Languages:

English, French and Spanish

Provisional agenda:

12:30-12:35

Introduction

Ms Mona Chaya, Coordinator, Food Chain Crisis, FAO

12:35-12:40

Opening Remarks

Mr. Bukar Tijani, Assistant Director General and Regional Representative FAO Regional Office for Africa

12:40-13:10

Panel discussion

H. E. Mr. Paddy Zhanda, Deputy Minister of Agriculture, Mechanisation and Irrigation Development, responsible for Livestock, Zimbabwe

H.E. Ms. Laurence Argimon-Pistre, Head of Delegation of the European Union to the Holy See, to the Order of Malta and to the UN Organisations in Rome

Mr. Fabian S. Muya, Agriculture Attaché, Alternate Permanent Representative, Embassy of Kenya in Rome

Mr. Ibrahim Lumumba Idi-Issa, Deputy Executive Secretary of Permanent Interstates Committee for Drought Control on the Sahel (CILSS)

Mr. Oumar Patcha, Inspector General of the Ministry of Agriculture, Chad

Moderator: Ms. Mona Chaya, Coordinator, Food Chain Crisis, FAO

13:10-13:15

Remarks

Mr. Dominique Burgeon,  Coordinator, Strategic Objective 5: Increase the resilience of livelihoods to threats and crises, and Director Emergency and Rehabilitation Division, FAO

13:15-13:30

Questions and answers from the Audience