Policy Dialogue on High Food Prices: Outlook and Donor Mid-term Response

An event organised jointly by the OECD and the Global Donor Platform for Rural Development on 12-13 February 2009 at the OECD conference centre in Paris. It focused on how donors should best respond in the medium and long-term to foster pro-poor agricultural production to sustain access to affordable food in developing countries. Taking account of the Madrid High Level Conference in January 2009, it brought together donor and developing country representatives and other high level experts. After a brief review of causes and consequences, it focused on two questions concerning donors’ approaches – are they doing the right things, and are they doing them right?   > Discussion Summary > Agenda / Ordre du jour

• POVNET AT WORK: Responding to Food Insecurity. Pro-poor Growth and Agriculture - Information Sheet, Peter Bieler, OECD Secretariat
• Global Donor Platform for Rural Development, 2008, Agricultural sectoral experiences in implementing the Paris Declaration on Aid Effectiveness

Presentations

Please note that the following presentations express the views of the contributors and do not necessarily reflect the views and policies of the OECD or the governments of its member countries.

• Opening remarks by the Chair, Professor Joachim von Braun, Director General, International food Policy Research Institute

• Driven by Increased Price Volatility, the Global Food Crisis is Not Over, Christopher Delgado, Strategy & Policy Advisor, Agriculture & Rural Development, World Bank

• Policy Dialogue on High Food Prices: Outlook and Donor Mid-Term Response, H.E Tumusiime Rhoda Peace, Commissioner for Rural Economy and Agriculture, African Union Commission

• The Comprehensive Africa Agriculture Development Programme (CAADP), Komla Bissi, Agribusiness Advisor, NEPAD/CAADP Secretariat

• Food crisis: are donors doing the right thing, Sarojeni V. Rengam, Executive Director, Pesticide Action Network Asia-Pacific, Co-chair of People's Coalition on Food Sovereignty

• Decreasing budget,investment and interest.Losing skills, knowledge and asset. A case of partnership for improved food security.Coalition for African Rice Development, Hiroyuki Kubota, Executive Advisor to DG, Rural Development Department, Japan International Cooperation Agency

• Effective aid for food and nutritional security and agricultural development, Dr John Barrett, Deputy Director, Policy Division, DFID

• Le Hub Rural: How best to implement the Accra agenda for action ? What can donors do?, Dr Ibrahim Assane Mayaki, Le Hub Rural, Dakar

• Are Donors Doing it Right?, Dr Hans R. Herren, Millennium Institute