Committee on World Food Security
Making a difference in food security and nutrition
CFS High-Level Forum on Connecting Smallholders to Markets
Venue: Red room, FAO headquarters, Rome, Italy
Date: 25 June 2015
Time: 9.30-17.00
The CFS High-Level Forum on Connecting Smallholders to Markets brings together a wide range of concerned stakeholders to discuss issues, challenges and ways to improve the access of smallholders to markets. The event will also seek to identify ways in which CFS can contribute to addressing those challenges and arrive at broad recommendations on areas for priority action to strengthen smallholder access to markets.
The forum will discuss policy implications based on the realities faced by smallholders as market actors in a globalized food system as well as lessons from concrete examples of how farmers and farm groups have found opportunities to link to markets.
Panelists and participants from the floor will be invited to engage in the discussion with a view to identifying key issues regarding the relationship between smallholders, markets and food security and nutrition where further research and policy convergence is needed.
Chair's Summary
Background Document
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- Timetable
- Flyer
- Panelist Bios
- Webcast link: www.fao.org/webcast
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The Panels
Keynote: Mr Pierre-Marie Bosc , Agricultural Research Centre for International Development, CIRAD Presentation
Presentation of case studies:
- Mr Mamadou Goita, West African Peasants and Farmers Network, ROPPA
- Mr Prince Kamara, Director of Smallholder Commercialization Programme, Ministry of Agriculture, Sierra Leone Presentation
- Ms Penny Studholme, Vice-President of Corporate Affairs, Cargill Presentation
- Ms Ester Olivas Càcere, Geographical Indications Senior Legal Specialist, SAMCERT (Strengthening Smallholders' Access to Markets for Certified Sustainable Products) project in Sao Tome and Principe Presentation
- Ms Andrea Gallante, Nutrition Education and Consumer Awareness Group, FAO
High-level panel:
- Mr Shenggen Fan, Director-General, International Food Policy Research Institute, IFPRI
- Ms Dessislava Dimitrova, President of the Association of Slow Food Convivia in Bulgaria
- Ms Chukki Nanjundaswamy, La Via Campesina, India
- Ms Cesarie Kantarama, Regional Vice-President, Eastern Africa Farmers Federation (EAFF), Rwanda
- Mr Christian Adams, Chairperson, Coastal Links South Africa