CONFERENCE agriculture ? for developingcountries' What microfinance Finances andLabor, oftheBudget,PublicAccountsand CivilService. andtheMinistry Pierre Mendès Conference Center at the Ministry ofEconomy,Pierre MendèsFranceConferenceCenter at theMinistry FINANCE MICRO EEBR4-6,2007 - DECEMBER 4 Bercy, -France tuesday december 4 morning 8h30 Registration

9:15 - 10:00 OPENING REMARKS room Pierre Mendès France Ralph Dassa, General director, IGPDE (Institute for Public Management and Economic Development), France René Carron, President, Crédit Agricole S.A. and Farm (Foundation for World Agriculture and Rural life), France Marius De Sales Hygin Ratolojanahary, Minister of agriculture, fishery and farming, Jean-Marie Bockel, Minister of State, attached to the Minister of Foreign and European Affairs, responsible for Cooperation and Francophony, France 10h00 - 10h30 Break

10:30 - 11:00 INTRODUCTION room Pierre Mendès France Richard Meyer, Ohio State University, USA Bernard Bachelier, FARM, France

11:00 - 13:00 PLENARY SESSION 1 room Pierre Mendès France How can microfinance respond to the needs of farmers? Chair: Alpha Ouedraogo, Center for Financial Innovation, Burkina Faso Session moderator: David Myhre, Ford Foundation, Mexico Contributions, regional focuses: • Recent advances in agricultural financing: supply and strategies Cécile Lapenu, CERISE (Exchange and information committee on savings and credit organizations/French Microfinance Network), France • Does microfinance meet the needs of malagasy farmers? Mamy Rajohanesa, FI-FA-TA (Association for Farmers’ progress), Madagascar. • Does microfinance meet indians farmers’ financial needs? The case of Bolivia Maria Julia Jimenez, CIOEC (The integrating coordinator Rural economic organizations), Bolivia • Kafo Jiginew's experience in financing farmers in Alou Sidibé, Kafo Jiginew (Microfinance Institution, MFI), Mali • Microfinance for agriculture: perspectives from India Satish Pillarisetti, Nabard (National Agricultural Bank and Rural Development), India afternoon 2:30 - 5:00 WORKSHOP 1 room Bloch-Lainé 2 How can microfinance services be better organized to respond to the specificities of agriculture? Session moderator: Renée Chao-Beroff, CIDR (International Research and Development Center), France Contributions: • Holistic programme approach in financing agriculture Suresh Gokhalé, BAIF (Bharatiya Agro Industries Foundation), India • Agricultural Development Banks: Latin American experiences Carolina Trivelli, IEP (Institute of Peruvian studies), Peru • Bakary Traoré, Socodevi (International Society for cooperation and development), Mali • A compared study of different institutional models in Madagascar, Mali and Aude Flogny-Catrisse, AFD (French Development Agency), France

2:30 - 5:00 WORKSHOP 2 room Pierre Mendès France Innovative products and procedures: appropriate responses to agriculture financial needs? Session moderator: Michael Hamp, IFAD (International Fund for Agricultural Development) Contributions: • Leasing: experience from Madagascar Gisèle Rakotondramanana, CECAM (Agricultural Savings and Credit Cooperatives), Madagascar • Guarantee fund: experience in Wilfredo Necochea, FOGAL (The Guarantee Fund for Latin America), Peru • The Experience of DECSI in its innovative model in financing agriculture Atakilt Kiros, DECSI (Debit Credit and Savings Institution) , Ethiopia • Warrantage in Niger Sani Boubacar, FAO, Niger / discutant : Ake Olofsson, FAO-AGSF • Leasing as Credit Alternative Renate Kloeppinger, World Bank, USA • Innovative products and procedures: the UGPM experience Samba Mbaye, UGPM, 2:30 - 5:00 ATELIER 3 room Bloch-Lainé 1 Managing agricultural risk: what innovative tools and procedures? Session moderator: Henri Rouillé D'Orfeuil, President of Coordination Sud Contributions: • Agricultural Microinsurance - The Landscape Jim Roth, microinsurance center, Great Britain • A Parametric Approach of rural microinsurance Jesus Escamilla Juarez, Agroasemex, Mexico • Vulnerability and microfinance : identifying economic risks to reduce their impact Isabel Cruz Hernandez, Amucss (Mexican Association for Social Sector Credit Unions), Mexico • Managing agricultural risks : the experience of Basix Shishir Ranjan, Basix (Bhartiya Samruddhi investments and consulting services), India wednesday december 5 morning 9:00 - 10:00 Report and synthesis of Workshops 1, 2 and 3 Chair: Thiendou Niang, communication service, Senegal

