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 the long run it does lead to a structural focus on LI. It is not meant as a social engineering approach. The awareness of the…
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 adoption of GAP and are effective in professionalizing smallholder agriculture. Sustainable agriculture depends on farmers adopting the best practices in managing their crops, soils and…
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 focus of this deep dive session. Mark Lundy (CIAT and Laurence Jassogne (IITA) from the CGIAR global program Climate Change, Agriculture and Food Security (CCAFS)…
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 Foundation gave key context to the size of food loss& waste. Baseline measurements in the tomato sector in Nigeria, mango in Kenya and maize in…
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 of success while leaving behind persistent problems at the landscape/sector level such as unreliable product quality, poor security of supply in the short term and…
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 learnt about how to make them easier/smoother? For all partners the opportunity costs of engaging in platforms are high. For companies there is a tension…
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 leadership. They discussed those pivotal moments that lead organizations and individuals towards significant change, and when it makes sense to organize and lead multi-organization collaborations. Anna described the…
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 ahead for the organizations of participants. Erik Leong and Urvi Kelkar of SAB Miller (now AB InBev) each shared stories of their own shifts in…
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 program liaises with vanilla exporters, producers, sector organizations and public authorities worldwide to progress issues of governance, traceability, labor rights and technical assistance to grower…
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, processors and innovation sites, the Summit kicked off with an opening panel of regional leaders putting the trends in Tanzanian agriculture into context. Jackie Mkindi,…