AGENDA FOR THE GROW AFRICA INVESTMENT FORUM

MAY 10-11, LEMIGO HOTEL, KIGALI, RWANDA

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Agenda Overview

TUESDAY 10 MAY

10:00 – 12:00 AGRF Markets, Trade and Domestic Private Sector Thematic Working Group Meeting Room Ihema

12:00 – 13:00 Welcome Lunch

13:00 – 14:15 High Level Plenary: Setting the Leadership Agenda for Grow Africa Rebero Plenary Hall

14:15 – 15:45 Regional value-chain sessions:

1. Investment opportunities in industrial cassava value chains Room Ruhondo

2. Building a viable regional market for potato in East Africa Room Burera 3. Unlocking private sector investments within the rice value chain Room Ihema

4. Enabling access to quality seed in East & Southern Africa Room Nasho

15:45 – 16:15 Coffee

16:15 – 17:45 New business models, innovation and best practice

1. Scaling lease financing models for mechanization Room Ruhondo 2. Business models for improving smallholder farmer profitability Room Ihema

3. Scaling youth agricultural entrepreneurship Room Burera

4. Country Partnerships Masterclass Room Nasho

17:45 – 21:00 Cocktail reception, buffet dinner, entertainment

WEDNESDAY 11 MAY

08:30 – 10:00 Masterclass: Addressing Land Access, Human Rights and Business Risk Room Lemigo 1

09:00 – 10:00 Country Sessions Round 1: Burkina Faso Room Burera Kenya Room Ihema

Tanzania Room Muhazi

10:00 – 10:15 Coffee

10:15 – 11:15 Country Sessions Round 2: Ethiopia Room Burera

Nigeria Room Ihema

Malawi Room Muhazi Rwanda Room Nasho

11:15 – 12:45 High-Level Plenary: Accelerating Agricultural Transformation

Rebero Plenary Hall

12:45- 14:00 Lunch

14:00 – 17:00 Bilateral meetings Rooms Jali 1-4

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10:00 – 12:00

Room Ihema

AGRF Markets, Trade and Domestic Private Sector Thematic Working

Group Meeting

The AGRF Markets, Trade and Domestic Private Sector Thematic Working Group

(TWG) meeting follows June 2015 inaugural discussions that provided input into various sessions during the September 2015 convening of AGRF in Lusaka, Zambia.

The aim of this meeting is to support the development of the AGRF Results Framework by suggesting key target areas of focus related to strengthening: a)

market access, regional trade and international trade and; b) development of value chain linkages involving local agribusiness actors.

The Rockefeller Foundation will provide a case study of several new initiatives of the

Rockefeller Foundation to reduce post-harvest losses. This and input from the other

participants on complimentary initiatives that also have the potential to stimulate the development of trade, the expansion of markets and increased engagement of

domestic private sector actors in Africa’s agribusiness value chains will provide the basis for a discussion of how AGRF can help scale up and accelerate the adoption of

such measures.

Chair

Mamadou Biteye, Managing Director, Rockefeller Foundation – Africa

Facilitator

Michael Sudarkasa, AGRF Program Director

12:00 – 13:00 Networking Area

Welcome Lunch

13:00 – 14:15 Rebero Plenary Hall

High Level Plenary: Setting the Leadership Agenda for Grow Africa

This high level panel discussion convenes Grow African founders and leaders of key stakeholder organisations in the Grow Africa partnership to review progress and constraints in accelerating agricultural transformation on the continent and to jointly

set priorities for an action-oriented agenda that will shape the Grow Africa

Partnership’s work over the coming year.

Detailed Overview

TUESDAY 10 MAY

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Panellists

Mark Bowman, Managing Director Africa, SAB Miller

Emanuel Ijewere, Chief Executive Officer, BestFood and Coordinator of the

National Agricultural Business Group, Nigeria Agnes Kalibata, President, Alliance for a Green Revolution in Africa (AGRA)

Ibrahim Assane Mayaki, Chief Executive Officer, NEPAD Planning and Coordinating Agency, Johannesburg

Stephen Muchiri, Chief Executive Officer, Eastern Africa Farmers

Federation (EAFF) Gerardine Mukeshimana, Minister of Agriculture and Animal Resources of

Rwanda Sarita Nayyar, Managing Director, World Economic Forum USA

Tumusiime Rhoda Peace, Commissioner for Rural Economy and Agriculture, African Union, Addis Ababa

14:15 – 15:45

Room Ihema Unlocking private sector investments within the rice value chain

The development of the rice value chain through expansion of competitive rice

production, milling and improved end products offers a major opportunity for growth in African agriculture. While there are many challenges, the potential for domestic

rice production will have a major impact on economic growth, job creation and

import substitution. At the 2015 Grow Africa Investment Forum, rice value chain issues were framed and discussed. One year on, participants will explore the

establishment of national and regional rice value chain platforms in West Africa, looking at the existing constraints, learnings, and solutions that can inform improved

collaboration between the public and private sectors. Case studies and best practice examples will be shared to highlight challenges and opportunities for such

collaboration. The outcomes of this session will inform the design and approach to

developing value chain platforms in the region, working to overcome gaps to unlock private sector investments in the rice sector, and boost sustainable, domestic rice

production.

Chair

Augustin Wambo Yamdjeu, Head of CAADP, New Partnership for Africa’s

Development (NEPAD), South Africa

Facilitator

Ben Valk, Head of Food & Agricultural Partnerships, Rabobank, Netherlands

Discussion Leaders Tunji Owoeye, Managing Director, Elephant Group, Nigeria

Francesco Rampa, Head of Food Security Programme, European Centre for

Development Policy Management (ECDPM), Netherlands

Njack Kane, Director, Intervalle, Switzerland

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Contributors

Carter Coleman, Chief Executive Officer, Kilombero Plantation Ltd.,

Tanzania

Nuhu Hatibu, Chief Executive Officer, Kilimo Trust, Uganda Nana Ama Oppong-Duah, Policy Advisor, Kufuor Foundation, Ghana

Aboubakary Traoré, Head of Department, Office National de

Développement de la Riziculture (ONDR), Ivory Coast

Ben Valk, Global Head, Multilateral Banking, Rabobank, The Netherlands

Elke Vandamme, Agronomist, AfricaRice, Ivory Coast

14:15 – 15:45

Room Nasho Enabling access to quality seed in East and Southern Africa

The private sector is increasingly investing in bean and pulse production and trade in

East and Southern Africa, yet access to quality seed to meet market requirements remains an obstacle to increasing farmer profitability and furthering agricultural

development across the region. Challenges to access include trade barriers, institutional capacity constraints, slow implementation of policy harmonization, and a

lack of investment in seed production and distribution.

This session will serve as an exploratory session to identify priority seed varieties,

experience with applications, and bottlenecks to develop collaborative actions that Grow Africa can catalyse to improve access to seed in East and Southern Africa.

While many challenges to seed access apply across crop types, this session will focus particularly on seed for beans and pulses, due to increased demand and very limited

supply. Participants will hear from private sector stakeholders to understand the market demand and primary bottlenecks, as well as existing initiatives to address

these. The session will conclude with a prioritization of actions and proposed form in

which these can progressed.

Chair

Walker Morris, Chief Executive Officer, The Clinton Development Initiative

Contributors

Wilmer Otto, Director, MORAGG Co. Ltd., USA

Georgina Fleming, Business Development Manager, H2OVP, Rwanda

Jean De Dieu Ntaganda, Lead Agribusiness & Field Operations Officer,

East Africa Exchange, Rwanda

Alfred Nkhono, Chief Executive Officer, Press Agriculture Ltd., Malawi

Pascoal Isaias, Director, Lozane Farms, Mozambique

14:15 – 15:45

Room Burera Building a viable regional market for potato in East Africa

Public and private stakeholders have recognised the potential for building a regional and export market for potato in East Africa. The Grow Africa Secretariat has

supported the establishment in 2015 of a regional potato platform and has commissioned a market opportunity study. In this session, the market study results

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will be shared, followed by breakout discussions on specific investment opportunities

in the three areas of seed and inputs, infrastructure, and processing. The breakout

discussions will also hear from existing, scalable partnerships addressing key constraints in the three areas.

