriere" – the Share Fair daily newspaper - will feature blogposts, to the city centre from Ciampino airport. tweets and stories from the event. WEBCASTING • Address - Via Paolo di Dono, 44 - You can follow all the keynote addresses, plenary sessions and sessions held in the Oval room via webcast at the following url: 00142 Rome, Italy. Tel: 39-0654591 http://sharefair.ifad.org/ 3 Highlights of the programme From 26 to 29 September, IFAD's 26 SEPTEMBER 2011 27 SEPTEMBER 2011 building will be buzzing. The tent at At 9:30 in the Italian Conference Room, On 27 September at 10:00 the entrance serves as a gathering Etienne Wenger, a globally recognized in the Italian Conference Room, point. If you need a cozy spot to sit thought leader in the field of social IFAD President, Kanayo F. Nwanze, down and, have a chat with learning theory, communities of together with Ann Tutwiler, colleagues, rendez-vous at the practice and their application to Deputy-Director-General, Knowledge, Chill-out Corner in the tent. . organizations, will deliver a keynote FAO; Amir Abdulla, Deputy Executive You've been pondering on an issue address on "Communities of practice Director and Chief Operating Officer, and want to share your thinking with and strategic capabilities". WFP; and Emile Frison, Director- others. You have the opportunity to General of Bioversity International, Want to know more about use the Speaker's Corner in the tent. will jointly open the Share Fair. communities of practice? If you have an innovative project On 26 September from 15.30 – 16.30 Rob Burnet who leads Well Told Story or initiative you wish to share visit the chill-out corner and have a will deliver a keynote address with the Share Fair participants, chat with Etienne Wenger. immediately after the inaugural session make sure you do so during on "How can we make agriculture The first day of the Share Fair features the Show and Tell session, more attractive to young people in over 25 sessions allowing participants on 27 September from 17.00 – 18.00. Africa". Later in the day, at 16:00 in the to acquaint themselves with a wide To secure a session, please send an Oval Room, Michele Payn-Knopfer range of knowledge sharing methods email to firstname.lastname@example.com by 25 will give a keynote address on and social media tools. At 11:00 in September 2011 or use the board "Empowerment through the Oval Room, Sam Dryden from the next to the Knowledge Tree to sign engagement: Connecting farmers Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation up. Remember, this needs to be globally using social media". will present their agriculture strategy done by 12:30 on 27 September. and Kevin Cleaver will present IFAD's Interested in learning how to entice As you may know, in Africa the Strategic Framework 2011 - 2015. young people to stay in rural areas and baobab tree is a meeting point to embrace agriculture? Come along to exchange stories and knowledge. In the chill-out corner in the tent on the tent you will find the knowledge 27 September from 15:30 - 16:30 tree. and have a chat with Rob Burnet. Adorn the knowledge tree in the tent Participants can attend a with your pearls of wisdom, your "clinic session" led by Etienne Wenger impressions, your thoughts, nuggets and Nancy White on nurturing of knowledge, your challenges and strategic communities of practice. aspirations. We'll read the best During the course of the day, soundbites at the closing session. participants can choose from 50 Have an idea you want to share different sessions where colleagues and with your peers? Sign-up for practitioners will share their experience, an OpenSpace on 26 and 28 knowledge and insights on different September from 17.00 – 18.00. rural development and agriculture- related issues. This rich day will come to an end with Show and Tell session at 17:00 giving YOU an opportunity to showcase a special project and initiative. 4 28 SEPTEMBER 2011 29 SEPTEMBER 2011 ART FOR AIDS Mark Davies, the CEO and Founder The last day of the Share Fair promises During the event, visit the stunning Art of Esoko, an agriculture-based mobile to be another rich and inspiring day. for AIDS exhibit which is a result of the information service and consultancy As we get ready to close the second North Star Alliance and Art for AIDS based in Ghana and active in Rome Share Fair, participants will get International innovative visual-arts- 15 African countries, will open the day an opportunity to assess the role and based HIV workshops with truck at 09:30 in the Italian Conference Room, impact of social media for development drivers and sex workers in the with a keynote address on workers at 9:00 in the Italian community of Beitbridge, Zimbabwe. "Demystifying public-private- Conference Room, in a session entitled These workshops, led by Art for AIDS partnership: An experience "How good of an ally are social International Executive Director from the field". media tools for 21st century Hendrikus Bervoets, use a combination development workers?" of fact-based knowledge sharing, Inspired by Mark's keynote address experiential learning, peer-peer and interested in his work? "SHAREFAIR" is now an established support, and art making to explore On 28 September from 15:30 - 16:30 brand and since the first global Share specific and sensitive aspects of risk in the Chill-out corner in the tent Fair in January 2009, the Rome-based and vulnerability, especially as they spend some quality time with him to agencies, CGIAR family and the relate to HIV and STI infection. What is learn about challenges and UN family have organized a number of perhaps most exciting about these opportunities of delivering relevant and national and regional fairs. In bidding workshops, however, is the resulting timely information to smallholder the participants farewell to 2013, at body of artwork. producers. 16:00 in the Italian Conference Room, IFAD's Kevin Cleaver, Associate Vice- During the day, experts and President, Henock Kifle, Chief practitioners will discuss the Development Strategist, together with importance of embedding information the Share Fair participants and the and communication technologies in the Share Fair steering committee will take design and implementation of rural stock on the learning, networking, development projects and initiatives. sharing and impact and value of Amongst the many sessions, at 14:00 such events. in the dining room, do not miss the debate and discussion on So, make sure you keep a diary of "Private-public partnership: the new your experience so that you can development panacea?" share your insights and learning at this final session. At the end of the day – from 17:00- 18:00, participants can continue their networking, learning and sharing experience in OpenSpace sessions and will have an opportunity to network and celebrate at 18:30 during the cocktail at IFAD. 5 About the keynote speakers ETIENNE WENGER ROB BURNET MICHELE PAYN-KNOPER Etienne Wenger is a globally recognized Rob Burnet leads Well Told Story, a Michele Payn-Knoper, CSP, is principal thought leader in the field of social multi-award-winning Kenyan of Cause Matters Corp., a company learning theory, communities of communications company which pulls designed to build connections practice, and their application to together comic books, syndicated FM between the farm gate and food plate. organizations. He has authored and radio, SMS, social media, web, video Michele serves agriculture as a co-authored articles and books on the animation, strategy and science to help community catalyst and passionate topic. Etienne's work is influencing both change the way people live, think, act advocate for the global agricultural theory and practice in a wide range of and govern in East Africa. system. She has worked with farmers disciplines. Cultivating communities of in over 25 countries, sold $5 million in Rob arrived in Kenya by mistake practice is recognized as a key sponsorships for the National FFA nearly 20 years ago. Before founding component of a learning strategy in a Foundation, sold dairy genetics and Well Told Story in 2009 he set up vrapidly growing number of founded AgChat/FoodChat on Twitter. the Kenyan visual arts studios, organizations across private and public Payn-Knoper's degrees are in Kuona Trust, he worked as a sectors, including business, Agricultural Communications and professional musician, he led the government, international development, Animal Science from Michigan State Ford Foundation's programme for healthcare, and education. University and she has earned the Media Arts and Culture in Certified Speaking Professional Etienne helps organizations apply Eastern Africa and he produced designation, awarded to 10% of his ideas through consulting, public public interest TV. professional speakers globally. Her speaking, and workshops. He is also strong belief in community-building and active in the academic sphere. He the need for food security stems from regularly speaks at conferences, experience on four continents, conducts seminars, and is a visiting including projects in the Ukraine and professor at the universities of Egypt. She and her husband reside Manchester and Aalborg. He recently with their young daughter on a farm received an honorary doctorate from they have built in Indiana. See the University of Brighton and is a http://causematters.com or known colleague, friend and ally to the http://facebook.com/causematters UN family and Rome-based food and for more information. agriculture agencies. 6 MARK DAVIES Mark Davies is the CEO and Founder of Esoko, an agriculture-based mobile information service and consultancy based in Ghana and active in 15 African countries. He's responsible for strategy and product development. Mark has had a colourful career in New York, Los Angeles, London and Accra. He's written five children's books, scripted television shopping shows, interviewed celebrities for TV, and crewed balloons around France. His passion is technology and development. Moving from desktop publishing to the internet in '94 he started Metrobeat which became CitySearch NYC -- the first series of online city guides which went public and merged with Ticketmaster. In '98 he co-founded First Tuesday, a hugely popular dot-com investment marketplace, and moved to Ghana in 2001 to establish BusyInternet; one of Africa's most successful mixed use incubators for tech startups. With a background in Anthropology, a career in Technology, and a passion for Development, Esoko is 'his dream job'. To know more check out http://www.esoko.com 7 Share Fair Themes manner. The sharefair sessions will practice. The many sessions under this CLIMATE CHANGE AND GREEN INNOVATIONS discuss the various aspects of food topic will address key issues such as: security, such as: • capturing and acting on knowledge We have one planet and we need to • link between rural employment and to generate new knowledge take care of it. The changes in climate food security • dynamics of managing and nurturing patterns are impacting our lives. We've • how to feed people better and communities of practice seen how droughts in different parts of smarter • how organizational behaviour and the world have led to famine or soaring • impact of migration and population culture can help or hinder knowledge food prices. As we prepare for growth on feeding future sharing international conferences such as generations • embedding knowledge management Rio+20, the sessions offered under and learning in development this theme will give you an opportunity programmes to: GENDER • building capacity of people to • discuss various climate change generate, adapt and share challenges and influence the knowledge, experience and insight messages which will be presented Gender equality is an essential at different climate change component of sustainable economic international conferences growth and poverty reduction. • learn how different parts of the Equitable access to more and better LIVESTOCK world have embraced innovative jobs in rural areas enable rural women recycling methods and creating and men to become effective new employment opportunities economic actors and engines of Livestock contributes to the • learn about environmental friendly growth; as well as conservers of the sustainable livelihoods and security of farming methods and climate smart natural environment. During the more than 800 million poor smallholder agriculture various Share Fair sessions, farmers . It offers poor households participants will be exposed to sources of high quality nutrition, • acquaint yourself with indigenous inspiring stories on: especially as sources for the pregnant traditions to predict climate patterns • innovative ways of empowering women and for improving the cognitive and building women's capacity skills and mental growth of the • promoting gender sensitive children. In marginal rural areas, financial services wherepoverty is rampant, livestock FOOD SECURITY represents an important asset for local cultural and socioeconomic systems, With the global population hitting 7 and allows the effective use of billion people in less than a month, otherwise unutilizable resources. In KNOWLEDGE SHARING, decision makers, development working with rural communities and NETWORKS AND COPS workers, smallholder farmers, public pastoralist, our aim is to develop a and private entities are faced with the As development workers we need to sustainable livestock sector where challenge of ensuring access to act in a timely manner to respond to smallholder farmers can have higher affordable, safe and healthy food the needs of the people who we work incomes and better access to which meets dietary needs in a with and for. This means we cannot services, technologies and markets. satisfactory manner while making sure afford reinventing the wheel, rather, we that food is produced in an need to use the body of available environmentally sound and socially just knowledge, act on this, generate new knowledge and learning to influence policy. And this cannot be in isolation, but by nurturing networks and contributing to communities of 8 The sharefair sessions will provide the increasing number of countries facing MOBILE TECHNOLOGY participants an opportunity to: AND SOCIAL MEDIA severe water shortages, efficient use of • learn about new livestock water by agriculture to reduce poverty technologies and approaches Mobile phones are no longer a luxury and hunger is a significant issue. Join item and have become a ubiquitous this interesting debate and attend the • discuss innovative approaches to and essential part of our lives. Similarly, many sessions on this theme to learn target nomadic communities social media tools such as Facebook, about: • explore the benefits of livestock Twitter and Blogs have radically • different agricultural solutions to development revolving funds changed the way we interact and water scarcity challenges communicate. The many sessions • how technology is helping under this theme highlight: smallholder farmers to better • innovative use of mobile telephony manage water resources MARKETS AND in agriculture PRIVATE SECTOR • diverse rain harvesting methods • how Information and Development programmes and Communication Technologies (ICT) projects aim to address the many have helped improve the challenges faced by smallholder bargaining power of smallholder YOUNG PEOPLE farmers and producers. These range farmers and provided a more direct from having access to good inputs, link to markets The global population is projected to strengthening the delivery of business • the power and potential of social rise from its present level of 7 billion to and financial services, facilitating media in connecting people and 9.2 billion by 2050. An estimated 1 access to markets, providing timely creating local, national and global billion people already are going hungry. market information to strengthen the networks Today's generation of young people is negotiating and bargaining power of • how social media tools can create the largest in history. However, young smallholder producers. Today, conducive learning and sharing rural people are increasingly increasingly this is possible through a environment across geographical disillusioned about working in the public-private partnership. The various and language boundaries agricultural sector, which in many sessions will showcase examples of: countries is stagnant and • innovative public-private unproductive. The sharefair sessions partnerships will aim to address the many • discuss innovative approaches to WATER challenges facing us such as: target nomadic communities • who is going to feed this growing • developing a value-based market Secure access by rural poor people to world population for smallholder producers water is central to the achievement of • how can we make agriculture • different value-chain approaches the Millennium Development Goals, in enticing and attractive to avoid an particular the target of reducing by half outmigration of young people to the proportion of people living in urban areas extreme poverty and hunger by 2015. • partnering with young farmers to Most of these people depend on create a new cadre of rural agriculture for their livelihoods. In most entrepreneurs developing countries, agriculture uses more than 80 per cent of mobilized water resources. But more than half the water diverted for agriculture does not contribute directly to food production as intended. With an 9 10 FL FL FL FL FL FL O G O O O O O O Q R O O O O O R AT O R R R R R EN AR U -0 TR N Share Fair Map 1 AN I.C D 01 02 03 04 05 CE . LI FT S Share Fair Sessions 11 26 Etienne Wenger, a globally recognized 11:00-12:30 that operational