Topics: - Restructuring agricultural production and rural landscape - Land reforms, privatization and consolidation - Governance of the agricultural sector and water use - Climate change and agricultural productivity - Credits, insurance and governmental financial support programs - Developments...

Special topics of the conference are: - Governance: models, problems, challenges; - Cultural evolution and modernization; - Inequality and Economic Growth; - Varieties of Capitalism.

Aufgrund ausgedehnter Brachflächen und oftmals vergleichsweise niedriger Flächenproduktivität verfügen Russland und die Ukraine über große Potentiale für landwirtschaftliche Produktionssteigerungen. Die witterungsbedingten Schwankungen der Agrarproduktion und damit Erlöseinbußen stellen...

Good Agricultural Practices are becoming more and more widely adopted with consumer demand for healthy safe and sustainably produced food driving their expansion. An ever increasing number of producers in more than 80 countries are choosing GLOBALGAP certification to fulfil this demand. The...

Topics: - Access to Energy - Technology & Fuels - Integrated Transport - CO2 Emissions Attendance at the Forum is "by invitation" only.

At the 2008 Business Forum in Kiev, you will be able to explore the latest investment opportunities and to meet the people who are driving business forward in Russia, central Asia, south-eastern Europe, the Caucasus and the new countries of the EU.