Investment, Irrigation, Digitalization and Social Protection – the top enablers to building thriving and climate-resilient African food systems

Joyce M. Kasyoki, Senior Manager, Africa Directorate, CIFOR-ICRAF

Joyce M. Kasyoki is a Senior Project Manager in the Greening Tree Crop Landscapes Theme. She leads and provides support in project management and administration, budget formulation, preparation of workplans, funding proposals and project updates. She also serves as the side-event logistics coordinator for international conferences.

Bruce Campbell, Chief Innovation Strategist, Clim-Eat

As Chief Innovation Strategist, Bruce brings crucial thought leadership to fulfil our ambition of catalysing a transformation in food systems under climate change. Bruce has four decades of experience working with rural development, agriculture, climate change, rural livelihoods and forestry in 30+ low and middle income countries. He previously directed the CGIAR Research Program on Climate Change, Agriculture and Food Security (CCAFS), which under his leadership reached 60 million people with its ideas, 19 milllion farmers with climate-smart agriculture, informed over USD 3.5 billion in investments and resulted in over 70 policy wins in just the last two years.

Previously based in Zimbabwe, Indonesia and Australia, Bruce has worked extensively in agricultural and forestry research for development. His work has spanned social-ecological systems, the link between poverty alleviation and forest goods and services, and Aboriginal natural resource management, among other topics.

Facilitator:

Joyce M. Kasyoki, Senior Manager, Africa Directorate, CIFOR-ICRAF

 

Joyce M. Kasyoki is a Senior Project Manager in the Greening Tree Crop Landscapes Theme. She leads and provides support in project management and administration, budget formulation, preparation of workplans, funding proposals and project updates. She also serves as the side-event logistics coordinator for international conferences.

Panelist:

Steve Prager, Senior Program Officer for Agriculture Transformation Strategy, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation

Africa Improved Foods (tbc, Rwanda)

Alloysius Attah, Co-Founder and CEO, Farmerline (tbc)

Portia Adede Williams, Research Scientist, CSIR-Science and Technology Policy Research Institute, Accra-Ghana

Bruce Campbell, Chief Innovation Strategist, Clim-Eat

As Chief Innovation Strategist, Bruce brings crucial thought leadership to fulfil our ambition of catalysing a transformation in food systems under climate change. Bruce has four decades of experience working with rural development, agriculture, climate change, rural livelihoods and forestry in 30+ low and middle income countries. He previously directed the CGIAR Research Program on Climate Change, Agriculture and Food Security (CCAFS), which under his leadership reached 60 million people with its ideas, 19 milllion farmers with climate-smart agriculture, informed over USD 3.5 billion in investments and resulted in over 70 policy wins in just the last two years.

Previously based in Zimbabwe, Indonesia and Australia, Bruce has worked extensively in agricultural and forestry research for development. His work has spanned social-ecological systems, the link between poverty alleviation and forest goods and services, and Aboriginal natural resource management, among other topics.