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0830 Call to order and announcements
Morning Sessions
Parallel session 9:
Improved Markets for African Farmers for Poverty Reduction
Chair: Isaac J. Minde
Rapporteur: Flash A. Bediako
0830 – 0845 Policy and Institutional Effects on Market
Participation by Smallholder Rice Farmers: Case Studies in Burkina Faso,
Mali and Niger. Ali Touré, Ibrahim Bamba, Aliou Diagne,
Koré Harouna, Youssouf Cissé, Daniel Kaboré. Rice Policy and Market
Development, WARDA
0845 – 0900 Patterns of Restructuring Food Markets in South
Africa: The Case of Fresh Produce Supply Chains. D. Chikazunga.
Joordan. D, Biénabe. E and Louw A.
University
of Pretoria
0900 – 0915 Has Imported Rice Crowded-Out Domestic Rice
Production in Ghana? What Has Been The Role Of Policy? Sam Asuming
Brempong and Yaw Bonsu Osei-Asare. University of Ghana,
Legon
0915 – 0930 Changing Face of the Agri-Food Market: A Farmers
Response and Possible Solutions from a Provincial Perspective.
Bongiswa Matoti, Nick Vink, and Estelle Bienabe. Western
Cape Department of Agriculture, South Africa
0930 – 0945 Trade Liberalization in the South African Livestock
Industry: Implications for Rural Development. Oyewumi, O.A.,
Jooste, A., Britz, W., and van Schalkwyk, H.D.. University of
the Free State and Markets and Economic Research Centre (MERC)
0945 – 1000
Competitiveness and Revealed Comparative Advantage in the SADC Maize
Industry. Emelly Mutambatsere. Cornell University
1000 – 1015
Consumer Preferences and Market Opportunities for Processed
Cowpea-Based Products in the Coastal Regions of Ghana. Fred Nimoh,
, S. Asuming-Brempong and D. B. Sarpong.
University of Ghana
1015 – 1030 Cereal Price Instability in Ethiopia: An
Assessment of Sources and Policy Options. Rashid Shahidur
and Meron Assefa.
International Food Policy
Research Institute (IFPRI)
1030 – 1045 Discussion
Discussants: Saa-Dittoh, University for Development Studies and
Salifou Abdul-Wahab, Tuskegee University
1045 – 1100 Tea break
Parallel session 10:
Advancing Technical Change in African Agriculture: Public Policy Issues
and Strategic Choices
Chair: Ponniah Anandajayaskeram
Rapporteur: Winnie Alum
0830 – 0845
Gendered Impact of Nerica Adoption on Farmers’ Production and Income in
Central Benin Agboh-Noameshie, Rita Afiavi,
Kinkingninhoun-Medagbe, F.M. and Diagne, A.
WARDA
0845 – 0900
Financing
Agricultural Inputs in Northern Togo through Inventory Credit System: An
Economic Analysis of Institutional Response. Abdou Konlambigue.
International Center for Soil Fertility and Agricultural Development (IFDC)
0900 – 0915
Smallholder Agricultural Surplus and Input Use under Transactions Costs:
Maize Supply and Fertilizer Demand in Kenya. Arega D. Alene,
Victor M. Manyong, Gospel Omanya, H.D. Mignouna, Mpoko Bokanga, George
D. Odhiambo. International Institute of Tropical Agriculture (IITA)
0915 – 0930
Risk Aversion and Sustainable Maize Production in Nigeria: Some Challenges
and Prospects for Agricultural and Economic Development. Luke O.
Olarinde and Victor M. Manyong. Ladoke Akintola University
of Technology
0930 – 0945
Analysis of Factors Influencing Adoption of Dairy Technologies in Western
Kenya. Makokha Stella N.,
Karugia
J., Staal S. and Willis Oluoch-Kosura.
Kenya Agricultural Research Institute
0945 – 1000 Impact Assessment of Agricultural Research and
Development to Reduce Virus Problems in Tomato Production in Mali:
Farmers’
Perceptions. Nouhoheflin. Theodore T., Coulibaly O.,
Norton G., Soumare S., Sissoko P.. International Institute of Tropical
Agriculture
1000 – 1015
Did Farmers’
Livelihood Improve? An Impact Assessment of Incorporating Forages into the
Crop-Livestock System in the Coastal Savannah of Ghana. Godwin
Ameleke,
Okantah S.A.,
Sottie, E.T., Marfo-Ahenkora E. A and Aboe, P.A.T.
