Jeffrey Y. Campbell works as the Manager of the Forest and Farm Facility (FFF) at FAO in Rome. Born and raised in India, Campbell is a US citizen with over two decades of experience in community forestry, rural development and philanthropy. Before joining FAO, he worked at the Christensen Fund as Director of Grant Making and at the Ford Foundation in India, Nepal, Indonesia and New York as Program Officer, Senior Program Officer and Deputy Director (1991-2008).
11.06.2020
9:00 am
1:30 pm
CEST
Web series 3: Multidimensional resilience – smallholder producers managing risks
Speakers:
Jeffrey Campbell,
Juha Marttila,
Arianna Giuliodori,
Duncan Macqueen,
Esther Penunia,
Satu Santala,
Arif Husain,
Hannelore Beerlandt,
Adriano Campolina,
Elizabeth Nsimadala,
Paul Winters,
Carla Montesi,
Ellen Alfsen,
Satu-Marja Tenhiälä,
Charles Nyanjui,
Jog Raj Giri,
Petri Sarvamaa,
Tran Lam Dong,
Le Van Binh,
Vu Le Y Voan,
Ngo Sỹ Hoai,
Pham Thi Hong Yen,
Tiina Huvio
Published By:
Hosted by:
AgriCord
Food and Forest Development Finland
Forest and Farm Facility
About the webinar
Third of three sessions will bring a panel discussion on international responses to support resilience in short- and long-term shocks and stresses
How to ensure resilience of smallholder production systems in times of crisis? How farmers and forest producer organizations (FFPOs) maintain functionality during and after the disturbances, and mitigate potential losses in the smallholder value-chains? What is the current and future FPPOs capacity to respond to climate hazards and non-climate stresses such as Covid-19 pandemic?
In the face of COVID-19, smallholder farmers and forest producers face the challenge of how to balance short term shocks and longer-term risks such as climate change. One of the impacts of the COVID-19 crisis is the disruption of agricultural and forestry supply chains and a re-shuffling of actors. These critical issues will be discussed with forest and farm producer organisations (FFPOs) in an international web event series organised on the 9-11 June 2020.
The event is hosted by Food and Forest Development Finland (FFD), AgriCord, and the Forest and Farm Facility (a partnership between FAO, IIED, IUCN, and AgriCord) in collaboration with the Asian Farmers’ Association (AFA) and the Pan-African Farmers’ Organization (PAFO). The conference includes a series of web-seminars with pre-recorded and live interactive consultations.
The goals of the event are:
- To gain understanding of FFPO responses and strategies (locally, nationally, regionally) in thriving greater resilience, with specific focus on climate change and Covid-19 responses.
- To engage institutional stakeholders on the agenda, increase their awareness in FFPO resilience, and to provide recommendations to these actors, and to exchange best practices and tools for increased resilience.
- To formulate common policy positions to promote resilient pathways to resilience, with specific focus on climate change and Covid-19.
The conference will be in English.
Please find below indications for registration in all three sessions.
- Register here for International web consultation and conference, 9 June: registration 9 June.
- Register here for International technical workshop, 10 June: conference registration 10 June.
- Register here for International web conference, 11 June: registration web conference.
COVER PHOTO:
Climate Change, Agriculture and Food Security (CCAFS)
Focus Region:
Global
Focus Topic:
Agricultural Value Chains / Agri-Businesses
Climate / Weather / Environment
Nutrition / Food Systems
Gender / Youth / Social Inclusion
About the speakers
Duncan Macqueen
Principal researcher and leader, IIED/Forest and Farm Facility
Duncan Macqueen is an expert on forest enterprise issues and local to global governance processes that affect forests. He is currently the team leader on forests within IIED, overseeing work under an overall goal of ‘resilient forests, prosperous people’.
Duncan Macqueen is an experienced forest research and development practitioner. He has delivered impacts in collaborative programmes across 30-plus countries in Africa, Asia, Latin America and the Caribbean.
He has been a conceptual pioneer in the design and implementation of programmes to sustain locally-controlled forest business. Impacts have included new: (i) agroforestry system improvements; (ii) funding facilities for forest and farm producer organisations; (iii) training tools and programmes for business start-up development, risk self-assessment and business incubation; (iv) labelling options for fair trade forest businesses; (v) tiered organisational structures between producer groups that aggregate product and power; (vi) effective policy advocacy positions; and (vii) knowledge and learning products for a range of audiences.
Over the last 27 years he has authored academic, practical and policy outputs covering agroforestry tree improvement, locally-controlled forest business, forest-linked organisations, value chain developments (in timber, non-timber forest products, biomass energy and ecotourism), forest climate strategies, forest governance and forest development ethics. Recent books include titles such as ‘Democratising Forest Business’ and ‘Forest Business Incubation’.
