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Tentative Agenda
Saturday,
January 28, 2006
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| 4:00-8:00 pm |
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Registration |
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| 6:00-8:00 |
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Welcome
Reception |
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| Sunday, January 29, 2006 |
| 8:30 am |
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Registration |
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| 9:00 - 9:20 |
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Opening Session - moderated by Gary
Robbins, USAID |
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Eng. Hamed Al-Shiaty, Chair, AERI Linkage
Steering Committee and the Egyptian Agribusiness Association |
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Dr. Kenneth C. Ellis, Mission Director
for USAID Egypt |
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His Excellency, Mr. Amin Abaza, the Minister
of Agriculture and Land Reclamation, Government of Egypt
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| 9:20 - 9:30 |
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Consultation Overview |
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Burt Swanson, MUCIA, Convener of the Cairo
Consultation |
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| 9:30 - 10:15 |
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Setting the Stage: From the Green Revolution
to the Market Revolution |
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Dr. Earl Kellogg and Dr. Hamish Gow, University
of Illinois |
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| 10:15 - 11:15 |
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International Industry Panel - moderated
by Morten Frederiksen, World Bank |
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Ross McLaren, Past President,
Shaws Supermarkets
Christine Bronsch, Syngenta MD Egypt
Sir Richard Packer, ARLA
Peter Furth, FFF Associates, Inc. |
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| 11:15 - 11:45 |
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Coffee Break - Coffee provided by Starbucks |
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| 11:45 - 12:45 |
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Egyptian Industry Panel - moderated
by Gary Robbins, USAID |
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Sherief Al-Betagy, Chairman,
Horticulture Export Improvement Association (HEIA)
Houssam Shalaby, Managing Director, Arcotrade, and Treasurer,
Egyptian Spices and Herbs Export Development Association
(ESHEDA)
Tark Tawfik, Managing Director, Farm Frites and member
of the Export and Food Processing Association (EFPA)
Waal Shatat, Chairman, Livestock Producers Association,
Minia |
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| 1:00 - 2:00 |
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Lunch |
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| 2:00 - 3:00 |
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Learning to Listen and Dancing with Elephants:
Capitalizing on Change in the Global Food and Fiber
Industry
- moderated Scott Christiansen, USAID |
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Dr. David Hughes, Emeritus Professor of
Food Marketing, Imperial College, London
url: www.professordavidhughes.com |
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| 3:00 - 3:30 |
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Coffee Break - Coffee provided by Starbucks |
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| 3:30 - 5:30 |
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Concurrent Session I: Case Studies |
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Session 1A: Herbs
and Medicinal Crops
Moderated
by Herb Williamson, QED
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Session 1B: Fresh
Vegetables
Moderated
by Tom Herlehy, CARE |
Session 1C: Dairy
- Milk Collection
Moderated
by Adly Osman, USAID |
Session 1D: Market
Information Systems and Linkages
Moderated by Hamish
Gow, University of Illinois
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Procedures for Expanding
Exports of Fresh Cut Herbs in Jordan
Kamal Khairallah,
Conservation of Medicinal and Herbal Plants, The
Global Environment Facility, Jordan |
Integrating small-scale
fresh produce producers into the mainstream agri-food
Systems in South Africa: The case of a retailer
in Venda and local farmers
Andre
Louw and Hester Vermeulen, University of Pretoria,
South Africa |
Enabling Smallholder
Prosperity: Zambia's Smallholder Milk Collection
Centers
Likando
Mukumbuta, ZATAC Limited and Bagie Sherchand,
Development Alternatives, Zambia |
An Innovative Fruit
and Vegetable Market Information System in Sri
Lanka:The Govi Gnana (Farmer Knowledge) Service
Harsha de Silva, LIRNEasia,
Sri Lanka |
Development of Supply
Chains for Medicinal Plants: A Case Study Involving
the Production of Vinca Rosa by Small Farmers
in Bihar India
K.M.
