Mini Symposium Programme

Tuesday August 18th, 13h30-15h30

  1. Towards sustainable natural resource use in rural China
    Organiser: Arie Kuyvenhoven, Venue: 201A
  2. The changing demand for statistics in global agriculture
    Organiser: Verna Mitura, Venue: 201B
  3. Backgrounders for The State of Food and Agriculture 2010 - Gender and Agriculture
    Organiser: Terri Raney, Venue: 201C
  4. Biofuels and the poor: Global impact pathways of biofuels on the World Food Economy
    Organiser: Jun Yang, Venue: 301
  5. Demand for animal products in developing countries with a focus on quality and safety attributes: evidence from case studies
    Organiser: Mohammad Jabbar, Venue: 302
  6. Behavioral health economic research on dietary choice and obesity
    Organiser: Lisa Mancino, Venue: 303
  7. Rural labour in Transition Economies
    Organiser: Eugenia Serova, Venue: 305A
  8. Innovative approaches to ex post impact evaluation of agricultural research
    Organiser: Derek Byerlee, Venue: 305B
  9. Green revolution in Africa
    Organiser: Don Larson, Venue: 305C
  10. Competitive issues in international horticultural markets
    Organiser: Brad Rickard, Venue: 307
  11. Farm level implications of high energy prices on cash crop farms in the agri benchmark network
    Organiser: Yelto Zimmer, Venue: 308
  12. Structural change in Europe's rural regions - Farm livelihoods between subsistence orientation, modernisation and non-farm diversification I
    Organiser: Gertrud Buchenrieder, Judith Müllers and Martin Petrick, Venue: 310
  13. What makes agriculural economics research relevant for policy advice?
    Organiser: Lars Brink, Venue: 311A
  14. Globalisation and regional integration of Northeast Asian agriculture: Opportunities and challenges I
    Organiser: OH Se-ik, Sang-Mu Lee, Jikun Huang and Youichi Izumida, Venue: 311B
  15. Key issues in contemporary Chinese agricultural and rural development
    Organiser: John Davis, Venue: Conf 2

Wednesday August 19th, 11h00-12h30

  1. Rural territorial dynamics in Latin America
    Organiser: Julio A. Berdegué, Venue: 201A
  2. Changing rice policy landscape in the context of global agriculture
    Organiser: Sushil Pandey, Venue: 201B
  3. Global agricultural trade rules in light of evolving global food systems
    Organiser: Alexander Sarris, Venue: 201C
  4. New tools for modelling environmental change and local poverty, with application to rural China
    Organiser: John Gibson, Venue: 301
  5. Geographical Indications in the landscape of global agriculture
    Organiser: Georges Giraud, Venue: 302
  6. A Method to this Madness: Measuring the economic impacts of transgenic crops on farmers in developing countries
    Organiser: Melinda Smale, Venue: 303
  7. Research avenues for non-tariff measures in agricultural trade
    Organiser: Ian Sheldon, Venue: 305A
  8. Climate change and agricultural adaptations in developing countries: From "bottom-up" thinking to action
    Organiser: David Lee , Venue: 305B
  9. Market outlook and policy analysis: Differing uses of the "FAPRI Process" in Korea, Europe, South Africa and the United States
    Organiser: William H Meyers, Venue: 305C
  10. Qualitative agricultural economics
    Organiser: Martina A. Padmanabhan, Venue: 307
  11. Role of ICT in linking smallholder farmers to markets: What do we know?
    Organisers: Julius Okello and Edith Adera, Venue: 308
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    Organiser: Zezza, Alberto, Venue: 310
  13. Agriculture and rural areas in Central and Eastern Europe after the EU enlargement: Expected and unexpected developments
    Organiser: Szczepan Figiel, Venue: 311A
  14. Globalisation and regional integration of Northeast Asian agriculture: Opportunities and challenges II
    Organiser: OH Se-ik, Sang-Mu Lee, Jikun Huang and Youichi Izumida, Venue: 311B
  15. Structural change in Europe's rural regions - Farm livelihoods between subsistence orientation, modernisation and non-farm diversification II
    Organiser: Gertrud Buchenrieder, Judith Müllers and Martin Petrick, Venue: Conf 2

Wednesday August 19th, 17h30-19h00

  1. Agricultural trade and developing countries: Research from the Hewlett/IATRC capacity building program
    Organiser: Linda Young, Venue: 201A
  2. More food with less water: How to overcome economic challenges and governance constraints to irrigation development - recent experiences from Latin America and Africa
    Organiser: Thomas Berger, Venue: 201B
  3. Conservation payments for sustainable agriculture in the Amazon: Innovation or wishful thinking?
    Organiser: Jan Borner, Venue: 201C
  4. Rural labor markets and China’s human capital challenges
    Organiser: Linxiu Zhang, Venue: 301
  5. Big events, big impacts in China in the 21st century: Trade, biofuels and climate change and environment, land use and poverty
    Organiser: Prof Keyzer and Huang, Venue: Conf 2
  6. Food securisation in subsaharan africa-ways and means-with a special focus on west and central Africa
    Organiser: Benoit Cattin, Venue: 311A+B