List of Paper Lead Authors and Co-Authors

List of paper lead authors and co-authors

Brazil

Ricardo Abramovay is Professor in the Department of Economics, in the School of Economics, Administration and Accountancy (FEA), University of Sao Paulo, Brazil, Coordinator of the Centre for Social and Environmental Economics (NESA), and a researcher for the National Council of Scientific and Technological Development (CNPq). He has led the FAPESP Thematic Project on the socio- economic impacts of climate change. He is a research partner in the Rimisp led Rural Territorial Dynamics Research Programme, and a member of the Scientific Council of the “Maison des Sciences de l’Homme de Montpellier”. His research is theoretically based in main contemporary currents of economic sociology including corporate social and environmental responsibility; formation of markets and quality brands; territorial development and coalitions of actors; and social and environmental public policies.

Thiago Caliari is a PhD Candidate at the Federal University of Minas Gerais, Brazil.

Verônica Lazarini Cardoso is a graduate student and assistant researcher at the Federal University of Minas Gerais, Brazil.

Guilherme Cassel became the Honourable Minister of Agrarian Development (MDA), Brazil, in 2006. He served as the Deputy-Secretary of the Treasury for Porto Alegre, and also as Deputy Chief of Staff to the State Government of Rio Grande do Sul. He has held the posts of Secretary General of the State Government of Rio Grande do Sul and Chief of Cabinet of Vice-Governor Miguel Rossetto. From 2003 to March 2006, he held the position of Executive Secretary of the Ministry of Agrarian development. A civil engineer, Guilherme Cassel undertook post graduate study in human resources and was a fiscal researcher in the Treasury of the State of Rio Grande do Sul in Brazil.

Nelson Giordano Delgado is a Professor at the Federal Rural University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. He has experience in the area of economics and social sciences, with emphasis on rural issues, namely social actors, local and territorial development, farming, Brazilian agriculture and economy, public policies for rural development, political economy of the international system, international and agricultural trade regimes. He has performed consulting services for governments, NGOs, and international organisations in diverse fields, which include, in addition to those mentioned above, the experience of the World Social Forum. A graduate in economics from the Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul (1967), he holds a Master’s in Economics from New York University (1974), and a PhD in the Graduate Program in Social Sciences, Agriculture, and Society from the Federal Rural University of Rio de Janeiro.

Arilson da Silva Favareto is Adjunct Professor of Economic Analysis for Science and Technology at the Federal University of ABC, linked to the Centre for Engineering, Modelling and Applied Social Sciences and the Interdisciplinary Graduate Program in Energy. He is an associate researcher of the Center for Citizenship and Development of the Brazilian Centre for Analysis and Planning (CEBRAP). His research involves studies in theoretical and applied economic sociology, with the title “Socio- economics of Innovation for Sustainable Territorial Development – Technological innovations, Institutional innovations.” He has experience in research and consultancy work to government agencies, social movements and multilateral international cooperation agencies. He is the author of the book “Paradigms of rural development in question”, winner of the 5th annual Regional Policy and Planning Award. He holds a Bachelor’s in Social Sciences from the Pontifical Catholic University of Campinas (1992), Master’s in Sociology from the State University of Campinas (2001), and a PhD in Environmental Science from the University of Sao Paulo (2006).

Mauro Eduardo Del Grossi is a Professor at the University of Brasilia, and Advisor to the Minister of Agrarian Development, Brazil. With a PhD. in Economics, he has published two books, book chapters, and articles in scientific journals. His research topics include rural poverty, rural development, family farming, rural employment and economic diversification.

Selena Herrera is a PhD candidate at Alberto Luiz Coimbra Institute of Postgraduate Studies and at the Research in Engineering of the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (COPPE/UFRJ) – Brazil. She is a researcher of the Postgraduate Program in Development Social Sciences, Agriculture and Society of the Rural Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (CPDA/UFRRJ) and of the Environmental Science Laboratory (LIMA/COPPE/UFRJ). She has been involved in the study of biodiesel family farm production since the beginning of the Brazilian biodiesel program.

Sérgio Pereira Leite is Associate Professor of the Graduate Program in Social Sciences, Development, Agriculture and Society (CPDA) at the Federal Rural University of Rio de Janeiro, where he was Coordinator of CPDA and heads the Centre for Public Policy for Agriculture (OPPA). He served as visiting professor at universities in Brazil (UFLA, UFRPE, UESC) and internationally (EHESS, France, and UNS, Argentina). He provides scientific advice to funding agencies (CNPq, FAPESP, Fapemat, among others) and to NGOs (IBASE, INESC, Oxfam International) and multilateral agencies (IICA, FAO, UN). He conducts research on agrarian issues in Brazil including family farming, agrarian reform, rural settlements, modernization of agriculture, rural development, public policies for agriculture, policies to combat poverty, economic development, and social development. A Post- doctorate in Social Sciences from the École des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales (EHESS), Paris, he holds a PhD in Economics from the University of Campinas (UNICAMP).

Mauro Borges Lemos is currently a Professor at the Federal University of Minas Gerais, Chairman of the Board of the Technological Park of Belo Horizonte and Director of the Centre for Regional Development and Planning (CEDEPLAR). He has experience in economics, with an emphasis on regional and urban economics and active focus on: regional development, MERCOSUR, and the agrifood system. He has a Masters degree in Economics from the Federal University of Minas Gerais (1985) and holds a PhD in Economics from the University of London (1992).

Renato Sérgio Jamil Maluf is currently Associate Professor of the Graduate Program in Social Sciences in Development, Agriculture and Society at the Federal Rural University of Rio de Janeiro

(CPDA/UFRRJ), where he coordinates the Reference Centre on Food and Nutrition Security (CERESAN) and lectures in the areas of economic theory and economic development, in addition to undergraduate courses. He undertakes research, training and cooperation in food and nutrition security, family farming, multifunctional agriculture and sustainable territorial development. He was appointed President of the National Food and Nutrition Security Council (CONSEA) in November 2007. A graduate in economics from the Methodist University of Piracicaba (1973), he holds a Masters (1976) and PhD (1988) in Economics from the State University of Campinas. He conducted post-doctoral studies at Oxford University (1996-1997), and at the École des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales in Paris (2000-2001).

