October 27, 2011










- 09:00-10:15 3rd Plenary Session - Natural Resource Management, Bio-Fuels, Food Security and Sustainable Agriculture
- Moderator: Buchiza Mseteka, Founder & chief Executive Officer, Leriba Risk Ltd.
- Presenter: Patrick Guillaumont, President of Ferdi and Professeur emerite a l'Universite d'Auvergne
- Presenter: Abdoulaye Bathily, Former Minister of Environment, Member of Parliament, Dakar, Senegal
- Presenter: Ola Smith, Professor of Animal Production and Health and Technical Adviser to the Director-General of the International Trypanotolerance Centre, Banjul, The Gambia
- Presenter: Kofi Andah, Regional Manager, AMSCO, Nairobi Office
- Panelists: Paul Van Aalst, Director, E+Co, Europe, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
- Panelists: Matheiu Badolo, Direcor, Institut d'applications et de vulgarisation en seciences
- Panelists: Paul Collier, Professor of Economics and Director, Centre for the Study of African Economies, Oxford University
- 10:15-10:30 Tea/Coffee Break
- 10:30-12:15 Concurrent Seminars
- Session 1.3.1 Sustainable Agriculture and Land Use
- Chair: Ginette P. M. Camara, Economic Advisor, UNDP Country Office, Chad
- Paper 1 - Agricultural primary commodity export and environmental degradation: What consequences for populations's health? - Alassane Drabo, University of Auvergne, France
- Paper 2 - Combining Qualitative and Quantitative Methods in Assessing the impact of Agro-pastoral projects on the Productivity of Farmers's Organisations: The Case of Cameroon - Pierre Nguetse Tegoum, Tebila Nakelse and Issaka Ouedraogo, Min. of Econ Planning, Cameroon / Min. of Agriculture, Burkina Faso.
- Paper 3 - Extensification versus Intensification: Revisiting the Role of Land in African Agricultural Growth - Guy Blaise Nkamleu, African Development Bank, Tunis.
- Session 1.3.2 Sustainable Development and Attainment of the Millenium Development Goals
- Chair: Sibry Tapsoba, Manager Special Projects, Office of the Chief Economist, African Development Bank
- Paper 1 - Fuzzy Indicator of Sustainable land Management and its correlates in Osun State, Nigeria - Abayomi Oyekale, Department of Agricultural Economics, University of Ibadan, Nigeria.
- Paper 2 - Do Climatic Shocks matter for Food Security in Developing Countries? - Felix Badolo and Somlanare Romuald Kinda, Centre d'Etudes et de Recherches sur le Developpment ,
- Paper 3 - The Rhythm of the Rains: Seasonal Effects on Child Health in the Gambia - Ousman Gajigo and Benjamin Schwab, African Development Bank, Tunis / University of Wisconsin- Madison, USA
- Special Session 1.3.3 The Critical Role of the State in Promoting the Green Economy
- Moderator: David Batt, Director, Africa Partnership Forum Support Unit, OECD
- Presenter: Maxwell Mzekwalamba, Commissioner for Economic Affairs, African Union Commission
- Presenter: Moustapha Gueye, Ag. Head, Green Economy Advisory Unit, UNEP, Geneva
- Panelist: Esther Agbarakwe, African Regional Coordinator, Youth and Children Major Group, UN Commission on Sustainable Development, UNCSD
- Panelist: Carine Kiala, Executive Clients Coordinator, LCF and Associate, Angola
- Panelist: Babatunde Sofoluwe, Vice Chancellor, University of Lagos, Lagos, Nigeria
- Panelist: Kwabena Gyimah-Brempong, Professor of Economics, University of South Florida, USA
- 12:15–14:00 Lunch/Side Event
- Side Event - By UNDP (12:15 - 13:30) - Consultation On The Human Development Report 2012 and 2013
- Presenter: José Pineda, UNDP Human Development Report Office, New Yorlce, UNDP
Discussant: Moustapha Gueye, Ag. Head, Green Economy Advisory Unit, UNEP, Geneva Discussant: Kwabena Gyimah-Brempong, Professor of Economics, University of South Florida, USA
- 14:00-16:00 4th Plenary Panel - Role of Resource Mobilisation and Institutions in Structural Transformation
- Chair: Emmanuel Nnadozie, Director, Economic Development and NEPAD Division, UNECA
- Presenter: Louis Kasekende, Deputy Governor, Bank of Uganda
- Presenter: O. Ajakaiye, Former Director of Research, African Economic Research Consortium, Nairobi, Kenya
- Panelist: Una Osili Okonkwo, Director of Philanthropy, Indiana University, Indianapolis, USA
- Panelist: Amita Misra, Director, Bureau for Regional Programmes, Programme Devpt & Technical Cooperation, UNIDO, Vienna
- Panelist: Leonce Ndikumana, Professor of Economics, University of Massachussetts, USA
- Panelist: Abdoulie Sireh-Jallow, Lead Economist, Country Division 3, Operations Complex, Islamic Development Bank
- 16:00-16:15 Tea/Coffee Break
- 16:15-18:15 Concurrent Seminars
- Session 1.4.1 Poverty Reduction
- Chair: Isiyaka Sabo, Economic Advisor, UNDP Country Office, Burkina Faso
- Paper 1 - Determinants of Income Poverty in Rural Africa: A Comparative Study of Kenya and Nigeria - Steven Onyeiwu and Jialu Liu, Department of Economics, Allegheny College, USA
- Paper 2 - Assessing Capacity Building and Good Governance Indicators in Sub-Saharan Africa: The Implications for Poverty Reduction - Theodore Davis Jr., Department of Political Science, University of Delaware, USA
- Paper 3 - Livelihood strategies in rural South Africa: Implications for poverty reduction - Zerihun Alemu, Development Bank of Southern Africa, Johannesburg.
- Session 1.4.2 Household Wellbeing and Food Prices
- Chair: Stephen Karingi, Director, Regional Integration, Infrastructure and Trade Division, UNECA
- Paper 1 - Monitoring Household Coping During Shocks: Evidence from Kenya and the Phillipines - Shantanu Mukherjee and Shinavi Nayyar, Bureau for Development Policy, UNDP / Economic Consultant
- Paper 2 - Subjective Wellbeing, reference groups and relative standing in post-apartheid South Africa - Marisa Coetzee, University of Stellenbosch, South Africa
- Paper 3 - The Food price Spikes of 2008/09 and 2010/11: Country-level impacts and policy responses - Pedro Conceicao, Sebastian levine and Zuzana Brixiova, UNDP Regional Bureau for Africa, New York / UNDP Country Office, Swaziland
- Session 1.4.3 Economic Growth and Financial Markets
- Chair: Victor Murinde, Director African Development Institute, African Development Bank
- Paper 1 - Recent African Growth: What Changed, What's Matter? - Abdoul Mijiyawa, African Centre for Economic Transformatiom, Accra, Ghana
- Paper 2 - Econometric Determinants of Liquidity of the Bond Market: Case Study of South Africa - Sylvanus Ihenyeni Ikhide and Forget Mingiri Kapingura, Department of Economics, University of Fort Hare, East London, South Africa.
- Paper 3 - FDI and Financial Market Development in Africa - Issouf Soumare, Isaac Otchere and Pierre Yourougou, Sprott School of Business, Carleton University, Ottawa, Canada./ Laval University
- 19:30 Dinner
- Master of Ceremony: Thokozile Ruzvidzo, Director, African Centre for Gender and Social Development, UNECA
- Speaker: Professor Achille Mbembe, Former Executive Secretary and Professor of Political Science, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa