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Friday, October 17 • 10:00am - 11:00am
The Smallholder's Lifeline: Innovations in Agro-Financing and Insurance

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Moderators
avatar for Dr. Per Pinstrup- Andersen

Dr. Per Pinstrup- Andersen

2001 World Food Prize Laureate and Cornell University, H.E. Babcock Professor of Food & Nutrition
Dr. Pinstrup-Andersen life work has been characterized by a desire to alleviate the suffering of persons without sufficient nutritious food, particularly malnourished and starving children. He has been the driving force in pressing forward a global effort, The 2020 Vision Initiative... Read More →

Speakers
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Mohammed Amin Adam

Executive Director, Africa Centre for Energy Policy (ACEP)
Mohammed Amin Adam is the Executive Director of the Africa Centre for Energy Policy (ACEP). His experience in the public sector covered his work as an Energy Policy Analyst at the Ministry of Energy in Ghana, Commissioner of Ghana’s Public Utilities and Regulatory Commission; and... Read More →
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Dr. Marco Ferroni

Executive Director, Syngenta Foundation for Sustainable Agriculture
Marco Ferroni is Executive Director of the Syngenta Foundation for Sustainable Agriculture. The Foundation’s mission is to modernize agriculture and small-scale farming by the route of sustainable intensification, diversification and links to markets. Scalable solutions for farmers... Read More →
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Ndidi Nwuneli

Co-founder, AACE Food Processing & Distribution
Ndidi Nwuneli is co-founder of AACE Food Processing & Distribution, an agroprocessing company and a partner at Sahel Capital. Nwuneli started her career as a management consultant with McKinsey & Company but returned to Nigeria to serve as executive director of the FATE Foundation... Read More →
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Dr. Jimmy Smith

Director General, International Livestock Research Institute
Jimmy Smith, a Canadian, is the director general of the International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI), a position he assumed in 2011. Before joining ILRI, he worked for the World Bank in Washington, DC, where he led the Bank’s Global Livestock Portfolio. He has also held senior... Read More →
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Dr. Kurt Weinberger

President, International Association of Agricultural Production Insurers
Kurt Weinberger is currently the President of the International Association of Agricultural  Insurers (AIAG). AIAG connects 101 agricultural insurers as well as reinsurers and brokers worldwide and represents a premium of 29 billion USD.  Weinberger is also the CEO of the crop insurance... Read More →

Friday October 17, 2014 10:00am - 11:00am PDT
Iowa Ballroom Downtown Des Moines Marriott (2nd Floor)
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