Annex 1: Expert meeting agenda

Monday, 19 March 2001

Opening Ceremony

Hartwig De Haen, Assistant Director-General, Economic and Social Department (ES), FAO

Session 1

Draft Analytycal Framework to document the roles of agriculture in developing countries:
overall approach and concepts of studying the roles of agriculture

Speakers:
Frédéric Dévé
ROA Project Coordinator,
Comparative Agricultural Development Service (ESAC), FAO

Discussants:
Raghav Gaiha
Professor, Faculty of Management Studies, University of Delhi

Ryohei Kada Professor,
Graduate School of Agriculture, Kyoto University, Japan

Moderator:
Jacques Vercueil
Former Director, Agriculture and Economic Development Analysis Division (ESA), FAO

Session 2

The environmental roles of agriculture: environmental externalities, their measurement and valuation in developing countries

Speaker:
Joseph Cooper
Resource Economist, United States Department of Agriculture/Economics

Discussants:
Orapan SrisaAdviser,
Natural Resources and Biodiversity Institute (NAREBI), Ministry of Agriculture and Cooperatives, Thailand

Christine Amoako-Nuama
Consultant, Natural Resources and Environment; Former Minister for Lands and Forestry, Ghana

Robert Brinkmanwalak-Nabangchang
Former Director, Land and Water Development Division (AGL), FAO

Moderator:
Changchui He Service Chief, Environment and Natural Resources Service (SDRN), FAO

Session 3

The economic roles of agriculture: the secular and non-secular economic roles of agriculture, their measurement and valuation

Speaker:
Randy Stringer
Deputy Director, Centre for International Economic Studies, School of Economics, University of Adelaide, Australia

Discussants:
Rashid Pertev
Coordinator, World Bank Project for Restructuring Agricultural Sales Cooperatives in Turkey, International Federation of Agricultural Producers (IFAP)

John Mellor
Former Director, International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI); current Vice-President Abt Associates, Inc., United States

Kostas Stamoulis
Senior Economist, Agricultural Sector in Economic Development Service (ESAE), FAO

Moderator:
William Meyers
Director, Agriculture and Economic Development Analysis Division (ESA), FAO

Tuesday, 20 March 2001

Session 4

The social roles of agriculture: income distribution and poverty, urbanization, the viability of rural communities, social stability; their measurement and valuation

Speaker:
Evelyn Rodriguez Ortega
General Director, Programming and Budget for Agriculture, Social Development and Natural Resources, Ministry of Finance and Public Credit, Mexico

Discussants:
Alberto Valdés
Consultant; Former Agricultural Adviser, World Bank

James Akinwumi,
Deputy Vice Chancellor, University of Ibadan, Nigeria

Moderator:
Santiago Funes
Director, Rural Development Division (SDA), FAO

Session 5

The cultural roles of agriculture: scope, documentation and measurement

Speaker:
Michael Horowitz
President and Executive Director, Institute for Development Anthropology, New York; Professor of Anthropology and Director, Centre for Research on Environmental Systems, Binghamton University, New York

Discussants:
Brave Ndisale
Independent Consultant, Head of Poverty Alleviation Programme, Étude, Conseil, Formation Développement (ECODEV)

Gérard Ciparisse
former Rural Development Division (SDA), FAO

Moderator:
Philip Boyle
Senior Social Economist; Consultant, ROA Project

Session 6

The food security roles of agriculture: the role of domestic agriculture in national food security, access to food, strategic food security and related externalities; their measurement and valuation

Speaker:
Jaeok Lee Senior
Fellow and Research Director, Korean Rural Economic Institute, Republic of Korea

Discussants:
Sumiter Broca
Economist, Agricultural Sector in Economic Development Service (ESAE), FAO

Dev Nathan
Independent Researcher/Consultant

Moderator:
David Wilcock
Coordinator, Food Insecurity and Vulnerability Information and Mapping System (FIVIMS), FAO

Wednesday, 21 March 2001

Session 7

Possible profiles and guidelines for country case studies: orientation and preparation of guidelines to conduct country case studies

Speaker:
Kunio Tsubota
Chief, Comparative Agricultural Development Service (ESAC), FAO

Discussants:
Tim J. Aldington
Consultant; Former Senior Technical Adviser for the Office of the Assistant Director-General, Agricultural Department (AGD), FAO

Pantjar Simatupang,
Researcher, Centre for Social Economics, Agency for Research and Development, Indonesia

Bingsheng Ke
Director; Research Center for Rural Economy (RCRE) Ministry of Agriculture, Beijing, China

Moderator and session wrap-up:
Jacques Vercueil
Former Director, Agriculture and Economic Development Analysis Division (ESA), FAO