FARM 2025 Conference: Thank you!

FARM 2025 Conference: Thank you!
Pascal Lheureux (President of the FARM Foundation, France)
Annie Genevard (Minister of Agriculture and Food Sovereignty, France)
Arianna Legovini (Development Impact Evaluation Department, World Bank, USA)
Matthieu Brun (Scientific Director of the FARM Foundation, France)
Juliette Seban (Innovation Fund for Development, France)
Tanguy Bernard (University of Bordeaux, CS FARM, France)
Pascal Lheureux (FARM), Marc Debets (Apexagri) and Arianna Legovini (World Bank)
ROUND TABLE 1 – The perspective of financing stakeholders: methods, tools and expectations
Claude Torre (AFD, France), Gautier Quéru (Mirova, France), Alexandra Veidner (EFRAG, Belgium), Philippe Guichandut (Grameen Crédit Agricole Foundation, France) and André Albuquerque Sant'Anna (BNDES, Brazil)
Questions from the audience, round table 1
Presentation of the FARM Prize to Koulibi Fidèle Zongo (Burkina Faso), 2025 winner, by Pierre Jacquet (CS FARM, France) and Gifty Narh (CS FARM, CORADE, Burkina Faso)
Koulibi Fidèle Zongo, teacher-researcher in Burkina Faso, winner of the FARM 2025 Prize
Lunch cocktail
ROUND TABLE 2 – When investments change practices, with Adeline Lescanne (Nutriset, France), Blaise Desbordes (Max Havelaar France), Anaïs Riffiod (Apexagri, France), Marie-Laure Hustache (SYRPA, “EllesSontFood”, France), Hamza Addam (OCP Nutricrops, Morocco), Boris Naguet (InnovX, Morocco)
Questions from the audience, round table 2
ROUND TABLE 3 – Towards inclusive impact measurement: challenges, risks and opportunities for producers, with Assata Doumbia (ECAM, Ivory Coast) via video
Mathieu Soglonou (CIF-AO, Burkina Faso), Cécile Lapenu (Cerise, France), Florent Bédécarrats (IRD, France) and Mamadou Goïta (IRPAD, IPES-Food, Mali)
Sara Savastano (Director of the Research and Impact Evaluation Division of IFAD, Italy)
Interview with Mathieu Soglonou (CIF-AO, Burkina Faso) by RFI media
FARM 2025 Conference, Transforming Agriculture: Measuring Impact to Invest Better? Cité internationale universitaire de Paris

🌍 « Transforming agriculture: measuring the impact to invest better? » :


The FARM Foundation International Conference
was held Tuesday, January 28 at the International University City of Paris.

This event brought together more than:
👐 300 participants on site and 200 remote viewers 🧑‍💻

Thanks to you, this event was a great success!

⭐ THANKS to the various international experts (Mali, Morocco, Brazil, Ivory Coast, Burkina Faso, United States, Belgium, Italy) for sharing their experiences and thoughts on measuring the impact of agricultural investments.

⭐⭐ A big thank you also at Ministry of Agriculture and Food Sovereignty, has Apexagri and to the Ministry for Europe and Foreign Affairs for supporting this event.

⭐⭐⭐ Finally, a huge thank you to all of you who followed this 2025 conference remotely and on site.

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