Facilitator

Sean de Cleene, Chief Strategy and Partnerships Officer, AGRA, Kenya

Discussion Leaders

John Bahana, Managing Director, Kisoro Processing Ltd., Kenya

John Logan, Country Director, TechnoServe, Kenya

Barbara Muzata Sehule, Head of Corporate Affairs for Africa, DuPont,

South Africa

Contributors

George Osure, Regional Director, Syngenta Foundation, Kenya

Humphrey Mburu, Managing Director, SereniFries, Kenya

Sten Guezennec, Business Development Manager EMEA, Bayer CropScience, France

Jack Masawa, Sales Manager, LachLan Africa Ltd., Kenya

Kinyua M’Mbijjewe, Head of Corporate Affairs, Africa & Middle East,

Syngenta, Kenya

14:15 – 15:45

Room Ruhondo Investment opportunities in industrial cassava value chains

The market potential for processed cassava, used as a component in industrial

production of food and non-food products is increasingly recognised in Africa. In 2014, Grow Africa and IDH supported the creation of multistakeholder platforms in

Ghana, Nigeria and Mozambique, focused on developing the market for ‘industrial’

cassava. One year on, the groups have surfaced a pipeline of investment

opportunities that, if financed, will accelerate the ability to meet proven demand for processed cassava. In this session, cassava platform chairs will update on progress

made and constraints encountered over the last year. Concrete investment opportunities will be introduced, with a discussion on the types of financing required.

Chair

Joost Oorthuizen, Managing Director, The Sustainable Trade Initiative (IDH), The Netherlands

Facilitator

Tony Bruggink, Programme Director, The Sustainable Trade Initiative (IDH), The Netherlands

Contributors

Chris Quarshie, Managing Director, Caltech Ventures, Ghana Thiruvengadam Sridhar, Director of Projects, Export Trading Group (ETG),

Mozambique

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Nike Tinubu, Executive Director, Eagleson and Nito Concepts, Nigeria

Paul Stanger, Local Sourcing Director, Heineken, United Kingdom

Anna Swaithes, Director of Sustainable Development, SAB Miller, United

Kingdom

Naoko Koyama-Blanc, Partner, Dalberg Development Advisors, Kenya

15:45 – 16:15 Coffee

16:15 – 17:45 Room Ihema

Business models for improving smallholder farmer profitability

Improving the profitability of smallholder farmers is key to ensuring the reliability and sustainability of commodity supply chains. In this session, members of the Grow

Africa Smallholder Working Group present best practice business models for increasing smallholder profitability, focused around: (1) Models for smallholder

aggregation; (2) The value of programmes focused specifically on women farmers;

(3) Public-private sector collaboration models for improving smallholder profitability; and (4) Models for accelerating technology adoption.

Facilitator

Sospeter Waga, Executive Director, Value Farms, Kenya

Discussion leaders

Kinyua M’Mbijjewe, Head of Corporate Affairs, Africa & Middle East,

Syngenta, Kenya

Sean de Cleene, Chief Strategy and Partnerships Officer, AGRA, Kenya

Dyborn Chibonga, Chief Executive Officer, National Smallholders

Association of Malawi (NAFSAM), Malawi

Contributors

Shaun Cawood, Founder, CB Farm Fresh, Mozambique Joost Oorthuizen, Managing Director, The Sustainable Trade Initiative

(IDH), The Netherlands

Paul Stanger, Local Sourcing Director, Heineken, United Kingdom Michael Schup, Sustainable Business Development Manager, Barry

Callebaut, Switzerland Walker Morris, Chief Executive Officer, Clinton Development Initiative, USA

George Osure, Regional Director, The Syngenta Foundation, Kenya

Nike Tinubu, Executive Director, Eagleson and Nito Concepts, Nigeria

16:15 – 17:45 Room Nasho

Effective Country Partnerships Masterclass

The World Economic Forum’s New Vision for Agriculture initiative will share a new model for building effective national multistakeholder partnerships with leaders from

Grow Africa. The session will feature guiding principles and an 8-step framework with

specific examples of how to design, implement and scale market-led and multistakeholder approaches to transform agriculture sectors.

