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1 FARMERS FORUM 2012 Agenda Saturday, 18 February 2012 (IFAD HQ) Special session of The Farmers Forum on Youth in Agriculture 9:00-9:30 Opening remarks: IFAD and MIJARC 9:30-10:30 How to facilitate access of rural youth to agriculture and agricultural related activities? Presentation of the outcome of MIJARC-IFAD-FAO collaboration on rural youth Discussion facilitated by a young farmer representative 10:30-10:45 Coffee break 10:45-12:00 Roundtable discussion on on-going rural youth-related initiatives Discussion facilitated by a young farmer representative 12:00-14:00 Lunch Working groups: Consolidation of the statements prepared during the regional workshops supported under MIJARC grant with a specific focus on recommendations: to farmers organizations for increasing young farmer representation to IFAD and governments when designing policies and programmes Coffee will be served during working groups 16:00-17:00 Presentation and discussion of the working groups recommendations and of the synthesis of deliberations of the special session

2 Sunday, 19 February 2012 (ARAN Park Hotel) 9:00-18:00 Preparatory and parallel meetings of networks of farmers and rural producers organizations (FOs) 14:00-18:00 Registration of participants 18:15-20:00 Farmers Forum Steering Committee meeting review of the agenda preparation for the synthesis of deliberations designation of sessions chairs and rapporteurs

3 20-21 February: The Farmers Forum Global Meeting (IFAD HQ) Monday, 20 February :00-10:30 Opening session 10:30-10:45 Coffee break Presentation of the agenda and introduction of the Steering Committee members Address by the President of IFAD Interventions by members of the Steering Committee: AFA, COPROFAM, LVC, PAFO, ROPPA, WFF, WFFP (5 minutes each). Intervention by the president of WFO (5 minutes) 10:45-12:30 Plenary session: trends and developments in IFAD s partnerships with FOs. IFAD presentation of Partnership in Progress , plenary discussion and wrap up of key issues for the regional working groups 12:30-13:00 Plenary session: feedback from the Saturday s workshop on Youth in Agriculture 13:00-14:30 Lunch 14:30-17:30 Parallel regional working group sessions: progress achieved and future goals for IFAD-FO partnerships at national and regional levels: West and Central Africa Italian Conference Room (En/Fr) East and Southern Africa Oval Room A (En/Fr) Near East, North Africa and Europe - Oval Room B (En/Fr/Ar) Latin America and the Caribbean Room C th floor wing C (Sp) Asia and the Pacific Room C th floor wing C (En) 17:30-18:30 Rapporteurs prepare their feedback from the regional working groups 19:30-20:30 Evening working session of the Steering Committee on recommendations on IFAD/FOs partnerships

4 Tuesday, 21 February :30-10:45 Four parallel Thematic Working Groups: Sustainable agriculture, Agro-ecology: how to promote and scale up good practices on the ground? Italian Conference Room (En/Fr/Sp/Ar) Sustainable fisheries: how fishers organizations can contribute to sustainable management of marine resources while improving incomes? Oval Room A (En/Fr/Sp/Ar) Institutional development and financial sustainability of farmers organizations: how external support can avoid the dependency syndrome and contribute to building more autonomous/self-sustaining FOs? Oval Room B (En/Fr/Sp) Engaging RIO+20: what are the common objectives of FOs and IFAD? How can we effectively support each other? Room C th floor wing C (En) 10:45-11:00 Coffee break 11:00-12:30 Plenary session: reports of the five regional working groups of Monday on the operational partnership on the ground 12:30-14:00 Lunch Preparation of the Short Synthesis of Deliberations for the GC (Steering Committee) 14:00-16:30 Plenary session: feedback from the four thematic working groups 16:30-16:45 Coffee break Presentation, discussion and approval by FO representatives of the short Synthesis of Deliberations 16:45-18:30 Final plenary session open to IFAD EB Representatives Reading of the short Synthesis of Deliberations Reactions of IFAD management (Associate Vice President, PMD) Exchanges with EB Representatives Closure of The Farmers Forum by Associate Vice President, PMD

5 Wednesday 22 February 2012 (IFAD HQ) The participants in The Farmers Forum are invited to the Governing Council with observer s status. The Farmers Forum Synthesis of Deliberations is delivered to the Governing Council Plenary on 22 February (to be confirmed). Farmers Forum side event on Women s Leadership Room C th floor wing C Meeting with women farm leaders on follow up of the 2010 workshop on women leadership in Farmers Organizations, organized by IFAD Gender Desk Thursday, 23 February 2012 Side Events of The Farmers Forum (IFAD HQ) Organic farmers organizations: empowering farmers and promoting sustainable rural development, organised by IFOAM Oval Room A (En/Sp/Fr) Linking research to advocacy in farmers organizations: building on country experiences, organised by AgriNatura and the ESFIM project Oval Room B (En/Sp/Fr) The role of livestock for farmers coping with environmental and social challenges of the future, organised by Vétérinaires Sans Frontières - Europa Room C th floor wing C (En/Sp/Fr) 16:00-16:30 Coffee break Strengthening farmers organizations in Sub-Saharan Africa the Farmer Organization Support Centre in Africa (FOSCA), organised by Alliance for a Green Revolution in Africa (AGRA) Oval Room A (En/Sp/Fr) World Agricultures Watch : FAO/CIRAD, organised by WAW secretariat at FAO Oval Room B (En/Sp/Fr) International Year of Cooperatives, jointly organised by IFAD, WFP and FAO Room C th floor wing C (En)

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