Leonilde Servolo de Medeiros is currently an Associate Professor in Graduate Program of Social Sciences in Development, Agriculture and Society at the Federal Rural University of Rio de Janeiro. She works from a sociological perspective on rural social movements, agrarian reform, rural settlements, public policy, agribusiness, and agrarian issues. She is at Level 1C with the National Council of Scientific and Technological Development (CNPq) and was part of the program, Scientists of our State, of Foundation for Research Support of Rio de Janeiro (FAPERJ) from 2003 – 2008. She is Secretary of the Latin American Rural Sociology Association (ALASRU) and holds a Bachelors degree in Social Sciences (1971), and Masters in Political Science (1983) from the University of Sao Paulo, Brazil, and a PhD in Social Sciences from the State University of Campinas (1995).

Reginaldo Carmello Corrêa de Moraes is currently a Professor at the State University of Campinas. He has experience in political science with an emphasis in political theory and contemporary international relations, focusing mainly on neoliberalism, ECLAC, planning, and development theories. He graduated (1972) and obtained a Masters (1982) and a PhD (1987) in Philosophy from the University of Sao Paulo.

Thiago Fonseca Morello Institute of Economic Research of the University of Sao Paulo, Brazil, and Researcher of the Social and Environmental Economics Group (NESA) of the University of Sao Paulo, Brazil.

José Humberto Oliveira is Secretary of Territorial Development of the Ministry of Agrarian Development and Executive Secretary of the National Council for Sustainable Rural Development (CONDRAF), Brazil. He graduated in Cooperatives from the Federal University of Paraíba and Expert in International Business from the Federal Rural University of Pernambuco. He was Director of Association for Guidance to Cooperatives of the Northeast (ASSOCENE) between 1992 and 2002. He has served as a consultant to the National Confederation of Agricultural Workers (CONTAG), the Inter-American Institute for Agricultural Cooperation (IICA), and the United Nations Development Program (UNDP). He was founder of Semi-Arid Articulation (ASA), Brazil.

Adoniram Sanches Peraci is the National Secretary of Family Agriculture of the Ministry of Agrarian Development, Brazil. He has experience in agronomy and strategies for rural poverty reduction, with an emphasis on rural extension. Adoniram Sanches Peraci graduated in agronomy from the Federal University of Paraná (1992) and holds a Masters in Rural Development from the Post Graduate College of Mexico (1998).

Miguel Soldatelli Rossetto is President of Petrobras Biocombustíveis, Brazil. He was President of the Union of Industrial Workers in Triunfo Petrochemical Complex between 1986 and 1992. He was a member of the State Board of the Workers’ United Central (CUT) of Rio Grande do Sul between 1999 and 2002, exercising the office of Secretary of Policy Formulation. He served as Congressman, and as Vice-Governor between 1999 and 2002. Between 2003 and 2006 he was the State Minister of Agrarian Development. Miguel Soldatelli Rossetto trained as a Mechanical technician and studied Social Sciences.

Sérgio Schneider is a sociologist and Professor at the Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul (UFRGS), Brazil and permanent member of the Graduate Programs in Rural Development and Sociology at the Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul. He is currently the coordinator of the Graduate Program in Rural Development (2008-2010) and coordinator of the Rural Studies Book Series, published by UFRGS. He is a fellow of Productivity in Research of the National Council of Scientific and Technological Development (CNPq), Level 2. He holds a Doctorate in Sociology and Post-doctorate in Urban and Regional Planning from Cardiff University.

Emma Cademartori Siliprandi an agricultural engineer, graduated from the Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul (1980). Masters in Rural Sociology from the Federal University of Paraíba (1988), and PhD in Sustainable Development from UNB in 2009, and held a doctoral internship at the University of Valladolid, Spain. Consultant with FAO and UNDP. She is currently a researcher at the Centre for Studies and Research in Food (NEPA) at the State University of Campinas (UNICAMP), Brazil. She coordinated the FAO/MDA Technical Cooperation Project from 2004 to 2008. She participates in International Feminist Networks (Economics and Feminism Network and the Latin American Women’s Network on Transforming the Economy) and researcher networks on the themes of agriculture, food, agro-ecology, gender, and public policy, with emphasis on organization of rural women.

Darana Souza is a researcher of the Rural and Sustainable Development team at the International Policy Center for Inclusive Growth – IPC-IG, Brazil. She holds a master’s degree in Sustainable Development and Agriculture from Paris University VII and a BA in Social Sciences from the State University of Campinas - UNICAMP. Her core professional experience has been with rural development and food security in different developing countries including Brazil, Indonesia and Niger.

John Wilkinson is Associate Professor at the Graduate Centre for Development, Agriculture and Society (CPDA), Rural Federal University, Rio de Janeiro, where he teaches and carries out research on the global agrofood system. He has published widely in Latin America, Europe and the United States and has been active in international research networks on restructuring the European Agrofood System, on Fair Trade, on Geographical Indications and on Global Value Chains. He has been consultant to many international bodies including FAO, UNIDO, the European Commission, OECD, ECLA, IICA and key Foundations, to NGOs including Ford Foundation, Oxfam, Actionaid, and to a range of Ministries and organizations in Brazil.

Andréa Lorena Butto Zarzar is an anthropologist and currently a Special Adviser to the Minister of Agrarian Development and coordinator of the Special Advisory on Gender, Race and Ethnicity at the Ministry of Agrarian Development, Brazil. She graduated in Social Sciences in 1992, and with a

Masters in Social Anthropology in 1996 from the Federal University of Pernambuco. As Professor and researcher at the Federal Rural University of Pernambuco, her work has focused on urban anthropology, gender and employment. She was the Coordinator of the Office of Women at City Hall, Recife, in the state of Pernambuco.

