Day 1

//  Welcome by the host: Gudrun Kopp

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//  Welcome by Platform Chair and Highlights from last year: Maria Pia Rizzo, Chantal Symoens

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//  Keynote - Strengthening resilience in ARD - a broad overview: David Nabarro

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//  Panel session - Strengthening resilience in ARD - learning from global crises

• Learning from the Pakistan flood crisis (John Barrett, DFID) //  presentation
• Building resilience among vulnerable people (Lynn Brown, WFP)
• Learning from the Horn of Africa crisis (Susan Thompson, USAID)
• Learning from Latin America (Marvin Gómez Cerna, Foundation for Participatory Research with Honduran Farmers FIPAH) //  presentation

//  Wrap-up of panel session and dscussion: David Nabarro

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World Café: What are Platform members doing to help strengthen resilience in ARD?

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1. Joint Humanitarian Development Framework [Michele Nori, European Commission]
2. Boosting Aid for Trade Investment in Agriculture through the CAADP framework [Christian Mersmann and Eleonora Canigiani, Global Mechanism]
3. Resilience for food and nutrition security in protracted crises [David Nabarro, UN HLTF]
4. How the Commission on Sustainable Agriculture and Climate Change is working with CGIAR to promote better policies for resilient agriculture under climate change [Sonja Vermeulen, CCAFS]
5. A policy framework for investment in agriculture – Promoting policy coherence [Coralie David, OECD]
6. Leveraging private sector investment through public-private partnerships: The experience of the Netherlands development cooperation [Monique Calon, MoFA Netherlands]
7. Harnessing Science and Technology to strengthen resilience [David Hegwood, USAID]
8. Knowledge sharing and communications at the Platform [Pascal Corbé, Global Donor Platform Secretariat]
9. Post-harvest losses and promoting agro-processing in Africa [Ulrich Boysen, AfDB]
10. The Austrian perspective – experiences with resilience and lessons learned from the field [Waltraud Rabitsch, ADA]
11. Transforming agricultural research for development systems [Nikita Eriksen-Hamel, CIDA, Mark Holderness, GFAR & Andrew Westby, NRI]
12. Investing in small producers to strengthen resilience, promote adaptive capacity and secure livelihoods [Sally Baden & Samira Daoud, Oxfam International]
13. Small-holders and risks – increased resilience by livestock farming [Ulf Magnusson, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences]
14. Does pastoralism have a future? [Garry Smith, FAO]
15. The Economics of Land Degradation-Initiative [Mark Schauer, ELD-Secretariat]
16. GAFSP: A Partnership for Funding Country-Designed and Led Strategies for Agricultural Productivity and Resilience in the Poorer Developing Countries [Ousmane Badiane, IFPRI]

Day 2

//  Keynote – The need to support resilience in ARD and the potential role of members of the Platform: Stefan Schmitz

//  Networking and knowledge-sharing in the Platform – a review and planning ahead: Brian Baldwin

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Breakout groups: What can Platform members do to strengthen resilience in ARD?

//  Breakout group 1:  Climate-smart agriculture: what next?

Chair: Fionna Douglas, World Bank

Presenters: Sonya Vermeulen (CCAFS): ARDD updates/outcomes from Durban and what next for CSA; and Garry Smith (FAO): FAO's engagement and the partnership behind the CSA Source Book; John Barrett (DFID) DFID’s approach to Climate-smart agriculture and sustainable food systems – and moving ahead to Rio

Abstract & objective: Update the group on CSA activities over the past twelve months; Outline a CSA Platform knowledge exchange work program for 2012

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//  Breakout group 2:  Managing food price volatility

Chair: Claude Torre, AFD

Presenters: Claude Torre (AFD) G20 Action Plan to address the volatility of food prices and agriculture and identify key issues and expected impacts; Franck Galtier (CIRAD) Options for managing food price instability in developing countries and the implications for donors

Abstract & objective: How can donors assist developing countries more actively in better understanding, assessing and managing agricultural price instability?

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//  Breakout group 3:  Setting priorities for agricultural production towards food security

Chair: Albert Engel, GIZ

Presenters: Peter Hilliges (KfW) Agricultural production towards food security – key issues and German Development Portfolio in ARD; Martina Wegner (GIZ) Agriculture and natural resource management: the need for a territorial perspective; Wilhelm Elfring (Consultant, GIZ) Inclusive Business Models – can smallholder farmers fill the gap in food supply?

Abstract & objective:How can agricultural production contribute to strengthening resilience of rural producers?

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//  Breakout group 4:  Aid effectiveness

Chair: Brian Baldwin, IFAD

Presenters: Samira Daoud (Oxfam), Steve Wiggins (ODI)

Abstract & objective: The objective of the breakout group will be to review the progress made at the Busan High Level Forum, the planned next steps and the implications for ARD. This will include the perspectives of civil society in West Africa on how donors are applying the aid effectiveness principles. The session will also examine what areas Platform members can take forward including the focus on results, and what needs to be measured and how the ARD sector offers real possibilities to highlight the processes for mutual accountability.

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//  Key take away messages: Brian Baldwin

//  Closing remarks: Maria Pia Rizzo

Photos

//  Impressions from the two AGA days

Visuals

//  Monday’s brainstorming outcomes

//  Tuesday’s panel discussion outcomes

//  Tuesday’s world café outcomes

//  Wednesday’s breakout group outcomes

//  Wednesday’s networking outcomes

Videos

//  Recorded speeches and discussions

Watch any of the videos on YouTube: youtube.com/GlobalDonorPlatform

Report

//  AGA Berlin final report

The report provides a detailed summary of the discussions that took place in Berlin. It includes the key messages that emerged from the opening and closing sessions as well as from each of the world cafes and breakout groups.

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