10:00 - 10:30 Break

10:30 - 12:30 PLENARY SESSION 2 room Pierre Mendès France How to improve the economic impact of microfinance on agricultural development? Chair: Michel Petit, IAMM (Mediterranean Agronomic Institute of Montpellier) Session moderator: Isabelle Guérin, IRD/IFP (Research Institute for development/ French Institute of Pondicherry), France Contributions: • Microfinance and Agricultural Development Maria Pagura and Ake Olofsson, FAO-AGSF (Agricultural Management, Marketing and Finance Service), Italy • Impact assessment of CECAM network, Madagascar 2003-2007 Gisèle Rakotondramanana, CECAM (Agricultural Savings and Credit Cooperatives), and Simon Ravoninjatovo, UNICECAM, Madagascar • An analysis of Grameen Food Ltd’s Business model Jean-Loup Ardoin, HEC, France • Microfinance’s impact on agriculture : the case of CECO Gaoussou Touré, Savings and Credit cooperative, • Chandra Nath, BRAC (Bangladesh Rural Advancement Committee), Bangladesh Michel Barnier, minister of Agriculture and Fisheries, France afternoon 14h30 - 17h00 WORKSHOP 4 room Bloch-Lainé 1 What role for agricultural professional organizations in microfinance? Session moderator: Betty Wampfler CERISE/SupAgro and François Doligez CERISE/Iram Contributions: • Challenges in building a partnership : the case of Niger Bachir Maliki, Working group on farmers organizations and IMF parterships, Niger • The case of fair trade Joaquin Munoz, Max Havelaar, Agrofine (Guarantee Fund), France • Experience of the NGO federation of Senegal Najirou Sall, FONGS (Senegalese Federation of Non-governmental organisations), Senegal • Is there any evolution in partnerships between farmer's Organizations and MFIs ? Betty Wampfler, CERISE/SupAgro, France 2:30 - 5:00 WORKSHOP 5 room Pierre Mendès France Under what conditions is agricultural microfinance financially viable? Session moderator: Sébastien Duquet, PlaNet Finance Contributions: • The economic model of Grameen Bank Tamim Islam, Grameen Trust, Bangladesh • Conditions for financial viability of agricultural microfinance Daouda Sawadogo, FCPB (Federation of popular cooperatives of Burkina Faso), Burkina Faso • Perspectives from Armenia Stepan Gishyan, ACBA (Agricultural Credit Bank), Armenia • Support program to quinoa chain José Auad, Profin, Bolivia • Rural credits experience of EPYDME Confianza Elisabeth Ventura Egoavil, Confianza (MFI), Peru

2:30 - 5:00 WORKSHOP 6 room Bloch-Lainé 2 What complementarity of services related to agriculture and the impact of microfinance? Session moderator: Michel Mollard, FERT (French Professional Agricultural Organisation of International cooperation for rural development), France Contributions: • Perspectives from Congo Brazzaville Nelly-Françoise Tsasa Khini, Small and young enterprises network, Congo • Example of partnership between Farmers' Organizations and MFI : the case of Faso Jigi/PACCEM in Mali, Hamidou Bagayoko, PACCEM (Project for cereal commercialisation in Mali) • The role of microfinance in the financing of inputs Suzelin Ratohiarijaona, Ministry for agriculture, fishery and farming, Madagascar • The importance of producers' training Albert Houngnibo, pineapple producers network, Bénin

5:00 - 6:00 Report and synthesis of Workshops 4, 5 and 6 Chair: Bernard Bachelier, FARM

6:00 COCKTAIL RECEPTION Thursday december 6 morning 9:00 - 11:00 PLENARY SESSION 3 room Pierre Mendès France What public policies lead to an increasing role for microfinance in agriculture? Chair: Jean-Michel Severino, French Development Agency, AFD Session moderator: Public policies of agricultural microfinance - challenges and debates, François Doligez, IRAM (Applied Research for new approaches for development) and Betty Wampfler, SupAgro, France Contributions: • Microfinance for developing countries’ agriculture Ricardo Abramovay, Sao Paolo University, Brasil • Strategies for rural financial inclusion in West Africa Makarimi Adéchoubou, UNDP-FENU ( Development Programme/ United Nations Equipment Fund) • Public financial support to agricultural microfinance: the case of Madagascar Marius De Sales Hygin Ratolojanahary, Minister of agriculture, fishery and farming, Madagascar • Microfinance and cotton production François Traoré, APROCA (African Cotton’s Producers Association), Burkina Faso • Adapting regulation to agricultural and rural financing conditions Reynaldo Marconi, FINRURAL (Financial institutions Association for Rural Development), Bolivia

11:00 - 11:30 CONCLUSION room Pierre Mendès France Jacques Attali, PlaNet Finance, France.

11:30 - 12:45 CLOSING SESSION room Pierre Mendès France Bernard Bachelier, FARM, France Jean-Michel Servet, IUED (Graduate institute of development studies), Switzerland René Carron, President, Crédit Agricole S.A. and Farm (Foundation for World Agriculture and Rural life), France Jacques Diouf, General Director, Food and Agriculture Organization The partners of the conference

The founders of FARM

FARM and its partners warmly acknowledge Ford Foundation for its financial support to the conference

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