IDRC’s Towards a Food Secure Future

11th October 2018
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Paepard

3-4 October 2018. Ottawa, Canada. Towards a Food Secure Future. This event was live streamed and posted on IDRC’s YouTube channel and GAC’s YouTube channel and Facebook page.

Session 1: Sustainable agricultural production

Facilitator:
Innocent Butare, CIFSRF Senior program specialist, IDRC

CIFSRF projects:
Roshan Pudaisani, former Principal investigator (Nepal, Sustainable Agriculture Kits)
Alfred Kojo Yeboah, former Project coordinator (Ghana, ICT extension services)
David Wallace, former Principal investigator (South Africa, livestock vaccine)

Panel experts:
Isabelle Vandeplas, Program development officer, CECI
Etienne Hainzelin, President’s advisor, CIRAD

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Session 2: Nutrition and health outcomes

Facilitator:
Annie Wesley, CIFSRF Senior program specialist, IDRC

CIFSRF projects:
Sue Horton, former Principal investigator (Tanzania, fortified oil)
Nguyen Do Huy, former Principal investigator (Vietnam, food processing)
Teresa Mosquera, former Principal investigator (Colombia, potatoes)

Panel experts:
Paula Tenaglia, Director of Operations, Action Against Hunger
Lynnette Neufeld, Director, Knowledge Leadership, Global Alliance for Improved Nutrition
Colleen Emary, Technical Advisor, Health and Nutrition, World Vision International

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Session 3: Market access and income for small scale farmers

Facilitator:
Marwan Owaygen, Senior program specialist, IDRC

CIFSRF projects:
Gregor Reid, former Principal investigator (Africa, fermented foods)
Karthikeyan Muniappan, former Principal investigator (India, small millets)
Clement Adeebooye, former Principal investigator (West Africa, fertilizer micro-dosing)

Panel experts:
Anne Mbaabu, Director, Market access program, AGRA
Gifty Blekpe, Women’s empowerment program coordinator, CARE Ghana
Nikita Ericksen-Hamel, Deputy Director- Policy and Practice, Global Affairs Canada

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Session 4: Collaborative partnerships

Facilitator:
Wendy Manchur, CIFSRF program officer, IDRC

CIFSRF projects:
Hortense Atta Diallo, former Principal investigator (Ivory Coast, coconut)
Andrew Potter, former Principal investigator (Kenya, CBPP vaccine)
Jayasankar Subramanian, former Principal investigator (India, Kenya, Sri Lanka, Tanzania, Trinidad and Tobajo, nanotechnology)

Panel experts:
Anne Gaboury, President and CEO, Développement international Desjardins
Ignacia Fernandez, Executive director, RIMISP

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Session 5: Scaling up innovations for impact

Facilitator:
Marco Rondon, Senior program specialist, IDRC

CIFSRF projects:
Pierre Akponikpe, former Principal investigator (West Africa, fertilizer micro-dosing)
Meena Jadhav, former State Program Manager (India, double fortified salt)
Andrew Msolla, former Principal investigator (Tanzania, legumes)

Panel experts:
Richard Kohl, Strategy and scale expert, CLSS
Seerp Wigboldus, Senior Advisor and Researcher , Wageningen University Centre for Development Innovation

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Session 6: Gender equality in agriculture and food security

Facilitator:
Jemimah Njuk, Senior program specialist, IDRC

CIFSRF projects:
Ramona Ridolfi, Gender expert (Cambodia, homestead food production)
Carol Henry, former Principal investigator (Ethiopia, pulses)
Veronica Hinojosa, Gender expert (Bolivia, Fish for Food)

Panel experts:
Franz Wong, Senior advisor, KIT Royal Tropical Institute
Sonia Laszlo, Director of the Institute for the Study of International Development, McGill University
Sophia Huyer, Gender and social inclusion research leader, CGIAR

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Related:
28 September 2018. The Government of Canada, through IDRC and Global Affairs Canada, has released a comprehensive report (116 pages) highlighting the lasting impact of its nine-year, CA$124.5 million Canadian International Food Security Research Fund (CIFSRF).

The report represents the collective efforts of the many people who dedicated their time and expertise to the CIFSRF initiative.
This includes the farmers and community members at the forefront of the effort to validate and test food security innovations, the international research teams driving these innovations, and the development specialists who secured the necessary financial resources and partnerships to bring these projects to life.
Together, they worked to develop and scale up innovations to increase production, access to, and consumption of safe and nutritious food.
Canada created CIFSRF nine years ago to push the boundaries of research and development funding by supporting practical innovations that directly improve the lives of the poor and food insecure.
CIFSRF used competitive calls to identify and select the best research ideas from strong and capable teams. Nearly a decade later, the results are clear: a wide-ranging portfolio of innovative and successful projects that have changed millions of lives for the better.

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