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Facilitator

Pradeep Prabhala, Associate Partner, Monitor Deloitte, USA

Discussion leaders

Geoffrey Kirenga, Chief Executive Officer, SAGCOT Centre Ltd., Tanzania

Contributors

Lisa Dreier, Head of Agriculture & Food Security Initiatives, World Economic

Forum, USA Ben Valk, Head of Food & Agricultural Partnerships, Rabobank, Netherlands

16:15 – 17:45 Room Burera

Scaling youth agricultural entrepreneurship

Attracting young entrepreneurs into the agriculture sector, and supporting them to

scale-up and participate in supply chains, is a continent-wide challenge that must be

overcome to ensure the growth and success of the sector. This session will focus on understanding the challenges, as well as identifying the opportunities in two specific

areas: improving entrepreneurs’ access to training and mentorship; and enabling access to agricultural supply chains for young entrepreneurs and their companies.

The session will also draw on the learnings of a recent report by the Tony Elumelu

Foundation’s Entrepreneurship Programme (TEEP), analysing the challenges experienced by its agricultural entrepreneurs, and ways in which policymakers, the

private sector, and development partners can better support young entrepreneurs in the sector.

Facilitator

Hloni Matsela, Corporate Affairs Director, SABMiller Africa, South Africa

Discussion leaders

Douglas Brew, Director of External Affairs, Unilever, United Kingdom

Abraham Sarfo, Technical Advisor, New Partnership for Africa’s Development (NEPAD), South Africa

Contributors

Abimbola Adebakin, Chief Operating Officer, Tony Elumelu Foundation,

Nigeria

Simon Winter, Senior Vice President, TechnoServe, USA

Obed Diener, Technical Advisor, FHI360, USA

16:15 – 17:45 Room Ruhondo

Scaling lease financing models for mechanization

Increasing mechanisation is key to improving farmer productivity and reducing post-

harvest loss. Technology innovations – such as a recently-developed portable maize dryer – have the potential to bring mechanisation to smallholder farmers. Yet

financing the purchase or use of machinery generally remains outside of most smallholder farmers’ grasp. In many cases, government policy is also not focused on

or supportive of accelerating mechanisation. A focus on lease financing offers promise and a number of new schemes and

financing models are emerging. In this session, a brief discussion of existing

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initiatives will be followed by presentation of a concept to scale-out an approach to

lease financing for mechanisation across multiple countries. Participants will engage

in discussion and debate on what needs to be done to strengthen and drive such an approach to accelerate farmer access to mechanisation.

Facilitator

Gene Moses, Strategy & Management Officer, Global Agribusiness,

International Finance Corporation, USA

Contributors

Augustine Langyintuo, Senior Agribusiness Specialist, International

Finance Corporation, Kenya Mark Hemsworth, Chief Executive Officer, Rent to Own, Zambia

Hanumant Reddy, Managing Director, Voluntous Agricon, Rwanda

Mary-Jane Potter, Chief Investment Officer, Innovare Advisors, USA

Sophie Walker, Senior Agribusiness Specialist, ACDI-VOCA, Kenya

Coy Buckley, Chief Executive Officer, Equity for Tanzania, Tanzania

17:45 – 21:00 Networking area

Cocktail reception, buffet dinner, entertainment

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08:30 – 10:00

Room Lemigo 1

Masterclass: Addressing Land Access, Human Rights and Business Risk

Companies are recognizing that respecting land rights is an important aspect of

making investments in developing countries, as a failure to do so can carry significant financial and reputational risks. These companies call for practical

guidance about how to effectively integrate land rights protections into their supply chains and business operations, and thereby make their investments

more sustainable, less controversial and better able to generate shared prosperity and value in the longer term. DFID's LEGEND team and Landesa have

organised a masterclass ‘How to Address Land Access, Human Rights and

Business Risk’ to give an overview of key issues related to land rights in the

agricultural investment context and a discussion of practical solutions companies

can take to integrate land rights protections into their supply chains and business operations.

Topics will include:

What does it mean to consider land rights as a business risk?

What are the relevant provisions, guidance and standards? What practical tools are available to implement these provisions (e.g.

contractual instruments, land rights risk assessment and planning tools, inclusive business models)

Masterclass Leader

Leslie Hannay, Gender and Land Tenure Lawyer, Landesa

09:00 – 10:00

Room Burera Country Session: Burkina Faso

Presentation of investment opportunities aligned with the national agricultural agenda, followed by a facilitated discussion

Delegation Leader

Bintou Diallo, Director, Agency for Investment Promotion, Burkina Faso

09:00 – 10:00

Room Ihema Country Session: Kenya Presentation of investment opportunities aligned with the national agricultural

agenda, followed by a facilitated discussion

Delegation Leader

Willy Bett, Cabinet Secretary for Agriculture, Livestock and Fisheries, Kenya

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Facilitator

Kanini Mutooni, Director, Investment, The East Africa Trade and Investment Hub

09:00 – 10:00

Room Muhazi Country Session: Tanzania Presentation of investment opportunities aligned with the national agricultural

agenda, followed by a facilitated discussion.