Singh, Rajendra Agricultural University, India |
Development of Export
Cash Crops in Gaza: Strawberries, Carnations and
Cherry Tomatoes
Adnan
Youdnis, ACDI-VOCA, West Bank-Gaza |
Unlocking the Export
Potential of Armenia’s Landlocked Dairy
Sector
Jeffrey
Engels & Gagik Sardaryan, USDA CARD Program,
Armenia |
An Integrated IT Management
System for Traceability of Organic Horticultural
Products
Tobias
Bandel, Sekem Group, Egypt |
Strengthening Post-Harvest
Handling/Infrastructure to Expand the Export of
Herbs and Medicinal Crops from Upper Egypt
Rodolfo Juliani and
Steven Foster, Rutgers University, and the Natural
Products PFID, and H.Y. Johnson, Lincoln University |
Good Agricultural Practices
and EUREPGAP Certification for Vietnam’s
Small Farmer-Based Dragon Fruit Industry
Nguyen Phuong Thao,
John Bowman, John Campbell, Nguyen Minh Chau,
USAID, Vietnam Competitiveness Initiative (VNCI)
and EGAT RAISE SPS Project |
Anand Dairy Cooperative
or the Operation Flood Model in India
B.M Vyas, Managing
Director, Anand Coop, India |
Establishing
a Successful on-line Marketing Information System
Aurelia Bondari,
National AGROinform Federation, Moldova |
Worldwide Market Trends
for Herbs and Medicinal Crops
Steven Foster, Steven Foster and Associates |
Vegetable Dehydration
and Processing Factory in Afghanistan
Kenneth Neils, Rebuilding
Agricultural Markets Program (RAMP), Chemonics
International, Afghanistan |
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Linking Producers to
Increased Horticultural Exports from Macedonia
William Scott |
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| 5:30 - 5:45 |
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Wrap up and announcements - Mohamed
Samy, MUCIA and the University of Illinois |
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| 6:30 |
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Nile River Dinner Cruise |
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| Monday, January 30, 2006 |
| 9:00 - 10:00 am |
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Keynote Speaker - moderated by Marie-Helene
Collion, World Bank |
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Jo Swinnen, Director, LICOS (Center for
Transition Economics), Katholieke Universiteit Leuven
url: www.econ.kuleuven.be/jo.swinnen |
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| 10:00 - 10:30 |
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Coffee Break - Coffee provided by Starbucks |
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| 10:30 - 12:00 |
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Concurrent Session II |
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Session 2A: Horticultural
Supply Chains
Moderated
by Catalina Jensen, USAID |
Session 2B: Fruit
Crops for Export
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Session 2C: Livestock
Moderated by Daniel
Sellen, World Bank |
Session 2D: Business
Development Services
Moderated
by Jon Halverson, ADF |
Building Sustainable
and Reliable Partnerships for Organic Herbs and
Medicinal Plants
Shashank
Goel, INEEKA, India, China, Egypt, US, EU and
New Zealand |
Banana Market Chain
Improvement – Enhance farmers’ market
linkages in West Java, Indonesia
Joel
Tukan, James M. Roshetko, Suseno Budidarsono,
and Gerhard S. Manurung, World Agroforestry Centre,
Indonesia |
A case study of organizing,
training and linking rural poor communities in
Kenya to an emerging niche market for dairy goats
and goat related products
Peter
Maigua, Farm Africa, Kenya |
Maximizing Return on
Investment: A low cost / high impact approach
to linking producers to markets in Armenia’s
Northern Economic Corridor
Jamey
Butcher, USAID / Armenia Micro Enterprise Development
Initiative (MEDI)
Chemonics International, Armenia |
Linking biodiversity
products to markets to improve the livelihoods
of the resource poor: case study on the market
chain of capers in Syria
Alessandra
Giuliani, International Plant Genetic Resource
Institute (IPGRI), and Nashwa Abdulkarim, and
Markus Buerli, ICARDA, Italy |
Achievements and Impact
of GTZ's “Citrus Improvement Program“
in Egypt
Joachim
Hofer, German Technical Cooperation (GTZ) GmbH,
Egypt |
Linking Small-Ruminant
Producers To Markets: A Case Study from the Southern
Ethiopian Rangelands
Soloman
Desta, Getachew Gebru, Seyoum Tezera, and D. Layne
Coppock, GL-CRSP PARIMA, Utah State University,
International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI),
Kenya |
Linking Producers to
Markets in Ukraine: An Integrated Agribusiness
Systems Approach
Robert
Lee, Inna Andryushko, Land O'Lakes, Agricultural
Marketing Project, Ukraine |
A multidisciplinary
study of herbal, medicinal and aromatic plants
in Southern Tunisia : a new approach
Mohamed Neffati, Azaiez
Ouled Belgacem, Institut des Ragions Arides, Tunisia |
A win-win relationship
between Producers’ Unions and supermarket
chains in Turkish fresh fruits and vegetables
sector
Sylvaine
Lemeilleur and Selma Tozanli, UMR MOISA Montpellier,
France |
Linking Producers amd
