Regional Consultation on Linking Farmers to Markets


		Opening Session Eng. Hamed Al-Shiaty, Chair, AERI Linkage Steering Committee and the Egyptian Agribusiness Association Click here to view video presentation Dr. Kenneth C. Ellis, Mission Director for USAID Egypt Click here to view video presentation His Excellency, Mr. Amin Abaza, the Minister of Agriculture and Land Reclamation, Government of Egypt Click here to view video presentation KEYNOTE: January 29, 2006 Dr. David Hughes, Emeritus Professor of Food Marketing, Imperial College, London http://www.professordavidhughes.com Click here to view video presentation SETTING THE STAGE From the Green Revolution to the Market Revolution Hamish Gow and Earl Kellogg, University of Illinois INTERNATIONAL INDUSTRY PANEL Ross McLaren, Past President, Shaws Supermarkets Christine Bronsch, Syngenta MD Egypt Richard Packer, ARLA Peter Furth, FFF Associates, Inc. EGYPTIAN INDUSTRY PANEL 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 CONCURRENT SESSION I Session 1A: Herbs and Medicinal Crops Kamal Khairallah, Conservation of Medicinal and Herbal Plants, The Global Environment Facility, Jordan Procedures for Expanding Exports of Fresh Cut Herbs in Jordan Case Study Presentation Click here to view video presentation K.M. Singh, Rajendra Agricultural University, India Development of Supply Chains for Medicinal Plants: A Case Study Involving the Production of Vinca Rosa by Small Farmers in Bihar India Case Study Presentation Click here to view video presentation Rodolfo Juliani and Steven Foster, Rutgers University, and the Natural Products PFID, and H.Y. Johnson, Lincoln University Strenghening Post-Harvest Handling/Infrastructure to Expand the Export of Herbs and Medicinal Crops from Upper Egypt Case Study Presentation Click here to view video presentation Steven Foster, Steven Foster & Associates Worldwide Market Trends for Herbs and Medicinal Crops Case Study Presentation Click here to view video presentation Session 1B: Fresh Vegetables Andre Louw and Hester Vermeulen, University of Pretoria, South Africa 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 Case Study Presentation Click here to view video presentation Adnan Youdnis, ACDI-VOCA, West Bank - Gaza Development of Export Cash Crops in Gaza: Strawberries, Carnations and Cherry Tomatoes Case Study Presentation Click here to view video presentation Nguyen Phuong Thao, John Bowman, John Campbell, Nguyen Minh Chau, USAID, Vietnam Competitiveness Initiative (VNCI), Vietnam Good Agricultural Practices and EUREGAP Certification for Vietnam's Small Farmer-Based Dragon Fruit Industry Case Study Presentation Click here to view video presentation Kenneth Neils, Rebuilding Agricultural Markets Program (RAMP), Chemonics International, Afghanistan Vegetable Dehydration and Processing Factory in Afghanistan Case Study Presentation Click here to view video presentation Session 1C: Dairy - Milk Collection Likando Mukumbuta, ZATAC Limited and Bagie Sherchand, Development Alternatives, Zambia Enabling Smallholder Prosperity: Zambia's Smallholder Milk Collection Centers Case Study Presentation Click here to view video presentation Jeffrey Engels and Gagik Sardaryan, USDA CARD Program, Armenia Unlocking the Export Potential of Armenia's Landlocked Dairy Sector Case Study Presentation Click here to view video presentation B.M. Vyas, Managing Director, Anand Coop, India Anand Dairy Cooperative or the Operation Flood Model in India Case Study Presentation Click here to view video presentation Session 1D: Market Information Systems and Linkages Harsha de Silva, LIRNEasia, Sri Lanka An Innovative Fruit and Vegetable Market Information System in Sri Lanka: The Govi Gnana (Farmer Knowledge) Service Case Study Presentation Click here to view video presentation Tobias Bandel, Sekem Group, Egypt An Integrated IT Management System for Traceability of Organic Horticultural Products Case Study Aurelia Bondari, National AGROinform Federation, Moldova Establishing a Successful on-line Marketing Information System Case Study Presentation Click here to view video presentation William Scott, AgLand Investments Linking Producers to Increased Horticultural Exports from Macedonia Case Study Presentation Click here to view video presentation KEYNOTE: January 30, 2006 Jo Swinnen, Director, LICOS (Center for Transition Economics), Katholieke Universiteit Leuven Click here to view video presentation CONCURRENT SESSION II Session 2A: Horticultural Supply Chains Shashank Goel, INEEKA, India, China, Egypt, US, EU and New Zealand Building Sustainable and Reliable Partnerships for Organic Herbs and Medicinal Plants Case Study Click here to view video presentation Alessandra Giuliani, International Plant Genetic Resource Institute (IPGRI), Nashwa Abdulkarim and Markus Buerli, ICARDA, Italy Linking Biodiversity Products to Markets to Improve the Livelihoods of the Resource Poor: the Market Chain of Capers in Syria Case Study Presentation Click here to view video presentation Mohamed Neffati, Azaiez Ouled Belgacem, Institut des Ragions Arides, Tunisia A Multidisciplinary Study of Herbal, Medicinal and Aromatic Plants in Southern Tunisia: A New Approach Case Study Presentation Click here to view video presentation Session 2B: Fruit Crops for Export Joel Tukan, James M. Roshetko, Suseno Budidarsono, and Gerhard S. Manurung, World Agroforestry Centre, Indonesia Banana Market Chain Improvement - Enhance Farmers' Market Linkages in West Java, Indonesia Case Study Presentation Click here to view video presentation Joachim