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Speakers invited -to be confirmed
Congress Website: https://world-congress.alide.org/
Venue: Antigua Carretera a Pátzcuaro # 8555,
Exhacienda San José de La Huerta, Morelia, Michoacán.
C.P. 58342 (FIRA Headquarters)
PREVIOUS DAY, November 22
13:00 – 20:00
DAY 1, November 23
07:30
Departure from hotels to venue
08:00 – 09:15
Registration
09:15 – 10:30
Opening session (75 minutes)
- Welcome Note: Alan Elizondo, Director-General, FIRA
- Opening remarks: Carlos Linares, Chairman ALIDE (video)
- Víctor Manuel Villalobos Arámbula, Secretary of Agriculture and Rural Development, Mexico (video)
- Message of IFAD’s President, Alvaro Lario (video)
Vote of thanks: Edgardo Alvarez, Secretary General, ALIDE
Message of IFAD’s President, Alvaro Lario (video)
10:25 – 10:30
Vote of thanks: Edgardo Alvarez, Secretary General, ALIDE
10:30 – 11:00
Group photo and Coffee & Networking Break / Exhibition of craftworks
11:00 – 12:30
Business Session 1: Response to the New Global Scenario: Agricultural Development and Sustainable and Inclusive Food Systems (120 minutes)
Setting the scene: global experts will present and discuss the current challenges posed by the new global scenario and the response of public policies and the financing for development in agriculture and rural sector.
Session Chair: Jose Luis Negrin, General Director of Financial System Affairs, Banco de Mexico: Introduction to the topic and opening remarks
Video-message: Maximo Torero, Chief Economist, Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) (10 min)
> Presenters:
- Rossana Polastri, Regional Director Latin American and the CaribbeanM International Fund for Agricultural development (IFAD)
- Ernesto Hugo Stein, Representative in Mexico, Inter-American Development Bank (IDB)
- Diego Montenegro, Representative in Mexico, Inter-American Institute for Cooperation on Agriculture (IICA)
- Frank Rubio, Senior Coordinator, SAFIN and Senior Technical Advisor, ABC Fund
- Open Forum for Q & A
- Conclusions and wrap up remarks by Session Chair
12:30 – 14:00
Lunch
14:15 – 15:30
Business Session 2: Technological Innovations for Agricultural Financing in Latin America (90 minutes)
> Session Chair: Alan Elizondo, Director-General, FIRA (5 min)
- Hector Pena, Agriculture Economist Senior Consultant, World Bank (12 min)
- Kunal Prasad, Co-Founder & COO at CropIn Technology (12
min) - Juan Carlos Cortes, General Manager, PROAGRO (12 min)
- Basanta Lamsal, Microfinance expert, Nepal (12 min)
- Open Forum for Q & A
- Conclusions and wrap up remarks by Session Chair
15:30 – 16:00
Coffee & Networking Break
16:00 – 17:30
Business Session 3: Financing Sustainable Agricultural and Rural Development in LAC: Role of National Public Development Banks (90 minutes)
Session Chair: Mr. Edgardo Alvarez, Secetary General, ALIDE: Introduction to the topic and opening remarks (5 min)
- Fernando Duran, General Manager, Banco Agricola de la República Dominicana
(BAGRICOLA), Dominican Republic (12 min) - Angela Penagos, President, Fondo para el Financiamiento del Sector Agropecuario (FINAGRO), Colombia (12 min)
- Gabriela Fernandez, Executive Manager, Banco de la Republica Oriental del Uruguay (BROU) (12 min)
- Claude Torre, Project Manager, Agence Française de Développement, (AFD) (12 min)
- Lucia Saavedra, Agricultural Banking Department, Banco de la Provincia de Buenos Aires (BAPRO) (12 min)
- Open Forum for Q & A
- Conclusions and wrap up remarks by Session Chair
19:00 – 21:30
Casa Grande Hotel
19:30 – 00:00
Gala Dinner
Casa Grande Hotel
