DAY I
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Thursday, 20 January 2011
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8:00-
9:30 |
Registration
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| 9:30 |
Official Opening of the Forum
Opening Remarks
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Keynote Address
Building Competitiveness in Agricultural Value Chain: From production to market delivery
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| 10:30 |
Plenary Session I
Boosting Private Sector into African Agribusiness
(Inspiring Case Studies)
- Increasing
investment in Agriculture
- Linking small
farmers to Large Producers
- Clusters –
Agro-food Parks
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| 11:30 |
Coffee Break
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| 12:00 |
Plenary Session II
Commercial Agriculture & Market Access
- Consumer /
Commercial Driven Value Chain
- Encouraging south-south
and north-south Trade
- Strategies and
innovation to access domestic, regional
and global markets
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| 13:00 |
Networking Lunch
International Fair of Lisbon (FIL)
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| 14h00 |
Plenary Session III
Investing and Financing - Growing Agriculture through Finance
- Available
sources of funding
- How to attract
funds to agriculture and agro-industry projects in Africa
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| 15:30 |
Plenary Session IV
Public-Private
Partnerships
- Presentation
of Best Practices / Case Studies
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| 16:30 |
Coffee Break
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| 17:00 |
Plenary Session V
Interfacing
Renewable Energy / Energy Efficiency and
Agribusiness
- Best Practices
on renewable energy projects: wind,
hydropower, sunlight and waves
- Biodiesel,
ethanol and biomass energy
- Interfacing
Bio energy and Agro food
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Delegates will receive their Business Meeting Schedules for 21 January
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19:00 -
21:30 |
Networking Dinner
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| DAY II |
Friday, 21 January 2011
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8:30
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Coffee & Tea
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| 9:00 |
Parallel Sessions
Session VI:
Capacity Building: Entrepreneurship & Innovation
- Strengthening
human skills
- Training of Agro-professionals’
management skills
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Session VII:
Value Chain Origins - Inputs, Production &
Protection
- Seeds and fertilizers
- Irrigation
technologies & water management
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10:30
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Coffee Break
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11:00
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Parallel Sessions
Session VIII
Research, Science & Technology for growth and
competitiveness
- Spatial
sciences and IT (mobile technologies) to develop rural communities
- How to
facilitate African private sector access to technological cooperation
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Session IX:
Animal Production & Nutrition
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Developing the
livestock, poultry and aquaculture value chain in Africa
- Improving
Nutrition through animal production
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12:30 -
14:00 |
Networking Lunch
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14:00 -
15:00 |
Special Plenary Session
Country Focus - Angola
- Angola
showcasing its "Green Revolution”
- Investment
opportunities in Agriculture, Agro-food and Agro-Industry
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15:00 -
17:30 |
Pre-arranged One-on-One Business Meetings/ Informal Meetings
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17:30
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Official Closure of the Forum
Farewell Cocktail
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For
more information on speaking, sponsorship and for registration please
contact:
Idit Miller, VP & Managing Director or Inês Bastos, Project Manager
Tel: 0032 26 26 15 18 Fax: 0032 26 26 15 16 E-mail: ib@emrc.be
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