China

Jie Chen is Research Fellow, Associate Professor and Deputy-Director, Rural Development Division, Research Center for Rural Economy, Ministry of Agriculture, China. Her areas of expertise include agricultural economics and rural policy. Jie Chen participated in policy consultations for the establishment of China’s grassland Ecological Compensation Mechanism from 2007 to 2010.

Jiaze Chen is a Research Fellow and Director of Institute of Economics, the Chengdu Academy of Social Science, China and the vice-president of Chengdu Academy of Social Science. His work focuses on the study of economic theories, making economic policies and the system reform work. In additition to publishing in China’s best academic journals such as Economic Research Journal, Historical Research, Social Sciences in China and China’s core journals such as Economist, Finance & Economics, China Rural Survey, Jiaze Chen has been responsible for editing the main part of Chengdu Culture Development Annual Report (blue book) for many years. He has presided over and participated in several national, provincial and municipal programs and won many provincial and municipal awards and the National Culture Projects Award.

Chuanyi Cui is a Senior Research Fellow and Professor Development Research Center (DRC) of the State Council, China. He won his bachelor’s degree of International Politics in Fudan University and worked for several years in Chu County, Anhui Province, where he participated in agricultural reforms. Currently he is serving as a researcher of DRC, and as vice secretary-general of Institute for Country Labor Force Development. He works in agriculture management systems, wholesale market, agricultural technology revolution，agricultural protection and labour movement. He has published a book “the Migration of Chinese Peasants” and is also co-author of “Reforms of Chinese Counties and Cities”, “Employment of Peasants and China’s Modernization”, “Out of Duality: Research on Peasants’ Employment and Business Starting”. He has been awarded a National Award of Development Research and National Award for Technology Advancement.

Min Du is a Research Fellow and Director of the Rural Development Division, Research Center for Rural Economy, Ministry of Agriculture, China and the Director of the Economic Research Division for State on the modern technology system industry for cotton. In addition, she is a part time senior adviser for the State Council Tariff Expert Advisory Committee members and senior adviser for Cotton Expert Advisory Group of Experts of the Ministry of Agriculture. Min Du graduated from Xi'an Jiaotong University in 1982.

Pei Guo is a Professor and Deputy Dean in College of Economics and Management, China Agricultural University, and senior researcher in Center for Rural Development Policy. Pei Guo obtained his PhD in Agricultural Economics in 1999 in China Agricultural University by joining the Advanced Agricultural Economics Training Program for the Doctoral Students financially supported by US Winrock International. He visited the Department of Applied Economics and Management in Cornell University from August 2007 to August 2008. Currently, his research centers on rural finance, 5

rural and agricultural development. He has published many academic papers in both Chinese and English language. He also works as a consultant for the World Bank, Asian Development Bank, African Development Bank, IFAD, FAO, UNDP, UNOPS and GTZ in the past 10 years.

Jun Han is Senior Research Fellow and Professor, and the Director-General of the Research Department of Rural Economy (RDRE) of Development Research Center of the State Council (DRC) PRC, Member of the DRC Leadership. He is Doctoral-advisor to the Graduate School of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences and China Agricultural University and honored with Governmental Special Talents Allowances by the State Council of PRC since 1993, awarded twice with Sun-Yefang Economics Scholarship, and won Special Prize and three First Prizes in China Development Research Prize. He presented as chief economist in lecturing the collective study of the Political Bureau of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China, participating in drafting the Document of the 3rd Plenum of the 17th Central Committee of the Communist Party of China, participating in drafting the Central Governmental No. 1 Document (one of the most important economic and social development documents guiding the Government’s work each year) since 2004. His social positions include Vice-president to the Chinese Association of Agricultural Economics, Standing-commissioner to the All-China Youth Federation, and Advisor to the People’s Governments of Anhui Province, Tibet Autonomous Region and Qinghai Province.

Jung Hang is a researcher with the Center for Chinese Agricultural Policy, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Institute of Geographical Sciences and Natural Resources Research, China.

Yupeng He is a Senior Research Fellow and Professor at the Research Department of Rural Economy, Development Research Center (DRC) of the State Council, China. His expertise in the field of agricultural and rural development policies evaluation, commodity and trade analysis, and urbanization and employment. His work involves him to a number of preeminent consultancy positions such as advisor to the Minister of Agriculture on WTO issues and member of expert group to the State Council on women's advancement. He is also core faculty member of LEAD (Leadership for Environment and Development) China. Before joining DRC in 2009, he had been deputy director- general in charge of policy research and international collaboration at China Center for Urban Development under the National Development and Reform Commission (NDRC) since 2003. Yupeng He has also worked as consultant to the World Bank, ADB, OECD, FAO, APEC, and ASEAN.

Biliang Hu is Professor of Economics at Beijing Normal University and Vice Dean of the School of Economics and Resource Management of the University in China. His latest publications in relation to rural transition and development include Informal Institutions and Rural Development in China, London and New York: Routledge, 2007 and A Village Economy in Central Thailand: Testing Chayanov’s Model, Bangkok: Thai Watana Panich Press, 2007. He received his Doctorate of Economics from the School of Economics and Management, Witten/Herdecke University in Germany, and conducted a two and half year post-doctoral research program in Harvard Kennedy School. His main academic interests are institutional analysis and governance of localities and rural development.

Jikun Huang is the Founder and Director of the Center for Chinese Agricultural Policy of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, Institute of Geographical Sciences and Natural Resources Research, China. He received his PhD in economics from University of the Philippines at Los Banos in 1990. His research 6

covers a wide range of issues on China's agricultural and rural development, including work on agricultural research and development policy, water resource economics, price and marketing, food consumption, poverty, and trade policy. He received the Outstanding Scientific Progress awards from the Ministry of Agriculture four times, Award for China’s top ten outstanding youth scientists in 2002, Outstanding Achievement Award for Overseas Returning Chinese in 2003, and Outstanding Contribution Award on Management Science. He has published extensively.

