Summit Presentations 

Friday, June 9

Africa Fertilizer Crisis: Summit Why A Summit? and Process

• Dr. Amit Roy, President and Chief Executive Officer, International Fertilizer Development Center (IFDC), USA

Keynote Address “Achieving the African Green Revolution”

• Dr. Norman Borlaug, Nobel Peace Prize Laureate and President, Sasakawa Africa Association, Mexico

Remarks on the African Green Revolution: Panel of Eminent Scientists

• Dr. Pedro Sanchez, Director of Tropical Agriculture and Millennium Villages Project, The Earth Institute at Columbia University, New York; World Food Prize Laureate

Remarks on the African Green Revolution: Panel of Eminent Scientists

• Dr. Florence Wambugu, Chief Executive Officer, A Harvest Biotechnology Foundation, Kenya

It is Farmers That Will Nourish the Soils

• Mr. Ndiogou Fall, Chairman, The West African Network of Farmers and Producers Organizations (ROPPA), Senegal

Fertilizers and the Environment: Friends or Foes?

• Dr. Eric Smaling, Professor of Sustainable Agriculture, International Institute of Geo-Information Science and Earth-Observation, The Netherlands

Successful Interventions for Fertilizer Sector Development

• Building Input Supply Systems to Improve Access for Farmers
   
  Dr. Akin Adesina, Associate Director, Food Security, The Rockefeller Foundation, Kenya

Successful Interventions for Fertilizer Sector Development

• Developing Fertilizer Interventions for Semi-Arid Areas
   
  Dr. William D. Dar, Director General, International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics (ICRISAT), India

Successful Interventions for Fertilizer Sector Development

• Integrated Soil Fertility Management/Competitive Agricultural Systems and Enterprises
   
  Mr. Victor Clottey, Agricultural Intensification in Sub-Saharan Africa (AISSA), Ghana

Successful Interventions for Fertilizer Sector Development

• Building Africa’s Institutional Capacity for Fertilizer Sector Development
   
  Dr. Samuel C. Muchena, Managing Director, African Centre for Fertilizer Development (ACFD), Zimbabwe

Saturday June 10

Africa’s Green Revolution and the Millennium Development Goals: The Importance of the Fertilizer Summit

• Dr. Jeffrey Sachs, Director of the Earth Institute, Columbia University, USA

Sustainable Land Management and Fertilizers:  Responding to Challenges   of Sustainable Land Management--the TerrAfrica Initiative

• Professor Richard Mkandawire, Agricultural Advisor and Remi Cole, Lead   Specialist on SLM, The New Partnership for Africa’s Development (NEPAD)

Plenary Panel with Private Sector Participants

• Mr. Luc Maene, Director General, International Fertilizer Industry Association (IFA), France
   
  Mr. Tony Elumelu, Managing Director, United Bank of Africa