Esther Penunia
Ma. Estrella “Esther” Penunia is Secretary General of the Asian Farmers’ Association for Sustainable Rural Development (AFA), a regional farmers organization (FO), currently with 20 national FOs in 16 Asian countries, with around 13 million family farmers as members.
Esther spent more than three decades of professionally in the field of rural development, working in various capacities as community organizer, primary health care worker, participatory action researcher, trainer, gender advocate, consultant, campaigns coordinator, chief executive officer, board member and networker.
Satu Santala
Director General, Ministry for Foreign Affairs of Finland, Department for Development Policy
Arif Husain
Dr. Arif Husain is Chief Economist and Director of the Food Security Analysis and Trends Service at United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) in Rome, Italy. Arif joined WFP in 2003 and since then he has served in many senior positions both in the field and at Headquarters. He has also worked for the World Bank and taught at the Hubert H Humphrey Institute of Public Affairs. Arif’s work focuses on analyzing food security and welfare conditions in developing countries to inform humanitarian response. His research interests include application of information technologies to improve humanitarian response; understanding linkages between poverty, hunger, conflict and migration; and analysing how global economic shocks impact food security, social protection and emergency and development assistance. Arif has a Ph.D. in agricultural and applied economics with a minor in forestry from the University of Minnesota.
Elizabeth Nsimadala
President of the Pan Africa farmers Organization (PAFO); President of Eastern Africa Farmers Federation (EAFF)
Previously, she served four years as the Regional Women Representative at the EAFF and Treasurer Board Uganda Cooperative Alliance (UCA) a member of EAFF. She also sits at the Governing Council of Africa Fertilizer Financing Mechanism (AFFM) and Chairs the Governing Council of the Uganda Cooperative College in Tororo among others. Elizabeth is a successful agriprenuer and has been at the Centre of championing farmer-led Agriculture technology and innovation at the EAFF through the E-Granary initiative that virtually aggregates farmers for markets. She is a passionate cooperator and she spearheaded the push to have the regional law on cooperatives – The East Africa Cooperative Societies Bill 2015 through the East Africa Legislative Assembly. As a result of her efforts, she was recently awarded and Globally recognized by the World Farmers Organization (WFO) as one of the exemplary women leaders in Farmers Organizations’ contributing to sustainable development.
Paul Winters
Paul Winters is the Associate Vice-President of the Strategy and Knowledge Department at the International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD).
Prior to his current appointment, he was the Director of Research and Impact Assessment at IFAD, responsible for advancing IFAD’s research and impact assessment agendas as well as supporting the development effectiveness of IFAD’s operations.
From 2004-2015, Winters was a professor in the Department of Economics at American University in Washington, DC where he taught courses on impact evaluation, development economics and environmental economics. Before American University, he worked at the Inter-American Development Bank, the University of New England, and the International Potato Center. He has published numerous journal articles in the areas of impact evaluation, migration, cash transfer programs, rural development and smallholder agriculture.
Winters holds a Ph.D. in Agricultural and Resource Economics from the University of California at Berkeley, an MA in Economics from the University of California at San Diego and a BA in Non-Western Studies from the University of San Diego.
Satu-Marja Tenhiälä
International Forest Specialist, Central Union of Agricultural Producers and Forest Owners (MTK)
Charles Nyanjui
Charles Nyanjui leads the Farm Forestry Smallholder Producers Association of Kenya (FF SPAK). He has a Master’s in Forestry from the Karatina University in Biology and Silviculture, and a Bachelor’s in Forestry. He has participated in training and conferences in Kenya, South Africa, Uganda, Tanzania and Rwanda. He has experience in family forestry as well as community forestry.
Jog Raj Giri
Chair, Association of Family Forest Owners, Nepal
Giri has been actively functioning in the field of Natural Resources Management since 27 years in Nepal. During 27 years of professional engagement with all the institutions, gained professional experience in the field of Institutional Capacity Building, Policy Advocacy, Project Conceptualization and Natural Resources Management basically focusing on the issues of marginalized communities including women, Dalits, differently able people and rural communities. Chairperson Giri has contributed in many articles in the daily magazines and newsletters, made presentations in many national, regional and international conferences with his expertise on the issues of Family Forestry. He is also one of the Board of Directors of International Family Forest Alliance (IFFA). He has built the foundation of Family Forestry in Nepal, in the form of Association of Family Forest Owner’s, Nepal.
Petri Sarvamaa
Member of the European Parliament elected on behalf of Finland
Rapporteur on the European Parliament´s Own-Initiative Report on the new EU Forest Strategy
Pham Thi Hong Yen
Head of International Cooperation Department – Vietnam Cooperative Alliance (VCA)