Yiqiang Liu is Research Fellow at the Centre for Chinese Rural Studies, Huazhong Normal University, China.

Rui Liu is a researcher in Division of Rural Development, Research Center for Rural Economy, Ministry of Agriculture, China. Her field of research is agricultural economics and sustainable development. Rui Liu graduated from China Agriculture University in 2008.

Hongyuan Song is a Research Fellow, Professor and Director of Research Center for Rural Economy, Ministry of Agriculture, China. His areas of expertise include agricultural economics and rural economy policy. He has spoken on China’s grassland governance and policies including an international conference in Nepal in 2009.

Yiching Song Senior Researcher and IFAD gender focal point in China, IFAD country office, China.

Yinhong Sun IFAD Management Office, China.

Dewen Wang is a Research Fellow, Professor and Chief of Social Security Research Division, Institute of Population and Labour Economics, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, China. He worked at the Chinese Ministry of Agriculture for years before he transferred to the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences. His study focuses on migration and rural development, labor market, poverty and social protection, economic reform and growth in China. He is now working at the World Bank Beijing Office as a social protection economist.

Guobao Wu is a Professor and the Director of Division of Poverty and Development Finance of the Rural Development Institute, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences. He has over 20 years of research experience in the area of rural development, in particular, in poverty reduction, microfinance and migration.

Xu Xiaolin Deputy Director Xinyang Prefecture Development and Reform Committee, Director of Xinguang IFAD Programme Management Office, Prefecture Development and Reform Committee.

Xu Yong is a researcher at the Centre for Chinese Rural Studies, Huazhong Normal University, China

Yunhua Zhang is a Research Fellow and Division Deputy-Director in the Research Department of Rural Economy, Development Research Center of the State Council, China. His focus of work is in the field of agriculture economics, land system, food safety management, rural development. Yunhua Zhang has published many papers and a book “Study on Food Safety Assurance Mechanisms”. He has been awarded Sun-Yefang Economics Scholarship and won his PhD degree in agriculture economics in Renmin University, China.

Xiaoshan Zhang is a Senior Research Fellow and Director General of the Rural Development Institute, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, China.

Shukai Zhao is a Senior Research Fellow of the Development Research Center of the State Council, and the Deputy Secretary General of China Development Research Foundation. Earlier he held the post of Assistant Researcher in Rural Policy Research Office of CPC Central Committee Secretariat, Director of the Third Research Office, Research Department of Rural, Development Research Center, the State Council, and Deputy Secretary of Zhuolu County, Hebei Province. He was a Visiting Scholar in Duke University from 2000 to 2001, and in Harvard University from 2001 to 2002. He has worked on Rural Development of China for World Bank and the UKs’ DFID. He was awarded the Council Special Government Allowance for his work. In November 2006, Dr Zhao was invited to present on Local Governance to the CPC Central Committee Political Bureau. He received his Bachelor degree from Shandong University, Master’s degree from Central Party School, and Doctoral degree from Renmin University, China.

Jijing Zhang Vice Mayor of Xinyang Prefecture Government. Deputy Group Leader of Xinyang Prefecture IFAD Programme Leading Group. Xinyang Prefecture Government.

India

Manishankar Aiyer Former Union Minister (Panchayati Raj), India

Pramathesh Ambasta National Coordinator, National Consortium of Civil Society Organisation, India

G.K. Chadha South Asian University, India

Ramesh Chand is Professor and Director of the National Centre for Agricultural Economics and Policy Research (NCAP) of ICAR. He is a Fellow of the National Academy of Agricultural Sciences, India. He has worked in several senior academic positions in India. International experience as Visiting Professor at University of Wollongong, NSW Australia (2000) and Visiting Fellow at Institute of Developing Economies, Chiba Shi, Japan (2003). Ramesh Chand has worked as a consultant for FAO, UNDP, ESCAP, and World Bank. At present engaged in research on food policy, trade and WTO, and agricultural growth and development. He has served on several high level committees including “Steering Committee on Agriculture for XIth Plan” where he drafted the report of the Committee. He holds a Ph. D. in Agricultural Economics from Indian Agricultural Research Institute, New Delhi.

S. Mahendra Dev Chairman Commission for Agricultural Costs and Prices, India

Ashok Gulati is currently IFPRI Director in Asia based in IFPRI’s New Delhi Office. During January 2001 to February 2006, he was Director of the Markets,Trade and Institutions Division of IFPRI in Washington D.C. Before joining IFPRI, Ashok Gulati was a NABARD Chair Professor at the Institute of

Economic Growth in Delhi; Chief Economist at the National Council of Applied Economic Research, Delhi. He has been a member of the Economic Advisory Council of the Prime Minister of India; the State Planning Board of Karnataka; the Economic Advisory Council of the Chief Minister of Andhra Pradesh; and the Board of Directors of ICICI Banking Corporation. He holds a Masters in Economics and Ph.D. from Delhi School of Economics. His research includes analysis and policy advice on issues related to agricultural markets and development of value chains; agriculture trade liberalization and negotiations in WTO with a focus on the likely implications on developing country interests.

Ashwin Gambhir is a researcher with the PRAYAS Energy Group working on issues of renewable energy, electricity and climate change policy.

Benjene S. Kothari Assistant Professor in Architecture College of Engineering, Trivandrum, University of Kerala, India

Himanshu Kulkarni is a founder trustee of the Advanced Centre for Water Resources Development and Management (ACWADAM), India is also its Executive Director. As a hydrogeologist, he has coordinated many national and international projects, including projects under grants from the UKs’ DFID, the Ford Foundation and more recently under the Tata Trust and Arghyam Trust. He visited the United States in 2007 as a Fulbright Scholar under the Indo-American Environmental Leadership Program, to study groundwater management in the Western United States. He is presently writing a book on groundwater and social transition.

