Consultative meeting
Alliance for Climate-Smart Agriculture
18-20 June 2014 Hanoi, Viet Nam
Provisional PROGRAM (5 June)
Tuesday 17 June, 2014
Arrival / Registration of Participants
Day 1 - Wednesday 18 June 2014
Field Trip
Day 2 - Thursday 19 June 2014
8.30-9.00am
Registration
Morning session
9.00-10.00am
Opening Plenary
Opening Speeches by
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10.00 - 10.15am
Cao Duc Phat, Minister of Agriculture and Rural
Development, Viet Nam
Hans Hoogeveen, Vice Minister for Agriculture, The
Netherlands
Hiroyuki Konuma, Assistant Director-General and
Regional Representative UN Food and Agriculture
Organization (FAO), Regional Office for Asia and the
Pacific
Harry Palmier, Global Forum on Agricultural Research
(GFAR)
Country Director Asia Development Bank (ADB),
Vietnam Resident Mission
Introduction to the Work Program, objective of the
meeting by the Co-Chairs
10.15 – 10.45am
Introductions
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Introduction on Climate Smart Agriculture
Andrea Cattaneo (FAO)
Background Alliance for Climate-Smart Agriculture
Kim van Seeters (Interim-Secretariat)
10.45-11.00am
Coffee break
11.00-12.30pm
Stakeholder context: Priority objectives of different
stakeholders Alliance for CSA
Panel members:
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12.30-2.00pm
Financing perspective
- Dr. Apichai Thirathon, Secretariat Manager, ADB
Working group on Agriculture, Core Agriculture Support
Program (CASP)
Farmers perspective
- Victoria Serrato, Asian Farmers Association (AFA)
Civil society perspective
- Sonali Blist, INHERE India
Private sector perspective
- tbc
Lunch
Afternoon Session
2.00-4.00pm
Asian context and African and Latin American
experience
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Mr. Nguyen The Hinh, Vice Director General of Agriculture
Project Management Board - Low carbon agriculture
support project
 Africa
 Latin-America
4.00- 4.30pm
Coffee break
4.30-5.00pm
Brief summary of Thursday and introduction to the
working groups
Day 3 - Friday 20 June 2014
Morning Session
9.00-12.30am
Parallel working group sessions for Enabling
Environment and CSA Knowledge
Panel members
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Enabling Environment
Hlami Ngwenya, FANRPAN
II.
CSA Knowledge
Dr. Nguyen Van Bo, President, Vietnam
Academy of Agricultural Sciences
(VAAS)
Dr. Alioune Fall, DG ISRA
Abdulai Jalloh, CORAF/WECARD
12.30-2.00am
Lunch
Afternoon Session
2.00- 2.30pm
Plenary Session
Feedback working group sessions for Enabling
Environment and CSA Knowledge
2.30-3.30pm
Reflection on working groups and concrete outputs to
feed into Global Conference The Hague and UN
Secretary General’s Climate Summit
3.30-4.00pm
Coffee break
4.00-4.45pm
Next steps
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4.45-5.00pm
Anthea Webb, UN Secretary-General’s Office
Official Closing of the Consultative meeting of the Alliance for
CSA