Day 1 - Reshaping the future of agriculture together

Opening ceremony

Session: Reshaping agricultural research systems to meet the needs of the poor
(Moderator: Prof. Ismail Serageldin) 

Session: Partnership for a better future (Moderator: Prof. Sir Gordon Conway) 

Session: Investing for a better future (Moderator: Dr. Margaret Catley-Carlson)

Synthesis and Close of session

Day 2 - What are the challenges we need to address?

Dr David Nabarro - Video Address by the UN Secretary General’s Special Representative on Food Security and Nutrition

Dr Monty Jones, Building a shared vision for change 

Session: Building from regional expressions of demand

Session: Where can collective efforts in international agricultural research make most difference in development?

Session: Transforming agricultural research for development, Dr Uma Lele (Lead Author)

Awards ceremonies

Day 3 - What do we need to do better? Strengthening the impact of agricultural research in development

Session: Better targeting collective actions – research themes identified for international agricultural research

Introduction to the large-scale collective-action programmes proposed by the CGIAR and their relationship to national and regional development agendas and other required investments

Parallel discussion sessions

Thematic areas: 
 
1. Agricultural systems for the poor and vulnerable, Dr Maarten van Ginkel (ICARDA) 

2. Enabling agricultural incomes for the poor, Dr Charles Crissman (CIP) 

3. Optimizing productivity of global food security crops, Dr Marianne Banziger (CIMMYT) 

4. Agriculture, nutrition and health, Dr Marie Ruel (IFPRI) 

5. Water, soils and ecosystems, Dr David Molden (IWMI) 

6. Forests and trees, Dr Andrew Taber (CIFOR) 

7. Climate change and agriculture, Dr Andrew Jarvis (CIAT) 

8. Agricultural biodiversity, Dr Kwesi Atta-Krah (Bioversity International) 

Parallel sessions: discussion of key strategic needs across systems 
 
 • Improving partnerships 

 • Addressing gender for inclusive development

 • Capacity development

 • Role of the fast-growing economies as new providers

 • Knowledge, information and advice in agri-food systems; opportunities and Actions

 • Thinking forward: better predicting and addressing future needs  

 • Better benefiting the poor through public-private partnerships for innovation and action

 • Managing risks to farmers in a time of change 
 
Session: Open Science

Day 4 - Development of a roadmap for collective action

Mr Kofi Annan – Video Address 

Session: Report to plenary by rapporteurs on the specific actions developed through the parallel sessions on Day 3 

Session: Refinement and key elements of the RoadMAP (Montpellier Action Plan) to improve the value of agricultural research in development at national, regional and international levels

Closing remarks including handover to the incoming GFAR Chair