IFPRI-FAO Tunisia Joint Webinar: 16 DECEMBER, 1:00 PM – 3:00 PM (Tunis, Tunisia)

Opening session: Welcoming Remarks

• Mohamed Amrani, FAO Subregional Coordinator for North Africa, FAO, Tunisia
• Clemens Breisinger, Program Leader for Egypt and MENA, IFPRI-Egypt

Moderator

• Ahmad Sadiddin, Economist, the State of Food and Agriculture, Agricultural Development Economics Division (ESA), FAO

Highlights from the study

• Xiaobo Zhang, Senior Research Fellow, IFPRI

How does the Cluster-based development model offer resilience during times of crisis: lessons learned from COVID-19 Impacts”? (see Bilingual Slides in English and Arabic)

• Mia Ellis and Fatma Abdelaziz, IFPRI

IFPRI – FAO project in Tunisia; Research findings and policy recommendations (see Slides in English and Arabic)

01:45 pm – 02:20 pm (Tunis, Tunisia)

Panel Discussion

• Mrs. Hamida Belgaied, General director of food industry department, Ministry of industry and PME
• Mr. Lotfi Ben Mahmoud, Director of the horticulture department, Ministry of Agriculture, fisheries and hydraulic resources
• Mr. Samir Ben Slimen, General Director of Groupement Interprofessionnel des Dattes (see slides in Arabic)
• Mr. Noureddine Agrebi, General director of competitiveness pole of Bizerte (see slides in French)
• Mr. Mohamed Brahmi, General director of the National Center for Leather (see slides in Arabic)

02:30 pm – 03:00 pm (Tunis, Tunisia)

Q&A Session

Moderator

• Ahmad Sadiddin, Economist, the State of Food and Agriculture, Agricultural Development Economics Division (ESA), FAO