Topics: - Assessment of farm and farming system resilience - The role of agricultural risk management towards resilience - The contribution of public and private policies towards sustainability and resilience - The influence of farm demographics including labour markets on resilience of farming...

To expand the frontiers of global knowledge around jobs and advance the discussion on the most effective policies, we are interested in papers that focus on: - Increasing wage labor demand. - Creating jobs in the formal sector of the economy, including mobilizing capital for private sector...

Enhancing the environmental and climate ambition of the EU farming sector is one centrepiece of the latest European Commission's proposal for the reform of the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP). The theme of the seminar are the policy and research implications of these heightened environmental...

An efficient and reliable energy system is fundamental to economic growth and wellbeing in New Zealand. The purpose of the Summer School is to outline some of the key issues facing New Zealand, including: - Dependence on imported liquid fuel - Developing and integrating renewable sources of...