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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
Did you know
By 2020, in some countries, yields from rainfed agriculture could be reduced by up to 50%
