| 8:00-9:30 | Acquisition of identification badge at Security Office | |
| Registration at Africa Hall | ||
| 9:30-11:00 | Plenary Session 1: Opening
Chair: H.E. Rhoda Peace Tumusiime |
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| Remarks by Chairperson
H.E. Rhoda Peace Tumusiime, Commissioner, Rural Economy and Agriculture, Africa Union Commission |
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| Welcome and Overview
Kwadwo Asenso-Okyere, Director, Eastern & Southern Africa Regional Office, International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) |
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| Opening Remarks: Innovations, policies, and investments to promote smallholder productivity
Shenggen Fan, Director General, IFPRI |
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| Keynote Speech: Science, technology, and innovation in African agriculture
Monty Jones, Executive Director, Forum for Agricultural Research in Africa (FARA) |
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| Message: Developing partnerships for livestock research in Africa
Jimmy Smith, Director General, International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI) |
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| Message: From food aid to food assistance
Abdu Dieng, Representative and Country Director, World Food Program, WFP-Ethiopia |
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| Official Opening
H.E. Tefera Derbew, Minister of Agriculture, Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia |
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| 11:00-11:30 | Break | |
| 11.00-12:00 | Press Conference (by invitation) |
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| 11:30-12.00 | Plenary Session 2
Keynote Speech: African agriculture today: an inventory Josue Dione, UNECA |
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| 12:00-13:30 | Parallel Paper Session 1 | |
| Session 1A: Science, technology, and innovation for increasing agricultural productivity Chair: Aggrey Agumya, FARA |
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| Technological progress, innovation, and productivity growth in Africa’s agriculture
Adeleke Salami |
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| Impact of agricultural water management technologies on poverty in Ethiopia
F. Hagos, G. Jayasinghe, S. B. Awulachew, M. Loulseged, A.D. Yilma |
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| Increased bean productivity through increased access to improved seeds and use of improved management techniques in Ethiopia
J.C. Rubyogo, S. Gebeyehu, K. Tumsa, K.Negash, E. Habte, E. Katungi, L. Sperling, D. Wozemba |
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| An early biochemical criteria to screen maize genotypes for their tolerance to aluminum toxic soil of Cameroon
Mapiemfu-Lamaré Delphine, Thé Charles, Tsoata Esaïe, M. Eddy Leonard Ngonkeu Mangaptche, Zonkeng Celicard, Bihnchang Lovelyn |
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| Session 1B: Markets, trade, and regional integration for promoting agricultural growth
Chair: Bart Minten, IFPRI |
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| Food security without food transfers: a CGE analysis for Ethiopia of the different food security impacts of fertilizer subsidies and locally sourced food transfers
A. Stefano Caria, Seneshaw Tamru, Gera Bizuneh |
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| The best choice of fertilizer for maize (Zea Mays) and climbing beans (Phaseolus Vulgaris) rotation for rich, mean, and poor farmers in South Kivu, D.R. Congo
Bossissi Nkuba, Venant Cidoro, Janvier Bashagaluke, Jean Walangululu, Peter Pypers |
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| Assessment of food reserves, markets, trade, and regional integration systems in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA): Are these effective pathways to food security?
Abiodun Elijah Obayelu |
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| Session 1C: ApproPriate capacities, investments, institutions, and policies for supporting agriculture
Chair:Yemi Akinbamijo, AUC |
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| Implications of policy and investment choices on spatial patterns of profitability of fertilizer use in maize production systems in Northern and Central corridors of East Africa
Zhe Guo, Jawoo Koo, Stanley Wood |
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| Training and farmer productivity: an evaluation using Randomized Control Trial (RCT) for the Millennium Challenge Account (MCA)-Ghana Program
Andrew Agyei-Holmes, Hayford M. Ayerakwa, Robert D. Osei, Isaac Osei-Akoto |
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| Employment of agricultural graduates: who are we training for?
Sidi Sanyang, Samba Ly, Stella Ennis, Lamin Jobe, Lassine Diarra, Pierre Bantaba |
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| Impact of land rights on productivity of agriculture and natural resource enterprises in Africa
Mandivamba Rukuni, Cuthbert Kambanje |
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| Integrating livestock in the CAADP framework: policy analysis using a dynamic computable general equilibrium model for Ethiopia
A. Gelan, E. Engida, A. S. Caria, J. Karugia |
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| 13:30-14:30 | lunch | |
| 14:30-15:15 | Plenary Session 3
Panel Discussion: What are the challenges of increasing agricultural productivity in Africa and how can they be overcome? Moderator: Alemayehu Seyoum Taffesse, IFPRI Panelists: Sylvester Oikeh, AATF Thomas Jayne, MSU Stephen Muchiri, EAFF John Dixon, ACIAR |
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| 15:15-16:45 | Parallell paper session 2 | |
| Session 2A: Science, technology, and innovation for increasing agricultural productivity
Chair: Aggrey Agumya, FARA |
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| Technology adoption and land and water management practices among maize farmers in Ghana
Akwasi Mensah Bonsu, Daniel Bruce Sarpong, Ramatu Al-Hassan, Samuel Asuming- Brempong, Irene Egyir, John Kuwornu, Yaw Osei-Asare |
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| Cereal production and technology adoption in Ethiopia
Bingxin Yu, Alejandro Nin-Pratt, Jose Funes, Sinafikeh Asrat |
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| Incorporation of Mucuna pruriens in the diets of lactating dairy cows: effect on milk yield and milk composition
R.T. Niyreba, J. F. Mupangwa, C. Ebong, G. Uwimama, A. Musoni |
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| A review of Nigerian agricultural production efficiency literature, 1999-2011: what does one learn from frontier studies?