managers are thought leader in the field of social B200 themselves working with the KM team learning theory, communities of Icebreakers and energizers to identify the main components of a practice, and their application to Icebreakers are short group activities KM intervention, rather than having a organizations, at 9:30 in the Italian that allow the various people inside a KM team impose a solution from outside. Conference Room, will kick-off the new group to get to know each other; Kim Dos Santos Martins Second Global AgriKnowledge Share to become more comfortable with Fair with a keynote address on discussing the topic of group work; or "Communities of practice and to become more comfortable with 11:00 - 15:30 strategic capabilities". expressing dissenting views. C100 After the keynote address, participants Ednah Karamagi The learning wheel as a tool for will have an opportunity to attend one of systematizing the many training sessions on offer. How to establish a culture of sharing, Please sign-up for the training session 11:00-12:30 learning and innovation in an organization by sending an email to share- C500 or project is one of the biggest email@example.com. by 25 September 2011. Gift garden challenges facing KM practitioners in This session will build creative ideas development. During this workshop we fast and collaboratively by adopting one will use a methodology called the 11:00-12:30 rule and two roles. The 'Yes And' rule LearningWheel to capture and B400 for discussion is that you must build on systematize the experiences and ideas Collaborative writing (wiki, what the last person has suggested. of participants and try to address this Googledocs) This rule provides the structure within challenge. LearningWheel is a How do you work collaboratively on which we are liberated to be more methodology for creating common documents when you aren't working in collaboratively creative. The two roles frameworks for joint learning, action the same office? This session explores are Bees and Butterflies. The Bee's role and knowledge management. It two commonly used online tools that is to work together to build positively on generates experience-based conceptual can help. Google Documents is a each idea as if it were a gift. The frameworks, building on the lessons platform powered by Google which Butterflies role is to uphold the 'Yes and success-factors of practical allows users to create, store and share And' rule and transfer learning between examples in an analytical and documents online. Text documents, rounds. Everybody gets a chance to be appreciative manner. IFAD's East and number spreadsheets, forms and a Bee and a Butterfly. Southern Africa Division has used the "Powerpoint" presentations can all be LearningWheel methodology to develop Carl Jackson a framework for operationalizing created, edited, stored and shared on Google Documents. You can download knowledge management in IFAD- the documents for editing offline and supported projects, in collaboration 11:00-12:30 with project staff. The methodology then upload and synch using Google C300 itself was developed by the Institute for Gears and the FireFox browser. A wiki Knowledge management planning People, Innovation and Change in is a web site that allows users to add, In this session, participants will go Organizations (PICOTEAM). remove, and otherwise edit and change through a facilitated and staged content. Each article contains a Jurgen Hagmann participatory planning process, using discussion page where editors and tools developed for engaging readers can talk about the document. A operational level managers in wiki's versioning capability can show 11:00-12:30 translating their practical business the evolution of thought processes as problems for themselves into C200 contributors interact with content, knowledge management opportunities Net-Map helping us to focus more on content and interventions, to: diagnose specific In this session participants will try Net- and less on who is contributing what. pain points in the operations that can Map first hand: the method is very This can be a big culture change. It be supported through KM; identify interactive and versatile and can be takes a while to get used to the idea cultural factors that support or inhibit used for project planning & that someone else can change what more effective knowledge sharing and management, stakeholder you wrote. But that also means they use; focus managers on the areas they engagement, monitoring & evaluation, can IMPROVE it! So it is a bit like believe are of highest priority to them; and it is particularly well suited for the thinking together. To make most out of and help managers identify appropriate development context where culturally this session, participants should ensure KM approaches, methods and tools to diverse stakeholders bear very different they have a Google email account. support their priority areas. The value of assumptions and worldviews. Pete Cranston and Davide Piga a participatory planning approach is Paolo Brunello and Natalie Campbell 12 11:00-12:30 14:00-15:30 wide variety of settings: workshops, B300 C300 conferences, organizational meetings Peer assist Blogs and public assemblies. They are useful This session will bring together a group A blog (shortened from weblog) is an for ventilating "hot topics", debating of peers to elicit feedback on a easy-to-publish web page consisting and arguing in a constructive way or problem, project, or activity, and draw primarily of periodic articles posted by sharing ideas or information from a lessons from the participants' date, usually with the newest entry at variety of perspectives. The Samoan knowledge and experience. the top. Blogs can give the world a circle is a leaderless meeting intended window on your work. In places where to help negotiations in controversial Lucie Lamoureux there is access to the Internet, blogs issues. While there is no 'leader', a provide an easy way to communicate professional facilitator can welcome knowledge. Blogs have the power to participants and explain the seating 11:00-12:30 help you foster relationships with arrangements, rules, timelines and the B500 and C300- 16:00-17:30 colleagues, partners, stakeholders, process. As with the Fishbowl process, River of life the Samoan circle has people seated in donors, and the community you belong In this session a visual narrative method a circle within a circle. However, this to. And relationships are the much- will help people tell stories of the past, time participants in the outer circle can needed ingredient for effective impact, present and future. Individuals will use decide to join the discussion by but only to the extent that they are this method to introduce themselves in occupying a vacant seat in the inner managed effectively. a fun and descriptive way; a group can circle or by gently tapping the use it to understand and reflect on the Ednah Karamagi shoulders of one of the inner circle past and imagine the future of a participants. What distinguishes project. It can also be used to build a Fishbowls and Samoan circles from 14:00-15:30 shared view compiled of different and other types of discussion? a) they B500 perhaps differing perspectives. emphasize listening deeply to others; b) Dgroups Simone Staiger-Rivas and Natalie Dgroups is an online home for groups they encourage more to-the-point Campbell and communities interested in reflections (which have been maturing international development. It is when listening to others); c) they bring particularly useful when you need to about a rich variety of points of view 11:00 - 12:30 reach and engage in a conversation and ideas in a short time and follow the C400 with people around the world, whether energy of the group; and d) they don't Photo sharing in low-bandwidth, mobile, or high- require dedicated facilitators (just This session will give a brief bandwidth environments. In Dgroups someone to document the decision). introduction to web-based photo you can find the online tools and Ewen LeBorgne sharing sites, such as Flickr and services needed to support the Picasa, which allow users to upload activities of a team, a group, a network, and share digital images. a partnership or a community. Dgroups 14:00-17:00 is also a place to find groups who are Luca Servo Italian Conference Room interested in international Graphic facilitation development topics. Come and learn how to use visuals in 14:00-15:30 Damir Simunic and Pier Andrea Pirani your facilitation processes to increase B300 engagement, knowledge sharing and After action review meaning making with your groups. We In this session participants will learn 14:00-15:30 will learn basic graphic capture about a simple process used by a team C500 practices for flip chart and larger "paper to capture the lessons learned from Fishbowl / Samoan circle on the walls", how to incorporate visual past successes and failures, with the Fishbowl is a special form of dialogue. capture for group meaning making and goal of improving future performance. It It involves a small group of people knowledge sharing and consider how is an opportunity for a team to reflect (usually 4-7) seated in circle, having a to apply these in your context. on a project, activity, event or task so conversation in full view of a larger Resources will be shared for ongoing that they can do better the next time. group of listeners, either standing or learning and practice. Come prepared This method should be carried out with sitting behind the inner circle. Only to get your hands dirty. an open spirit and no intent to blame. participants in the inner circle are Nancy White allowed to speak. Fishbowl discussions Lucie Lamoureux thus provide a creative way to include the "public" in a small group discussion. Fishbowls can be used in a 13 26 14:00-15:30 16:00-17:30 16:00-17:30 C400 C200 C400 Microblogging DeBono's Six Thinking Hats LinkedIn and Facebook - Enabling This session is a about a form of The de Bono's Six Thinking Hats is a dialogue/Leveraging implicit blogging that allows users to write brief thinking tool for group discussion and knowledge text updates (usually less than 140 individual thinking. Combined with the LinkedIn, a networking site for characters) and publish them, either to idea of parallel thinking which is professionals, hosts more than 120 be viewed by anyone or by a restricted associated with it, it provides a means million members. Originally, this site group which can be chosen by the for groups to think together more was enabling career growth by user. These messages can be effectively, and a means to plan thinking connecting users to their professional submitted by a variety of means, processes in a detailed and cohesive way. peers. It also created an environment including text messaging, instant where companies could easily source Ednah Karamagi talent and expertise. However, more messaging, etc. They can be used for knowledge sharing, promotion, and more Development players are campaigning and news. The session using Linkedin to create communities of will showcase two popular 16:00-17:30 practice that can facilitate collaboration microblogging sites: Twitter and Yammer. B300 and knowledge sharing. Facebook is Jumpstart storytelling another social networking service Pete Cranston Jumpstart storytelling is a form of launched in February 2004 with more storytelling technique that encourages than 750 million active users that works summarization of ideas and thoughts along the same line as Linkedin (though 14:00 - 15:30 its audience is much wider and doesn't into concise and to-the-point stories. B200 incorporate the 'professionnal The power of Jumpstart Storytelling Mindmaps / Concept maps lies in the participants' experience as networking' side). This session will look In this session participants will learn they tell and listen to each other's at these two interactive tools and how to use a powerful, non-linear stories, engaging with the hearts and discuss the extent in which they can graphic technique for capturing natural minds of their colleagues. It is a way to help you reach beyond your normal set flow of ideas and organizing related start a business gathering, involving of stakeholders, enable two way information. Individuals or groups can everyone in the room. In addition, this communication with partner use mind mapping for simple tasks, like technique increases cross pollination organizations and provide a platform to writing a memo or documenting of ideas and improves relationships. learn and exchange knowledge. discussions, and more complex tasks, like obtaining a shared perspective on a Lucie Lamoureux Sarah Bel and Michael Riggs complex project. Jasmin Suministrado 16:00-17:00 16:00 - 17:30 B400 C500 Lessons learned in the Open Space 14:00-15:30 implementation of the Web 2.0 Open Space (sometimes referred to as C200 learning opportunities Open Space Technology or OST) is a Video production, storing and As a follow-up to the Web2forDev method for convening groups around a sharing International Conference held in Rome specific question or task and giving In this session participants will learn in September 2007, CTA has organized them responsibility for creating both how to make short videos, where to Web 2.0 Learning Opportunities (LOs) their own agenda and experience. The store them and how to share them in many countries. Over a period of 3 facilitator's key task is to identify the through social media. Using video to years (2008-2010) close to 500 people question that brings people together, share knowledge brings a visual aspect were trained in the use of Web 2.0 offer a simple process, then stand back that can quickly convey ideas that may applications. Most of them joined online and let participants do the work, take much longer in text. NOTE: spaces where they continue to intervening only when traditional Participants must have a digital camera exchange among peers. In 2011 CTA meeting methods and behaviors and bring a laptop which has the got back to them and asked a few threaten to take over. software MovieMaker questions to measure the impact (http://explore.live.com/windows-live- related their exposure to Web 2.0. The Pete Cranston movie-maker) installed on it. presenter (and some participants in the LOs) will report back on this and the Pier Andrea Pirani lessons learned. Giacomo Rambaldi 14 16:00 - 17:30 16:00 - 17:30 B200 B500 Podcasting Speed geeking In this session participants will learn Speed Geeking (which is modeled on how to make podcasts and in which Speed Dating) is a method to quickly context to use them. Podcasts are expose participants in small groups to audio programs that are broadcasted new information about any topic: over the Internet. They are MP3 files projects, programs, theory, technology, which can be downloaded onto a etc. It can be adapted to other types of compatible digital player or played on content as well, but the focus is on your computer. You can download one short exposure to something new as or many, for free (generally), or you can presented by someone with deep, subscribe to an RSS service for practical experience in the topic area, downloads so you can be alerted when tool or method. It is particularly effective new postings are made available. when you have a large group with Podcasts can be used for: 1) many different things to share and a Production and delivery of open limited time to do so.. content learning materials for the Riff Fullan development of capacities of grassroots NGOs and civil society organizations 2) Direct linking of different international events / 16:00-17:30 discussions to participant s in the C100 developing world through the World café / Carousel broadcast of speeches and In this session, participants will learn conversations 3) Creation of an open about this group interaction method content network of audio 4) Creating an focused on conversations. A Café audio database of best practices and Conversation is a creative process for thematic resources. leading collaborative dialogue, sharing Maria Grazia Bovo knowledge and creating possibilities for action in groups of all sizes. The environment is set up like a café, with 16:00-17:30 paper-covered tables supplied with C300 refreshments. People sit four to a table River of Life and hold a series of conversational In this session a visual narrative method rounds lasting from 20 to 45 minutes will help people tell stories of the past, about one or more questions which are present and future. Individuals will use personally meaningful to them. At the this method to introduce themselves in end of each round, one person remains a fun and descriptive way; a group can at each table as the host, while the use it to understand and reflect on the other three travels to separate tables. past and imagine the future of a Table hosts welcome newcomers to project. It can also be used to build a their tables and share the essence of shared view compiled of different and that table's conversation so far. The perhaps differing perspectives. newcomers relate any conversational threads they are carrying -- and then Natalie Campbell the conversation continues, deepening as the round progresses. Carrousel is almost the same except that there is one question per table and people turn each round to complete the answers of previous group. There is no host in this case. Sophie Treinen Participants are encouraged to bring their own laptops which can connect to IFAD's wireless service. 