2013 Scientific Advisory Board (SAB), Steering Committee (SC), and Network Advisory Committee (NAC) meeting

Meeting date

 

Monday, November 18, 2013

 

9:00 – 9:15 Welcome Remarks and Introductions
Ousmane Badiane
9:15 – 9:30 Overview of AGRODEP Activities
Betina Dimaranan
9:30 – 9:50 Discussion
9:50 – 10:05
  
AGRODEP Modeling Component
Fousseini Traore
10:05 – 10:25 Discussion
10:25 – 10:55   Coffee Break
10:55 – 11:10 AGRODEP Data Component
Betina Dimaranan
11:10 – 11:30  Discussion
11:30 – 11:45 AGRODEP Network Component
Ismael Fofana
11:45 – 12:05 Discussion
12:05 – 12:30 AGRODEP Grants Program and 2014 GTAP Conference
Antoine Bouet
12:30 – 12:50 Discussion
12:50 – 2:00 Lunch
1:30 – 1:45 AGRODEP Impact Evaluation Network
Tanguy Bernard, IFPRI
2:00 – 3:30 SAB, SC, and NAC Business Meetings (held in parallel)
3:30 – 4:00 Coffee Break
4:00 – 4:45 SAB, SC, and NAC Business Meetings (held in parallel)
4:45 – 5:45     SAB, SC, and NAC Joint Session
5:45 – 6:00 Wrap-Up and Closing Remarks
Maximo Torero
6:00 – 7:30 Cocktail / Reception

 

                    


 
Meeting Participants
 
 
AGRODEP Scientific Advisory Board (SAB)
Name
Affiliation
Attendance
Co-Chairs
Bernard Decaluwé
Université Laval, PEP
Attending
Maximo Torero
International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI)
Attending
Members
David Olusanya Ajakaiye
African Centre for Shared Development Capacity Building
Attending via Skype
Hubert Escaith
World Trade Organization
Not Attending
Erica Field
Harvard University
Not Attending
Augustin Kwasi Fosu
UN University-WIDER
Attending via Skype
Jane Kabubo-Mariara
University of Nairobi
Not Attending
Johann Kirsten
University of Pretoria, South Africa
Attending
Will Martin
World Bank
Attending
David Zilberman
University of California - Berkeley
Attending via Skype
 
 
AGRODEP Steering Committee (SC)
Name
Affiliation
Attendance
Co-Chairs
Lindiwe Sibanda
Food, Agriculture and Natural Resources Policy Analysis Network (FANRPAN)
Not Attending
Ousmane Badiane
International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI)
Attending
Members
Abdul Kamara
African Development Bank (AfDB)
Not Attending
Janet Edeme
African Union
Not Attending
Mutasim Mekki Mahmoud Elrasheed
AGRODEP member representative
Attending via GTM
Joy M. Kiiru
AGRODEP member representative
Not Attending
Michael Waithaka
Association for Strengthening Agricultural Research in Eastern and Central Africa
Not Attending
Greg Traxler
Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation 
Attending
Terrie Walmsley (new representative to be appointed)
Center for Global Trade Analysis 
Not Attending
Cristina Mitaritonna
Centre d'Etudes Prospectives et d'Informations Internationales (CEPII)
Attending via GTM
Chungu Mwila
Common Market for Eastern and Southern Africa (COMESA)
Not Attending
Rui Silva (new representative to be appointed)
Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS)
Not Attending
Piettro Gennari
Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO)
Not Attending
Sarah Ssewanyana
Uganda Economic Policy Research Center
Attending via GTM
Stephen Karingi
United Nations Economic Commission for Africa
Attending
Jeff Hill
U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID)
Not Attending
Marinos Tsigas
U.S. International Trade Commission (USITC)
Not Attending
Harold Roy-Macauley
West and Central African Council for Agricultural Research and Development
Attending via GTM or Skype
Soamiely Andriamananjara
World Bank Institute
Not Attending
Bridget Chilala (represented by Mustapha Sadni-Jallab)
World Trade Organization
Representative Attending

 

AGRODEP Network Advisory Committee (NAC)
Name
Affiliation
Attendance
Co-Chairs
Michael Waithaka
Association for Strengthening Agricultural Research in Eastern and Central Africa
Not Attending
Harold Roy-Macauley
West and Central African Council for Agricultural Research and Development
Attending via Skype or GTM
Members
Willis Oluoch-Kosura
African Centre for Shared Development Capacity Building
Not Attending
Mohamed Rachid Doukkali
Institut Agronomique et Vétérinaire Hassan II (IAV)
Not Attending
Yamar Mbodj
Le Hub Rural
Not Attending
Isaac Minde
Michigan State University
Not Attending
Joseph Karugia
ReSAKSS, Eastern and Central Africa
Not Attending
Greenwell C. Matchaya
ReSAKSS, Southern Africa
Attending
Yade Mbaye
ReSAKSS, Western Africa
Not Attending
Muhammadou M.O. Kah
University of Gambia
Not Attending
Kimsey Savadogo
University of Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso
Attending
Azharia Abd Albagi Elbushra
AGRODEP Member Representative
Not Attending
Miriam Omolo
AGRODEP Member Representative
Attending

 

AGRODEP Staff (Attending)
Name
Role
Antoine Bouet
Project Manager
Betina Dimaranan
Project Manager and Data Coordinator
Ismael Fofana
Network Coordinator
Fousseini Traore
Post-doctoral Fellow
Kathryn Kincheloe
Senior Research Assistant, Data Component
Alimatou Diop
Research Assistant, Network Component