WAW International Workshop, December 2017

19/12/2017

Representatives of farming organizations and governments from partner countries – El Salvador, Madagascar, Niger, Senegal, Tunisia and Viet Nam – participated in WAW International Workshop hosted by IFAD from 19 to 20 December 2017. The workshop gave participants the opportunity to share lessons learned during the WAW pilot phase and discuss means of providing more effective support to countries in dealing with farm data collection and analysis.

At the end of the trial phase, because of WAW’s participative approach, all of the pilot countries opted to set up national observatories to document the transformation of their farming sector, with a particular focus on family farms. All of the participants recognized the added value of the conceptual framework, which reconciles the structural dimension of farming activities with the outcome of diverse on- and off-farm activities undertaken by family members. Consequently, WAW considers its conceptual and methodological framework to have been successfully tested in its six partner countries and ready to be developed in other countries.

Workshop Program – Day 1

19 December	Day 1 – Reflections on the WAW learnings and partnerships perspectives
Session	Time	Activity	Presenters
Session 1 9:00 – 9:30 Opening and Overview	8:00 – 8:50	Registration
	9:00 – 9:05	Welcoming remarks	Ashwani Muthoo, IFAD
	9:05 – 9:10	Welcoming remarks	Eduardo Mansur, FAO
	9:10 – 9:30	Overview of the WAW Initiative, background and objectives of the Workshop	Pierre-Marie Bosc, FAO
Session 2 9:30 – 10:45 WAW Lessons Learned	9:30 – 9:45	WAW Lessons from Senegal	Sylvie da Silva
	9:45 – 10:00	WAW Lessons from Niger	Idé Yacouba
	10:00 – 10:15	WAW Lessons from Vietnam	Minh Huy Hoang
	10:15 – 10:45	Facilitated discussion	Verena Wilke, FAO
Coffee break	10:45 – 11:00	Coffee Break
Session 2 11:00 – 12:10 WAW Lessons Learned (cont.)	11:00 – 11:15	Lessons from El Salvador	Yessica Sanchez Abrego
	11:15 – 11:30	Lessons from Tunisia	Mongi Sghaier / Salem Talbi
	11:30 – 11:45	Lessons from Madagascar	Nirina Bakonirina Rabevohitra
	11:45 – 12:10	Facilitated discussion	Verena Wilke, FAO
Lunch Break	12:10 – 14:00	Lunch break
Session 3 14:00 – 14:50 Farmer Organizations and their Information Systems	Open Discussion with Panel	CAPAD Burundi	Richard Ndikumana
		Pakisama Philippines	Violeta P. Corral
		CNCR Senegal	Yoro Idrissa Thioye
Change of Panel
Session 4 15:00 – 16:00 Open Discussion on potential collaboration with other Initiatives	Facilitated discussion	Land Observatories and potential synergies with WAW	Eva Hershaw, ILC
		Tools to support evidence-based decision-making on agroecology	Maryam Rahmanian, FAO
		Family farms’ registries in Latin America	Francesco Pierri, FAO
		Mapping informal/invisible markets	Florence Tartanac, FAO
		Using farm typology for better focused analysis	Neli Giorgieva, FAO
Coffee break	16:00 – 16:10	Coffee Break
Session 5 16:10 – 17:00 General Discussion	Wrap-up	Facilitated discussion Reflections on the Pilot phase achievements, challenges and next steps

Workshop Program – Day 2

20 December	Day 2 – Way forward
Session	Time	Activity	Presenters
Session 6 9:00 – 10:00 The way forward	9:00 – 9:15	Introduction: Perspectives Summary of Day 1	PierreMarie Bosc, WAW
	9:15 – 9:30	WAW perspectives in Tunisia	Talbi Salem & Mongi Sghaier
	9:30 – 9:45	WAW perspectives in Vietnam	Minh Huy Hoang
	9:45 – 10:00	WAW perspectives in Niger	Yacouba Ide
Coffee break	10:00 – 10:10	Coffee break
Session 7 10:10 – 11:20 The way forward (cont.)	10:10 – 10:25	WAW perspectives in Senegal	Mamadou Diallo
	10:25 – 10:40	WAW perspectives in El Salvador	Francisco Márquez
	10:40 – 10:55	WAW perspectives in Madagascar	Onivola Ratsaramiarina
	10:55 – 11-10	Regional perspectives in Asia	Esther Penunia, Asian Farmer Association.
	11:10 – 11:25	Regional perspectives Africa	Nadjirou Sall, Réseau des organisations paysannes et de producteurs de l'Afrique de l'Ouest
Session 8 11:25 – 12:10 What next?	11:25 – 12:00	Discussion: How to move forward?	Verena Wilke
Session 8 11:25 – 12:10 What next?	12:00 – 12:10	Wrap-up and closing remarks	WAW Coordinator

Watch here a video from Asian Farmers’ Association (AFA) talking about family farming and WAW potential in the region.

Watch here an interview with Nirina Bakonirina Rabevohitra and Gérard Andriamandimby, Réseau des Observatoires Ruraux, Madagascar.

Watch here an interview with Richard Ndikumana, CAPAD, Burundi.

Watch here an interview with Mongi Sghaier, Ministry of Agriculture, Tunisia.

Watch here an interview with Pierre Marie Bosc, Coordinator of the World Agricultures Watch Initiative.

Watch here an interview with Julie Flament, Collectif Stratégies Alimentaires (CSA).

Watch here an interview with Eva Hershaw, International Land Coalition (ILC).

Watch here an interview with Nadjirou Sall, ROPPA, West Africa.

Read here the web story of the WAW International Workshop.

Pictures of the event are available here.