Investment Opportunities:

See National Investment Opportunities document in Onsite Folder for more detail

Ihemi Cluster: Investment opportunities in Soya value chain through

working with outgrowers in production technologies, procurement, storage and value addition solutions.

Ihemi Cluster: Investment opportunities in Potato value chain through

working with smallholder farmers in mechanization, storage and value addition solutions.

Delegation Leader Geoffrey Kirenga, Chief Executive Officer, Southern Agricultural Growth Corridor of Tanzania Ltd (SAGCOT)

Facilitator Simon Hindley, Director, Procurement, Africa Sourcing Development, Unilever

10:00 – 10:15

Networking Area

Coffee

10:15 – 11:15

Room Burera

Country Session: Ethiopia Presentation of investment opportunities aligned with the national agricultural

agenda, followed by a facilitated discussion.

Investment Opportunities:

See National Investment Opportunities document in Onsite Folder for more detail

Investment in cattle fattening and abattoir business for the domestic

market and Regional/Middle Eastern export markets Investment in Ultra-High Temperature (UHT) milk processing plant for

Ethiopian domestic and neighbouring export markets

Investment in poultry processing plant to sell chicken meat and eggs to

the Ethiopian mass market Investment in soybean processing for consumer products and soybean

meal to serve the domestic animal feed market

Investment in tomato processing business for domestic and export markets

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Delegation Leader

Mirafe Gebriel Marcos, Chief of Staff and Senior Director, Agribusiness and Markets, The Agricultural Transformation Agency (ATA)

Facilitator

Prabdeep Bajwa, Regional Director, Africa, DuPont

10:15 – 11:15

Room Nasho

Country Session: Rwanda

Presentation of investment opportunities aligned with the national agricultural

agenda, followed by a facilitated discussion

Investment Opportunities:

See National Investment Opportunities document in Onsite Folder for more

detail

PPP to develop Kigali Wholesale Market for Fresh Produce (KWSMFP)

Packaging Materials

Ten Irrigated Sites ready for Export Oriented Horticulture Development

Commercial Production of chicks, eggs and other poultry products

Commercial Production of pork and pork products

Production of Grains and Tubers using developed terraced land

Delegation Leader

Gerardine Mukeshimana, Minister of Agriculture and Animal Resources, Rwanda

10:15 – 11:15

Room Ihema Country Session: Nigeria Presentation of investment opportunities aligned with the national agricultural agenda, followed by a facilitated discussion

Delegation Leader

Amin Babandi, Director of Agriculture, West Africa Agricultural Productivity Programme Nigeria

Facilitator Wim Plazier, Partner, A.T. Kearney

10:15 – 11:15

Room Muhazi Country Session: Malawi

Presentation of investment opportunities aligned with the national agricultural agenda, followed by a facilitated discussion

Delegation Leader

Erica Maganga, Principal Secretary, Ministry of Agriculture, Malawi*

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11:15 – 12:45

Rebero Plenary Hall

High-Level Plenary: Accelerating Agricultural Transformation

Stakeholders and African leaders discuss their progress and priorities for

promoting agriculture as a growth sector providing food security, jobs and reliable incomes to rural populations.

Stakeholder Panellists:

Beth Dunford, Assistant to the Administrator, USAID

Tony Elumelu, Founder, The Tony Elemelu Foundation Berry Marttin, Member of the Executive Board, Rabobank

Kanayo Nwanze, President, International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD)

Ishmael Sunga, Chief Executive Officer, Southern African Confederation of Agricultural Unions

Contributed Remarks Liliane Ploumen, Minister for Foreign Trade and Development

Cooperation, the Netherlands

Hiroshi Kato, Vice President, Japan International Cooperation Agency

(JICA)* Winnie Byanyima, Executive Director, Oxfam International*

12:45 - 14:00

Networking Area

Lunch

14:00 – 17:00

Rooms Jali 1, 2, 3, 4

Bilateral meetings

* Invited