Mini Symposium Programme
Tuesday August 18th, 13h30-15h30
- Towards sustainable natural resource use in rural China
Organiser: Arie Kuyvenhoven, Venue: 201A
- The changing demand for statistics in global agriculture
Organiser: Verna Mitura, Venue: 201B
- Backgrounders for The State of Food and Agriculture 2010 - Gender and Agriculture
Organiser: Terri Raney, Venue: 201C
- Biofuels and the poor: Global impact pathways of biofuels on the World Food Economy
Organiser: Jun Yang, Venue: 301
- Demand for animal products in developing countries with a focus on quality and safety attributes: evidence from case studies
Organiser: Mohammad Jabbar, Venue: 302
- Behavioral health economic research on dietary choice and obesity
Organiser: Lisa Mancino, Venue: 303
- Rural labour in Transition Economies
Organiser: Eugenia Serova, Venue: 305A
- Innovative approaches to ex post impact evaluation of agricultural research
Organiser: Derek Byerlee, Venue: 305B
- Green revolution in Africa
Organiser: Don Larson, Venue: 305C
- Competitive issues in international horticultural markets
Organiser: Brad Rickard, Venue: 307
- Farm level implications of high energy prices on cash crop farms in the agri benchmark network
Organiser: Yelto Zimmer, Venue: 308
- 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
- What makes agriculural economics research relevant for policy advice?
Organiser: Lars Brink, Venue: 311A
- 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
- Key issues in contemporary Chinese agricultural and rural development
Organiser: John Davis, Venue: Conf 2
Wednesday August 19th, 11h00-12h30
- Rural territorial dynamics in Latin America
Organiser: Julio A. Berdegué, Venue: 201A
- Changing rice policy landscape in the context of global agriculture
Organiser: Sushil Pandey, Venue: 201B
- Global agricultural trade rules in light of evolving global food systems
Organiser: Alexander Sarris, Venue: 201C
- New tools for modelling environmental change and local poverty, with application to rural China
Organiser: John Gibson, Venue: 301
- Geographical Indications in the landscape of global agriculture
Organiser: Georges Giraud, Venue: 302
- A Method to this Madness: Measuring the economic impacts of transgenic crops on farmers in developing countries
Organiser: Melinda Smale, Venue: 303
- Research avenues for non-tariff measures in agricultural trade
Organiser: Ian Sheldon, Venue: 305A
- Climate change and agricultural adaptations in developing countries: From "bottom-up" thinking to action
Organiser: David Lee , Venue: 305B
- 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
- Qualitative agricultural economics
Organiser: Martina A. Padmanabhan, Venue: 307
- 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
- Agriculture and rural areas in Central and Eastern Europe after the EU enlargement: Expected and unexpected developments
Organiser: Szczepan Figiel, Venue: 311A
- 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
- 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
- Agricultural trade and developing countries: Research from the Hewlett/IATRC capacity building program
Organiser: Linda Young, Venue: 201A
- 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
- Conservation payments for sustainable agriculture in the Amazon: Innovation or wishful thinking?
Organiser: Jan Borner, Venue: 201C
- Rural labor markets and China’s human capital challenges
Organiser: Linxiu Zhang, Venue: 301
- 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
- Food securisation in subsaharan africa-ways and means-with a special focus on west and central Africa
Organiser: Benoit Cattin, Venue: 311A+B