The seminar will focus on the external costs of farming activities with particular emphasis placed on both on-farm and external agricultural input use like pesticides, chemicals, water, animal waste in terms of damage control to farm output, adverse long-term effects on the environment, and...

Africa Rice Outlook 2010 will examine rice developments in key regions in Africa, and debate the potential of Africa's rice economy. The conference will bring together key rice buyers, traders, and exporters who will examine Africa's markets, production capacities and supply, and share their...

The proposed session supports the objective of the Association to further the development and dissemination of systematic knowledge of agricultural and applied economics.

Theme: Sustainability in the Food Sector: Rethinking the Relationship between the Agro-Food System and the Natural, Social, Economic and Institutional Environment. Topics: - Methodologies for Measuring Sustainability in the Food System - Integrated Life-Cycle Assessment and Performance...

The conference aims at covering the following topics: - Incorporating risk in traditional Valuation methods (contingent valuation, choice experiments, experimental auctions,..) - Measuring risk and time preferences through hypothetical vs. Incentive compatible methods - Consumers’ decisions...

The objective of the workshop is to address new developments in theoretical and empirical research in productivity and efficiency measurement from economics, agricultural economics, management science, operations research and related fields. Papers on the theory of productivity and efficiency...

The symposium organizers invite participation from an international scientific audience in the fields of agricultural economics, agricultural policy, land use economics and other relevant fields. [gemäß den Informationen des Anbieters - according to site editor's information] The website is...

The IAMO Forum 2010 aims to take stock of current research on institutional change in agriculture and rural areas and the corresponding challenges for new modes of governance. The conference should spell out lessons learned from recent experience and update the agenda of policy-makers in...

Topics: - Economic or Econometric Analysis of Wine Market and Wine Sector - Employment (direct or genereted) - Marketing for Wine Product - Specificity of Communication - Viticultural Tourism and new Activities - Factors Determining Sailing Price - Production Quality: Evaluation - Quantitative...

The main topics of this conference include, but are not limited to: - Agricultural risk analysis and management, such as: Agricultural risk identification; agricultural risk analysis and assessment; modeling agricultural risk; agricultural risk management: methods and strategy - Agricultural...