Hofer, German Technical Cooperation (GTZ) GmbH, Egypt Achievements and Impact of GTZ's "Citrus Improvement Program" in Egypt Case Study Sylvaine Lemeilleur and Selma Tozanli, UMR MOISA Montpellier, France A Win-Win Relationship Between Producers' Unions and Supermarket Chains in Fresh Fruits and Vegetables Sector Case Study Presentation Click here to view video presentation Session 2C: Livestock Peter Maigua, Farm Africa, Kenya Organizing, Training and Linking Rural Poor Communities in Kenya to an Emerging Niche Market for Dairy Goats and Goat Related Products Case Study Presentation Click here to view video presentation Soloman Desta, Getachew Gebru, Seyoum Tezera, and D. Layne Coppock, GL-CRSP PARIMA, Utah State University, International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI), Kenya Linking Small-Ruminant Producers to Markets: A Case Study from the Southern Ethiopian Rangelands Case Study Presentation Click here to view video presentation Parthasarathy Rao, K Gurava Reddy, Belum V S Reddy, C L N Rao, A Bhavani Prasad, International Crops Research Institute for Semi-Arid Tropics (ICRISAT), India Linking Producers and Processors - Sorghum for Poultry Feed in India Case Study Presentation Click here to view video presentation Session 2D: Business Development Systems Jamey Butcher, USAID / Armenia Micro Enterprise Development Initiative (MEDI), Chemonics International, Armenia Maximizing Return on Investment: A Low Cost / High Impact Approach to Linking Producers to Markets in Armenia's Northern Economic Corridor Case Study Presentation Click here to view video presentation Robert Lee, Inna Andryushko, Land O'Lakes, Agricultural Marketing Project, Ukraine Linking Producers to Markets in Ukraine: An Integrated Agribusiness Systems Approach Case Study Presentation Click here to view video presentation Ken Swanberg and Ali Assem, Chemonics International, Egypt Potential for Delivery of Upper Egypt Horticultural & Livestock Products to Supermarkets, Food Processors and Institutional Buyers Case Study Presentation Click here to view video presentation KEYNOTE: February 2, 2006 His Excellency Helmy Abouleish, Executive Director, Industrial Modernization Center, Government of Egypt Click here to view video presentation CONCURRENT SESSION III Session 3A: Gender and Grassroots Enterprise Development Ghassan Sayah, YMCA, Lebanon Organizing Rural Women in Food Processing: Experiences of the SMART Program Case Study Presentation Click here to view video presentation Burt Swanson, MUCIA and K.M. Singh, Rajendra Agricultural University, India Organizing and linking women farmers to high value markets in India Case Study Tom Fattori, RAMP, Chemonics International, Afghanistan Organizing Women to Generate Income from Poultry Case Study Presentation Click here to view video presentation Session 4B: Capacity Building Frank Lam and Daniel Rodriguez, Interamerican Institute for Cooperation in Agriculture (IICA) Training in Agribusiness Management - Platforms for Export: The IICA Experience in the Americas Case Study Presentation Click here to view video presentation Mohamed Abo El-Wafa, GTZ, Egypt, John Vansickle, U. Florida, Maria Marshall, Purdue University, Mohamed Samy and Hamish Gow, U. Illinois, and Burt Swanson, MUCIA Developing Public-Private Teams to Conduct Market Research and Develop Business Plans to Supply Selected European Union Markets Case Study Raed Al-Tabini and William Gorman, Jordan Badia Research and Development Centre, New Mexico State University and IALC, Jordan Organizing Farmers: The Anaqeed Al-Khair Cooperative in the Badia Region of Jordan Case Study Presentation Click here to view video presentation Session 4C: Coffee Supply Chains Jim Dempsey, Sidamo Coffee Union and ACDI/VOCA, Ethiopia Linking Ethiopian Coffee Producers to International Markets Case Study Click here to view video presentation Lucas Dunnington, Development Alternatives, Haiti A Case Study in Brand Creation with Small Holders - Haitian Bleu Coffee Case Study Presentation Click here to view video presentation Edward Milllard, Conservation International, Mexico Increasing Profitability for Farmers Supplying to the International Coffee Market by Improving Supply Chain Management, including Traceability in Mexico Case Study Presentation Click here to view video presentation Session 3D: Other Case Studies Rania Touma, American University of Beirut, Lebanon Business for the Poor: Healthy Basket, a Socially Responsible Company Trading in Organic Produce in Lebanon and the Middle East Case Study Presentation Click here to view video presentation Arsen Poghosyan, Armenian Small and Medium Enterprise Market Development Project, USAID, Armenia From Honey to Money: The Sweet Case in Armenia Case Study Presentation Click here to view video presentation Niek Botden, HortiSolutions, The Netherlands Integral Techno-Managerial Total Quality Management Approach on Farm and Chain Level to Boost Floricultural Exports from Egypt Case Study Presentation Click here to view video presentation PLENARY SESSION: INTEGRATING SUCCESSFUL PRACTICES AND LESSONS LEARNED, February 2, 2006 Bart Minten Global Retain Chains and Poor Farmers Click here to view video presentation Andrew Shepherd, FAO Strengthening Marketing Linkages to Farmers Presentation Click here to view video presentation Implementation Panel Click here to view video presentation Wrap up and Open Discussion: Where do we go from here? Click here to view video presentation Moderated by Earl Kellogg, University of Illinois Click here to view video presentation