{"product_id":"contributions-of-agricultural-economics-to-critical-policy-issues-isbn-9781405181006","title":"Contributions of Agricultural Economics to Critical Policy Issues","description":"This book is a collection of plenary sessions papers and selected invited panel papers presented in the 26th International Conference of Agricultural Economists held at Gold Coast, Australia, from 12th to 18th August 2006. Beginning with the presidential address by Prabhu Pingali and the Elmhirst lecture by Hans Binswanger dealing with global issues of agricultural growth, economic development, and empowerment of the rural poor, leading agricultural economists address such emerging and critical issues as the economics of natural disasters, international trade and marketing, food safety and health, and transformation of unfavorable poor areas, among other issues.  \u003cb\u003eCONTENTS\u003c\/b\u003e. \u003cp\u003eIntroduction: The 26th Conference of the IAAE.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eKeijiro Otsuka and Kaliappa Kalirajan.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAgricultural Growth and Economic Development: A View through the Globalization Lens.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePrabhu Pingali.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eEmpowering Rural People for their Own Development.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eHans Binswanger\u003cb\u003e.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePlenary 1\u003c\/b\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Economics of Natural Disasters: Implications and Challenges for Food Security.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eHartwig de Haen, Gunter Hemrich.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Impact of Droughts and Floods on Food Security and Policy Options to Alleviate Negative Effects.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eStephen Devereux.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Impact of Natural and Manmade Disasters on Household Welfare.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eYasuyuki Sawada\u003cb\u003e.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePlenary 2\u003c\/b\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Doha Agenda and Agricultural Trade Reform: The Role of Economic Analysis.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eWill Martin, Kym Anderson.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eGlobalization, Privatization, and Vertical Coordination in Food Value Chains in Developing and Transition Countries.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eJohan Swinnen, Miet Maertens.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eFood Regulation and Trade under the WTO: Ten Years in Perspective.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eDavid Orden, Donna Roberts\u003cb\u003e.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePlenary 3\u003c\/b\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eEconomics of Biofortification.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eMatin Qaim, Alexander J. Stein, J.V. Meenakshi.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eFood Safety in a Globalizing World: Opportunities and Challenges for India.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eDina Umali-Deininger, Mona Sur.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eFood Safety as a Global Public Goods: Is There Underinvestment?.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eLaurian Unnevehr\u003cb\u003e.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePlenary 4\u003c\/b\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Technological Progress for Sustaining Food-Population Balance: Achievement and Challenges.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eMahabub Hossain.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eRural Nonfarm Employment in Developing Countries in an era of Globalization.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eTom Reardon, Kostas Stamoulis, Prabhu Pingali\u003cb\u003e.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eInvited Panels\u003c\/b\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAgricultural Research and Policy for Better Health and Nutrition in Developing Countries: A Food Systems Approach.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePer Pinstrup-Andersen.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Nutrition Transition in High and Low-Income Countries:What are the Policy Lessons?.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eBarry Popkin, and Shu Wen Ng.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eCoping with Drought in Rice Farming in Asia: Insights from a Cross-Country Comparative Study.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eSushil Pandey, Humnath Bhandari, Shijun Ding, Preeda Prapertchob, Ramesh Sharan, Dibakar Naik, Sudhir K. Taunk, and Asras Sastri.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eProductivity in Malagasy Rice Systems:Wealth-Differentiated Constraints and Priorities.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eBart Minten, Jean-Claude Randrianarisoa, and Christopher B. Barrett.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eEconomic Statistics and U.S. Agricultural Policy.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eBruce Gardner, Barry Goodwin, and Mary Ahearn.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIncome Distributional Effects of Using Market-Based Instruments for Managing Common Property Resources.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eSiwa Msangi, and Richard E. Howitt.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eDesigning Frameworks to Deliver Unknown Information to Support Market Based Instruments.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eMark Eigenraam, Loris Strappazzon, Nicola Lansdell, Craig Beverly, Gary Stoneham.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eTariff Line Analysis of U.S. and International Dairy Protection.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eJason H. Grant , Thomas W. Hertel, and Thomas F. Rutherford.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eMeta-Analysis of General and Partial Equilibrium Simulations of Doha Round Outcomes.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eSebastian Hess, and Stephan von Cramon-Taubadel.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Doha Development Round and Africa: Partial and General Equilibrium Analyses of Tariff Preference Erosion.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eMohamed Hedi Bchir, Stephen N. Karingi, Andrew Mold, Patrick N. Osakwe, and Mustapha Sadni Jallab\u003cb\u003e.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eIAAE Synopsis:\u003c\/b\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eJohn W. Longworth.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eDavid Colman.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eYujiro Hayami.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eRashid Hassan.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eMark W. Rosegrant\u003cb\u003e.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eConference Program.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eName Index.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eSubject Index\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cb\u003eKeijiro Otsuka\u003c\/b\u003e is a professorial fellow at the Foundation for Advanced Studies on International Development (FASID) in Tokyo and the Director of GRIPS\/FASID Joint Graduate Program. He is president-elect of IAAE. He has been working extensively on the Green Revolution, land tenancy, property rights and natural resource management, and the poverty dynamics in both Asia and Africa.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eKaliappa Kalirajan\u003c\/b\u003e is also a professorial fellow at FASID and a professor of development economics at the National Graduate Institute for Policy Studies (GRIPS). His areas of major interest include macroeconomic and trade policies and reform, poverty reduction, and technology issues. He is also an adjunct professor at the Madras School of Economics, Chennai, India.\u003c\/p\u003e This book is a collection of plenary sessions papers and selected invited panel papers presented in the 26th International Conference of Agricultural Economists held at Gold Coast, Australia, from 12th to 18th August 2006. 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