Amitabh Kundu Member, National Statistical Commission, Government of India. Centre for the Study of Regional Development, Jawaharlal Nehru University, India Suman Laskar is a graduate of National Institute of Technology (NIT), Nagpur. Suman started his career with PRADAN where he worked directly with the tribal communities of Madhya Pradesh and Jharkhand in livelihood promotion. Later he joined BASIX where he handles the special initiatives of BASIX in livelihood promotion. He has published a articles on financial access, entrepreneurship and organic farming. Vijay Mahajan established in 1983 an NGO, PRADAN which works with 150,000 poor households, promoting livelihoods and community institutions. In 1996, Vijay founded BASIX, which has helped support the livelihoods of a million poor households with micro-credit. Vijay was a member of the Rangarajan Committee on Financial Inclusion and the Raghuram Rajan Committee on Financial Sector Reforms. He is a member of the Insurance Regulatory and Development Authority (IRDA) and the Rajasthan Mission on Livelihoods. He serves/ed on the Boards of NGOs - ASSEFA, Gram Vikas, ARAVALI and DSC; management institutions - IIHMR, IRMA and IIFM; and the Consultative Group to Assist the Poor (CGAP). He has received several awards and recognition for his achievements in rural transformation and has co-authored a book entitled “The Forgotten Sector”. He is a graduate of IIT Delhi, a post-graduate of IIM Ahmadabad, and a mid-career fellow from the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, Princeton University, USA.

Rinku Murgai World Bank, India Office, India.

Ravikiran Naik is a Research Associate with the Institute of Rural Management, Anand (IRMA), India.

Dev Nathan Visiting Professor Institute for Human Development, India.

Biraj Patnaik is the Principal Adviser to the Office of the Commissioners of the Supreme Court in the Right to Food Case. He has worked extensively on food policy issues over the past 15 years. He was the co-founder of one of the largest rural health worker programmes in India, the Mitanin Programme that trained and deployed 60,000 health workers in Chhattisgarh. He has worked on the reforms of the Public Distribution System in Chhattisgarh. A post-graduate in management from the Institute of Rural Management Anand, he was a Chevening Gurukul Scholar at the London School of Economics and Political Science in 2005. Biraj Patnaik is the founder-trustee of the State Health Resource Centre and the People’s Health Resource Network. He worked in ActionAid for close to a decade. He has been associated with the Right to Food Campaign in India, since its inception.

Rajeswari S. Raina is an economist at the National Institute of Science, Technology and Development Studies (NISTADS), CSIR working in the social studies of science, specializing in agricultural and rural innovation. She has a background in the agricultural sciences (B.Sc. (Ag.), marketing management (M.Sc. (Ag.), and economics (Ph. D). From 2005 to Oct 2009, she was a Senior Fellow at the Centre for Policy Research in New Delhi. Current research focuses on policy and institutional reform as well as policy capacities for innovation for inclusive development in India and China, bio-innovation systems, and knowledge, science and technology for changes in the agriculture-environment interface. She undertakes work for national and international organizations in agricultural and rural development, NGOs, and private/public sector firms. She is the Indian coordinator of the IDRC funded project on “Innovation systems for inclusive development: Lessons from rural China and India”.

D Raghunandan is a researcher and activist working with the Delhi Science Forum on environmental and climate change policy and advocacy, and with the Centre for Technology and Development, New Delhi, on technology development and action research on rural industrialization and appropriate technologies.

Narasimha D. Rao after a decade of work as a consultant and researcher on electricity reforms and regulation, teaching at Indian Institute of Management, Bangalore, he is currently finishing his PhD at ‘Interdisciplinary Program on Environment and Resources’ at Stanford University, USA. His research interests lies in equity in climate and energy sector reforms in India.

D N Reddy Visiting Professor Institute for Human Development, India.

Swati Sachdev currently teaches at Budge Budge College, Kolkata. She has worked as a consultant for the National Commission for Enterprises in the Unorganised Sector and is also pursuing her research for a PhD. degree from Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi.

Girish Sant as co-founder of PRAYAS and co-ordinator of the Energy Group has worked on power sector policy and regulation, training and energy-climate debate. He has been a member of several government committees related to energy planning and regulation.

N C Saxena Former Secretary, Planning Commission, Government of India.

Abhijit Sen Member, Planning Commission, India.

Tushaar Shah, an economist and public policy specialist, a former director of the Institute of Rural Management, Anand, India and Fellow of the Colombo-based International Water Management Institute. His main research interests have been in water institutions and policies in South Asia, a subject on which he has published extensively. His notable contributions have been in comparative analyses of groundwater governance in South Asia, China and Mexico. More recently, his work includes in comparative analyses of water institutions and policies across Asia and between South Asia and Sub-Saharan Africa. He was honored with the Outstanding Scientist award of the Consultative Group of International Agricultural Research (CGIAR) in 2002. His most recent publication is Taming the Anarchy: Groundwater Governance in South Asia published by the Resources for the Future Press, Washington.

P.S. Vijay Shankar is a founder member of Samaj Pragati Sahayog (SPS), an NGO based in Dewas district of Madhya Pradesh. As part of SPS, he has lived and worked among the adivasi communities of the Narmada valley for the last 20 years. His areas of interest are water resource management, sustainable agriculture and strengthening of community based, equitable and self-reliant people's institutions. He has been engaged in training and capacity building of civil society organisations as well as on a wider policy advocacy to mainstream the issues of rainfed drylands. He is a member of the Faculty, Baba Amte Centre for People's Empowerment, one of only seven national centres set up for extending training and field support to several agencies implementing watershed projects in the five states. He is also a member of the Steering Committee of the Integrated Watershed Management Programme (IWMP), Ministry of Rural Development, India. He obtained his M. Phil from Jawaharlal Nehru University.