CSIR Animal Research Institute
1015 – 1030 The Impact of Access to Credit on the
Adoption of Hybrid Maize in Malawi: An Empirical Test of an Agricultural
Household Model under Credit Market Failure. Franklin Simtowe,
Manfred Zeller. Bunda College of Agriculture
1030 – 1045 Discussion
Discussants: Bassolet Boubié, Université de Ouagadougou and
Ralandison Tsilavo, Kagoshima University, Japan
1045 – 1100 Tea break
Parallel session 11:
Panel Discussion 7.
0830 – 1045
African Agricultural Multilateral and Regional Trade
Facilitator:
FAO Trade (Accra office & Rome office)
Chair: Victor
afari-sefa
Rapporteur:
Bidogeza Jean claude
Presenters : TBA
Discussants :
Lamissa Diakité , Nicole Mason and Open discussion
1045 – 1100 Tea break
Parallel session 12:
The Role of Agriculture in Poverty Reduction: Recent Experiences from
Africa
Chair: Patrick Kormawa
Rapporteur: Peter Shimon Otieno
0830 – 0845
Strategies to Promote Market-Oriented Smallholder Agriculture in
Developing Countries: A Case of Kenya. John Omiti, David
Otieno, Ellen McCullogh, Timothy Nyanamba. Kenya Institute for Public
Policy Research and Analysis (KIPPRA)
0845 – 0900
Farmers’
Perceptions and Willingness to Pay for Metarhizium Based Biopesticide to
Control Cotton Bollworms in Benin (West Africa) Adetonah, Sounkoura,
O. Coulibaly, T. Nouhoheflin, C. Kooyman, D.Kpindou. International
Institute of Tropical Agriculture.
0900 – 0915
Recent Developments in the Rwandan Agriculture: The Challenges of
Attaining Food Security and Abolishing Absolute Poverty. Jose
Ariyappillil Mathai. National University of Rwanda
0915 – 0930 Assessing Potential Impact of a Farmer Field
School Training on Perennial Crops in Cameroon. Njankoua Wandji Dieu
ne dort, Nyemeck Binam, Sonii David, Jonas Mva Mva and James
Gockowski. International Institute of Tropical Agriculture
0930 – 0945 Impediments to Competitiveness of Small-and
Medium-Scale Maize Milling Enterprises in South Africa. Orefi Abu.
University of Pretoria, Pretoria
0945 – 1000 The Distributional Effects of Horticultural Export
Value Chains Among Smallholders in Southern Ghana. Victor Afari-Sefa.
Center for Development Research, Bonn
1000 – 1015 Integrating Poverty Classes and Economic Surplus
Analysis the Example of BT Maize in Kenya. Hugo De Groote.
CIMMYT
1015 – 1045 Discussion
Discussants: Klutse Amatévi, IFDC Lawrence S. Musisi Department of
Agriculture, South Africa
1045 – 1100 Tea
break
Mid
Morning Sessions
Parallel session 13:
Panel Discussion 8:
Stimulating Innovation and Adoption of Innovations in African Agriculture
1100 – 1300
Facilitator: William A. Masters.
Purdue University
Chair: Edith Adera
Rapporteur: Esther Njuguna
Presenters: Will Masters, Akin Adesina, Sidi Sanyang and Shenggen Fan
Discussants: Franklin Simtowe Simeon Ehui, Aliou Diagne
1300 – 1400 Lunch
Parallel session 14:
Expanding the Frontiers of Agricultural Economics to Meet the Challenges
of Agricultural Development in achieving the Millennium Development Goals
Chair: Gabre-Madhin
Eleni
Rapporteur: Irene Egyir
1100 – 1115 A Discriminant Analysis Of Factors
Associated With The Adoption Of Certified Organic Farming By Smallholder
Farmers In Kwazulu-Natal, South Africa.
Maggie Kisaka.
University of KwaZulu-Natal
1115 – 1130 Evaluation de la diffusion et
de l’adoption des variétés de riz NERICA en Guinée. Aliou Diagne,
Marie-Josée Sogbossi, Sékou Diawara, Abdoulaye Sadio Diallo et
Alpha Bacar Barry.
ADRAO Cotonou
1130 – 1145 Gender Contribution and Constrains To Rural
Agriculture and Household Food Security in Kenya: Case Of Western
Province. Joyce Omwoha. Moi University
1145 – 1200 Measuring Irrigation Water Efficiency with a
Stochastic Production Frontier: An Application for Citrus Producing Farms
in Tunisia. Boubaker Dhehibi, Lassaad Lachaal, Mohammed
Elloumi And Emna B. Messaoud.
Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique de Tunisie
1200 – 1215
Non-Credit Services of Group-Based Financial Institutions: Implications
for Smallholder Women Honey Income in Arid and Semi Arid Lands of Kenya.
Peter Shimon Otieno, Rose Adhiambo Nyikal and Fred Inuani
Mugivane. University of Nairobi
1215 – 1230
Heterogeneous Impacts of Cooperatives on Smallholders’
Commercialization Behavior: Evidence from Ethiopia. Tanguy Bernard,
Eleni Gabre-Madhin and Alemayehu Seyoum Taffesse. IFPRI
1230 – 1300 Discussion
Discussants: Sashi, IFPRI and
Samuel Asuming-Brempong, University of Ghana
1300 – 1400 Lunch
Parallel session 15:
Meeting Africa’s Food and Nutrition challenges
Chair:
Johann Kirsten
Rapporteur: Ketline Adodo
1100 – 1115
Household Food Security in a Subsistence Economy: Application of Translog
Cost Function to Cross-Sectional Data in Vihiga District, Kenya.
Philip Nyangweso, Odhiambo M.O., Odunga, and Serem A.K..
Moi University
1115 – 1130 Giving Chance to Indigenous Knowledge in Developing
Sustainable Nutrition Improvement Interventions. Kondwani Nanchukwa.
Foundation for Irrigation and Sustainable Development
1130 – 1145
Food Drying Production Plant. Namuli M.
Kasozi,
William Mwegombi.
Tropical Horticulture Enterprises (U) Ltd
1145 – 1200
Investigating the Sources of Agricultural Growth in Africa: Factor
Accumulation, Total Factor Productivity, and Technology Absorption.
Guy Blaise Nkamleu. International Institute of Tropical
Agriculture (IITA)
1200 – 1215 Designing Regional Systems of Biotechnology
Regulation – A Transaction Costs Approach to Regulatory Governance
Regina Birner and Nicolas Linacre.
International Food Policy
Research Institute (IFPRI)
1215 – 1230
Food Security and Poverty of the Rural Households in Kwara State, Nigeria.
Omotesho O.A., Adewumi, Olaniyi Matthew and Fadimula, K.S..
University of Ilorin
1230 – 1300 Discussion
Discussants: Ope Ayinde,
University of Ilorin and Robert Nkendah
1300 – 1400 Lunch
Parallel session 16:
Agriculture, Environment and Sustainable Development
Chair: Rashid Hassan
Rapporteur:
Martin Odendo
1100 – 1115 Growth Acceleration and Structural
Transformation: Ghana’s Options on the Way to Middle-Income Status.
Clemens Breisinger, Xinshen Diao and James Thurlow with Bingxin
Yu. International Food Policy Research Institute
1115 – 1130 Striga Management through Herbicide
Resistance: The Dream, the Deployment and the Drama. Paul L. Woomer
and Canon N. Savala, FORMAT Kenya
1130 – 1145 Can Rural Institutions for Collective Action
Overcome Market Imperfections for Farmers in Less-Favored Semi-Arid Areas?
Bekele Shiferaw, Gideon Obare and Geoffrey Muricho.
International Crops Research Institute for the Semi Arid Tropics (ICRISAT)
1145 – 1200 Perception de la Dégradation des Terres et Adoption
des Technologies de Conservation des Eaux et des Sols au Nord du Burkina
Faso : le cas du Zaï et des Cordons Pierreux.
Modeste L. Kinané, Michel Koné and Amadou Sidibé. Food and Agriculture
Organization (FAO)
1200 – 1215 Effects of EU Common Agricultural Policy
Reforms on Eastern and Southern Africa’s Trade with the EU under the EPAs.
Protase N. Echessah
1215 – 1230
1230 – 1300 Discussion
Discussants: John Omiti, KIPPRA and Nkamleu Guy, IITA
1300 – 1400 Lunch
Plenary session 3:
AAAE Awards including Fellows, MSc & PhD Thesis Presentations
Chair: Clifford B.N. Tagoe,
Vice Chancellor, University of Ghana
Rapporteur: Nadedjo Bigou-Lare
1400–1530 AAAE Awards including Fellows, MSc & PhD
Thesis Presentations
1530 – 1550 Tea break
1550–1720 AGM and Closing
1900 –
2100 Conference Dinner
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