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Building Resilience and Assets for Food Security:
Evidence and Implications for Feed the Future
Polaris Room
Ronald Reagan Building
September 29-30, 2011
Washington, D.C.
USAID and the Assets and Market Access Collaborative Research Support Program (AMA CRSP) present the event Building Resilience and Assets for Food Security: Evidence and Implications for Feed the Future , to be held September 29-30, 2011 in Washington, DC. This event will showcase the most up to date research results on the impacts of social protection programs, ways to make these programs more effective, and how to improve their reach to the world's poor.
The World Bank will be there to present some of their recent work on this topic, along with DfID, and international research leaders. Topics will include the examination of index insurance products, a look a the short term impacts of conditional cash transfers, complementary programs including financial tools such as savings, and discussion of how to link to rural labor markets. Focus will be on both lessons learned from existing programs, as well as discussion of how to improve future endeavors.
The event will be free, but registration is limited. For more information, please contact AMA CRSP at 608-262-5538 or eswaters@wisc.edu.
Agenda
Thursday, September 29
Setting the Stage 9:30 – 10:30
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Welcome and Introduction to Feed the Future
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Tjada McKenna
USAID
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FtF: Logic & Challenge of Broadly-based Agricultural Growth
Presentation
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Lena Heron
USAID |
From Protection to Promotion
Presentation
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Laura Rawlings
World Bank
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Break 10:30 – 10:45 |
Understanding Social Protection 10:45 – 12:00
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Global Overview of Social Protection and Cash Transfers
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Andrew Shepherd
ODI |
Transforming Livelihoods for Resilient Futures: How to Facilitate Graduation in Social Protection Programs
Presentation
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Rachel Sabates-Wheeler
IDS - Sussex
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Lunch 12:00 – 1:30
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Cash Transfers as an Avenue to Asset Building 1:30 – 3:00
Moderator: Rekha Mehra, ICRW
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Cash Transfers, Risk Management, and Cognitive Development in Early Childhood
Presentation
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Karen Macours
Paris School of Economics
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Do Conditional Cash Transfer Programs Function as Safety Nets? Evidence from Malawi
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Craig McIntosh
UC – San Diego
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Break 3:00 – 3:30 |
Savings Instruments to Promote Graduation from Poverty 3:30 – 5:00
Moderator: Shaun Ferris, Catholic Relief Services
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Savings and Graduation Pathways for the Ultra Poor
Presentation
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Jamie Zimmerman
New American Foundation
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Savings Mobilization & Conditional Cash Transfers
Presentation
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Carolina Trivelli
Instituto de Estudios Peruanos
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Making fertilizer subsidies smart with savings
Presentation
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Dean Yang
University of Michigan |
Friday, September 30
Cash and Asset Transfers in Small Scale Farming 9:15 – 10:30
Moderator: Jolyne Sanjak, Landesa
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Impact of PROGRESA and ProCampo on Food Security in Mexico
Presentation
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Paul Winters
American University
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Land Redistribution and Poverty Reduction in South Africa
Presentation
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Michael Carter
UC-Davis
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Break 10:30 – 10:45 |
Moving the Value Chain down the Wealth Ladder 10:45 – 12:00
Moderator:
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Trade, Standards and Poverty: Evidence from Senegal
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Jo Swinnen
University of Leuven
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Push and Pull Strategies to Incorporate the Vulnerable into Value Chains |
Margie Brand
Independent Consultant
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Lunch 12:00 – 1:15 |
Productive Social Protection 1:15 – 2:30
Moderator: David Satterthwaite, Oxfam
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Market-provisioned social protection: the IBLI experiment in Kenya
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Chris Barrett
Cornell University
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Moving Up & Out in Ethiopia – A review of PSNP
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Neha Kumar
IFPRI
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Break 2:30 – 2:45 |
Programming for Broadly Based Growth:
An Agenda for Action 2:45 – 4:00
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Roundtable
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