Ravi Srivastava is Professor of Economics and Chairman in the Centre for the Study of Regional Development (CSRD), Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi. He has also served as a full-time Member of the National Commission for Enterprises in the Unorganised Sector. The advisory Commission, which wound up in May 2009, submitted a many reports and made wide ranging recommendations to the government of India on all aspects of policy related to informal sector enterprises and the informal workforce, including a report on skill training for informal sector workers. His main areas of research and publication include human development, land reforms, rural poverty and rural development, regional development, decentralization, labour markets and migration. He has also published extensively on educational finance and health issues. He has performed advisory roles and has worked in consultative positions with the Indian Planning Commission, the UP State Planning Commission, SIEMAT, UNDP, ILO, World Bank, ADB, UNICEF, DFID and ESRC.

T. Sundaraman Executive Director National Health Systems Resource Centre (NHSRC), India.

Sukhadeo K Thorat is Professor at Jawaharlal Nehru University, Managing/Permanent Trustee of the Institute for Dalit Studies, and Chairman of the University Grants Commission of India. His latest publication is S.K. Thorat and K.S. Newman, eds, 2010, Blocked by Caste. Economic Discrimination in Modern India, Oxford University Press, New Delhi.

Jeemol Unni RBI Chair Professor in Rural Economics, Institute of Rural Management, Anand (IRMA), India.

South Africa

Frederick Reinard (Frikkie) Brooks has held the post of General Manager, Municipal Planning, KwaZulu Natal Local Government and Traditional Affairs, South Africa since 1994 and prior to that was Chief Executive Officer of the KwaZulu/Natal Joint Executive Authority (JEA) and in education. He has served as Convenor or Core Member of Provincial Task Teams in drafting of the first KwaZulu- Natal Provincial Growth and Development Strategy in 1996; the first KwaZulu-Natal Spatial Development Framework; the first White Paper and Policy for Rural Development in KwaZulu-Natal in 1998; new Planning and Development legislation for the Province of KwaZulu-Natal (KZN Planning and Development Act, No 6 of 2008); and the KwaZulu-Natal Spatial Economic Development Strategy in 2007. He holds a BA (Ed), University of Pretoria, BA (Hons); Masters in Geography and Development Studies, University of Pretoria; and a B.Ed (Hons) Masters in Public Management, University of Pretoria.

Ian Goldman has worked since 1978 on issues of rural development, with all levels of government and civil society, and in 18 countries. He qualified in agricultural development, worked as an agronomist in Mexico, on strengthening rural local government in Zambia, facilitated rural economic development in the UK, and supported the transformation of the rural sector in the Free State, South Africa (writing the latter experience up for his PhD). In 1998 he founded Khanya-African Institute for Community-Driven Development (Khanya-aicdd), which has pioneered approaches to sustainable livelihoods and community-driven development in Southern and Eastern Africa, and focuses on transforming development systems at all levels to support poor people. In October 2009 he moved to a programme in South Africa's Presidency (PSPPD), building capacity in the country for evidence-based policy-making. He is a Trustee of the Mvula Trust, an NGO working on rural water and sanitation and livelihoods.

Trevor Gordon currently serves as Chief Director and Specialist Advisor on sustainable energy and climate change in the Department of Environmental Affairs of the central government of South Africa. Trevor Gordon has held various positions within different spheres of government in several regions over the past 15 years. His primary involvement has been in the field of sustainable development and climate change. In the past six years he has been assisting with exploring sustainable energy alternatives to ensure energy security and alignment to the climate policy commitments of the country. Previously, he served as Chief Director for Energy in the Department of Public Enterprises which was largely responsible for the oversight of state-owned enterprises where he was involved in the management of activities of the state-owned electricity utility. Prior to that, he was Director of Strategic Environmental Management in the Western Cape province where he pioneered and developed several sustainable development, climate change and renewable energy policies, strategies and projects within the region.

Thomas Thozamile Gwanya, popularly known as Thozi, was born in Eastern Cape province of South Africa. Thozi’s social and political activism spans a wide spectrum from establishing Children Homes to alleviating poverty through civic movements and development savings clubs. In 1982 he was

appointed as Training Manager for the Africa Cooperative Action Trust (ACAT) until 1989 when he became Deputy Director at the Bureau of Development and Training at the University of Transkei. He become the Director of ACAT until he was appointed Regional Land Claims Commissioner for Eastern Cape in 1999. In 2003 he was appointed Chief Land Claims Commissioner SA. In 2008 he was appointed Director General for the national Department of Land Affairs now Department of Rural Development and Land Reform. He holds a B Comm degree, majoring in Development Economics and Business Management, a Diploma in Adult Education and a Post Graduate Diploma in Training and Human Resource Management from Leicester University. He completed training in Governance for Directors by the UNISA graduate School of Business Leadership.

Selwyn Jehoma Deputy Director General, Comprehensive Social Security, Department Social Development, South Africa.

Lucky Khumalo is the Acting Chief Director of Technology for Social Impact, Department of Science and Technology. Before the current post, he was a researcher in educational policy focusing on science education and school effectiveness at the Centre for Educational Research, Evaluation and Policy at the University of KwaZulu-Natal, where he also lectured in educational research, and ICT. He has been involved in community-based Technology Transfer and Management in various responsibilities for about ten years.

Golden Mahove is Programme Manager for Business Trust, South Africa. He specialises in enterprise development including value chain analysis, agribusiness, business linkages, credit guarantee schemes and input supply development as well as investment mobilisation and forging partnerships between large corporations and small enterprises. He presently focuses on combining resources of business and government for development of the Community Investment programme championing attraction of private sector investment to tackling poverty and developing inclusive markets. Formerly, he was an Executive Director at ECIAfrica Consulting and Agribusiness Manager at CARE International in Eastern and Southern Africa. He holds an MBA and was a visiting lecturer at the Springfield Annual Business in Development Course in Glasgow, Scotland teaching the Market Access course.

