Sunday, 11 October

13.00 – 18.00

Registration
Turkish Registration Centre

Monday, 12 October

08.30 – 12.00

Registration
Turkish Registration Centre

09.30 – 10.00

Welcome Address
Jacques Diouf, Director-General, FAO

10.00 – 10.30

Keynote Address
Alain de Janvry, Professor, Agricultural and Resource Economics, University of California at Berkeley

10.45 – 12.30

Panel 1: Global Agriculture towards 2050: The Outlook for Food and Agriculture in a Dynamically Changing Economic and Demographic Environment

Presenter

Josef Schmidhuber, Senior Economist, FAO

Moderator

Javier Blas, Correspondent, The Financial Times

Panelists

Csaba Csaki, Professor Economics, Corvinius University
Kwanchai A. Gomez, Director, The Asia Rice Foundation
Michiel Keyzer, Director, Centre for World Food Studies
Homi Kharas, Senior Fellow, Brookings Institution
Kitty Smith, Administrator, ERS/USDA

14.30 – 16.00

Panel 2: Available Resources (land, water, genetics), limits and challenges from climate change and new demands (bioenergy)

Presenter

Cary Fowler, Executive Director, Global Crop Diversity Trust

Moderator

Marcela Villareal, Director, Gender, Equity and Rural Employment Division, FAO

Panelists

Emile Frison, Director General, Bioversity International
Herman Kumara, Secretary General, World Forum of Fisher People
Hosny El Lakany, Adjunct Professor, Forest Resources Management Department, University of British Columbia
Balgis Osman-Elasha, Senior Researcher, Higher Council for Environment & Natural Resources
Luigi Sampaolo, Vice President Climate Change and Environmental Policy, ENI

16.15 - 17.30

Panel 3: The technology challenge: Increasing productivity and protecting the environment

Presenter

Shivaji Pandey, Director, Plant Production and Protection Division, FAO 

Moderator

Robert Paarlberg, Professor of Political Science at Wellesley College

Panelists

Markus Arbenz, Executive Director, International Federation of Organic Agriculture Movements
Elisabeth Gauffin, Vice-President, International Federation of Agricultural Producers
Estrella Penunia, Secretary General, Asian Farmers’ Association for Sustainable Development
Mariam Rahmanian, Executive Director Center for Sustainable Development and Environment
Mike Robinson, Chief Scientific Advisor, Syngenta Foundation

Tuesday, 13 October 2009

9.30 – 11.00

Panel 4: Investment needs, sources and instruments

Presenter

Eugenia Serova, Senior Advisor, Technical Cooperation Department, FAO

Moderator

Stefan Tangermann, Professor Emeritus, University of Göttingen

Panelists

Bernard Bachelier, Director, Fondation Farm
Baba Dioum, General Coordinator, Conférence de Ministres de l’Afrique de l’Ouest et du Centre
Roberto Ridolfi, Head of Unit EuropeAid Cooperation Office, European Commission
Mark Rosegrant, Director Environment, Production, Technology Division, International Food Policy Research Institute
Imran Matin, Deputy Executive Director, BRAC

11.15 – 12.30

Panel 5: The policy challenge: Support, trade, aid and investment policies

Presenter

Gerard Viatte, Former Director of OECD Agriculture

Moderator

Ivy Drafor, Methodist University College of Ghana

Panelists

Ken Ash, Director Trade and Agriculture, OECD
Elenita Dano, Senior Advisor, Third World Network
Alain de Janvry, Professor, Agricultural and Resource Economics, University of California at Berkeley
Eugenio Diaz Bonilla, Excecutive Director for Argentina and Haiti, Inter American Development Bank
Martin Khor, Executive Director, The South Center
Albert Ramdin, Assistant Secretary General, Organization of American States

14.30 – 16.00

Panel 6: Special Session on Africa

Presenter

Steve Wiggins, Research Fellow, Overseas Development Institute

Moderator

Thomas Yanga, World Food Programme

Panelists

Karen Brooks, Sector Manager Africa, Agriculture and Rural Development Unit, The World Bank
Makanjuola Olaseinde Arigbede, President, Union of Small & Medium Scale Farmers of Nigeria,
Mahmoud Solh, Director General, ICARDA
Kwesi Atta-Krah, Deputy Director-General, Bioversity
Babatunde Omilola, Coordinator, Regional Strategic Analysis and Knowledge Support System (ReSAKSS), International Food Policy Research Institute

16.15 – 17.15

Panel 7: Towards eliminating hunger

Presenter

Hartwig de Haen, Professor Emeritus, University of Göttingen

Moderator

Kevin Cleaver, Assistant President for Program Management, IFAD

Panelists

Hans Binswanger-Mkhize, Honorary Professor, Tshwane University of Technology
Ismael Serageldin, Head, Library of Alexandria
MS Swaminathan, Head, Swaminathan Foundation.
Ruth Oniang’o, Director, The Rural Outreach Program
Hafez Ghanem, Assistant Director-General for FAO's Economic and Social Development Department

Closing Address

Jacques Diouf, Director General, FAO