Goal of Sustainable Livelihoods
Speakers: Ileana Resendez, Heifer; Cheryl Pinto, Ben and Jerry’s; Jefferson Shriver, CRS Living Income key points: Incorporating a Living Income (LI) approach is a much slower initial process with partners, but in…
Training and service delivery models
Speakers: Roberto Vega, Syngenta; Christine Condo, Sustainable Harvest; Brian Gleeson, Catholic Relief Services Training and Service Delivery: Key to Successful Agriprenuers: A discussion of innovative and effective service delivery models that incentivize…
Climate Resilience in Coffee
Speakers: Mark Lundy, CIAT; Laurence Jassogne, IITA; Britta Deutsch, HRNS Africa Building coffee growing communities that are resilient to climate change and can sell into stable, resilience value chains was the…
Food Loss and Waste
Speakers: Rafael Flor, Rockefeller Foundation, Allan Ngakonda, RUDI How do you get actors in the food system to actively reduce food loss & waste? The YieldWise program of the Rockefeller…
Beyond the Value Chain: Sector Governance
Speakers: Bill Vorley, IIED; Willem Molenaar, Aidenvironment How do sector governance instruments influence sector wide capabilities that promote sector performance and influence producer performance? Value chain projects frequently result in islands…
Effectiveness of Multi-Stakeholder Platforms
Speakers: Caroline Ashley, Yara / Ashley Insight; Sean DeCleene, AGRA; Ken Giller, Wageningen UR; Geoffery Kirenga, SAGCOT; Platforms are difficult for all involved: time consuming, comfort zone challenging, and slow. What have we…
Panel on System Leadership
Speakers: Anna Swaithes; Nira Desai, World Cocoa Anna Swaithes and Nira Desai used examples from work in the cocoa sector in West Africa to illustrate the interplay between individual and organizational…
Crossroads session
Bringing your own “crossroad” into the room Speakers: Eric Leong Son, ABinBev; Urvi Kelkar. ABinBev This session shifted focus from the overall trends and opportunities in East Africa to decisions…
SVI: Driving Sustainability in the Vanilla Supply Chain
The Sustainable Vanilla Initiative (SVI) aims to improve vanilla bean farmers’ livelihoods and assure the long-term stable supply of high quality natural vanilla. This voluntary food, flavors and fragrances industries…
Opening Panel
Opening Panel: William Asiko, Grow Africa; Sean de Cleene, AGRA; Rafael Flor, The Rockefeller Foundation; Jackie Mikindi, TAHA After spending two days in the field in Tanzania and Kenya visiting farms,…