Neva Makgetla is Lead Economist in the Development Planning Division, Development Bank of Southern Africa (DBSA). She assists the national Presidency with issues around broad development policy and electricity and is a member of the advisory panel for the Ministry of Economic Development. From 2006 to 2008, Makgetla worked at the Presidency on sector strategies. From 2000 to 2006, she was policy co-ordinator for fiscal and monetary policy and, from 2005, head of the policy unit at the Congress of South African Trade Unions (COSATU). She represented labour as a member of the Securities Regulatory Panel, the Financial Sector Charter Council and the Employment Equity Commission. From mid-1995 to 2000, Makgetla worked for the South African government, including, between 1997 and 2000, as Deputy Director General for Remuneration and Conditions of Service and chief negotiator for the State as employer. Before entering the public service, Makgetla worked for the National Labour and Economic Development Institute (NALEDI). She lectured in Economics at universities in Africa and the U.S. In this period, she was a member of the Department of Economic Planning of the African National Congress of South Africa, and in 1993/4 was economics co-ordinator of the Reconstruction and Development Programme.

Otto Mbangula is President of the National African Farmers Union of South Africa. Prior to that he has held posts in the Free State Province South Africa as Director Bhongo Farm Enterprise in the Zastron District, Senior Superintendent Jabavu Circuit Soweto Methodist Church and Director of the National Youth Leadership Training South Africa. His key interests are to enhance the development of the Emerging Farmers in South Africa, develop meaningful strategies to capacitate and empower members of the Black Emerging Farmers, lobby Government and private sector in all key issues affecting the growth of the Black Farmers, design training programmes and strategies to unlock economic opportunities for black Farmers and create linkages between emerging and commercial forums. He is a Board Member of the AgriBEE Charter Council. AgriSeta-Educational and Training Authority and the Land and Agricultural Bank SA and a Council member of SACAU (SADC).

Busisiwe Mdaka is Executive Manager Rural Development, Department of Rural Development and Land Reform. She is a registered Social Worker and has vast experience in Social Work (statutory and private) using the individual and group work and community development approaches, rural development, monitoring and evaluation, research and government in general. She has worked for the Department of Health in the Population Development Programme, Government Communication and Information System responsible for development communication and facilitation of establishment of Thusong Service Centres that are aimed at ensuring access to government information and services. Her experience includes managing the implementation of and monitoring and evaluating progress made through the implementation of the Integrated Sustainable Rural Development Programme. She holds a Masters Degree in Social Science (Social Work), University of South Africa, Master of Philosophy in Labour Law and Employment Relations, University of Johannesburg.

Kjabi Emely Mogajane Deputy Director General, Department of Agriculture, Forestry and Fishery, South Africa.

S Mohlabi Department of Agriculture, Forestry and Fishery, South Africa.

Josephilda Nhlapo-Hlope is Chief Economist, Policy Coordination and Advisory Services, Office of the Presidency, South Africa. Prior to this position, she has held a number of posts as senor policy analyst including in the Presidency Policy Coordination and Advisory Services as Chief Policy analyst, the Food Price Monitoring Committee, Economic Advisory Council for the Premier of Mpumalanga Province, the Competition Commission and the Development Bank of Southern Africa. She has worked for the Congress of Trade Unions of South Africa (COSATU) as Social Policy Coordinator, Development and Welfare Agency of the Southern African Catholic Bishops Conference and the Ministry of Economic Planning and Development in Swaziland as an Economic Planner. She holds a Social Science degree in Economics and Statistics, University of Swaziland and a Masters Degree in Population and Development, Institute of Social Studies, Netherlands.

Lungisile Ntsebeza University of Cape Town, Republic of South Africa.

Yusuf Patel as a Deputy Director-General in the Department of Cooperative Governance and Traditional Affairs, he has advised, led and managed major change processes on local governance and economic development in South Africa over the past ten years. He has championed urban development policy, urban-rural integration, and modernisation of municipal infrastructure funding. 14

Recently he led the drafting of the Local Government Turnaround Strategy. He conceptualised and developed the Universal Household Access to Basic Services (uHabs) Index and completed a national urban development study. He has contributed a chapter in a leading book on Local Government in South Africa published in 2008. He is currently the Vice President of the South African Planning Institute. He recently completed a second MSc in Financial Economics at the University of London.

Rabeng Tshukudu Head of Department, Department of Economic Development, Environment and Tourism, Mpumalanga Provincial Government, South Africa.

M Visser Department of Agriculture, Forestry and Fishery, South Africa.

Other Countries

Argentina

Susana Márquez Unit for Rural Change, Ministry of Agriculture, Livestock and Fishery, Argentina.

Chile

Julio A. Berdegué is Executive Director of Rimisp - Latin American Center for Rural Development, Santiago, Chile. He also coordinates the Collaborative Program on Rural Territorial Dynamics, a research-based policy advice and capacity-development program for rural economic growth, social inclusion and environmental sustainability in Latin America. He is Chairman of the Board of Trustees of the International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center (CIMMYT), serves on the Board of Trustees of the International Institute for Environment and Development (IIED, London), and is a member of ICCO’s International Advisory Council. He has conducted research on area-based approaches to rural development, the rapid expansion of supermarkets in agrifood markets in Latin America and the world and the impact of such trends on small and medium rural enterprises and agricultural producers, and value chain analysis and access to dynamic markets by family farmers and producer organizations. He holds a Ph.D. in Social Science from Wageningen University, The Netherlands.

France

Raffaele Trapasso is a regional economist and Interim Head of the Rural Development Programme, Public Governance and Territorial Development Directorate, OECD. He has served as a policy advisor to local governments with a focus on both urban and rural areas. Before joining the OECD’s Rural Unit, he worked with the OECD’s Urban Unit where he managed three OECD Territorial Reviews on Urban and Metropolitan Regions (Milan, Madrid, and Cape Town). His work for the OECD’s Rural Unit ranges from coordinating and co-authoring OECD Rural Policy Reviews to facilitating policy dialogue between regional and national governments on questions of economic development and multilevel-governance. He coordinated and co-authored the OECD Rural Policy Review of Italy, and the OECD Rural Policy Review of Quebec, Canada. Prior to joining the OECD, he worked with the Italian Government in the Prime Minister’s Cabinet, for the National Committee for the Surfacing of the Informal Economy, and with the Regional Government of Calabria, Italy.