15 9:30 10:00 10:30 11:00 11:30 12:00 12:30 13:00 13:30 Italian Conf Inaugural session. Keynote by Rob Burnet: "How can we make agriculture more attractive to young people in Africa". C100 (flex) Les Clubs d'écoute communautaires en République démocratique du Congo et au Niger (16) B100 Putting fisheries and aquaculture on the agenda for COP17 (70) C200 Weather index agricultural insurance: Building small- holder producers resilience: An experience from China (76) B200 Dgroups going mobile (85) C300 Neglected no more: traditional crops for sustainable livelihoods (48)) B300 Stick with your local variety of cassava – Am- bakkadan (147) C400 Scaling-up rural innovations: lessons from the learn- ing route (244) B400 Scaling up innovations in water dialogues (46) C500 (flex) Nexus between rural employment and food security (65) B500 Utilisation de Google Earth pour le suivi de la rizicul- ture (221) Coffee Lunch Qatar (chat) Partnership with young farmers to promote collective action and entrepreneurship development (38) Oval Livestock research for development: Shifting the Par- adigm (181) Dining 1 (World) Dining 2 (Fish) Communities of practice clinic Tent: Stand 1 Tent: Stand 2 Tent: Stand 3 Tent: Stand 4 Tent: Speaker's Tent: Chill Corner -1 Investments in rural SMEs - case study from Armenia (167) 16 14:00 14:30 15:00 Sweet power of cooperative paving the way for a flourishing organic sugar export business (56) 15:30 16:00 16:30 17:00 17:30 27 SEPTEMBER Transmitting food culture through art: a creative inter- Valuechains 2.0: Leveraging infor- disciplinary approach (25) mation and knowledge to design sustainable value chains projects (68) 2011 Innovative services to build com- munities of practice (24) GENESYS - Gateway to genetic Rural family poultry: A fertile group Climate Change resources (71)) for using new technologies and And Green applying innovative approaches (8) Innovations Mobile Agribusiness - delivering in- Giving a voice to young profes- formation to farmers in Congo sionals through online agricultural (133) events (30) Direct engagement with the private sector to fight The Water channel TV - all about Food Security rural poverty: Knowledge sharing on a much-debated water and its use and more (121) issue (43) Underground Treasures: Root and Tuber Crops for Innovative ways of collecting and Food Security in Asia-Pacific (RTCs-FS Project) (212) sharing food security data in East and Central Africa (31) BIRDP project Sudan (113) Net-Map: Understanding the for- Gender mal and informal sphere of influ- ence (177) Converting marble dust to fertilizer (150) The EndingHunger movement (29) Guidelines for Joint Planning workshops for Nutrition, Savings as a springboard to mar- Knowledge Sharing, Food Security and Livelihoods – Agreeing on causes ket-readiness (145)) Networks and Cops of malnutrition for joint action (27) iCow Farmer mobile management platform (241)) Linking smallholder producers: An experience from community-based forest enterprise development pro- gramme (13) Coffee Show and tell session Experiences and lessons of rural transformation: Why Water, food and poverty: beyond Livestock institutions matter (39) the limits (46b)) How can we make Agricultural Innovation Systems Keynote by Michele Payne-Knof- (AIS) work for smallholders (55) per: Empowerment through en- gagement: Connecting farmers globally using social media Innovative partnerships and multi- Markets and stakeholders approaches pro- Private Sector moted in the RAS context (229) Communities of practice clinic Text to Change: Providing Bolivian farmers commodity prices (54) Mobile Technology and Social Media How GIS systems help farmers en- gage in environmentally sustain- able agriculture (51) Water Food for cities: Power and poten- Converting plastic bags and PET Young People tial of virtual communities (28)) bottles to cotton bags (77) Chill-out with Rob Burnet Community radio an extension to telecentre. What is Greening the economy with agri- the next frontier? (154) culture (GEA) Initiative (20) 17 27 Climate Change And Green Innovations Food Security Gender Knowledge Sharing, Networks and Cops 10:00-11:30 11.30 - 13.00 14.00 - 15.30 Italian Conference Room C200 B400 Inaugural session Weather index agricultural Converting marble dust to fertilizer IFAD President, Mr Kanayo F. Nwanze insurance: Building smallholder (150) together with Ms Ann Tutwiler, producers resilience: An experience Surprised that marble dust is used as from China (76) fertilizer? Want to know more about it? Deputy-Director-General, Knowledge, This session will present the evolution At this session, colleagues from FAO; Mr Amir Abdulla, Deputy of weather index agricultural insurance Pakistan will share how they are Executive Director and Chief Operating in China, and show how IFAD and converting marble dust to fertilizer. Officer, WFP and Mr Emile Frison, WFP built the capacity of a local Director-General of Bioversity insurer to develop weather index Yasir Iqbal International, will jointly open insurance product and sell to market . the Share Fair. People's Development Organization, It will demonstrate that through the Pakistan Rob Burnet who leads Well Told capacity building, the insurer, together Story will deliver a keynote address on with the local metrological bureau was then able to replicate and expand their 16:00 - 17:00 "How can we make agriculture more "business" from insuring rice farmers Speaker's Corner attractive to young people in Africa". to cover wheat. The presenter will Converting plastic bags and PET At 16:00 in an interview in the Oval share how this scheme managed to bottles to cotton bags (77) Room, Michele Payn-Knopfer will share build smallholder farmers' resilience The practice of separating plastic from her experience and practical advice and mitigate risk of weather shocks solid household waste is a novelty not on "Empowerment through and discuss the challenges and only in Armenia, but also in most of the Engagement: Connecting opportunities of weather index ex-Soviet countries. Hear first-hand, Farmers Globally". insurance as well as working with the how the Urban Foundation for private sector. Sustainable Development, thanks to the close collaboration between Weijing Wang municipalities, CSO, service providers CLIMATE CHANGE AND IFAD and the public at large, the Urban GREEN INNOVATIONS Foundation for Sustainable 11.30 - 12.30 Development, managed embark on a 11.30 - 13.00 C300 pilot programme of recycling plastic B100 'Neglected no more: traditional bottles and plastic shopping bag in crops for sustainable livelihoods' (48) rural areas. Putting fisheries and aquaculture on the agenda for COP17 (70) Biodiversity is the foundation of Armine Tukhikyan, Urban Foundation agricultural production. Like water or Fisheries and aquaculture contribute for Sustainable Development air, it's not an exaggeration to say that significantly to food security and agricultural biodiversity also is essential livelihoods, yet are often unrecognized 16.00 - 17.00 for humankind survival. Thousands of and undervalued. Coastal Chill-out minus-1 neglected and underutilized species communities, fishers and fish farmers (NUS) of crops offer tremendous Greening the economy with who depend on healthy aquatic opportunities for food and nutritional agriculture (GEA) Initiative (20) ecosystems are already affected by security and have the potential to In this session participants will have an climate change through rising sea improve rural people's livelihoods. opportunity to develop key messages levels, acidification, droughts, floods, Listen to the stories from rural to be presented at international climate and through changes in distribution communities from all over the world to change conferences such as RIO+20 and productivity of aquatic species, understand the importance of NUS and advocate for greening the biological processes and food webs. and why it deserves greater attention. economy with agriculture to ensure Sustainability of aquatic ecosystems Be part of the new agricultural sufficient quality and quantity of food for fisheries and aquaculture - and for paradigm and become a NUS fan. for a growing population, while the people that depend on them - are ensuring decent livelihoods for rural Rima Alcadi, Stefano Padulosi, Carla uncertain. The only certainty is change population, creating green Pratesi, Álvaro Toledo and decision-makers must be employment opportunities, respecting prepared for it and include fisheries IFAD, Bioversity, Oxfam and preserving ecosystem. and aquaculture issues as part of the dialogue on global climate change. Stéphane Jost FAO Cassandra de Young; Doris Soto; Tina Farmer FAO 18 Livestock Markets and Mobile Water Young People Private Sector Technology and Social Media 11:30-13:00 14.00 - 15.30 FOOD SECURITY C400 B100 Scaling-up rural innovations: Challenges of providing sustainable lessons from the learning route (244) and quality food for local markets in 11.30 - 13.00 West Africa (10) This session will bring together C500 In this session, participants will be planners, managers, resource persons Nexus between rural employment and field practitioners from Latin exposed to impact of the effective and food security (65) training conducted by farmers field America, Asia and Africa with hands The FAO Rural Employment Team will school to improve marketing capacity on experience or potential interest in briefly introduce its integrated country of smallholder farmers and equip them joining or promoting Learning Routes. approach for decent rural employment to deliver high quality products to local This will provide an opportunity to promotion (from strategic and and regional markets. exchange views and experiences normative support to the piloting of within and across regional boundaries FAO operational institutional mechanisms) and to explore options for strategic currently supported in Malawi and partnerships in the context of efforts to Tanzania. In particular, detailed 14:00-15:30 build a community of practice on presentations will be given of capacity B300 scaling up. Participants will learn more development approaches for child Underground treasures: Root and about learning routes which are labour prevention and of the Junior tuber crops for food security in planned journey that aim to address Asia-Pacific (RTCs-FS Project) (212) Farmer Field and Life Schools (JFFLS) the knowledge needs of development Food security in the South is more approach for rural youth employment practitioners and identify relevant than just cereals. Root and tuber crops creation and entrepreneurship experiences in which local actors have (potato, cassava and sweet potato) promotion. Participants will have a tackled similar problems in innovative rank among the seven most important clearer understanding of FAO's ways. During the session you will food crops in developing countries, approach to employment promotion in better understand how learning route providing affordable nutrition and rural areas, the centrality of rural is a capacity building process, opportunities to earn income. employment for food security beginning with a recognition of "what Participants in this session will learn improvements and inclusive growth as we know", continuing with "knowing about innovative products and uses of well as main related challenges. how to", and ending with the ability of these underground treasures, which Peter Wobst, Elisenda Estruch "being able to" adapt and implement have been undervalued and neglected FAO innovations in the situational context of in agricultural research and the individual participants. development efforts. Sample products 11.30 - 13.00 IFAD will be displayed B300 Dindo Campilan Stick with your local variety of 14.00 - 15.30 cassava – Ambakkadan (147) CGIAR, CIP C100 Cultivating a locally adaptable variety Transmitting food culture through 14.00 - 15.30 of cassava (Ambakkadan) has art: a creative interdisciplinary C500 improved women's livelihoods and approach (25) food security and served as a Guidelines for joint planning Food and art both are two central replicable model for participatory workshops for nutrition, food dimensions of the cultural identity of security and livelihoods – Agreeing conservation in south India. This people. Food, as the first vital need of on causes of malnutrition for joint session will report on how this revival human beings, shapes and influences action (27) of a local variety by involving women's human societies, in their practical daily This session will use a planning groups has created a movement in tasks as well as in practices, beliefs workshop methodology to show the rural villages in Kerala. This initiative is and social norms. Art, as the benefits of promoting integrated food demonstrating the importance of local expression of the cultural identity of and nutrition security interventions. crops in mitigating climate change and people and a universal language, is a The session will highlight how this improving food security. Participants in powerful creative mean to revitalize methodology can be used to raise this session will learn about the people's interest on foods and to awareness about nutrition, food enormous potential of women's self- mainstream nutrition and biodiversity security, help put in place a strategic help groups to promote conservation as a common path towards food and plan for integrated nutrition and biodiversity. nutrition security. At this session you'll programmes and design nutrition, food T.J James hear about a new approach to security information and surveillance Peermade Development Society communicate and raise awareness on systems and develop partnerships for nutrition and biodiversity. improving nutrition, food security and livelihoods. Sandro Dernini, FAO Charlotte Dufour, Chiara Deligia, FAO 19 27 Climate Change And Green Innovations Food Security Gender Knowledge Sharing, Networks and Cops 14:00 - 15:00 GENDER KNOWLEDGE SHARING, Speaker's corner NETWORKS AND COPS Food for cities: Power and potential of virtual communities (28) To strengthen collaboration and 11.30 - 13.00 11:30-15:30 discussion on local food systems C100 Dining room centred on cities, a "food-for-cities", a Les Clubs d'écoute communautaires Communities of practice clinic Dgroup platform discusses the right to en République démocratique du Facing a challenge with your food, nutrition, emergency operations, Congo et au Niger (16) community or network? Bring your production, marketing, natural The Community Listeners' Clubs set case to our "case clinic" and we'll think resources management and land up by FAO-Dimitra with its local together to bring ideas and solutions tenure, local governance, and rural- partners are rural citizens' groups to your challenge. urban linkages. Learn how this virtual whose members share their concerns community it contributing to defining a and needs, acquire and exchange Etienne Wenger and Nancy White local food system centred on cities information through community radio approach. in order to take constructive action 11.30 - 13.00 together. Learn how the listeners' B200 Julien Custot, Francesca Gianfelici clubs use solar-powered and wind-up Dgroups going mobile (85) FAO radio sets, as well as solar mobile During this session, participants will phones to get informed and have an opportunity to work with 16.00 - 17.00 communicate. Examine how they have Dgroups designer and developer to B300 proved to be an effective way for shape up the mobile version of this isolated rural communities, women in useful knowledge sharing tool. This Innovative ways of collecting and sharing food security data in East particular, to gain access to exchange will allow "the users" to and Central Africa (31) information and become involved in discuss design, technology Early warning systems need to provide the communication and development constraints, and modalities of use of a timely and accurate information. At this process, serving as a sort of real application thus underscoring the session you be exposed to the work of steppingstone for action and important feature of "mobility" in the Regional Emergency Office for empowerment. knowledge sharing and resulting a East and Central Africa and its role in E.Najros, A.Abdoulaye user-friendly application. coordinating the information flow and FAO, Dimitra Damir Simunic providing technical support in data collection, information management WA Research SA 16.00 - 17.00 and dissemination. C500 14.00 - 15.00 Phillip Fong Savings as a springboard to market- C200 FAO readiness (145) Rural women s savings groups have GENESYS - Gateway to genetic resources (71) proved to be a dynamic force in GENESYS heralds a new paradigm for moving women from 'market-limited' access to and use of plant genetic to 'market-ready' in Central America. resources. GENESYS1.0 was released This session will examine how group in May 2011 following nearly three organization and savings empower years of development by Bioversity participants, the benefits of savings on International in partnership with the families' financial resilience and the International Treaty on Plant Genetic importance of fund-raising to increase Resources for Food and Agriculture members' confidence as well as to and the Global Crop Diversity Trust. It raise money. brings together the passport date from Ruth Junkin three of the major genebank CRS information networks – SINGER, EURISCO and GRIN – and adds further value through the inclusion of characterization and evaluation data. In addition, it provides climatic information for the sites where accessions were collected. Participants will learn about this 20 Livestock Markets and Mobile Water Young People Private Sector Technology and Social Media invaluable resource and acquaint 14.00 - 15.30 16.00 - 17.00 themselves on how to build custom Oval Room C100 queries across all these data types to How can