Recording of the webinar “Covid-19: new challenge or new opportunity to enhance sustainability of agricultural and fisheries value chains in EU partner countries?”
The objective of the webinar, organized by Agrinatura, via the VCA4D project, in collaboration with the Natural Resources Institute, was to share insights on the consequences of the COVID-19 crisis on agricultural and fisheries value chains (VC) in EU partner countries, showcasing examples, exploring the diversity of situations and providing reflections and synthesis on processes and factors which play a role.
Part 1 - Introduction to the webinar by the moderator Dr Gideon Onumah
- Short insights from a panel of VCA4D experts on “what happened” in specific agricultural and fisheries value chains during the “COVID-19 crisis” – 2:10
- Case 1/ Ethiopia - Cotton (Gian Nicolay) – 8:23
- Case 2/ Ecuador - Cocoa (Johan Blockeel) – 13:33
- Case 3/ Togo - Pineapple (Konga Palassi and Osée Alate) – 16:40
- Case 4/ Angola - Coffee (Bernardo Piazzardi and Margarida Lima de Faria) - 21:24
- Case 5/ Mali - Fisheries (Ivonne Acosta Alba) - 32:01
- Case 6/ The Gambia - Fisheries (Adama Mbaye) - 38:07
- Case 7/ Colombia – Diary (Gustavo Saldarriaga) - 43:29
- Case 8/ Ghana – Sorghum (Ricardo Villani and Gideon Onumah) - 48:31
- Case 9/ Nigeria - Maize (Muhammed Bello and Gideon Onumah) - 58:22
- Case 10/ Zambia – Maize (Anthony Chapoto) - 1:04:23
Part 2 - Questions & Answers & Wrap-Up: “a synthesis of the evidence emerging from the different cases” by Dr.Marie-Hélène Dabat
Part 3 - “In the policy officers’ shoes” - insights, comments and questions: will the Covid-19 crisis change the future?
- Guy Faure, DEVCO C1, Rural Development, Food Security and Nutrition
- Catharina Bamps, Delegation of the European Union to Angola - 07:40
- Katrine Mulvad Thomsen and Frank Isioma Okafor, Delegation of the European Union to Nigeria and ECOWAS – 16:14
- Questions & Answers
Part 4 - Concluding remarks, Dr Marie-Hélène Dabat & Dr Gideon Onumah