Italy

Ganesh Thapa is the Regional Economist of Asia and the Pacific Division of the International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD) based in Rome, Italy. He has a Ph.D. in Agricultural Economics from Cornell University, USA. He has also worked as Country Director and Programme Leader for Winrock International in Nepal and as Senior Economist for the Ministry of Agriculture, Nepal. He has undertaken research and published articles on such topics as risks, vulnerability and poverty reduction; sustainability of microfinance; indigenous peoples and poverty reduction; effects of new agricultural technologies on income distribution; constraints on agricultural marketing; food security and environmental policies.

Kenya

George Tonderai Marechera is the Business Development Manager for the African Agricultural Technology Foundation (AATF), Kenya, a not-for-profit making organization designed to negotiate access to and transfer of proprietary agricultural technologies for the benefit of resource poor farmers in Sub Saharan Africa (SSA). He has worked as General Manager for manufacturing companies in United Kingdom and Zimbabwe where he spearheaded tobacco contract farming which targeted smallholder farmers. He also worked for the Ministry of Lands, Agriculture and Rural Resettlement in Zimbabwe as an Economist and later as a Senior Economist responsible for project administration and finance directly involved in the management of agricultural projects funded by the Government and donors including European Union, World Bank, United States Agency for International Development (USAID), United Kingdom Department for International Development (DFID) and Japanese Aid. He holds an MBA from Wolverhampton University, UK, and a BSc Economics Honours degree from University of Zimbabwe.

Netherlands

Arjan de Haan is a Senior Lecturer at the Institute of Social Studies, The Hague, The Netherlands and has been a Social Development Adviser for DFID, including in China and India. In 2007 he published Reclaiming Social Policy (Palgrave MacMillan), and later this year Sage will publish his Social Policy in the 21st Century: Asian Experiences Compared.

Sri Lanka

Anura Herath is currently working as the Country Programme Officer of the International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD), Sri Lanka. Before joining IFAD, he was the Head of the Economic Research Unit of the Department of Export Agriculture in the Ministry of Agriculture. He is an agricultural economist and has long years of experience in the field of development economics. He was closely involved in the preparation of agriculture policy for Sri Lanka and the national investment plan in 2006 when he was in the Ministry of Agriculture. As the Country Programme Officer, Anura Herath takes part in designing and supervising agricultural and rural development project in the South Asian region.

United Kingdom

Richard Wakeford is Director General, Rural Futures, Scottish Government and UK Governments, working internationally to influence rural development that serves the need of the wider world. He 16

is also Chair of the OECD Rural Working Party. He assists national governments design policies for rural “Green growth” through food, water, renewable energy, forest and natural protection services. He was previously Director General Environment in the Scottish Government responsible for all policy development and delivery across rural, marine and environmental programmes as well as Scotland’s Climate Change Bill. In England, he was Chief Executive of the Countryside Agency in England.

Uruguay

Álvaro Ramos Former Foreign Minister and Agricultural Minister, Uruguay

Octavio Damiani holds a PhD in Economic Development and a Masters in City Planning from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). His main interests include the role of government in the transformation of poor regions, rural poverty policies and projects, rural-urban linkages, and rural non-farm employment. He has been working for more than fifteen years as an international consultant for several international agencies, including the World Bank, the Asian Development Bank, the Interamerican Development Bank, IFAD, FAO and UNDP. He has experience in more than twenty countries of Asia and Latin America and the Caribbean, working mainly in policy applied research and in policy and project evaluation. He has been working for more than ten years worked as a consultant for IFAD in the supervision of its portfolio in Brazil, as well as in other responsibilities in the Latin America and the Caribbean region.

Vietnam

Nguyen Do Anh Tuan is the Director of the Southern Office (SCAPS) of the Institute of Policy and Strategy for Agriculture and Rural Development (IPSARD), Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development (MARD), Vietnam. He holds a PhD from the Institute of Social Studies, the Netherlands, an M.A. in Development Economics, University Hanoi, and a B.A. in Labor Economics, National Economics University Hanoi. He has work extensively for national programmes in the agricultural and rural sectors and for International agencies.

Zimbabwe

Mabel Munyuki-Hungwe is a director at the Centre for Rural Development. The project was started at the University of Zimbabwe in 2004. Mabel specializes in rural development with a focus on decentralized community management. She has been engaged in rural transformation in two districts of Zimbabwe in which communities tackle issues of culture and governance for local development. She has been employed by Southern African Development Community as a policy analyst in food, agriculture and natural resource management. Her interests lie in knowledge management. Mabel holds a Masters degree in Policy Studies. She is in the final stages of completing a PhD in Social Geography on community development processes in resettlement areas.

Oswald Dirwayi Local level facilitator, Chimanimani District, Zimbabwe.

USA

Peter Lanjouw World Bank, USA

Scott Rozelle is the Helen F. Farnsworth Senior Fellow in the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies. His research focuses almost exclusively on China and is concerned with three general themes: agricultural policy, including the supply, demand, and trade in agricultural projects; the emergence and evolution of markets and other economic institutions in the transition process and their implications for equity and efficiency; and the economics of poverty and inequality. He is the chair of the International Advisory Board of the Center for Chinese Agricultural Policy; a co- director of the Agricultural Issues Center (University of California); and a member of Stanford's new Food, Security, and the Environment Program. Currently, he is a member of the American Economics Association, the American Agricultural Economics Association, the International Association for Agricultural Economists, the Asian Studies Association, and the Association of Comparative Economics.

Tony Saich is the Daewoo Professor of International Affairs at the Harvard Kennedy School and Director of the Ash Centre for Democratic Governance and innovation at Harvard, USA.