2. Partners

3. Bob Kisyula
National Director
World Vision Malawi
Welcome

4. Dennis Garrity
World Agroforestry Centre
Land Regeneration in
Southern Africa

5. Tony Rinaudo
World Vision
The Impact of Farmer
Managed Natural
Regeneration

6. Grace Malindi
Former Director,
Agricultural Extension
Senior Consultant UN Women
The Vision for
Southern Africa’s
Small Holder Farmers

7. Honorable Minister
of Agriculture
Dr. Allan Chiyembezkeza M.P.
Formal Opening

8. • Other side of auditorium (to
your left)
• Back of the auditorium (top
foyer)
Morning Tea Break

10. Constance Neely and Alice Muller
Facilitators
Objectives
Expected Outcomes
Process

11. Who is in the room?
Southern Africa
• Angola
• Botswana
• DRC
• Kenya
• Lesotho
• Malawi
• Mozambique
• Namibia
• South Africa
• Swaziland
• Tanzania
• Zambia
• Zimbabwe
Eastern Africa
• Dijbouti
• Eritrea
• Ethiopia
• Kenya
• South Sudan
• Sudan
• Uganda
West Africa
• Burkina Faso
• Cameroon
• Chad
• Ghana
• The Gambia
• Mali
• Niger
• Nigeria
• Senegal
• Sierra Leone

12. Outside of Africa
• Australasia
• Central and South America
• Europe
• North America
Who is in the room?

13. Who is in the Room?
• Government
• Non-governmental Organizations
• Direct land managers/practitioners
• Intergovernmental Organizations
• Academic and Research
• Community Based Organizations
• Civil Society Organizations

14. Who is in the room?
• Years of Experience
– More than 20 years of working experience?
– Between 10 and 20 years of working experience?
– Less than 10 years of working experience?

15. Who is in the room?
We invite the women in the
room to stand, please.

16. Who is in the room?
•Blue (Speakers)
•Yellow (Helpers)
•Pink (Media)
•White (Participants)

17. Objectives
Within the Southern Africa Region –
• Stimulating national and regional stakeholder
(governments, NGOs, donors, community)
awareness and action to adopt cost effective high
impact techniques to address food insecurity
• Building resilience and create robust, productive
farming systems in a changing climate
• Fostering a very large transformation in thinking
and practice to tackling hunger resulting in a self
propelling movement

18. Objectives
Globally –
• Stimulating awareness and action from
international participants to take and apply
learning from the conference to their own
spheres of influence

19. Expected
Outcomes
• Conference Declaration
• Regional and National Action Plans
• Thematic and Side Event Recommendations
related to scaling up solutions
• Statements of Intent
– New collaborative partnerships
– Put learning from conference in practice

20. Process
• Keynote Speakers
• Thematic Groups
• Field Trips
• Side Events
• National and Regional Action Planning
Groups
• Donor and Government Feedback
• Declarations of Intent

21. Communications
• Help Desk/Information Booth
• Field Trip Sign Up by Tuesday 18.30
• Ongoing Evaluation: See “How are we doing?”
Boards on both floors
• Message Boards
• Twitter: #beatingfamine

22. Rules of
Engagement
Share your views, openly and honestly
Share the airspace; concise interventions
Show up on time; present in allocated time
Be fully present
It’s a working conference; be informal, and
take care of yourself and each other

23. Rules of
Engagement
Ask questions Make Friends
Build Partnerships Find Solutions
Share your ideas
Have Fun
Be flexible
We need should Can! Will! Are!

24. Tim Costello
CEO, World Vision Australia
Jeremias Mowo
Regional Director, ICRAF
Remarks from the
Conference Hosts

25. • Louise Baker, UNCCD
• Elvis Paul Tangem, AU Commission
• Florence Rolle, FAO Representative, Malawi
• Richard Record, World Bank Malawi
• Mohammed Bakarr, Global Environmental
Facility
Regional and
Global Perspectives

26. 1:05 Lunch – Banquet Hall
2:30
Thematic
Session 1
Matemba Room
1.1 Farmer-Managed
Natural Regeneration
Mbuna Room
1.2 Trees for Food
Security
Heron - Ibis Room
1.3 Women’s Empowerment
in Landscape Restoration in
Southern Africa
Pelican - Sparrowhawk Room
1.4 Integrated food-energy
systems
4:00 Afternoon Tea
4:30
Thematic
Session 2
Matemba Room
2.1 Climate Smart
Agriculture
Mbuna Room
2.2 Landscape
Restoration
Heron- Ibis Room
2.3 Landcare in Southern
Africa
Pelican - Sparrowhawk Room
2.4 Policies for food and
agriculture in Southern Africa
Remainder of the Day
Thematic Sessions 1 & 2
Cocktail Reception
Looking at the conference agenda…
Lunch is in the Banquet Hall
6.30 Cocktail Reception – Launch of the FMNR Report
16.00 Session 2.2 is moved to the Herron Room; Session 2.3 is now in Mbuna Room

28. Chris Reij
World Resources Institute
Scaling-up
Regreening Strategies

29. Martin Bwalya
NEPAD
An audacious vision
for reaching 25 million
farmers with Climate
Smart Agriculture

30. Isaac Nyoka
Southern Africa Regional Leader, World
Agroforestry Centre
Integrating Trees
On Farms:
What Options are Available?

31. Mulugetta Mekuria
CIMMYT
Sustainable
Intensification
in Southern Africa

32. Constance Neely
World Agroforestry Centre
Changing the Decision Culture
for Scaling-Up to
Achieve Desired Outcomes

33. Questions and
Discussion

34. 11:00
Thematic
Session 3
Matemba Room
3.1 Conservation
Agriculture in
Southern Africa
Mbuna Room
3.2 Scaling-Up
Sustainable
Intensification
Heron - Ibis Room
3.3. A Great Green
Wall for Southern
Africa?
Pelican -
Sparrowhawk
Room
3.4 Fruit trees for
improved nutrition
and livelihoods
Sandpiper Room
3.5 Improved and
Holistic Grazing
Systems for
Southern Africa
Thematic Session 3
12:30 Lunch – Banquet Hall
Looking at the conference Program…

35. Morning Tea

37. Feedback
from thematic
sessions

38. Preparation for
Country/Regional
Strategy Groups
Working Group
• Angola, Botswana, Namibia
• Kenya
• Lesotho & Swaziland
• Mozambique
• Zambia
• Zimbabwe
• Republic of South Africa
• SAR
• HOA
• West Africa
Malawi Working Group
• Southern
– Lake shore
– Highlands
• Central
• Northern

39. Instructions for Working Groups
• All working groups are outside between BICC & BH!
• You will see a board with your working group name
and cluster of chairs
• Identify a facilitator and a rapporteur
• Three main areas: The vision, actions for
transformational change, and immediate next steps.
• The whole of the report is done two ways:
– Typed into template, and
– On a pin board

40. Example of a filled pinboard

41. This afternoon – the Vision
In your groups discuss:
• The existing, relevant national policies
• The characteristics and success indicators
that will be achieved over the next 10 years.
• Capture the discussion on the template and
on the pinboard.
• Leave your boards and return to the plenary at
17.30.

42. Preparing for Thursday
Field Trips
and Side Events
•Field Trips
•Side Events

43. See you on Thursday!