Opening Session and Welcome Notes

Opening Remarks

Moderator

Prof. Sergey Alekseevich Shoba

Corresponding Member of the Russian Academy of Sciences; Director of Eurasian Center for Food Security (ECFS)

Panelists

Prof. Yuri A. Mazei

Vice-rector, Lomonosov Moscow State University

Mr. Andras Horvai

Country Director and Resident Representative for the Russian Federation, Europe and Central Asia, The World Bank

Ms. Anna V. Valkova

Deputy Director for the Department of International Financial Relations, Ministry of Finance of the Russian Federation

Session 1: Launch of the 2019 Global Food Policy Report – Highlights and Reflections on CIS Countries

Dr. Shenggen Fan

Director General, IFPRI

Panelists

Dr. Evgeniya Serova

Director for the Center of Agricultural Policy Research, National Research University Higher School of Economics

Prof. Sergey Kiselev

Chair of Agroeconomics Department, Lomonosov Moscow State University

Discussion

Session 2: Panel Discussion on Policy Challenges and Opportunities for Rural Revitalization in Eurasia Region

Moderator

Dr. Kamiljon Akramov

Research Fellow and Leader of the Central Asia Program, IFPRI

Panelists

Dr. Roman Romashkin

Deputy Director of ECFS, Lomonosov Moscow State University

Dr. Damir Esenaliev

Senior Research Associate, International Security and Development Center GmbH

Mrs. Gulnara Beknazarova

Director, Z-Analytics Group

Prof. Samvel Avetisyan

Senior Expert, AMBERD Research Center, Armenian State University of Economics (TBC)

Prof. Galiya Akimbekova

Deputy Director, Kazakh Research Institute of Agricultural Economics and Rural Development

Session 3: Monitoring and Assessment of Food and Nutrition Security in Eurasia

Moderator

Mr. Artavazd Hakobyan

Senior Agricultural Economist, The World Bank

Food and Nutrition Security in the Eurasian Economic Union

Mr. Stanislav Buben

Director of Agricultural Policy Department, Eurasian Economic Commission

The Applied System of Food Security Indicators for Eurasia

Dr. Evgeny Tsvetnov

ECFS, Lomonosov Moscow State University

Dr. Aleksey Belugin

ECFS, Lomonosov Moscow State University

Monitoring of Soil Salinity with the Use of Space Borne Imagery and Proximal Sensing and an Approach to the National Monitoring in the Central Asian Countries

Dr. Maria Konyushkova

ECFS, Lomonosov Moscow State University

Linking Smallholder Agricultural Producers with Market: Experience of Kyrgyzstan

Mr. Torogul Bekov

Agribusiness Competitiveness Center (ABCC)

Mrs. Aizada Niyazova

Agribusiness Competitiveness Center (ABCC)

Small Research/Case Study Projects on Food and Nutrition Security

Dr. Jonathan Wadsworth

Lead Agriculture Specialist, The World Bank

Session 4: Agriculture, Food and Nutrition Security in Eurasia: Challenges, Policy Issues, and Empirical Evidence

Moderator

Dr. Roman Romashkin

ECFS, Lomonosov Moscow State University

Systemic Innovation to Leverage Impacts in Dryland Agri-Food Systems of Central Asia

Prof. Jacques Wery

International Center for Agricultural Research in the Dry Areas (ICARDA), Cairo, Egypt

Dr. Ram Sharma

International Center for Agricultural Research in the Dry Areas (ICARDA-CAC)

Dr. Akmal Akramkhanov

International Center for Agricultural Research in the Dry Areas (ICARDA-CAC)

Making Institutions Work for Rural Revitalization: Implications for Central Asia

Dr. Katrina Kosec

Senior Research Fellow, IFPRI

Social Cohesion through Community-Based Development in Kyrgyzstan

Dr. Damir Esenaliev

International Security and Development Center GmbH

Nutrition Sensitive Agriculture: Evidence from Tajikistan

Dr. Hiroyuki Takeshima

Senior Research Fellow, IFPRI

Climate Smart Technologies in Agriculture: Evidence from Kazakhstan

Mr. Kairat Nazhmidenov

FAO Kazakhstan Country Office

Mr. Yerlan Syzdykov

FAO Kazakhstan Country Office

Closing Remarks

Reception Dinner