| 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.
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