K. Ogundari, T.T. Amos |
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| Session 2B: Markets, trade, and regional integration for promoting agricultural growth
Chair: Bart Minten, IFPRI |
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| Challenges and opportunities for maize seed sector development in Eastern Africa
Olaf Erenstein, Girma Tesfahun Kassie, Wilfred Mwangi |
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| Future of wheat production in Sub-Saharan Africa: analysis of the expanding gap between supply and demand and economic profitability of domestic production
Bekele Shiferaw, Asfaw Negassa, Jawoo Koo, Stanley Wood, Kai Sonder, Hans Jochim Braun, Thomas Payne |
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Jordan Chamberlin, Thomas S. Jayne |
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| Grain reserves, social safety-nets, and productivity linkages: conceptual framework and some empirics from Africa
Shahidur Rashid |
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| Session 2C: Appropriate capacities, investments, institutions and policies for supporting agriculture
Chair: Yemi Akinbamijo, AUC Jointly developing regional agricultural value chains as pathway for increased agricultural productivity: a case for increasing productivity of African local cereals sector through price stabilization and risk management options Adama Ekberg Coulibaly, Jonas Bayoulou |
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| Policy assessments of agriculture, food security, and poverty using computer simulation models
Teresa Walter, Tesfamicheal Wossen, Thomas Berger |
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| Pro-poor livestock development: analysis of performance of projects and lessons
Francis Wanyoike, Derek Baker |
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| Assessment of the short-run impact of BRAC’s Agriculture and Livestock Program in Uganda
Proloy Barua |
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| 16:45-17:15 | Break | |
| 17:15-18:00 | Parallel Poster Session 1 | |
| Parallel poster session 1A: Science, technology, and innovation for increasing agricultural productivity
Chair:Paul Thangata, IFPRI |
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| Conservation agriculture: an innovation for increasing food security among smallholders in Zambia
Bridget B. Umar, Progress H. Nyanga, Jens B. Aune |
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| Productivity and efficiency analysis of smallholder maize producers in southern Ethiopia
Endris Geta, Ayalneh Bogale, Belay Kassa, Eyasu Elias |
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| Farmers’ perceptions and adoption of improved farming techniques in low-land rice production in northern Ghana
Samuel A. Donkoh,Joseph A. Awuni |
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| Determinants of agricultural technology adoption in Mozambique
Rafael N. Uaiene |
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| Fertilizer use among small-holder farmers in Uganda
Stephen Bayite-Kasule, Patrick Lubega Korugyendo, Todd Benson |
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| Session 1B: Markets, trade, and regional integration for promoting agricultural growth
Chair: Derek Headey, IFPRI |
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| Increasing world food prices and the impact on the agricultural sector of Sudan: trade-offs between food security and agricultural trade
Mohamed B. Elgali, Rajaah H. Mustafa, D. Kirscheke |
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| Sensory evaluation and consumer acceptability of orange-fleshed sweet potato by pregnant women and children under 2 years in western Kenya
Oyunga-Ogubi, Cornelia Loechl, Hermann Quedraogo, Jan Low |
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| Enhancing food security through the use of solar fish driers
S.A. Omitoyin, A.O. Ajiboye, O. Adeyemi-Doro, B. Awoseyi |
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| Creating viable innovation platforms to facilitate market-linked legume value chains to enhance food security and environmental systems in Malawi
Amon Kabuli, Vernon Kabambe, Paul Mapfumo |
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| Resource use efficiency of smallholder crop production in the central highlands of Ethiopia
Essa C. Mussa, Gideon A. Obare, Ayalneh Bogale, Franklin P. Simtowe |
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| Cassava Brown Steak Virus Disease (CBSVD): a new threat to cassava industry in Uganda
Bill Williams Khizzah, D. Ocan, G. Openy |
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| Session 1C: Appropriate capacities, investments, institutions, and policies for supporting agriculture Chair: Elias Zerfu, IFPRI |
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| The impact of the rural capacity building project on farm household efficiency in Ethiopia
Paul Thangata, Teferi Mequaninte |
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| Building advisory services capacity to manage for impact: lessons and experiences from Zanzibar, Tanzania
Elias Zerfu, Suresh C. Babu |
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| Increasing inorganic fertilizer use in Uganda: supply-side issues
Patrick Lubega Korugyendo, Stephen Bayite-Kasule, Todd Benson |
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| Improving agricultural production and productivity of smallholder farmers through increased access to improved planting material: evidence from South West Region, Cameroon
Manfred T. Besong |
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| 18:00-18:45 | Plenary Session 4 | |
| Panel discussion: Options for scaling up strategic investments in agriculture Moderator: Myra Wopereis-Pura, FARA Panelists: Elisabeth Atangana, PAFFOAbddirahman Beileh, AfDBIsabelle Tsakok, “Success in Agricultural Transformation”Edith Jibunoh, One International |
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| 19:00-20:00 | Cocktail Reception at UNCC |