we make agricultural Valuechains 2.0: Leveraging identify the material they require for innovation systems (AIS) work for information and knowledge to their research programs. smallholders? (55) design sustainable value chains In this interactive chat show, panellists projects (68) Adriana Alercia, Jessica Raneri, Ana will sharpen participants' This session introduces the Learning Laura Cerutti understanding of some recent Alliance in Central America, a multi- Bioversity International initiatives that are helping shape the institutional action-research for agricultural innovation systems agenda development initiative and how it is 14:00-15:30 and their contribution to the implementing a KM activity to leverage C400 development landscape – and rural knowledge in value chains as part of BIRDP project Sudan (113) smallholders, in particular. Resource its agenda for promoting a new This session will cover how sorghum persons will draw on recent G20 generation of value chains initiatives yields increased using an improved outcomes; progress on the GCARD focusing on inclusion and sustainability terrace system, which encouraged process; the latest in knowledge - better known as value chains2.0. The new producers to adopt sorghum products on Agriculture Innovation presenters will share methodology production in Sudan following farmer Systems (AIS); reforms on the global developed to design five pilots field days. It will show how cultivation agricultural research system; and embedding KM activities in the coffee of small areas can promote optimal efforts to build synergies between and beans value chain in Nicaragua, use of natural resources, helping poor development partners' investments in and vegetables, honey and cacao families with small goat herds to agricultural research. It is expected value chains in Honduras. achieve food self-sufficiency. that the Q&A session with the Maria Verónica Gottret Rashid Abdel Aziz Musaad audience will tease out emerging CATIE BIRDP opportunities for investment in the types of AIS that are increasingly 16:00-17:00 development-led. The new knowledge 14.00 - 15.30 C400 and improved technologies that Qatar Information Centre Net-Map: Understanding the formal smallholders demand, must take into Experiences and lessons of rural and informal sphere of influence account their multi-functional realities (177) transformation: Why institutions matter (39) and the rich diversity of their Everyone is part of a social network. In this session the presenters will share farming/livelihood systems. Net-Map helps identify all the actors innovations and good practices in Successful AIS involves intended users involved in a project, harnessing the building economically sustainable and – e.g., smallholder-stakeholders – complexity of their social network socially inclusive rural institutions and starting from research design through (instead of being overwhelmed by it). farmer organizations for rural poverty to technology validation, adoption and This session will present how the Net- reduction and food security in Africa, diffusion. Map methodology maps informal and Asia and Latin America. FAO, ICRAF Llloyd le Page, , Jean-Francoise formal links among stakeholders to as well as IFAD colleagues will share Giovanetti, Eiga Pahu, Rodney understand the influence of each actor their experiences in promoting Cooke, CGIAR, IFAD, World Bank in achieving goals. Participants will learn collective action and supporting about how Net-Map can be used for people-driven institutions as an 16.00 - 17.00 various purposes, including in contexts effective means to empower poor rural B100 where culturally diverse stakeholders people and achieve environmentally hold different views. They will also have Innovative services to build sustainable enterprise development. communities of practice (24) a chance to experiment with it. The session will also discuss how to D4Science-II is an innovative approach Paolo Brunello develop a model for grass root to building communities of practice Net Map institutional building and the with scientists, policy makers, institutional arrangements required to biologists and to supporting strengthen the capacities of small partnerships using a grid / cloud farmers to improve their livelihoods, computer infrastructure. This initiative manage natural resources sustainably was in response to delivering and and undertake enterprise providing access to reliable, up-to- development. date information. Participants will hear Tom Anyonge and Monica Romano how the various stakeholders are now (IFAD); Nora OurabahHaddad (FAO) accessing, sharing, and discuss the and Denis Herbe information used in decision-making IFAD, FAO processes. Anton Ellenbroek, FAO 21 27 Climate Change And Green Innovations Food Security Gender Knowledge Sharing, Networks and Cops 14.00 - 15.30 LIVESTOCK MARKETS AND C300 PRIVATE SECTOR Sweet power of cooperative paving the way for a flourishing organic 11:30-13:00 11:30-13:00 sugar export business (56) Oval room Chill-out minus – 1 This session will highlight how Livestock research for Investments in rural SMEs - case cooperatives have managed to take development: Shifting the Paradigm study from Armenia (167) processing of sugar in their hands, (181) Obtaining financing for small and managed to get their products certified Livestock research has undergone a medium-size enterprises is often and as a result have become the first transformation in recent years. As the difficult, especially in rural areas. The cooperative in Paraguay to export their environment becomes more complex, Fund for Rural Economic Development own organic sugar. The presenters will tackling future challenges will require in Armenia invests in these enterprises show how cooperatives can be a similar innovation in livestock through innovative financing vehicle to empower smallholder development. This session will present instruments, capital and management producers to lead the way to more the strengths and weaknesses of assistance. Providing both financing sustainable agriculture, on a larger recent livestock research, viewed from and assistance, the Fund helps scale. the perspective of emerging develop these enterprises in the challenges. Participants will contribute country's agribusiness sector. Louise Luttikholt to a global conversation to help frame Participants in this session will discuss Fairtrade (FLO) the CGIAR's livestock research the unique needs and possibilities for directions. this comprehensive approach in the 14:00-15:30 Peter Ballantyne agricultural sector. Qatar Information Centre CGIAR, ILRI Tigran Khanikyan Direct engagement with the private FREDA, IFAD sector to fight rural poverty: 16.00 - 17.00 Knowledge sharing on a C200 14:00-15:30 much-debated issue (43) Rural family poultry: A fertile group Most of the member countries of IFAD C300 for using new technologies and and FAO have embraced policies Direct engagement with the private applying innovative approaches (8) sector to fight rural poverty: calling for engaging the private sector Rural family poultry makes a Knowledge sharing on a in agricultural development. IFAD and substantial contribution to food much-debated issue (43) FAO have undertaken strategy and security, poverty alleviation and gender Most of the member countries of IFAD evaluation reviews to help clarify empowerment in many countries and FAO have embraced policies effective and acceptable ways to around the world. During this session calling for engaging the private sector support and partner with the private the presenters will share how by in agricultural development. IFAD and sector in country level programmes. adopting low costs innovative FAO have undertaken strategy and During this session, participants will technologies in the poultry sector, it is evaluation reviews to help clarify learn more about emerging lessons on possible to enable poor rural people to effective and acceptable ways to ways of partnering with the private raise their incomes and strengthen support and partner with the private sector and to create an opportunity for their resilience.Why it is crucial to sector in country level programmes. exchanging views on priorities and support field adaptation and adoption During this session, participants will criteria for working with and of selected innovations and good learn more about emerging lessons on channelling resources for private practices which can easily be scaled ways of partnering with the private sector operations. up. Participants will learn about sector and to exchange views on Cecile Berthaud examples of low-tech mini-hatcheries priorities and criteria for working with IFAD functioning without electricity, how to and channelling resources for private protecting baskets for chicks, sector operations. The discussion will 16.00 - 17.00 improved alternative feeding cover issues such as: which private B500 techniques and vaccination against sector (small, large, formal, informal), Linking smallholder producers: An Newcastle disease. what types of support (direct or experience from community-based institutional, and content: financing, forest enterprise development Antonio Rota, Olaf Thieme inputs, training), which partners and programme (13) IFAD, FAO the role of governments. This session will showcase experiences and lessons of supporting Doyle Baker, Gavin Wall and Ashwani initiatives dedicated to stimulating and Muthoo facilitating improved linkages within FAO, IFAD countries between small and medium forest enterprises, markets, service providers and policy processes. 22 Livestock Markets and Mobile Water Young People Private Sector Technology and Social Media The presenters will discuss how MOBILE TECHNOLOGY 16.00 - 17.00 through the development and sharing AND SOCIAL MEDIA B400 of a participatory training methodology, The EndingHunger movement (29) called Market Analysis and The creative director of an award- 11:30 -13:00 Development, they managed to help winning public outreach campaign B500 poor rural people to develop forest- shares his experience in successfully based income-generating enterprises Utilisation de Google Earth pour le fostering creativity in a multicultural suivi de la riziculture (221) while conserving natural resources. team. Since its launch, the The combination of Google Earth Pro, Participants will learn about the market EndingHunger movement has GIS technology and agricultural analysis and development approach, challenged the conventional databases turns out to be a powerful and some of the particularly innovative boundaries of a conservative visual tool for monitoring agricultural market development mechanisms knowledge-based organization. In practices and other uses. This such as 'Twinning' approach in which spite of the obstacles, EndingHunger presentation will focus on how to forest producer associations from has managed to send out clear and create a simple but useful decision- different countries (North-South or energetic messages and attract a making and monitoring tool by South-South) learn about and from following that continues to grow. What combining these three elements. one another in a peer-to-peer are the keys to its success? "Don't Participants in this session will see exchange of knowledge and micromanage the team!" "Don't plan how they can obtain precise experience. everything but leave room for information on cultivated surface area, Sophie Grouwels, Laura Schweitzer spontaneous developments!" and for example, or use the tool in Meins, Kata Wagner "Keep the messages simple!" are participatory evaluations. FAO some of the many rule-breaking rules Christian José Ravelonandro to be revealed. IFAD 16:00-17:00 Scott Grove, Sharon Lee Cowan, Dining room FAO 14.00 - 15.00 Innovative partnerships and multi- B200 stakeholders approaches promoted Mobile Agribusiness - delivering 14.00 - 15.30 in the RAS context (229) This session will present the first information to farmers in Congo Chill-out minus -1 (133) Community radio an extension to results of a capitalization of telecentre. What is the next frontier? experiences on rural advisory services. (154) It has been found that services need to In the Democratic Republic of the The session will demonstrate how be diverse in types of services, Congo, farmers can access real-time information and communication approaches and providers. Platforms market information through mobile technologies foster socio-economic and partnerships are a mean to create phones, laptops and tablet computers. development for indigenous peoples. trust among the stakeholders allowing This session will show how mobile Participants will see how the Internet, the engagement of the private sector agribusiness raises productivity and mobile phones and community radio at an operational level. Participants will farmers' incomes, improving food stations can address the particular also hear about plans for a public- security and nutrition. Participants will problems indigenous peoples face and private partnership (still in discussion) learn about the uses of new the factors that prevent their wider to promote Internet technology and technologies for improving productivity deployment. facilitate peer-to-peer learning among and income. farmers, with an emphasis on Dr. Roger W. Harris Narcisse Mbuzama Lokwa sustainable agriculture. eBario Sdn Bhd, IFAD Infogroup Internationa Crettaz Marylaure 14:00-15:30 SDC B500 iCow Farmer mobile management platform (241) This session will look at an innovative mobile phone argri-platform and guide you on how to deliver a good product at the right price. The iCow Farmer mobile phone management platform delivers agriculture information to farmers ,collects data and links farmers with agricultural extension service providers. Su Kahumbu Stephanou 23 27 Climate Change And Green Innovations Food Security Gender Knowledge Sharing, Networks and Cops 16.00 - 17.00 16.00 - 17.00 Tent: Stand WATER C300 How GIS systems help farmers The Water channel TV - all about engage in environmentally water and its use and more (121) sustainable agriculture (51) 11.30 - 13.00 This interactive session will focus on Learn how aerial images have been B400 using today's tools to resolve put to use to support agriculture, Scaling up innovations in water tomorrow's water issues. Using live forestry, natural resource-management dialogues (46) streaming and live connection with and environment. See how this The prominence of water is not yet experts from outside the meeting, the solution can be used to better manage matched by commensurate delivery WaterChannel session will inform land. instruments. This presentation will participants about simple and user- show how IFAD scaling-up its water Walter H. Mayer friendly technologies and new insights related to reach between 50,000 and PROGIS on water use and land management. It 500,000. This session seeks feedback aims to inspire participants with new and testimonies on whether proven ideas to apply to your own work. 16.00 - 17.00 innovations are best scaled-up as Dining room 2 individual solutions, or within a Lenneke Knoop Text to Change: Providing Bolivian package of business-lines based on MetaMeta Communications / farmers commodity prices (54) different farming economies and how TheWaterChannel - partnership with This session showcases how can innovations best penetrate the IFAD innovations travel across continents. dialogue processes that lead to Explore how Bolivian farmers inspired investment decisions? 