Processors - Sorghum for Poultry Feed: A case
study from India
Parthasarathy
Rao, K Gurava Reddy, Belum V S Reddy, C L N Rao,
A Bhavani Prasad, International Crops Research
Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics (ICRISAT),
India |
Potential for Delivery
of Upper Egypt Horticultural & Livestock Products
to Supermarkets, Food Processors and Institutional
Buyers
Ken
Swanberg and Ali Assem, Chemonics International,
Egypt |
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| 12:00 - 1:30 |
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Lunch and Keynote Speaker - moderated
by Burt Swanson, MUCIA |
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His Excellency Helmy Abouleish, Executive Director, Industrial Modernization Center, Government of Egypt |
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| 1:30 - 3:00 |
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Concurrent Session III |
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Session 3A: Gender
and Grassroots Enterprise Development
Moderated by Jean
Delion, World Bank
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Session 3B: Capacity
Building
Moderated
by Anar Khalilov, USAID |
Session 3C: Coffee
Supply Chains
Moderated
by Steve McCarthy, ACDI/VOCA |
Session 3D: Other
Case Studies
Moderated
by Zhong Tong, World Bank |
Organizing Rural Women
in Food Processing: Experiences of the SMART Program
Ghassan Sayah, YMCA,
Lebanon |
Training in Agribusiness
Management - Platforms for Export: the IICA experience
in the Americas
Frank
Lam and Daniel Rodríguez, IICA (Interamerican
Institute for Cooperation in Agriculture) |
Linking Ethiopian Coffee
Producers to International Markets
Jim Dempsey, Sidamo
Coffee Union and ACDI/VOCA, Ethiopia |
Business for the Poor:
Healthy Basket, a socially responsible company
trading in organic produce in Lebanon and the
Middle East
Rania
Touma, American University of Beirut, Healthy
Basket, Lebanon |
Organizing Women to
Generate Income from Poultry
Tom
Fattori, RAMP, Chemonics International, Afghanistan |
Developing public-private
teams to conduct market research and develop business
plans to supply selected European Union markets
Mohamed Abo El Wafa,
GTZ, Cairo, Egypt, John Vansickle, U. Florida,
Maria Marshall, Purdue University; Mohamed Samy
and Hamish Gow, U. Illinois, and Burt Swanson,
MUCIA |
A Case Study in Brand
Creation with Small Holders - Haitian Bleu Coffee
Lucas Dunnington,
Development Alternatives, Haiti |
From Honey to Money:
The Sweet Case in Armenia
Arsen
Poghosyan, Armenian Small and Medium Enterprise
Market Development Project, USAID, Armenia |
Organizing and linking
women farmers to high value markets in India
Burt Swanson, MUCIA
and K.M. Singh, Rajendra Agricultural
University, India |
Organizing Farmers:
The Anaqeed Al-Khair Cooperative in the Badia
region of Jordan
Raed
Al-Tabini and William Gorman, Jordan Badia Research
& Development Centre, New Mexico State and
IALC, Jordan |
Increasing profitability
for farmers supplying to the international coffee
market by improving supply chain management, including
traceability in Mexico
Edward
Millard, Conservation International |
Integral techno-managerial
total quality management approach on farm- and
chain level to boost floricultural exports from
Egypt
Niek
Botden, HortiSolutions, The Netherlands |
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| 3:00 - 3:30 |
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Coffee Break - coffee provided by Starbucks |
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| 3:30 - 4:30 |
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Plenary Session: Overview of Field Trip
and Announcements |
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Burt Swanson, MUCIA, Chair
Tom Herlehy, CARE International, Horticulture
ACDI-VOCA Representative, Dairy and Livestock
Mohamed Samy, MUCIA, Capacity Building to Support Supply
Chain Development |
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| 5:00 |
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Depart for Sound and Light Show, followed
by Buffet Dinner at Mena House |
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| Tuesday, January 31, 2006 |
| Field Trip to Minia |
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| Bus # 1: Livestock
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Bus # 2: Horticulture
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Bus # 3: Herbs
and Medicinal Plants
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8:00 - 10:00 am
Travel from
Cairo to Fayoum
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8:00 - 10:00 am
Travel from
Cairo to Beni Suef
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8:00 - 10:00 am
Travel from
Cairo to Fayoum
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10:00 - 12:00
Milk Collection
Center - Sila Livestock Development Milk Marketing
Association: ACDI/VOCA |
10:00 - 12:00
Green Onion
Packing and Pre-Cooling Facility: Mr. Yassin Ahmed's
Station (Stars of Export Co.)
