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  • AGTalks Inaugural Session: trade opportunities and challenges facing smallholders farmers

    Reminder!  The AgTalks Inaugural Session will take place tomorrow, Wednesday 1 October, from 9:30 a.m to 12:30 at IFAD headquarters.  Please confirm your participation to protocol@ifad.org.

    Over 9 years ago (30/09/2014)
  • AGTalks Inaugural Session: trade opportunities and challenges facing smallholders farmers

    The inaugural session will benefit from the insights and experience of:

    Chris Davis works for Fairtrade International, and is currently involved in the reorganization and devolution of producer services to make services more accountable and relevant to the 1.4 million farmers and workers involved in Fairtrade. He was previously Producer Partnerships Director at the Fairtrade Foundation, the organization behind the FAIRTRADE Mark in the UK, with sales of £1.8 billion in retail value, providing increasing opportunities for famers, workers and their families to benefit from terms of trade that support development. Previously he worked for the UK’s Department for International Development, including a four-year secondment to the South African Government assisting delivery of national poverty alleviation programmes. Davis founded a number of small businesses dealing with fair and ethical trading before joining the Fairtrade movement in 2006.

    Andrew Rugasira is the founder and CEO of Good African Coffee, a Uganda-based social enterprise that brings quality coffees, roasted and packed at source, to the global market. Good African Coffee was the first African-owned coffee brand to be listed in supermarkets in the United Kingdom. It works with a supply network of more than 14,000 coffee farmers in western Uganda. The company has also developed 17 savings and credit cooperatives for farming communities. Prior to founding Good African Coffee, Rugasira was CEO of VR Promotions Ltd, Uganda’s leading promotion and events management company. He is also chairman of Eastern African Fine Coffees Association (EAFCA), a member of Uganda’s Presidential Investor Roundtable, and sits on the board of Maisha Film Lab. He is the author of A Good African Story: How a Small Company Built a Global Coffee Brand. In 2007, he was nominated by the World Economic Forum as a Young Global Leader.

    Gunnar Rundgren is founder and Senior Consultant of Grolink AB. In 1977 he started a pioneer organic farm and since then he has worked with most parts of the organic farmer sector – from farming to policy. He has founded several organizations for organic agriculture in Sweden, including KRAV, where he was the director, and has worked for several United Nations agencies and development organizations including the World Bank. Since 2009, he has devoted increasing time to writing and speaking about wider food, agricultural and social developments. He has published several books about the major social and environmental challenges of our world, food and farming.

    Ndongo Samba Sylla is a Senegalese development economist. He has previously worked as a technical advisor to the Presidency of the Republic of Senegal. He is currently a Research and Programme Manager at the West Africa office of the Rosa Luxemburg Foundation (Dakar). His publications cover topics such as fair trade, labour markets in developing countries, social movements and democratic theory. He recently published The Fair Trade Scandal: Marketing Poverty to Benefit the Rich.

    Over 9 years ago (28/09/2014)
  • 112th session of the Executive Board

    New Documents Online! Please note that the following documents have been posted:

    EB 2014/112/R.17/Rev.1 - Draft provisional agenda for the thirty-eighth session of the Governing Council (Arabic) (English) (French) (Spanish)
    EB 2014/112/R.1/Rev.1 - Agenda (Arabic) (English) (French) (Spanish)

    Over 9 years ago (27/09/2014)
  • 3rd session - Consultation on IFAD10

    New Documents Online! Please note that the following document has been posted:

    IFAD10/3/R.1/Rev.1 - Provisional Agenda (Arabic) (English) (French) (Spanish)

    Over 9 years ago (25/09/2014)
  • 3rd session - Consultation on IFAD10

    New Documents Online! Please note that the following document has been posted:

    IFAD10/3/R.1/Rev.1 - Provisional Agenda (Arabic) (English) (French) (Spanish)

    Over 9 years ago (23/09/2014)
  • 112th session of the Executive Board

    New Documents Online! Please note that the following document has been posted:

    EB 2014/112/R.10/Rev.1 - Bangladesh: Promoting Agricultural Commercialization and Enterprises Project (Arabic) (English) (French) (Spanish)

    Over 9 years ago (23/09/2014)
  • Seventh Biannual Permanent Representatives Meeting

    Seventh Biannual Permanent Representatives Meeting in Rome, 31 October 2014 – useful information

    The Seventh Biannual Permanent Representatives Meeting has been scheduled for Friday, 31 October from 10.00 a.m. to 12.00 p.m. Delegates attending the Seventh Biannual Permanent Meeting in Rome may be dropped off in front of the headquarters’ main entrance. A limited number of parking spaces will be reserved for delegates in Via Paolo di Dono 44, in addition to parking spaces in Via Paolo di Dono 90, the external parking lot at the rear of the building, on a first-come first-served basis; a security guard will be available for assistance throughout the meeting. Interpretation will be provided at the meeting.

    Invitation will be posted in due course.

    Over 9 years ago (22/09/2014)
  • 112th session of the Executive Board

    New Documents Online! Please note that the following document has been posted:

    EB 2014/112/R.9/Rev.1 - Burundi: National Programme for Food Security and Rural Development in Imbo and Moso (Arabic) (English) (French) (Spanish)

    Over 9 years ago (19/09/2014)
  • 112th session of the Executive Board

    New Documents Online! Please note that the following documents have been posted:

    EB 2014/112/R.3 - Report of the Chairperson on the eighty-third session of the Evaluation Committee (Arabic) (English) (French) (Spanish)
    EB 2014/112/R.4 - Report of the Chairperson on the eighty-fourth session of the Evaluation Committee (Arabic) (English) (French) (Spanish)

    Over 9 years ago (18/09/2014)
  • 112th session of the Executive Board

    New Documents Online! Please note that the following documents have been posted:

    EB 2014 FFP4 (EB) - List of documents for the 112th session of the Executive Board (English)
    EB 2014/112/R.26 - Application for non-original membership - Palau (Arabic) (English) (French) (Spanish)
    EB 2014/112/R.16 - Report of the the Chairperson of the 133rd meeting of the Audit Committee (Arabic) (English) (French) (Spanish)

    Over 9 years ago (17/09/2014)