- Bus departure: 19:30 hrs (Fiesta Inn and Best Western Hotels)
- Dinner duration: 4 hrs
- Return drop off: 00:00 hrs (Fiesta Inn and Best Western Hotels)
DAY 2, November 24
08:00
Departure from hotels to venue
08:30 – 09:00
Registration
09:00 – 10: 30
Business Session 4: Seafood Value Chain Finance in Africa: Scaling Up the Blue Economy (90 minutes)
> Session Chair: Thomas T. Essel, Secretary General, AFRACA: Introduction to the topic and opening remarks (5 min)
> Presenters:
Thomas Gietzen, International Consultant, Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) (12 min)
Suchitra Upare, Network Coordinator, CAFI-SSF Network Global network for capacity building to increase access of small-scale fisheries to financial services) (12 min)
Maregesi Shaban, Senior Manager Retail Agribusiness, CRDB Bank Plc. Tanzania (12 min)
Rachel Karembo Mweni, Projects Coordinator, USTADI Foundation, Kenya (12 min)
Open Forum for Q & A
Conclusions and wrap up remarks by Session Chair
10:30 – 11:00
Coffee & Networking Break / Exhibition of craftworks
11:00 – 12:30
Businss Session 5: Green Inclusive Finance as a Critical Trigger to Sustainable Agricultural & Food System (90 minutes)
> Session Chair: Ms. Cecilia Cayosa Borromeo, President and CEO, the Land Bank of the
Philippines (LANDBANK): Introduction to the topic and opening remarks; (10 Minutes)
> Presenters:
- H.E Dr. SOENG Reth, Deputy Chief Executive Officer, Agricultural and Rural Development Bank,
Phnom Penh, of Cambodia (15 minutes)
Topic: Accelerating green finance to agriculture & food sector in Cambodia: experiences
of ARDB. - Ms. Nguyen Tuyet Duong, Member of the Board of Directors, Vietnam Bank for
Agriculture and Rural Development, Hanoi, Vietnam; (15 min)
Topic: Innovations in green finance to support smallholder farmers in Vietnam. - Mr. Norman William S. Kraft, Director, Department of Agriculture-Agricultural
Credit Policy Council (DA-ACPC) (15 min)
Topic: Policy measures to unlock potential investment pipeline from public and private
sector to support green aspirations of smallholders in the Philippines. - Mr. Wichai Paksa, Assistant Senior Vice President, Bank for Agriculture and Agricultural
Cooperatives (BAAC), Bangkok, Thailand; (15 min)
Topic: Investing in Agrifood system transformation by BAAC in Thailand to achieve Agenda
2030
Open forum for Q & A (15 min)
Conclusion and wrap up remarks by Session Chair (5 min)
12:30 – 14:00
Lunch
14:30 – 16:00
Business Session 6: Guarantee Systems as Drivers of Agricultural-Livestock Financing (90 minutes)
> Session Chair: Luz Stella Lozano, Secretary General, REGAR – Iberoamerican Guarantees Network: Introduction to the topic and opening remarks
- Pablo Pombo, President, Board of Directors, SAECA – Sociedad Anonima Estatal de Caucion Agraria, Spain (TBC)
- Antonio Gaspar, Executive President, Agrogarante – Sociedad de Garantia Mutua, Portugal (TBC)
- Ángela Penagos, President, Fondo para el Financiamiento del Sector Agropecuario
(FINAGRO), Colombia - Jose Antonio Cortes, Deputy General Director of Business Promotion, FIRA, Mexico (TBC)
- Open Forum for Q & A
- Conclusions and wrap up remarks by Session Chair
16:00 – 16:45
Closing Session (45 minutes)
- Announcement of the 8th World Congress venue
- Lessons learned: Romy Calderon, Chief Economic Studies, ALIDE
- Morelia Declaration
16:45 – 17:45
Closing reception
DAY 3, November 25
08:00 – 19:00
Cultural Visits
- Magical towns cultural visit
- Visit to Patzcuaro
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DAY 4, November 26: Departure of delegates