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10:00 - 12:00
Farmer Association
for Production and Export of Herbs and Medicinal
Plants (Mr. Ahmed El Esh) |
12:00 - 12:30
Coffee and
Refreshments
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12:00 - 12:30
Coffee and
Refreshments
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12:00 - 2:00
Sekem - Dehydration
Plant and Production of Clean Seed Impact Grant:
Dr. Zakaria El Haddad
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12:30 - 2:00
Travel from
Fayoum to Beni Suef (Lunch on Bus) |
12:30 - 2:00
Onion Dehydration
Facility in Beni Suef
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2:00 - 2:30
Lunch and Refreshments
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2:00 - 3:00
Taba Bosh Village
for Silage and Artificial Insemination Center:
ACDI/VOCA
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2:00 - 4:00
CEOSS Onion
and Garlic Production for Export Project with
Agrofood, MUCIA technical assistance
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2:30 - 4:00
Overview of
Organic and Clean Agriculture FA - Mr. Mohamed
El Medany |
3:00 - 5:00
Travel from
Beni Suef to Minia |
4:00 - 6:00
Travel from
Beni Suef to Minia |
4:00 - 6:00
Travel from
Fayoum to Minia
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5:00 - 6:00
Minia Dairy
Processors Association: ACDI/VOCA |
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| Wednesday, February 1, 2006 |
| Return to Cairo via somewhat
different sites to illustrate different aspects of supply
chain capacity and management. |
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| Bus # 1: Livestock
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Bus # 2: Horticulture
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Bus # 3: Herbs
and Medicinal Plants
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8:30 - 9:30 am
Al Amana Association
for Animal Wealth Development in Talla: ACDI/VOCA
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8:00 - 10:00 am
Menbal FA in
Minia - for Production of Horticulture and Herbs
Crops: CARE
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9:00 - 10:30 am
CEOSS: Abo
Gerg - Production, Collection and Drying of Herbs
and Medicinal Plants
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10:00 - 12:00
Minia Dairy
Processors Association: ACDI/VOCA |
10:00 - 12:00
Travel from
Minia to Beni Suef
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10:30 - 12:30
Travel from
Minia to Beni Suef |
12:00 - 12:30
Lunch and Refreshments
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12:00 - 2:00
Mayana FA in
Beni Suef for Production of Fresh Vegetables:
CARE |
12:30 - 1:00
Refreshments
and Lunch
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12:30 - 3:00
El Rouda Co.
(Mother Farm Concept) in Maghaga - Eng. Shatat
(MUCIA PPP Advisory Committee Member) |
2:00 - 4:00
Travel from
Beni Suef to Giza (Lunch on Bus)
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1:00 - 2:00
Essential Oil
Producers' Association in Beni Suef |
3:00 - 6:00
Travel from
Minia to Marriott Zamalek Hotel in Cairo
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4:00 - 6:00
Kasseb FA in
Giza (Fresh Vegetables Collection Center): CARE
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2:00 - 3:00
Oil Distilling
Factory |
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6:00 - 7:00
Return to Marriott
Zamalek Hotel in Cairo |
3:00 - 5:30
Travel from
Beni Suef to Marriott Zamalek Hotel
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| Thursday, February 2, 2006 |
| 9:00 - 11:00 am |
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Plenary Session: Integrating Successful
Practices and Lessons Learned - moderated by Morten
Frederiksen, World Bank |
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Global Retail Chains and Poor Farmers,
Bart Minten |
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Strengthening Marketing Linkages to
Farmers, Andrew Shepherd, FAO |
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| 11:00 - 11:30 |
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Coffee Break - Coffee provided by Starbucks |
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| 11:30 - 12:30 |
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Implementation Panel - moderated by
Carol Wilson, USAID |
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Scott Christiansen, Senior Agricultural
Development Officer, USAID |
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Marie-Helene Collion, Lead Agricultural
Specialist, The World Bank |
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Burt Swanson, MUCIA, AERI Linkage Project |
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Hamish Gow, University of Illinois |
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| 12:30 - 1:00 |
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Coffee Break |
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| 1:00 - 2:30 |
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Wrap up and Open Discussion: Where do we
go from here? - moderated by Earl Kellogg, University
of Illinois |
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| 2:30 |
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Farewell Lunch |
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