The workshop brought together a group of strategic thinkers and knowledgeable practitioners, from different points in the research and development continuum and from different stakeholder groups, to explore the extent to which the poor can benefit from dynamic markets for high value agricultural products (HVAP). Five background papers complemented individual participants¿ knowledge and experience: one on global R&D issues related to the benefit that the poor might gain from HVAP markets and four regional situation papers from Africa, Asia-Pacific, Latin America and the Caribbean and West Asia and North Africa.