16.00 - 17.00 by health SMS information systems in Andy Bullock Qatar Information Centre Africa are using this technology to get Water, food and poverty: beyond agriculture and market-related the limits (46b) 13.00 - 14.00 information. Learn about the social, Conventional wisdom points to a global Tent: Stand bureaucratic and technical challenges water and food crisis as increasing Better safe than sorry- how do you and how these were addressed. Local demand results in increasing poverty, wash salad greens at home? (2) languages are always a challenge as food insecurity and conflict. The findings What's the best way to wash salad well. from the CGIAR Challenge Program for greens to eliminate dangerous Josette de Vroeg pathogens? You might be surprised to Water and Food present a different and Text to change learn you're not doing the job right. far more nuanced picture. This session Participants passing this stand will be will discuss the politics of equitable and asked how they wash lettuce at home. sustainable development of resources, 16:00-17:00 Ghanaian street food kitchen staff will especially for the rural poor. Many of the Oval room then describe the various ways people world's river basins have tremendous Empowerment through wash their salad greens in West Africa potential to sustain human needs over engagement: Connecting farmers globally using social media and demonstrate the proper method. the next 40 years. How people manage Do not miss the interview with Michele Sandwiches with properly washed river systems collectively, for multiple Payn-Knopfer who will share her lettuce will be served, and a video on uses, while enhancing food security experience and practical advice on kitchen safety options will be shown. and protecting vital ecosystem functions how to empower farmers using social at local scale will make the difference Dr. Philip Amoah between catastrophe and survival. media. CGIAR, IWMI Michele Payn-Knopfer Alain Vidal, CPWF Cuase Matter Corp. 24 Livestock Markets and Mobile Water Young People Private Sector Technology and Social Media 16.00 - 17.00 YOUNG PEOPLE B200 Giving a voice to young professionals through online 11.30 - 13.00 agricultural events! (30) Qatar Information Centre YPARD is an on-ground and on-line Partnership with young farmers to movement of Young Professionals for promote collective action and Agricultural Research for Development. entrepreneurship development (38) Leverage the power and potential of This session will offer an opportunity to young people and engage them in learn about the experiences and development by embracing their challenges of supporting young interests and communicating through farmers and rural people and ensuring their preferred channels, such as blogs they are represented in grassroot and and pictures and video contests. Learn civil society organizations, have access how to increase community interaction, to appropriate entrepreneurial and getting young professionals interested leadership skills so that they setup and in agricultural research for development operate viable agribusiness discourse and support young people's enterprises. Participants will hear the organizations and cause. first hand story of a young farmer and entrepreneur trained by the Songhai Marina Cherbonnier, YPARD centre in Benin and the President of the International Movement for 15:30-16:30 Catholic Agricultural and Rural Youth Tent - Chill-out corner (MIJARC). They will share their Chill-out with Rob Burnet aspirations, needs, challenges and achievements of young farmers and rural people in undertaking agricultural activities and enterprise development as well as joining organizations to represent their interests and views. Philippe Remy, Zoumana Bamba and Monica Romano (IFAD); Nora OurabahHaddad, Charlotte Goemans (FAO); George Fernandez and Clemence Roger (International Movement of Catholic Agricultural and Rural Youth – MIJARC) 25 9:30 10:00 10:30 11:00 11:30 12:00 12:30 13:00 13:30 Italian Conf Keynote by Mark Davies: Demysti- fying public-private-partnership: An experience from the field C100 (flex) Climate-smart agriculture – yes, we can! (21) B100 Improving seed security strategies and policies (176) C200 Creating conducive environment Challenges and opportunities of for smallholder producers to ac- engaging in a private-public part- cess markets (34) nership: The oil palm experience (69) B200 The South Sudan Livelihoods De- Radio Lake Victoria assist Kenyan velopment Project (230)) farmers with nitty-gritty of food se- curity (107) C300 Pre-breeding for effective use of Smart pixels for smart phones in plant genetic resources: an e- Africa – Water management for learning course (11)) smallholder farmers (36)) B300 Spate irrigation is good for people KariaNet II - Thematic Knowledge for livestock and for the environ- Network (157)) ment(46d)) C400 Sensemaking: The cognitive map Cash-on-the-Bag (221) of farms - experiences of sharing agricultural knowledge in Southern Africa (171) B400 Power of partnership for an im- What can I do about climate proved poultry sector: An experi- change - a partnership between ence from Bangladesh (92) schools in Italy and Africa (101) C500 (flex) Making Knowledge Work for the Poor: Innovation platforms as spaces for change and transformation in rural communities (149) B500 Transforming water hyacinth into New trends and thinking on cop- paper: An example from Uganda ing with market access challenges (186) and developing markets for small farmers (188) Coffee Lunch Qatar (chat) Purchase for Progress (P4P) (205)) Oval 21st century rural development projects and pro- grammes: with or without mobile technology? (63) Dining 1 (World) Farmer field school approach – In- tegrated pest management: The St. Lucia experience (15) Dining 2 (Fish) Public-private partnership: Some lessons learnt (3) Tent: Stand 1 Tent: Stand 2 Tent: Stand 3 Tent: Stand 4 Tent: Speaker's Tent: Chill Corner -1 26 14:00 14:30 15:00 15:30 16:00 16:30 17:00 17:30 28 SEPTEMBER Promotion of gender sensitive practices for inventory Pakistan emergency food security credit (61) assessment (200) 2011 Ethiopian livestock market information system: Using ICT to deliver information to rural communities (1) Providing food assistance using Right food at the right time - Feed Climate Change modern technology (199) people better, feed people smarter And Green (201b) Innovations Improving the production capacity of Tiko farmers The story of the 'Frike' wheat through training and livelihood development and mar- product and how it helps increase ket linkages (192) income for smallholder farmers (237) Irrigation management games-learning by doing FARM 98.0 FM: Your vocal gate- Food Security (46c)) way to agricultural information (53) Using astronomy and animals voices to predict rain- Communication for development a fall: A Maasai practice (214b) catalyst for better managing natu- ral resources (19) Food aid information system: Your gateway to food Land matrix knowledge system: a Gender delivery system (204) sneak preview of what the world's largest database on large-scale land-based investments tells us (50) CAFS as a new centre (Centre for Agroecology and The role of social media in devel- food security): Sustainability standards (228) opment (206) What if you could help to resolve the world's food North Western Integrated Commu- Knowledge Sharing, problems? (243) nity Development Programme Networks and Cops (155) Cow solidarity chain – The story of a successful A dairy goat value chain approach farmer (208)) in Kenya (224) Coffee Open Space Putting knowledge management and learning into Sustainable beekeeping services Livestock practice in large development programmes (218) to improve agricultural production in Uganda (140) Making agricultural knowledge travel: making the out- Innovative waste management so- puts of innovation truly accessible (62) lutions for keeping our planet green Private-public partnership: the new development Societies of rural transformation for Markets and panacea? scaling up innovations (187) Private Sector Private sector partnerships: the Mobile case of the jab planter (9) Technology and Social Media Water Is it really that easy to find sustain- Young People able technical solutions for ad- dressing W4F needs? (242) 5 years sharing coffee and knowledge: the Bluebar Chill-out with Mark Davies experience (26)) M-Kulima linking mobile technology to farmers to share their experiences (108) 27 28 Climate Change And Green Innovations Food Security Gender Knowledge Sharing, Networks and Cops 9:30-10:30 11:00-12:00 16:00-17:00 Italian Conference Room B500 Oval room Mark Davies – Keynote address: Transforming water hyacinth Innovative waste management Demystifying public-private- into paper: An example from solutions for keeping our partnership: An experience from Uganda (186) planet green the field Learn how innovative Ugandans have This Chatshow will feature innovative created new employment examples of waste management. You CLIMATE CHANGE AND opportunities by transforming water will hear how in Armenia PET bottles GREEN INNOVATIONS hyacinth into paper, thus avoid cutting and plastic bags are being recycled trees and helping the lake's ecosystem into cotton bags, how in Pakistan to regenerate and protect aquatic life. marble dust is transformed into 11:00-13:00 fertilizer and how in Uganda water C100 Robert Atuhaire hyacinth is being converted to paper. Climate-smart agriculture – Robert Atuhaire, Armine Tukhikyan 12:00-13:00 yes, we can! (21) and Yasir Iqbal Climate-smart agriculture is B400 "agriculture that sustainably increases What can I do about climate change - productivity, resilience (adaptation), a partnership between schools in Italy FOOD SECURITY reduces/removes greenhouse gases and Africa (101) (mitigation), and enhances In this session, participants will learn achievement of national food security about an innovative partnership 12:00-13:00 and development goals". But what between Italian and African schools B100 does this mean in practice? During this leading to sharing knowledge on Improving seed security strategies session you can share your ideas and climate change and raising awareness and policies (176) learn how practitioners envisage about the challenges facing our planet. Seed security is essential to increase climate-smart agriculture and discuss Participants will how 20 schools in agricultural production and meet global what are crucial strategies in terms of Burkina Faso and Mauritania are food requirements. This session will institutional and policy options and benefitting from electricity via focus on seed insecurity in Lesotho, financing and investment? photovoltaic systems. Swaziland and Zimbabwe. Participants Christina Seeberg-Elverfeldt and Giovanni De Paoli will learn about a project that is working Catherin Zanev ENEA, Italy to improve markets to increase farmers' FAO, WFP access to quality seeds. Participants 14.00 - 15.30 will share experiences about how to 11:00-12:00 engage with the private sector to B300 benefit smallholder farmers in C300 Using astronomy and animals increasing production and incomes. Pre-breeding for effective use voices to predict rainfall: Alex Carr, Seeds and Markets of plant genetic resources: A Maasai practice (214b) project, SDC an e-learning course (11) There is growing recognition that You will be exposed to the six modules indigenous peoples are affected by the 14:00-15:30 and functionalities of the self-paced e- economic, social and environmental learning course about pre-breeding. impact of climate change and that their C500 This customizable course allows you traditional knowledge may be critical What if you could help to resolve to learn how to identify and use for effective adaptation and mitigation the world's food problems? (243) desirable traits often harboured in strategies. Learn how indigenous Would you like to take part in forming a "non-traditional" breeding materials to knowledge can help adapt to the global community of practice? One create "intermediate" materials to adverse impact of and how indigenous that will bring together experts and develop elite crop varieties. peoples active participation in the individuals willing to share, collaborate emerging carbon emissions markets and learn? If so, then come along to Chikelu Mba, FAO. Presented by as those contemplated under REDD this interactive session where we will Elizabeth Goldberg and Ehsan Dullo, define the community's knowledge and REDD+ is important. Bioversity International domain (Water for Food), discuss key Mosses Ndiyaine Indigenous heartland Organization, issues around water and food security, Tanzania and understand how a community of practice could improve exchange and 28 Livestock Markets and Mobile Water Young People Private Sector Technology and Social Media practice of ideas, ultimately influencing KNOWLEDGE SHARING, 14.00 - 15.30 global policy. Bring your ideas and NETWORKS AND COPS Tent: Chill-out Corner energy and be ready to take part in a 5 years sharing coffee and dynamic conversation! knowledge: the Bluebar Kim dos Santos Martins and Audrey 12:00-13:00 experience (26) Nepveu, IFAD Institutional information doesn't have Dining room 1 to be shared in an institutional way. 16:00-17:00 Farmer field school approach – "Grassroots", informal and organic Integrated pest management: The B200 networks of like-interested people can St. Lucia experience (15) The story of the 'Frike' wheat be a successful way to share and Explore how the Ministry of Agriculture, product and how it helps increase exchange information/experiences. Land, Forestry and Fisheries of St income for smallholder farmers (237) The Bluebar promotes face-to-face Lucia adopted and used Farmer Field Recently completed research by communication which has had a ripple School (FFS) methodology an ICARDA and its partners in the Middle effect and has become a catalyst for Integrated Pest Management (IPM) East and Maghreb regions has shown major institutional change. At this programme to rationalize the use of how Frike – a food product processed session, you'll hear why the Bluebar chemical inputs in agricultural from durum wheat – has good experience has been so successful production. Learn how the benefits of potential to increase the incomes of and how informal networks can foster this model led to improved technical smallholder farmers in drylands agro- information flow. capacity of the extension and plant ecosystems worldwide. This session protection services and helped deliver Tina Farmer will provide practical information about an enhanced service to farmers, FAO how to start or improve production of resulting in safer and more effective Frike, which is also a source of pest and crop management. 14:00-15:30 nutrition for many rural communities. C400 Deanne V. Ramroop Kamil Shideed FAO Food aid information system: ICARDA Your gateway to food 12:00-13:00 delivery system (204) B300 One of the ways to assess hunger is to GENDER monitor the global flow of food aid. In KariaNet II - Thematic this hands-on session, participants will Knowledge Network (157) learn how to extract food aid 14.00 - 15.30 The Knowledge Access in Rural information and create reports on the C100 Interconnected Areas Network quantity and nutritional value of food (KariaNet) MENARID are regional Promotion of gender sensitive aid through the Food Aid Information networks servicing countries in the practices for inventory credit (61) System and the International Food Aid Middle East, Europe, and North Africa This session will highlight the good Information System. Report samples (MENA) region. Using the two practices that contribute to making will be available. networks' experience, issues related inventory credit equally accessible to Kartini Oppusunggu and the sustainability of regional thematic all women and men, especially the Angela D'Ascenzi networks will be briefly presented to most vulnerable. You will hear about WFP kick start a debate on assets, two cases in Burkina Faso and Niger challenges and opportunities to where inventory credit is practiced and sustain a network on knowledge learn how farmer organizations, management and knowledge sharing. decentralized financial institutions, A discussion with the audience will advisory service providers, and others follow in order to capture and learn participated to document this process. what makes a network functional, You will also learn about how this viable and contributing to change initiative has been using mobile process in rural development in a phones and radio listener's' as an dynamic region like MENA. innovative way of sharing knowledge among community members. Hammou Laamrani IFAD Sophie Treinen FAO 29 28 Climate Change And Green Innovations Food Security Gender Knowledge Sharing, Networks and Cops 14:00-15:30 16.00 – 17:00 LIVESTOCK Qatar Information Centre B300 Putting knowledge management Communication for development a and learning into practice in large catalyst for better managing natural 11:00-12:00 development programmes (218) resources (19) B400 Though knowledge management and Learn how the communication for Power of partnership for an learning have been in the development sustainable development initiative improved poultry sector: rhetoric for more than a decade, (CSDI) has used communication for An experience from Bangladesh (92) putting them into practice has been development approaches in Bolivia, The session will showcase how challenging and slow. This session will Bangladesh, Jamaica and DR Congo women have benefited from the present experiences from an IFAD- to help farmers articulate their activities of Palli Karma Sahayk supported initiative to integrate challenges and identify solutions in a Foundation (PKSF), the wholesale knowledge management and learning participatory way thus reducing the micro-finance lending agency in into rural development programmes in gap between researchers and farmers. Bangladesh that provides credit fund eastern and southern Africa. Federica Matteoli, Marzia Pafumi, to its partner NGO/MFIs for on-lending Participants will learn how the initiative Vanessa Vertiz, Elisa Finocchiaro, to women. The presenter will share the has tackled the challenge of making FAO experience of how government learning practical enough to be livestock line agency (DLS) trained embraced by project staff. Knowledge 16.00 - 17.00 local NGOs, provided vaccines, products developed during the technical assistance to livestock Qatar Information Centre process will be available. rearers about techniques such as Sustainable beekeeping services Helen Gillman artificial insemination and how to improve agricultural production IFAD livestock producers thanks to these in Uganda (140) initiative have access to marketing Crop yields are deteriorating in 14.00 - 16.30 facilities such as commercial input Uganda, making it clear that traditional Oval room suppliers (DOC, feed, medicine) and as farming methods are no longer a result managed to expand their Making agricultural knowledge sufficient. This interactive session will business. travel: making the outputs of discuss the challenges and share innovation truly accessible (62) experiences on new practices being Md. Abu Sarwar The multi-partner Coherence in introduced, aiming to develop PKSF Information for Agricultural Research approaches that can be used in for Development (CIARD) initiative is diverse environments. The focus is a 11:00-12:30 working to make agricultural research bee-keeping project that has increased C500 information publicly accessible to all, crop fertility and provided a new Making knowledge work by helping national organisations product for farmers to sell. The session for the poor: Innovation platforms which already hold or create new will feature an interactive discussion on as spaces for change and knowledge facilitate access to it for the challenges in trying to change transformation