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  • Virtual - 1 Day
    Wednesday
    April 28
    2021

    Nobel Prize Summit 2021 Event: From Results in the Lab to Results on the Ground

    Hosted by Global Solutions Summit

    How can we ensure that cutting edge scientific results enhance sustainability and lead to concrete improvements in peoples’ lives? To make an impact, scientific knowledge has to be embedded in products and organizations that meet three criteria:

    1. Financial, operational, and environmental sustainability;

    2. Accessibility to the billions of people with low income rather than serving only the economic elites;

    3. Deployed at scale to improve the lives of hundreds of millions of people in dozens of countries in thousands of communities around the world.

    The panelists will discuss why this daunting task is eminently worth pursuing, but will require some changes to business-as-usual procedures in the scientific community and in within industry.

    Moderator:

    Alfred Watkins, Chairman, Global Solutions Summit

    Panelists:

    Theresa Kotanchek, Chief Executive Officer of Evolved Analytics

    Ramesh Mashelkar, Former Director General of the Council of Scientific and Industrial Research and Former President of Indian National Science Academy

    Maurizio Vecchione, Co-founder of AdAstral and President and CEO of Washington Global Health Alliance

    Time: 11:00 AM – 12:30 ET

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    Webinar
  • Virtual - 1 Day
    Wednesday
    April 28
    2021

    Monthly CASA Agri-Business Breakthrough Webinars

    This webinar series will feature evidence and analysis to support the commercialisation of agriculture in emerging markets

    About this Event

    Agribusiness investments one year into the pandemic: Where are we now?

    Building on the success of CASA’s “Rethinking Agribusiness Investments Through the Pandemic” webinar series, which took place in April and May 2020, the programme is organising a webinar to discuss the reality on the ground after a year of COVID-19. The panel will draw on examples from Africa to unpack the impact of the pandemic on investment in and performance of agricultural value chains in Africa; and discuss the next challenges on the horizon.

    The panel

    Sami Khan, CDC Group Plc, will discuss how the pandemic has impacted on DFI investment and the performance of agricultural value chains in Africa. He will also explore the challenges on the horizon, and how investors could respond.

    Philip Boahen, African Development Bank, will explore lesson on how the pandemic has impacted on agricultural value chains in Africa and the most appropriate responses investors can make.

    Sheila K Mugyenzi, Uganda Investment Authority, will evaluate how the pandemic has impacted the performance of, and investment in, the agricultural sector in Uganda. She will suggest how investors could consider moving forward with their agricultural investments in Uganda.

    After the presentations there will be around 20 minutes of questions and answers.

    Who should attend?

    Impact investors; development finance institutions; commercial lenders, donors and investment promotion agencies. It will also provide useful background information for agri-business companies and experts; NGOs and Think Tanks.

    Wednesday 28 April at 12:00 (Noon) BST. On-line.

    Login details will be emailed out to registered attendees a few hours before each webinar

    The Details

    This series of webinars features analysis of evidence by the CASA programme and partners, designed to support the commercialisation of agriculture in emerging markets across the developing world. The series will: showcase solutions to the most common challenges in agri-business for inclusive growth and support investment facilitation in agriculture in emerging markets.

    Each webinar lasts 60 minutes and take place on the last Wednesday of the month. The webinar will typically feature a combination of researchers and agri-business experts. Crucially, discussion will focus on actionable take-aways (‘breakthroughs’).

    After the event you will receive a one-page briefing note which summarises all of the key discussion points. Within a few days of each event a video will be available in the events section of the CASA programme website. Any documents referenced in the webinars will be found in the evidence section of the CASA website.

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    Coronavirus, Webinar
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