Parma, Italy

Academia Barilla Center and Auditorium Paganini
June 23-26, 2007

 

The Rural Poor and Tomorrow's Markets

 
Session 1: Opportunities and challenges for the rural poor.

Prabhu Pingali, The Transformation of Agri-food Systems: Impacts on Smallholder Farmers

Doyle Baker, Farm-Agribusiness Linkages Livelihoods Diversification and Enterprise Development

 

Session 2: Services for the Rural Poor.

Kofi Debrah, Helping petty traders and smallholder farmers to access markets using ICT and other tools

Maria Pagura, Financial innovations and the rural poor

Video presentation: DRUMNET: Markets-Finance-Information: Mainstreaming the African Farmer - A project of Pride Africa, Kenya (streaming video)

 

Session 3: Capacity building for Market Access.

Siobhan Kelly, Learning about enterprise development from the field

Doyle Baker, Preparing farmers to be reliable suppliers

Stephanie Gallat, Home-based agro-processing for the commercial market

 

Session 4: Enabling environments for market access.

Carlos da Silva, Enabling Environments for Agribusiness and Agroindustrial Development

Pilar Santacoloma, Enabling environment to comply with food safety standards for export by developing countries

Johann Kirsten, Policies and incentives for successful and inclusive agribusiness contracting

 

Session 5: Facilitating market linkages

Bill Vorley, Market linkages between small-scale producers and dynamic markets: The Regoverning Markets Program

Tony Bennett, Mongolia: Milk production, processing and consumption

Florence Tartanac, Business partnerships in Agrifood Chains: FAO experiences in Latin America

Doyle Baker, Local economic development for agribusiness

 

The support provided for this workshop by the Farm Foundation is gratefully acknowledged.