in rural others. A major challenge faced by the long-established practices. Also communities (149) CIARD partners is how to advocate discussed will be strategies, This session will report on five and empower the management of approaches and available external initiatives in which researchers have hundreds of national research resources that have proved successful collaborated with local development organizations across the world to in Kikandwa, Uganda and elsewhere. partners, helping to empower local formulate and adopt enabling policies Robert Kibaya participants and make research more and incentives that enable their KIRUCODO demand-responsive. The session will scientists to share the outputs of their provide an opportunity to interact with research, making them truly accessible leading innovation system to all relevant stakeholders so that they practitioners, who will use as examples can be put into use. Help provide livestock and natural resource projects inputs to CIARD Communication from Ethiopia, India, Mozambique and Strategy to ensure that advocacy Zimbabwe. After short presentations, efforts are relevant to making the five speakers will split into small agriculture research results accessible. groups with participants, seeking Stephen Rudgard feedback leading to improved FAO practices. Peter Ballantyne ILRI 30 Livestock Markets and Mobile Water Young People Private Sector Technology and Social Media 12:00-13:00 11:00-12:00 12:00-13:00 B500 B200 C400 New trends and thinking The South Sudan Livelihoods Cash-on-the-Bag (221) on coping with market access Development Project (230) The absence of structures for secure challenges and developing markets What strategies can be implemented transactions is one of the most for small farmers (188) to promote public-private sector persistent reasons for failure of This session is focused on improving partnership in order to increase agricultural supply chains in Africa. access to markets for domestically production and food security? This This session, on the 'Cash-on-the- produced products, especially those session will explore how projects Bag' initiative, will show one solution – produced by smallholders. Participants within the same climatic, regional/ a network of independent rural will discuss how to add economic geographical, social and ethnic entrepreneurs who handle transactions value to products to make them more conditions can manage different in Kenya, Tanzania and Uganda. These marketable and improve product stakeholders to overcome challenges agents benefit the seller by making differentiation. and allow for the accrual of sustainable immediate cash payments for Gulla Jan benefits to farmers and other products purchased, and for the buyer Rural Microfinance and Livestock community groups. by verifying the quantity and quality of Support Program, IFAD the merchandise purchased. Early Dr. Jacob Mogga reports show 10 to 15 per cent higher 12:00-13:00 prices for farmers and commissions of MARKETS AND 5 to 10 per cent for the agents. C200 PRIVATE SECTOR Participants will discuss how to scale Challenges and opportunities of up this promising initiative. 11.00 - 12.00 engaging in a private-public Dr Clive Lightfoot, Pride Africa C200 partnership: The oil palm experience (69) 12:00-13:00 Creating conducive environment This session will highlight amongst for smallholder producers Qatar Information Centre other things characteristics of palm oil to access markets (34) Purchase for Progress (P4P) (205) refining and 1/3-2/3 split in plantation Smallholder farmers can ensure food Purchase for Progress is a pilot investments by IFAD and the private security and come out from poverty in initiative that links farmers with World sector agreed upon in 2000 and a sustainable way when they have Food Programme to provide staple initiated in 2004, including the specific access to market opportunities and foods in 21 countries at a fair price. By challenges of the differing time-frames develop their agribusiness skills. At this raising farmers' incomes, P4P turns of smallholder farmers and the private session, participants will familiarize WFP's local procurement into a tool to sector. IFAD's Uganda Country themselves with how a market-based address hunger. Participants in this Programme Manager will talk about approach can successfully be session, taking place three years into a the partnership with and contribution implemented when poor smallholder five-year pilot, will be briefed on of the private sector and the farmers work together with better-off lessons learned and best practices. mechanisms IFAD has put in place for farmers in collaborative groups and WFP predicts that at least half a million helping farmers to learn so that they when these groups are linked with smallholder farmers will have increased can take full advantage of this private traders and agriculture and improved their agricultural innovative project. Oil palm in Malaysia processing companies. The presenters production and earnings through this and Indonesia has been a "bête-noire" will share his experience in Viet Nam initiative by 2013. of the NGO community since the late on how donor interventions can 1990s, and oil palm in Uganda has Tobias Bauer, WFP promote market access for the poor been judged negatively by innuendo. while building their institutions, The session will discuss how IFAD has introducing reforms and creating an raised awareness about the economic enabling environment for partnership livelihood opportunities for smallholder with private sector, by providing oil palm farmers in Uganda and how financial development services and both the private sector and IFAD have improving existing infrastructure. addressed global environmental Tung Thanh Nguyen concerns about the industry. IFAD Marian Bradley IFAD 31 28 Climate Change And Green Innovations Food Security Gender Knowledge Sharing, Networks and Cops 14:00-15:30 14:00-15:30 16.00 - 17.00 B200 B400 Tent: Stand Improving the production capacity CAFS as a new centre (Centre for Private sector partnerships: the of Tiko farmers through training Agroecology and food security): case of the jab planter (9) and livelihood development and Sustainability standards (228) During this session, participants will be market linkages (192) Participants in this session will learn able to see a hand-operated jab Innovative partnerships can help about sustainability standards as planter in action. The jab planter was improve the sustainability of implemented by the Centre for designed specifically to plant through a agricultural production in the Tiko Agroecology and Food Security. The crop or residue cover, an essential farming area of Cameroon. Centre works on standards such as element of conservation agriculture. Participants in this session will learn environmental and carbon footprinting You will have an opportunity to explore about the use of farmers' groups to and group certification for small possibilities for the development of improve the farmers' production and farmers. The session will also look at private sector partnerships between marketing skills. Farmers in these routes to market for sustainable workshops and fabricators in Africa groups gain access to new products and communication between with well-established manufacturers in technologies and innovative farming producers and consumers. South American countries. practices. The presentation will Participants will have a discussion Josef Kienzle, M. Aktha Bhatti, J. emphasize opportunities for about how to develop sustainability Ashburner, Saidi Mkomwa innovative partnerships. standards further and gain better FAO, ACT Tanda Godwin Ade market access for small-scale farmers EPDA and community projects. 16:00-17:00 Dr Ulrich Schmutz Dining room 14:00-15:30 Societies of rural transformation for B500 14:00-15:30 scaling up innovations (187) Cow solidarity chain – The story Dining room Participants will have an opportunity to of a successful farmer (208) Private-public partnership: the new learn about a new financial service for Who doesn't enjoy hearing about a development panacea? venture capital investments hard-earned success? Participants in A panel of real life farmers, buyers and opportunities in small and medium size this session will learn the story of other entrepreneurs will demystify enterprises and how this has helped Rucibiraro Theresphore, 49, who private-public partnerships (PPPs) in transorm agricultural products and received a cow from an IFAD project in smallholder agricultural development. resulted in a new way to promote Rwanda in 2007. Saving his earnings The panel and following open sustainable rural development . and opening a bank account, he was discussion will respond to the question: Jalem eventually able to purchase 2,500 When does a PPP work for smallholder CIDRE chickens and another piece of land. development and when does it not? Earlier this year he received the 'best Mark Davies, Luis Diaz, Louise 16:00-17:00 farmer' award at the National McDonald, Tigran Khanikyan B500 Agriculture Show. Over the past four years, each of six neighbours received A dairy goat value chain approach 16:00-17:00 a cow from him through the project's in Kenya (224) C200 Using a value chain approach, farmers revolving fund – perhaps one of them will be the next 'best farmer'. Right food at the right time - producing goat's milk are receiving a Feed people better, feed people market price three times higher than Janvier Gasasira smarter (201b) for cow's milk in the initiative Ministry of Agriculture and Animal This session will highlight efforts by the presented at this session. Farmers in Resources, Rwanda World Food Programme to maximize the Smallholder Dairy the nutritional impact of its food Commercialization Programme assistance programmes, emphasizing received skills training in areas ranging the critical 1,000 days from pregnancy from leadership to fodder production through age 2. WFP is developing new and record keeping. Value addition products, such as ready-to-use foods, was handled through links with the and improving fortification of existing private sector. Participants in this commodities. After learning about session will learn how participants are WFP efforts to target its food earning higher incomes and interventions to ensure beneficiaries improving their nutrition. receive the right foods, participants will Moses Kembe be invited to sample several nutritious Smallholder Dairy Commercialization products that WFP distributes. Programme (SDCP), IFAD Tanuja Rastogi, WFP 32 Livestock Markets and Mobile Water Young People Private Sector Technology and Social Media MOBILE TECHNOLOGY 12:00-13:00 C200 AND SOCIAL MEDIA B200 Providing food assistance using Radio Lake Victoria assist modern technology (199) 11.00 - 12.30 Kenyan farmers with nitty-gritty Growing hunger raises the stakes for Oval room of food security (107) efficient delivery of cash and food A community radio station is the best assistance. This session will address 21st century rural development tool to teach proper farming the use of modern technologies to projects and programmes: with or techniques to rural farmers, and deliver large-scale cash and voucher- without mobile technology? (63) mobile phones provide the best based food assistance. It will present The guests of this Chat Show will platform for engaging personally with findings from around the globe make the case that appropriate ICT farmers. These were the findings of a (Philippines, Syrian Arab Republic, (mobile and other technology) should project in Nyanza province of Kenya, Zambia, Occupied Palestinian Territory) be an integral part of rural development the subject of this session. Participants on technologies such as mobile projects. They'll do a horizon scan of will learn how farmers in remote areas banking and other digital or biometric the variety of mobile technology tools can use mobile photos to receive solutions to identify beneficiaries and and experiences currently in use, farming information from agricultural deliver and monitor services. The goal exploring drivers of success and their experts in the studios of radio stations. of the session is to build partnerships known limitations. At this session, you The session will showcase productivity with other agencies and people will learn the value of mobile increases after farmers in Kenya working in similar domains. technology for agricultural development and how this type of technology implemented the experts' advice to Levan Tchatchua fosters communication, helps improve switch from maize to millet. It will WFP decision making and ultimately demonstrate how people can call in positively impacts the livelihoods of and ask questions of the agricultural 14.00 - 15.30 smallholder producers. The discussants extension officer. Chill-out minus -1 will share an inventory of currently Joseph Ojwang Ogoch M-Kulima linking mobile available tools, applications, processes Radio Lake Victoria technology to farmers to share and identify possibilities for replicating their experiences (108) and scaling up successful programmes. 14.00 - 15.30 Mobile phones have taken Kenya by Michael Riggs B100 storm in both urban and rural areas. FAO Ethiopian livestock market M-Kulima seeks to use mobile phones information system: Using ICT to spread key messages on agriculture 11:00-12:00 to deliver information to in rural areas. This session will show C400 rural communities (1) how the technology is being used to At this session, participants will encourage farmers to share their Sensemaking: The cognitive map of familiarize themselves with the LINKS experiences, in particular regarding the farms - experiences of sharing market information system which need to diversify from maize to higher agricultural knowledge in Southern automates collecting, analysis, storage yielding and drought-resistant crops Africa (171) and dissemination of livestock price such as cassava, sweet potatoes and How do farmers make sense of the and volume market information. The sorghum. The session will use drama knowledge provided by practitioners system provides complete price and to bring to life SMS messages sent to and policymakers? This important volume data based on animal type, and received by farmers. It aims to question will be addressed in this breed, age class, gender and grade at generate empathy for farmers and session, which will show how farmers low cost. It integrates market understanding of some of their and agricultural practitioners can nest information with livestock early warning objections and their willingness to their practices and knowledge in system to delivery timely information to adopt to change. 'sense-making'. This conceptual framework can enable farmers and rural communities in Ethiopia. Damas Oduor Ogwe practitioners to effectively share Sintayehu Alemayehu Seeds of peace Africa international knowledge on demand. The session CGIAR centre (SOPA) will show how local knowledge can be embedded in sense-making to 14:00-15:00 address the challenges of food security, climate change and biodiversity. Charles Dhewa Knowledge Transfer Africa 33 28 Climate Change And Green Innovations Food Security Gender Knowledge Sharing, Networks and Cops 15:30-16:30 16:00-17:00 16:00-17:00 Tent – Chill-out Corner C300 C100 Chill-out with Mark Davies FARM 98.0 FM: Your vocal gateway Pakistan emergency food to agricultural information (53) security assessment (200) 16:00-17:00 Agriculture is the main source of At this session you will hear the story C400 livelihood of 80% of the 4.5 million of Sahib, programme officer with the Land matrix knowledge system: a people inhabiting the remote Vulnerability Assessment Mapping sneak preview of what the world's communities and villages of Imo State (VAM) unit, at WFP and how on the largest database on large-scale a rural state in south-eastern Nigeria. morning of 28 July he spied the rapidly land-based investments tell us (50) However, agricultural extension swelling Kabul River, and quickly At the session, participants will have services which should support farming realized the torrential rains were not an opportunity to get a sneak preview have collapsed, due to the the usual monsoon. Working with of ground breaking information set on unavailability of input materials needed partner NGOs in the area who verified large-scale land-related to support this service. The outcome is provided field monitors, he was able to investments. This wealth of information that smallholder farmers lack access to launch an emergency assessment that has been gathered by the International reliable market information, advanced same afternoon. You will hear how the Land Coalition, CIRAD/University of farming techniques for steady supplies VAM team worked around the clock to Pretoria, Oxfam, CDE/ University of of the market and uses out-dated keep pace with the swiftly expanding Bern, GIZ, and GIGA/University of techniques which turns out small floods, mobilizing more than 1000 Hamburg. The application will be volume of products. However, the enumerators from 88 NGO partners. In made available in the coming months farmers now have a precious resource: the end, they covered more than and will provide the most FARM 98.0 FM which designs and 11,000 villages in north and central comprehensive picture to date of the broadcasts daily agricultural, Pakistan. Along the way, the teams not extent of this phenomenon and its key environmental management and only collected data, but were able to features. This is the first step towards market information in the local Igbo alert the Pakistani army and building an online public platform for Language to 250,000 small farmer government