JOIN US FORGROW AFRICA INVESTMENT FORUM 2015

2-4 JUNE CAPE TOWN INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE CENTRE

0204 JUNE

Value Chain Project Incubator: Dedicated sessions over three days enable participants to progress from exploring projects underway within specific crop value chains, to finding partners for existing projects and launching new initiatives. Incubator sessions culminate in time spent developing concrete action plans for promising projects.

High-Level Plenary Panels: High level representatives from all Grow Africa stakeholder groups review progress in accelerating the implementation of responsible investments and what needs to be done to better match investment opportunities and implementation with country plans for agricultural transformation. Grow Africa founders outline priorities following the move to an Africa-based secretariat.

Thematic sessions within specific streams:

• Panel discussions stimulate debate and thinking on core issues such as improving regional trade and developing viable business models for smallholder agriculture

• Solution Building sessions focus on broad systemic constraints and map specific ways forward through small, interactive groups where discussion is catalysed by a short concrete case study

• Innovations, New Thinking and Best Practice sessions provide Grow Africa partners with an opportunity to showcase and learn from specific, successful best practice and new innovations that are scalable and replicable

Investment Marketplace: National governments and companies present investment opportunities and pitch for new project partners.

Finance masterclass: Financers – from social impact investors to commercial banks - explain what they look for in a credit application and outline their decision framework. Participants share specific cases for discussion.

PROGRAMME HIGHLIGHTS

Progress existing value chain projects and incubate new ventures

Discover and promote new investment opportunities and find new project partners

Source expertise, learn from and share best practice

Set a collective agenda for improving the enabling environment for implementing private-sector investments

The Grow Africa Investment Forum represents the largest gathering of public and private-sector investors in African agriculture, aligned on a common goal of strengthening multi-stakeholder partnerships and platforms in order to accelerate inclusive investment in the sector. Over 350 leaders of business, government, civil society, international organisations and farmer associations will come together at this invitation-only meeting to:

fr - French interpretation available

WEDNESDAY 3 JUNE

10:00-16:00

10:00 - 11:30

11:30 - 13:00

13:00 - 14:15

14:15 - 15:00

15:00 - 16:00

16:00-17:30

18:30-22:00

Value Chain team formation and identification of project groups

Shifting perspectives – a facilitated simulation exercise clarifies value chain bottlenecks

Lunch

Issue clinics

Project group work – assimilating information learned, goal identification, action planning

VALUE CHAIN PROJECT INCUBATOR

HIGH LEVEL LEADERSHIP DISCUSSION: SCALING SUCCESS (fr)

DINNER AND SOIRÉE

08:30 - 09:00 Plenary Keynote Address

TUESDAY 2 JUNE

PROGRAMME

INNOVATIONS, NEW THINKING, BEST PRACTICE

09:00 - 09:45Successful Strategies for Value-Added Processing (fr)

09:45 - 10:30Innovations and Best Practice from the field (fr)

11:15 - 12:00Reducing Post-Harvest Loss (fr)

12:00 - 12:45 Innovations and best practice from the field (fr)

12:00 - 12:45Strengthening Climate- Change Resilience (fr)

11:15 - 12:00Building Demand for Domestic Brands (fr)

11:15 - 12:45Value Chain Financing Solutions

11:15 - 12:45Effective Multi-Stake-holder Platform models

14:00 - 16:00Value Chain Project Incubator : Action Planning

09:45 - 10:30Fostering AgriculturalResearch and Technology Adoption (fr)

09:00 - 09:45Improving Regional Trade (fr)

09:00 - 10:30Service delivery models for strengthening smallholder inclusion in value chains

09:00 - 10:30Identifying andaccelerating effective policy setting

THE BIG PICTURE :PANEL DISCUSSIONS

SOLUTIONBUILDING

SOLUTION BUILDING

10:30 - 11:15 Value Chain Project Incubator - Project Coffee Corners

12:45 - 14:00 Lunch

16:00 - 16:30 Coffee

14:00 - 16:00INVESTMENT MARKETPLACE: Countries and Companies Pitch Investment and Partnership Opportunities

16:30 - 18:00 High Level Leadership Discussion: Setting an Action Agenda (fr)

18:00 - 19:00 Networking reception

17:30 - 18:30 Reception

08:30-12:00 VALUE CHAIN PROJECT INCUBATOR:

ACTION PLANNING

FINANCE MASTERCLASS

BI-LATERAL MEETINGS 09:00-15:00

13:00-14:30

THURSDAY 4 JUNE

PROGRAMME

Participation in the Grow Africa Investment Forum is by invitation only at the discretion of convening partners. Invitation to the Investment Forum is independent of and does not imply participation in the World Economic Forum on Africa. Inquiries about participating in the Grow Africa Investment Forum may be sent to info@growafrica.com

The Grow Africa partnership was founded jointly by the African Union (AU), The New Partnership for Africa's Development (NEPAD) and the World Economic Forum in 2011. Grow Africa works to increase private sector investment in agriculture, and accelerate the execution and impact of investment commitments. The aim is to enable countries to realise the potential of the agriculture sector for economic growth and job creation, particularly among farmers, women and youth.

ABOUT GROW AFRICA

Grow Africa brokers collaboration between governments, international and domestic agriculture companies, and smallholder farmers in order to lower the risk and cost of investing in agriculture, and improve the speed of return to all stakeholders. For more information, visit www.growafrica.com

12:45 - 14:00 Lunch

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