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Cultivating Innovation: A Response to the Food Price Crisis
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| Development Marketplace 2008 on Agriculture for Sustainable Development |
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EVENT GUIDE | A dialogue with policy makers and practitioners to explore innovation in the food price crisis response, organized by the Agriculture and Rural Development Department of the World Bank, was held on September 26, 2008. |  | | Opening Plenary: Innovation in a Changing Context Opening Remarks: Juergen Voegele, Director, Agriculture and Rural Development, World Bank Opening Address: Sir Gordon Conway, Chief Scientific Adviser, Department for International Development-UK Presentations by Past Development Marketplace winners: Ian Thorpe, Chief Executive Officer, Pump Aid, and Flor Cassassuce, Project Coordinator, Niparajá AC Expert Summation: Christoph Kohlmeyer, BMZ and Chairman of the Board for the Global Donor Platform for Rural Development |  | Three Parallel Sessions: Innovation in Access from Seeds to Systems | Managing Access to Farm Inputs Presentations by: Nicholas Minot, Senior Research Fellow, International Food Policy Research Institute Julie Howard,Executive Director, Partnership to Cut Poverty and Hunger in Africa Amit Roy, President and CEO, International Fertilizer Development Center Chair: Mark Cackler, Manager, Agriculture and Rural Development, World Bank |  | Product, Process, and Organizational Innovation as Tools for Accessing Better Markets Presentations by: Mark Gehlhar, Senior Economist, Markets and Trade Division, Economic Research Service, US Department of Agriculture Ajay Vashee, President, International Federation of Agricultural Producers Richard Henry, Lead Economist, Agribusiness Department, International Finance Corporation, World Bank Chair: John Lamb, Senior Agribusiness Team Leader, Agriculture and Rural Development,World Bank |  | | Innovations in Technology and the Way Forward, Presentations by: Rudy Rabbinge, Science Council Chair, Consultative Group on International Agricultural Research Gustavo Fonseca, Team Leader, Natural Resources, Global Environment Facility Mercy Karanja, Senior Program Officer, Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation Chair: Eija Pehu, Science and Technology Adviser, Agriculture and Rural Development,World Bank |  | | Afternoon Plenary - Biofuels: Driving Innovation in the Next Generation Presentations by: Professor David Zilberman, University of California, Berkeley, Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics Augusta Molnar, Director, Communities and Markets, Rights and Resources Initiative Chair: Todd Johnson, Senior Energy Specialist, World Bank |  | | Concluding Session Concluding Remarks: Juergen Voegele, Director, Agriculture and Rural Development, World Bank |
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