so they could rescue documenting land investments globally listeners living in 3 remote and isolated people trapped by the floodwaters. and in particular focus countries. The local government areas of Imo State, George MuAmmar, Wael Attia aim of the initiative is to enhance Nigeria. FARM 98.0 broadcasts for 10 WFP transparency, foster equitable hours a day, sharing contemporary negotiation, and equip citizens and agricultural and environmental 16:00-17:00 policy makers to make informed management techniques, daily market B400 decisions. information, advertises farm products and imparts critical business skills. The role of social media in Michael Taylor and Gine Zwart development (206) Smallholder farmers use the daily ILC, Oxfam As more and more people get mobile broadcast programme to decide what to produce, when to produce, how to phones, social media is growing as a produce and for whom to produce as tool of development. At this session such boosting their yields and income. participants will learn about a 'share fair' in Swaziland that linked farmers Nnaemeka C. Ikegwuonu with service providers and markets. The Smallholders Foundation Musa Masilela SWADE 34 Livestock Markets and Mobile Water Young People Private Sector Technology and Social Media WATER 14.00 - 15.30 16:00-17:00 C300 Speakers' corner Irrigation management games- Is it really that easy to find 12:00-13:00 learning by doing (46c) sustainable technical solutions for C300 Competition for water among different addressing W4F needs? (242) Smart pixels for smart phones in users is increasing in many regions of Are you fully aware of the range of Africa – Water management for the world, particularly in semi-arid and technical solutions to water for food smallholder farmers (36) arid environments. Decisions made by (W4F) and poverty alleviation Participants in this session will learn one sector of users have major effects strategies? Do you really understand about the eLEAF global database of on other sectors, but these impacts the technical work to avoid cost vegetation, water and climate using its are often poorly understood. Many overruns/ technical problems? At this innovative Pixel Intelligence Mapping users do not understand the 'Speaker's Corner' you'll find how technology. This geo-information tool integrated water resources planning much technical information is available is integrated with agricultural services and management process. to meet your needs, including Learning and mobile technology to enable Participants in this session will 'role Notes to assist in a range of water smallholder farmers to produce more play' to learn about the interactions issues (domestic water; livestock crop per drop, reduce production risk and impacts of various strategies water; irrigation; water harvesting) and and improve livelihoods. Participants employed by river basin water Knowledge Brokerage Products (more will learn about the potential of authorities. They will also learn about comprehensive thematic papers). You integrating geo-information, agricultural developing plausible strategies for can also discuss your issues with services and mobile technology and integrated planning and management experienced field professionals. Like will see how the application is being of water resources. the famous Speaker's Corner in used in smallholder farming in Africa. Ilyas Masih London, this share fair experience UNESCO-IHE Institute For Water will be unique, but perhaps Patrick Sheridan, Wim Bastiaanssen Education not so eccentric. and Ivo Miltenburg IFAD Ian Anderson 16.00 - 17.00 IFAD 11:00-12:00 C500 B300 North Western Integrated Spate irrigation is good for people Community Development for livestock and for the Programme (155) environment(46d) Following conflict in Somalia, agro- Spate irrigation uses seasonal floods pastoralists have returned to find of rivers, streams, ponds and lakes to degraded lands with poor water fill water storage canals. This session infrastructure. This session will will demonstrate the importance of showcase an initiative that has spate irrigation to ensure the food engaged this community in planning security of the rural poor, and will show and executing water and soil what IFAD and the spate network are conservation works. Better water doing to turn floods from a source of management practices have improved damage to an asset for food security. It the reliability and quality of crops will include video clips from Yemen, a despite erratic rainfall, improving food slide show and a question-and-answer self-sufficiency. The participants will session. discuss technical aspects, community participation and social and Abraham Mehari Haile environmental outcomes as well as UNESCO-IHE Institute For Water financial cost-effectiveness of the Education Udaan sand water storage initiative. Noel Harris North Western Integrated Community Programme 35 9:30 10:00 10:30 11:00 11:30 12:00 12:30 13:00 13:30 Italian Conf How good of an ally are social media tools for 21st century devel- opment workers? C100 (flex) Ensuring food security through es- Smallholders access to water - toward a range of agricultural water so- tablishing local seed enterprises lutions (6) (98)? B100 The Global Forum on Food Secu- Knowledge sharing for community Revolutionary history of Livestock rity and Nutrition (FSN Forum) empowerment through markets – and Pasture Development Project (17)? in the tribal areas of IFAD assisted in Morocco (236) projects in India (245) C200 Microfinance to support Gum Ara- Integrated rainwater harvesting systems, every drop bic Producers Associations GAPAs counts! (45) (Seed fund) (156)? B200 How technology is helping to pave Using social media to mainstream Freedom phone: Marriage be- the way for the Malagasy land re- knowledge management and tween telecentres and mobile te- form (46f)? learning in early warning systems lephony (102) (59) C300 Innovative extension approaches: Milk collection in the livestock Exploiting the potential of Man- Can community-based organisa- value chain - Transferring experi- goes throughout the value chain tions do the job? (4)? ences from Bosnia Herzegovina to (78)) Syria (41)) B300 Rainwater harvesting as a strategic Approaches for strengthening stakeholders abilities approach to smallholder food se- to generate, adapt and share experiences (23)) curity (239)? C400 Development knowledge ecology Knowledge Management for Na- Complementing the body of and its implications for global agri- tional Personal (165) knowledge available on sustain- cultural knowledge (173)? able agro biodiversity manage- ment (170) B400 The livestock revolving develop- "Crop-livestock-biogas" model Practical answers to poverty – les- ment fund (195)? (163) sons from a global knowledge sharing network (227) C500 (flex) Impact and potential of mobile Social return on investment: devel- technology as an extension tool in oping a value-based markets for ToT (136) smallholder producers (94) B500 Coffee Promoting women's participation Growing local farmers; de-rooting Lunch in rural development activities poverty (194)) (44)? Qatar (chat) Knowledge management: is one person's lesson from practice another person's theory? (219) Oval Linking knowledge and policy: Use of technology to facilitate in- how to avert the syndrome of "not formation flow and collaboration seeing the forest for the trees" (64) (99) Dining 1 (World) How good of an ally are social media tools for 21st century development workers? Dining 2 (Fish) Tent: Stand 1 Tent: Stand 2 Tent: Stand 3 Tent: Stand 4 Tent: Speaker's Tent: Chill The impact of migration and popula- tion growth to feed future population – perspectives from the indigenous people of Tanzania (241a) Corner -1 How good of an ally are social media tools for 21st century devel- opment workers? 36 14:00 14:30 15:00 15:30 16:00 opment workers? 16:30 How good of an ally are social media tools for 21st century devel- 17:00 17:30 29 SEPTEMBER Inclusive business model approach: Build competitive business relationships between smallholder supplier groups and agribusinesses (7) 2011 Mobile extension teams - An innovative approach for targeting nomadic communities (158) Wrap-up session Q & A - Water (46) Climate Change And Green Innovations Use of SMS to counter sale of fake agro inputs in Food Security Uganda (138) Goats for women in Afghanistan and Pakistan (238) El encuentro, la participación, el diálogo y el inter- Gender cambio genera impacto (210) AGRILINK-USAID A NEW WAY TO PROMOTE Knowledge Sharing, KNOWLEDGE SHARING FOR IMPACT ON FOOD Networks and Cops SECURITY Coffee Open Space The LearningWheel as a tool for systematizing knowledge (220) Livestock Remittances and postal networks: expanding serv- ices using existing infrastructure (35) Building knowledge sharing out of friendship – the Markets and KM4Dev Experience (135) Private Sector Mobile Technology and Social Media Water Young People 37 29 Climate Change And Green Innovations Food Security Gender Knowledge Sharing, Networks and Cops 9.00 - 10.00 CLIMATE CHANGE AND GENDER GREEN INNOVATIONS B100 09.00 - 10.00 The Global Forum on Food Security and Nutrition (FSN Forum) (17) 9:00-10:00 Oval Room The team will present a powerful tool B500 Linking knowledge and policy: how that allows stakeholders to influence Promoting women's participation in to avert the syndrome of "not food security policy, share their plans rural development activities (44) seeing the forest for the trees" (64) for the future, including the regional This session will provide you concrete In this session participants will discuss decentralization and discuss the examples of how exchange of the role of knowledge management various challenges and opportunities. experiences between and among rural and knowledge sharing in developing Mauricio Rosales, Max Blanck, women from different parts of the national forest policy and how this has Renata Mirulla world resulted in their economic led to good practices in developing FAO empowerment and helped them policy. The session will cover 10 years explore new frontiers and embark on of experience in more than 70 10:30-11:30 new activities. countries in supporting participation of Tent - Chill-out corner Maria Hartl, Ida Christensen stakeholders in policy development. The impact of migration and IFAD, FAO Participants will learn that the quality of the participation is key. The lack of population growth to feed future population – perspectives from the 14.30 - 15:30 investment in developing participatory processes that engage local indigenous people of Tanzania (241a) B300 communities is an important factor in Over 60,000 indigenous people live Goats for women in Afghanistan the current environmental crisis. within the Ngorongoro Conservation and Pakistan (238) Area of Tanzania. Established in 1959 The session will discuss how the France-Lanord as Africa's first multiple land use area, practice of providing goats has FAO it was to balance the needs of semi- improved the livelihoods of rural nomadic pastoralists (mainly the women in Afghanistan and Pakistan. Maasai) with protection of wildlife and FOOD SECURITY Kamil Shideed conservation of natural resources. ICARDA Participants in this session will hear the 09.00 - 10.00 Maasai side of what has resulted: despite annual tourism revenues of C100 $40 billion, 70 per cent of the Maasai KNOWLEDGE SHARING, Ensuring food security through live in poverty, their nomadic lifestyle is NETWORKS AND COPS establishing local seed under threat and many face eviction to enterprises (98) 09.00 - 10.00 allow development of new luxury At this session, you will learn about the hotels. Participants will be asked to C300 challenges of providing access to reflect on how to respond to the Innovative extension approaches: improved seeds to farmers in Ethiopia diverse situation of indigenous peoples Can community-based and Zambia and how this can be in different regions and countries. organisations do the job? (4) addressed through supporting Mosses Ndiyaine Dissemination of agricultural community seed enterprises. You will Indigenous heartland Organization innovations needs more effective hear how Self Help Africa is building (IHO) approaches. Rural Resource Centres, capacity of smallholder famers to managed by community-based engage in seed multiplication and organisations, are places where establish local seed enterprises and agroforestry techniques are practised have access to improved seeds thus and farmers come for information, allowing them to increase production experimentation and training. For the and yield and becoming food secure. last 5 years, rural resource centres Jenny Rafanomezana have been successfully sharing Self help Africa agroforestry information with farmers in Cameroon, the Democratic Republic of Congo and Nigeria. This exchange and information flow has resulted in significant improvements in the livelihoods, diet and health of farmers. This approach, among other similar initiatives, has potential to become a 38 Livestock Markets and Mobile Water Young People Private Sector Technology and Social Media viable extension method worldwide. 10:30-11:30 10.30 - 11.30 During the session, the presenters will B100 B200 share the use and benefits of this Knowledge sharing for community Using social media to mainstream approach and learn from similar (or empowerment through markets – in knowledge management and alternative) experiences elsewhere. the tribal areas of IFAD assisted learning in early warning Ann Degrande projects in India (245) systems (59) CGIAR, WAC At this session, participants will hear During this session, the Pastoral about how marginalised tribal farmers Community Development Project, an 9:00-10:00 especially women in the uphill areas of IFAD-funded project, will present C400 North East India engaged in experiences of integrating social Development knowledge ecology knowledge sharing activities to gain media, KM and learning into rural and its implications for global better access to markets. Presenters development programmes. The agricultural knowledge (173) will share how the inclusion of presenters through practical examples Participants in this session will learn educated unemployed youth in will share experiences on how the about development knowledge collective marketing systems can bring project has mainstreamed KM & ecology, which takes a holistic benefits to uneducated primary learning and as a result has helped approach to knowledge, emphasizing producers and learn about the improve the resilience of pastoral coordination, cooperation, innovative and creative problem communities. interconnections and sharing. It solving solutions in addressing Belayhun Hailu Mamo recognizes the value of local knowledge sharing and community IFAD, PCDP approaches to information and empowerment for tribal communities. knowledge and encourages Judith Dsouza, IFAD 10:30-11:30 participation by the poor. Participants C400 in the brainstorming session will be 10:30-12:00 Knowledge Management for introduced to 'ecology thinking', learn B300 National Personal (165) to use it and review its implications for Approaches for strengthening GIZ's 13,000 staff across the globe global agricultural knowledge. stakeholders abilities to generate, have participated in e-learning to Sarah Cummings adapt and share experiences (23) develop competencies. Come to this IKM Emergent and Context, Learn how communication for session to hear about the do's and international cooperation development methods and tools are don'ts and good practices in the roll- used to link people and institutions to out process. 9:00-12:30 increase productivity and to ensure Matthias Giersche Qatar Information Centre that smallholder producers are the GIZ Knowledge management: is one focus of the proposed interventions. person's lesson from practice Explore how this initiative is 11:30-12:30 another person's theory? (219) strengthening stakeholders' abilities to C400 Can knowledge emerging from generate, adapt and share innovative agricultural technologies and practices, Complementing the body of development projects be systematized including local knowledge and knowledge available on sustainable so that others can use it in practice? experiential learning. agro biodiversity management (170) Or is one person's practice just Participants in this session will learn another person's theory? These Romy Sato, Silvia San Marco, Needa about the findings from a recent challenging questions have emerged Amraish, Estibalitz Morras Dimas mapping of knowledge gaps on from a rigorous learning process on FAO agricultural production knowledge and how to integrate knowledge marketing systems. The research management and learning into showed that generating new development projects in eastern and knowledge is not necessarily the main southern Africa. Participants in this constraint – other gaps include half-day workshop will explore these dissemination, the policy context and and other key questions related to understanding how to achieve systemizing and sharing knowledge in adaptation and internalization of the form of concepts and models. The knowledge. After a short presentation outcome should shed some light on of the findings, participants will be what really are the best ways to invited to provide feedback and help achieve serious learning in the draw lessons from their knowledge development sector. Come prepared and experience. to contribute based on your own experiences. Josine Stremmelaar HIVOS Helen Gillman, IFAD 39 29 Climate Change And Green Innovations Food Security Gender Knowledge Sharing, Networks and Cops 14.00 - 15.30 14:00-16:00 10:30-11:30 C500 Qatar Information Centre B400 Agrilink: A new way to promote The LearningWheel as a tool for "Crop-livestock-biogas" model (163) knowledge sharing for impact on systematizing knowledge (220) This session will tell a 'recycling' story food security (223) This session will provide the from China. The crop-livestock-biogas Learn how the communication for participants to learn about USAID model promotes crop production for sustainable development initiative knowledge-driven microenterprise livestock feeding, and then collection (CSDI) has used communication for development project and how it of livestock waste for biogas. This development approaches in Bolivia, connects international development method, widely used in poor rural Bangladesh, Jamaica and DR Congo practitioners around the world through areas, benefits the environment while to help farmers articulate their a range of online and in person reducing kitchen drudgery for rural challenges and identify solutions in a innovative knowledge sharing tools women. participatory way thus reducing the and techniques. Join the conversation Weijing Wang, gap between researchers and farmers. to help shape Agrilinks' social media IFAD Meaghan Murphy and Patchanan strategy in an effort to increase efforts Owen to expand contributors. 