A rapid-fire presentation is an opportunity to convey a big idea in a small amount of time. Our presenters shared exciting concepts, tools, and success stories on how to frame, measure, and build up resilience around the world—in just five minutes!
May 16 Rapid Fire Presentations (12:45 pm to 1:45 pm)
| Vijay Sardana UPL Limited |
Technologies for Achieving Better Productivity and Post-harvest Management |
| Roseline Remans Columbia University, Bioversity International |
From Data to Decision-Making in Africa: A Game-Changing Diagnostic System |
| Nathan Morrow Tulane University |
Novel Methods for Achieving More Timely and Relevant Food Security Interventions |
| Jeremy Jackson Southern Africa Development Community (SADC) |
Vulnerability Assessments in Southern Africa |
| Chris Hillbruner Famine Early Warning Systems Network (FEWS NET) |
Deriving New Measures of Resilience from Existing Livelihoods Data: An Example from Zimbabwe |
| Shuhao Tan Renmin University of China |
Building Resilience for Food Security through Improving Soil Management in China |
| Laurence Dare One Acre Fund |
Bundled Farmer Services for Resilience |
| Mohamed Abdinoor US Agency for International Development (USAID) |
Resilience in Action: Changing Horizons in Ethiopia’s Drylands |
May 17 Rapid Fire Presentations (12:45 pm to 1:45 pm)
| Codrin Paveliuc-Olariu Gembloux Agro-Bio Tech |
The Use of Social Media in Detecting and Preventing Crises |
| Danielle Tendall Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich (ETHZ) |
A New, Urgently-needed Resilience Tool for Policymakers |
| Nyagoy Nyongo Fairtrade Africa |
How Fairtrade Premiums Can Promote Innovation and Resilience |
| Michael Jones IUCN Resilience Task Force |
The Critical Differences Among Operational Resilience, Social-ecological Resilience and Engineering Resilience |
| Christophe Béné Institute of Development Studies (IDS) |
Contribution of Resilience to Food and Nutrition Security |
| Fengying Nie Agricultural Information Institute |
Smallholders' Coping Strategies Against Shocks in Rural China |
| Collins Cheruiyot CAFOD International |
Successes of a Green Energy Project in Building Resilience in Kenya |
| Filippo Minozzi World Food Programme (WFP) |
Connecting Farmers to Markets and Measuring their Resilience with a Randomized Evaluation |
| Duygu Celik International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD) |
New Directions for Smallholder Agriculture |
