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7 December 2010 | 8 December 2010  

Session 1 | Session 2 | Panel 1 | Panel 2 | Panel 3 | Press conference

7 December 2010

4.30pm - 5pm: Registration and refreshments

5pm - 7.15pm: Opening ceremony

Chairman: Ambassador Chris Kpodo, Deputy Minister for Foreign Affairs and Regional Integration, Ghana

• Aims of the Forum, by François-Xavier de Donnea, President of SWAC (10 min)
• Policy statements by the following:
  • Regional organisations
    • Mr. Ismaïl Binguitcha-Fare, Commissioner for Rural Development, Natural Resources and Environment, UEMOA
    • Mr. Lasanne Kaboré, Director for Multilateral Surveillance, ECOWAS
    • Prof. Alhousseini Bretaudeau, Executive Secretary, CILSS
  • West African ministers responsible for agriculture and food security (40 min)
    • Burkina Faso: Dr. Abdoulaye Combari, Minister for Agriculture
    • Ghana: Hon. Nii Amasah Namoale, Deputy Minister in charge of Fisheries
    • Togo: Mr. Kombaté Dindiogue Konlani, Head of Cabinet, Ministry for Agriculture, Livestock and Fisheries
  • Ministers and officials of OECD countries (Belgium, Canada, France) (40min)
• Welcoming speech by Ambassador Chris Kpodo, Deputy Minister for Foreign Affairs and Regional Integration, Ghana (10 min)

8 December 2010

9am - 11am  

Chair: Prof. Alhousseini Bretaudeau, Executive Secretary, CILSS

Introduction:

• Food reserve initiatives and lessons learnt from the past 30 years in West Africa (French), by Mr. Issa Tankari, National Food Products Board of Niger (OPVN) (10 min)
• Challenges and options for the establishment of regional food stocks, by Ms. Adeline Borot de Battisti, SWAC (5 min)

Presentations:

• Opportunities and challenges for RESOGEST, the network of boards responsible for food security stock management (French), by El Hadj Dramane Coulibaly, Permanent Inter-State Committee for Drought Control in the Sahel (CILSS) (15min)
• Regional food stock mechanisms in Southern Africa, by Mr. Fungayi Simbi, Food, Agriculture and Natural Resources Policy Analysis Network (FANRPAN) (15min)
• Analysis of the experience of the Emergency Rice Reserve in Asia by Ms. Maria Elena V. Rebagay, Asian Partnership for the Development of Human Resources in Rural Asia (AsiaDHRRA), and Ms. Victoria A. Serrato, Asian Farmers' Association for Sustainable Rural Development (AFA) (15 mn)
• Co-operation between public authorities and the World Food Programme (WFP) via the response network for emergencies in Latin America and the Caribbean, by Martin Walsh, World Food Programme regional office, Dakar (15min)

Coffee break (20min)

11.20am-11.35am

Chair: Mr. Ismaïl K. Binguitcha-Fare, Commissioner for Rural Development, Natural Resources & Environment, UEMOA

Introduction: Challenges faced by the RESOGEST initiative (French), by Mr. Issa Tankari, OPVN, and Ms. Adeline Borot de Battisti, SWAC (15min)

11.35am–1pm

Panel 1: Policy coherence and institutional arrangements at the regional and international levels

Facilitator: Ms. Sophia Murphy, Institute for Agricultural Trade and Policy (IATP)

Panel members:

• Ministers or Delegates: Dr. Abdoulaye Combari (Burkina Faso); Mr. Nii Namoale (Ghana); Mr. Kombaté Dindiogue Konlani (Togo)
• Mr. Ousmane Djibo, African Union/New Economic Partnership for African Development (AU/NEPAD) 
• Ms. Milasoa Cherel-Robson, United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD)

2pm–3.30pm

Panel 2: Harmonisation and cooperation among national structures responsible for food stocks

Facilitator: Charles Tinga Sawadogo, Director General, SONAGESS, Burkina Faso

Panel members:

• Board and company managers: Mr. Irénée Bio Aboudou (Benin); Mr. Seydou Sadou (Niger); Mr. James Olusegun Oke (Nigeria); Mr. Issa Saye (Senegal); 
• Mr. Hamidou Konaté, Parliament of Mali;
• Mr. Haimoude Ould Ahmed Verkane, Mauritania Senate
• Mr. Salif Diarra, West-African Market Information Network (RESIMAO)
• Prof. Alhousseini Bretaudeau, Permanent Interstate Committee for Drought Control in the Sahel (CILSS)
• Mr. Ismaïl K. Binguitcha-Fare, Commissioner for Rural Development, Natural Resources & Environment, UEMOA

3.30pm–5pm

Panel 3: What role for the private sector in the constitution and operation of regional food stocks?

Facilitator: Mr. Laurent Bossard, SWAC Secretariat

Panel members:

• Mr. Mamadou Cissokho, Network of Farmers' and Agricultural Producers' Organisations of West Africa (ROPPA) > presentation
• Mr. Imam Hamed, Dawanu market, Nigeria
• Ms. Rosalie Botti, Network of Economic Operators in the West African Food Industry (ROESAO)
• Mr. Musa Salah, ECOBANK
• Mr. André Beaudouin, UPA Développement international (UPA DI) > presentation

Coffee break (20min)

5.20pm - 6pm

Chair: Mr. François-Xavier de Donnea, SWAC President

• The main messages from the 2010 SWAC Forum, by Ms. Sophia Murphy (IATP) and Mr. Ousmane Djibo (AU/NEPAD) (15min)
• The way forward: next steps – ECOWAS/UEMOA/CILSS/ROPPA (15 mn)
• Closing speech by the Chairman (10min)

6:30pm-7pm

Speakers:

• Dr. Abdoulaye Combari, Minister for Agriculture, Burkina Faso
• Mr. François-Xavier de Donnea, Minister, Kingdom of Belgium, SWAC President
• Prof. Alhousseini Bretaudeau, CILSS Executive Secretary
• Mr. Bagna Djibo, Executive Secretary, ROPPA 
• Mr. Mamadou Cissokho, Honorary President, ROPPA
• Mr. Charles Tinga Sawadogo, Director General, SONAGESS, Burkina Faso