Transformer les agricultures : mesurer l’impact pour mieux investir ?
Transforming Farming: Measuring the Impact for Better Investments?
As a continuation of the 2024 edition dedicated to the challenge of financing agricultural transformation, the FARM Foundation is organizing an international Conference on Tuesday, January 28, 2025, at the Cité internationale universitaire de Paris, focusing on the crucial issue of impact measurement in agricultural investments.
The 2024 conference concluded with a diagnosis showing that financing and investment for sustainable agricultural development combining productivity, food sovereignty, and preservation of natural resources were insufficient and often ineffective.
To strengthen advocacy for increased funding – both public and private – FARM has chosen to dedicate its next international conference to the theme of measuring the impact of investments and how it can contribute (or not) to the sustainable transformation of agriculture.
This event, combining in-person and remote attendance, will bring together French and international experts and decision-makers to discuss 4 major questions:
1. How can research into impact measurement contribute to the practices of players in the agricultural and food sector?
2. How are key performance indicators defined in alignment with economic, environmental, and social sustainability objectives and the reporting expectations of funding and investment actors?
3. Have the evaluation of results and monitoring by financiers and investors led to changes in farming practices?
4. Under what conditions can impact measurement be inclusive and enable the development of producers in developing countries?
During this day, the FARM Prize 2025 will also be awarded,
recognizing the commitment of researchers for improving food and agricultural systems.
PROGRAM
Meeting point at the Cité internationale universitaire de Paris (practical information for getting there)
Doors open at 9 AM
10 AM – 10:30 AM: CONFERENCE OPENING
10:30 AM – 11 AM: KEYNOTE – Impact Science: How Research Contributes to Stakeholder Practices
11 AM – 12:30 PM: ROUNDTABLE 1 – The Finance Stakeholders’ Perspective: Methods, Tools, and Expectations
12:30 PM: FARM PRIZE 2025 CEREMONY
Lunch Reception
2 PM – 3:30 PM: ROUNDTABLE 2 – When Investments Change Practices
3:30 PM – 5 PM: ROUNDTABLE 3 – Towards Inclusive Impact Measurement: Challenges, Risks, and Opportunities for Producers
5 PM: CONCLUSION
5:30 PM – 6:30 PM: RECEPTION