Report of the 2008 global meeting - IFAD

Table of contents
Acronyms 3
Foreword 5
Introduction 7
Section 1: Introductory addresses and Steering Committee statements 11
Section 2: Assessment of IFAD-FO partnerships and the way forward 17
2.1 Country Strategic Opportunities Programmes (COSOPs) 18
2.2 Project design and implementation 18
2.3 Direct grant financing 19
2.4 The Farmers’ Forum process and its guiding principles 21
2.5 Gender 22
2.6 Joint monitoring and evaluation (M&E) system 24
Section 3: Regional perspectives 25
3.1 Common issues emerging from the regional discussions 25
3.2 Regional specificities 27
Section 4: Partnership on thematic areas 37
4.1 Access to land: trends, challenges and opportunities –
role and perspectives of FOs 37
4.2 FOs’ experience with, and lessons learned from, engagement
with, and influence over, policy processes regarding
smallholder family agriculture 40
4.3 Climate change and smallholder agriculture: perspectives of FOs 42
Section 5: ‘Synthesis of Deliberations’ and IFAD’s response 47
5.1 Synthesis of deliberations of the global meeting
of the Farmers’ Forum 2008 47
5.2 Response by IFAD senior management 50
5.3 Closing of the Farmers’ Forum meeting 53
Annexes
Annex 1: Agenda 54
Annex 2: List of participants 56
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