11:30-12:30 Knowledge-Driven Microenterprise Meaghan Murphy and Patchanan B100 Development Project: Food Security Owen Revolutionary history of Livestock and Agriculture Program, The QED Helen Gillman and Pasture Development Project Group LLC IFAD in Morocco (236) In this session the Livestock and 14.30 - 15:30 Pasture Development Project (PDPEO Dining room LIVESTOCK II) in the Eastern region of Morocco will Building knowledge sharing out share the various innovative of friendship – the KM4Dev mechanisms for developing small 9:00-10:00 Experience (135) ruminant management and pastoralist "Our session will share experience B400 community organization. Participants from the KM4Dev community The livestock revolving will learn about a field force analysis (www.km4dev.org) which development fund (195) approach which will highlight the key demonstrates the importance of This livestock initiative focuses on success factors that contributed to facilitating: diversity; openness; increasing farmers' incomes by policy change with regard to rangeland interaction; recognition; and reducing animal mortality, improving management in highlands in Eastern stewarding of technology. Experience their health and increasing milk and Morocco. shared will include: diversity in multi- meat production. Participants will learn El Hassane REJMIL lingual learning exchanges, breaking about how the Fund encourages self- IFAD down barriers to openness, and reliance and a sense of ownership. The stewarding technologies for resilience session will involve group discussions 14:00-15:30 among others. By joining this followed by presentations in a plenary B100 interactive session you'll also be able session. to share and learn from other Mobile extension teams - An Abdul Qayyum participant's experience of facilitating innovative approach for targeting AJK Community Development knowledge sharing in areas such as nomadic communities (158)) Program, IFAD agriculture, food security, price In this session the Livestock and volatility, climate change, and changing Pasture Development Project (PDPEO 10.30 - 11.30 demographics or other rural II) in the Eastern region of Morocco will C300 share the various innovative development related issues. In all this Milk collection in the livestock mechanisms for developing small we'll explore how friendship within a value chain - Transferring ruminant management and pastoralist community of practice builds courage experiences from Bosnia community organization. Participants and enthusiasm to step into the Herzegovina to Syria (41) will learn about a field force analysis unknown with new facilitation This session will feature a video story approach which will highlight the key approaches in diverse contexts." showing how Syrian farmers benefitted success factors that contributed to KM4Dev from the experience of Bosnian famers policy change with regard to rangeland on how to improve their milk collection management in highlands in Eastern techniques. Participants will see how the Morocco. transfer of experience between these Western Sudan Resource two countries has had a positive impact Management Programme on the livelihoods of poor rural farmers. Nabil Mahaini, IFAD 40 Livestock Markets and Mobile Water Young People Private Sector Technology and Social Media MARKETS AND 11.30 - 12.30 14.00 - 15.30 PRIVATE SECTOR C300 C100 Exploiting the potential of mangoes Inclusive business model approach: 9:00-10:00 throughout the value chain (78) Build competitive business C200 During this session participants will relationships between smallholder Microfinance to support Gum hear the story of rural cottage industry supplier groups and Arabic Producers Associations development for mango value chain agribusinesses (7) GAPAs (Seed fund) (156) and how thanks to changing the At the end of this session participants This session will address efforts to mindsets of smallholder producers, will have a clear understanding of the provide microfinance to small-scale they managed to expand their framework used to implement an gum producers in Sudan. Typically business and start producing and inclusive business models approach denied credit from the formal financial marketing new mango-based based pilot testing in 15 countries sector, they are forced to accept products. The presenter will highlight across the ACP regions. The aim of exploitive terms from village traders how thanks to sharing information and the approach is to build competitive and merchants. After learning about knowledge gained through this business relationships between microfinance and credit, the producers initiative and getting advice on how to smallholder supplier groups and small, form groups and receive loans before reach out further, the smallholder medium or large agribusinesses. starting production. So far 19 per cent producers have managed to expand Participants will also learn about the of the participants are women. Session their footprints, improve their results and challenges related to the attendees will participate in developing livelihoods, ensure sustainable food local context and commodity that a list of priorities and challenges and and nutritional security in Trinidad and emerged during implementation in outlining proposals for action. Tobago and in the region. Cameroon with Oil Palm; in Senegal Gia Gaspard Taylor with Rice; in St Vincent and Hashim Hamza Elhassan Other, NRWPTT Grenadines with Roots and Tubers; Revitalizing the Sudan Gum Arabic and in Malawi with Cassava. Production and Marketing Project, IFAD 11.30 - 12.30 Siobhan Kelly, Heiko Bammann, C500 Florence Tartanac, Cora Dankers 9.00 - 12.30 FAO Social return on investment: Dining Room developing a value-based markets Responsible and sustainable growth for smallholder producers (194) At this session, the presenter will share MOBILE TECHNOLOGY for rural finance in Africa -Pour une SROI approach and how it integrates AND SOCIAL MEDIA croissance responsable et durable de la finance rurale en Afrique (57) social, environmental and financial 9:00-10:00 This mini-workshop will focus on five values. Participants will also hear the Italian Conference Room key innovative strategies in rural story of how partnership between social investors, farmers and other How good of an ally are social finance: (i) consolidation of small rural actors has helped develop value media tools for 21st century finance institutions (RFI) through chains in Africa and Asia. development workers? mergers, acquisitions and institutional Social media isn't just for chatting with transformation, with sound Menno Salverda / Fons van der your friends – it's also a helpful tool at governance and efficient systems that Velden / Udan Fernando, Context work. This session will discuss the enable to scale-up and to sustainably value of mixing social media tools, serve rural households and 11:30-12:30 face-to-face interaction to raise entrepreneurs; (ii) technology platforms B500 awareness about rural development which allow cost reduction in rural Growing local farmers; and agricultural related issues and how outreach as well as new services to de-rooting poverty these tools can make our business clients such as domestic and Participants in this session will learn more "user-friendly" and accessible to international money transfers; (iii) loan about an initiative involving growers' the public and are helping to keep products to finance rural water and cooperatives in Ethiopia that has agriculture on the international agenda. renewable energy projects, with as a raised the incomes of participating Mark Davies, Gauri Salkohe, Peter main objective, to enhance productivity farmers by an average of 75 per cent. Ballantyne, Roxanna Samii, George in agriculture production while The initiative provides various services Muammar preserving the local environment; (iv) and inputs to farmers that help them RFIs accessing funding to expand and increase their productivity and develop transform as needed; and (vi) Social sustainable links to markets. Performance Management and education programmes for their staff Amare Abebaw Woreta and clients of partner RFIs. Frag Agro Industry Pvt.Ltd.Co. Michael Hamp, Francesco Rispoli IFAD 41 29 Climate Change And Green Innovations Food Security Gender Knowledge Sharing, Networks and Cops 09.00 - 10.00 10.30 - 12.00 11:30-12:30 B200 Oval room B400 How technology is helping to raise Use of technology to facilitate Practical answers to poverty – awareness about the Malagasy information flow and lessons from a global knowledge land reform (46f) collaboration (99) sharing network (227) Collecting and having access to Web technologies continuously Last year, 2 million beneficiaries information on land and land holdings develop. Currently much attention is received agriculture information is a challenge facing development being given to ways of creating links through knowledge-sharing networks. workers. See how colleagues in between web sites to allow This session will discuss different Madagascar have addressed this information, especially data, from one formats and channels and the diverse challenge and are providing relevant site to be automatically accessed, circumstances in which they work – and up-to-date land related interpreted and reused by other sites. such as podcasts and SMS messages information and giving a voice the At this session, participants will hear for farmers in Zimbabwe, websites in voiceless and raising awareness about from pioneers of this technology in the Latin America focusing on the dairy land reform process in Madagascar, development field. Practitioners will sector and library networks in Nepal. which could be an example for discuss the challenges in adapting With the right format and channel a securing land access in other countries. linked open information to support real impact on poverty can be Jean Maurice Durand information exchange and use at local achieved at limited expense. The IFAD level with the intention of mapping out presentation will highlight the common strategies for interagency collaboration factors in making these initiatives 09:00-10:00 to achieve such an end. successful and explain how we know Mike Powell they are successful. Chill-out minus 1 IKM Emergent Rob Cartridge Promoting the use of ICT for market Practical Action information exchange among 11:30-12:30 women producers in Cameroon (79) B200 14.00 - 15.30 This session will highlight how women farmers in Cameroon were sensitized Freedom phone: Marriage Oval room and trained to use mobile phone to between telecentres and Remittances and postal networks: access market information and thereby mobile telephony (102) expanding services using existing increase their bargaining power. During Interactive voice response, a infrastructure (35) the session, participants will discuss technology that allows people to In sub-Saharan Africa as well as in the importance of timely access to access databases over the telephone, many other regions, more than 80% of commodity prices and the challenges is a practical tool for communicating post offices are located outside the of bridging the divide between women information over telephone lines. The most populated cities, where 82.5 % and men in terms of access to ICT technology can be used to share local of the population lives, providing which contributes significantly to content in rural and peri-urban areas. unique outreach to unbanked citizens, agricultural development. This session will demonstrate the migrants, and rural enterprises. Learn Appolinaire TAGNE technology and its potential uses, how through the use of postal SB MATHUR FOUNDATION including through SMS-based networks, an FFR-UPU project cut systems. Participants will learn how to money transfer costs by 50% and edit simple audio to create messages transfer time from two weeks to two and will be able to call in and listen to days in 350 rural localities of West or leave messages. Africa. The experience is being Cleopa Timon Otieno upscaled in Central and South Asia Kenya Telecentre Network which notably host some of the most populous countries in the world. The discussion aims at discussing this and other innovative/alternative channels for money transfer and financial access. Pedro De Vasconcelos IFAD 42 Livestock Markets and Mobile Water Young People Private Sector Technology and Social Media 14:00-15:30 10.30 - 12.00 WATER C300 C200 Use of SMS to counter sale of fake Integrated rainwater harvesting agro inputs in Uganda (138) 09.00 - 10.00 systems, every drop counts! (45) Part of Africa's food shortage is a B300 Harvested rainwater can be used for result of farmers using fake seed, Rainwater harvesting as a strategic drinking, small-scale irrigation and for chemicals and fertilizers. This session approach to smallholder food sanitation purposes. Rainwater will present an SMS technology linked security (239) harvesting can also feed biogas to a programmable database that Rainwater harvesting involves simple systems, preventing deforestation. This addresses this problem through a and low-cost methods that can be to session will show the benefits of mobile authentication service. The be adopted in drylands agriculture innovative rainwater harvesting presentation involves a step-by-step during crucial stages of the cropping methods and how organizations can process of how the service operates cycle to bring stability to harvest and collaborate to ensure sustainability in and how it is performing in Uganda. increase food security. The session will rural areas of developing countries. The outcome is possible adoption by show the advantages of implementing The focus will be on examples from other organizations working with the system and which elements are water-scarce areas of rural Nepal. farmers. needed to successfully develop Ard Schoemaker Kisitu Bruce rainwater harvesting in areas where it RAIN KIVA Agro Supplies Ltd is not a common practice. Kamil Shideed 14.00 - 15.30 14:00-15:30 CGIAR ICARDA C200 C400 Wrap-up session Q & A - Water (46) El encuentro, la participación, el 10.30 -12.30 Competition for water among different diálogo y el intercambio genera C100 user is increasing in many regions of impacto (210) Smallholders access to water - the world, particularly in semi-arid and A 'face-to-face' fair in Bolivia aided toward a range of agricultural arid environments. Decisions made by knowledge management by providing water solutions (6) one sector of users have major effects an opportunity for people with like More and better investments are on other sectors, but these impacts interests to meet. Participants in this needed in agricultural water are often poorly understood. Many session will learn about three such management. This session will users do not understand the 'world fairs' that have taken place in highlight promising agricultural water integrated water resources planning relation to camelids (llamas?) livestock, management solutions based on and management process. addressing production, science and projects undertaken in various Participants in this session will 'role the processing/marketing sector. countries in Africa and Asia. Topics will play' to learn about the interactions These events brought together include small dams and water and impacts of various strategies scientists, farmers, entrepreneurs and harvesting and access to water lifting employed by river basin water business people, allowing them to through individual pumps. Summaries authorities and will learn about exchange information and create of these innovations will be introduced developing plausible strategies for innovative ideas. An online platform, to stimulate contributions from integrated planning and management soon to be launched, will allow them to participants. The goal is to understand of water resources. continue the conversation. what leads to successful development Rudolph Cleveringa Francisco Pichón/ Guillermo Vila of all forms of private agricultural water IFAD Melo management and improved efficiency IFAD and performance. 16:00-17:00 Domitille Vallee Italian Conference Room FAO Closing ceremony 43 Acknowledgements The Second Global AgriKnowledge Share Fair was made possible thanks to the exemplary interagency collaboration, the dedication, commitment and passion of the steering committee members. The steering committee is grateful for the generous financial contribution of Bioversity International, CTA, IFAD and WFP. 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