Sector Working Group meeting on Agriculture and Rural Development

SWG-ARD meeting will take place on the Tuesday 3rd of September 2019 for one day, at the Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry (Meeting hall), for more detail please see the agenda meeting.

Presentation 1: SWG-ARD Secretariat

• Progress report RTIM 2018 key actions,
• preparation of 2019 RTIM
• sSWGs Special updates
• other updates: fall army worm, African swine fever,

Presentation 2: – Rural Development 

Presentation 3: – Lao agriculture census, by LSB/ MPI “TBC”

Presentation 4: – Innovation in agriculture by Mr. Oudong Keomiphet (NAFRI)

Presentation 5: – Contract farming. Present by Mr. Somsay Sisanon DG. Of DoPLA

Presentation 6: – Climate change adaptation, will present by (FAO/MAF) “TBC”

Presentation 7: -Agriculture / food security sector mapping. Presenter Mr. Nicolas Bosoni, research Fellow, CDE ”TBC”

Presentation 8: – Gender and agriculture. Present by Ms. Sisomphet Souvanthalisith (Head for Advance of women and mother-Children Division)