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117th Seminar European Association of Agricultural Economists Climate Change, Food Security and Resilience of Food and Agricultural Systems in Developing Countries: Mitigation and Adaptation Options Hohenheim Castle, Stuttgart: November 25 – 27, 2010 Seminar Program th th 117 Seminar 117 Seminar European Association of Agricultural Economists European Association of Agricultural Economists Note from the Program Committee Program Dear Participant, The seminar of the European Association of Agricultural Economists under the title “Climate Thursday, November 25th, 2010 change, food security and resilience of food and agricultural systems in developing countries: Mitigation and adaptation options” will focus on the economics of adaptation and 10:00 – 13:00 Arrival & Registration mitigation options to climate change in developing countries and its linkages with food Foyer security. 14:00 – 15:30 Plenary Opening Session Herewith the seminar program is presented to you. Balkonsaal Chair: Manfred Zeller, University of Hohenheim On behalf of the international and local program committee, and of the Food Security Center of the University of Hohenheim as the organizer, welcome to the 117th Seminar of the Welcome Address European Association of Agricultural Economists! Hans‐Peter Liebig, Rector of the Universität Hohenheim Welcome Address & Program Presentation Manfred Zeller, Director, Food Security Center (FSC) Chair of Program Committee Manfred Zeller Keynote Speech ‐ Ensuring food security now and in the future: The Chair, International Program Committee role of climate change International Program Committee Kostas Stamoulis, Director, Agricultural and Development Economics Division (ESA), Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) Michel Benoit‐Cattin, CIRAD, France Erwin Bulte, Wageningen University, The Netherlands 15:30 – 16:00 Coffee Break Kees Burger, Wageningen University, The Netherlands Foyer Rashid Hassan, University of Pretoria, Republic of South Africa 16:00 – 17:30 Plenary Session Zhu Ling, Chinese Academy for Social Sciences, Beijing, China Balkonsaal Chair: Kostas Stamoulis, Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) Miet Maertens, Catholic University Leuven, Belgium The effects of climate change on food security and risk of hunger: An Olman Quiros, University of Costa Rica, San José, Costa Rica assessment of potential impacts and adaptation Claudia Ringler, International Food Policy Research Institute, Washington D.C., USA Martin Parry, Imperial College London Donato Romano, University of Florence, Italy Response options for reducing the vulnerability of agriculture in SSA to Kostas Stamoulis, Food and Agriculture Organization, Rome, Italy climate change Herrmann Waibel, University of Hannover, Germany Rashid Hassan, University of Pretoria Manfred Zeller, University of Hohenheim, Germany Local Program Committee from the University of Hohenheim Thomas Berger, Martina Brockmeier, Reiner Doluschitz, Harald Grethe, Franz Heidhues, Detlef Virchow 1 2 th th 117 Seminar 117 Seminar European Association of Agricultural Economists European Association of Agricultural Economists 17:30 – 18:45 Poster Presentations Session PPS III Economics of agricultural adaptation to climate change Aula Chair: Alwin Keil, University of Hohenheim PPS I Climate variability and impacts on food security, migration & trade Grüner Saal Chair: Thomas Berger, University of Hohenheim (1) Drivers of change in food policy agenda for pro‐poor agricultural growth – A case study of the cowpea network in Ghana (1) Assessing the value of seasonal climate forecasts on farm‐level Wilhelmina Quaye, Guido Ruivenkamp, Godfred Frimpong and Joost Jongerden corn production through simulation modeling Kathrina Gonzales, Celia M Reyes, Canesio D. Predo and Rosalina G. de Guzman (2) Can watershed development approach act as a micro‐level mitigation mechanism for climate change? – Experiences from (2) Migration and growth of population: The possible impact on the the Indian state of Maharashtra agricultural sector and the food security of Sri Lanka Satish Pillarisetti P. Priyantha Lalanie (3) Low carbon agriculture and farmer organizations: Empirical (3) Changing precipitation pattern and its impact on food security in evidence of greenhouse vegetable farming in Shandong, China Himalaya: Responses and adaptation Xiangping Jia and LinLin Fan Prakash Tiwari PPS IV Economics of rural food systems' adaptation to climate change PPS II Vulnerability and resilience of food and agricultural systems Aula Chair: Franz Heidhues, University of Hohenheim Blauer Saal Chair: Martina Brockmeier, University of Hohenheim (1) Assessing climate change impacts on agricultural systems: A (1) Farmers’ cooperatives to counteract risky market conditions: methodological review Empirical finding from the Mexican coffee sector Niklaus Lehmann and Robert Finger Benigno Rodriguez Padron, Ruerd Ruben and Kees Burger 19:00 Reception in Hohenheim Castle (2) The role of microfinance institutions’ performance under risk and Foyer uncertainty: Empirical evidence from Latin America Roselia Servin, Marrit van den Berg and Robert Lensink (3) The relationship between land use and technology in the most representative farming systems of Santa Clara municipality, Cuba Yanetsy Ruiz Gonzalez, Nils Max Rafael McCune, Osvaldo Fernández Martínez, Edith Aguila Alcantara, Marijke D’Haese and Luc D’Haese 3 4 th th 117 Seminar 117 Seminar European Association of Agricultural Economists European Association of Agricultural Economists Friday, November 26th, 2010 09:00 – 10:30 Economics of agricultural adaptation to climate change Aula Chair: Reiner Doluschitz, University of Hohenheim 09:00 – 10:30 Parallel Contributed Paper Session I (1) Analysis of climate change adaptation measures among farming Climate variability and impacts on food security, migration & trade households in Nigeria Grüner Saal Chair: Edilegnaw Wale, University of KwaZulu‐Natal Peter O. Agbola (2) Climate change and agriculture production: Does the adoption of (1) Betting on food: Which role for market fundamentals in 2007‐2008 modern crop varieties matter? grain price boom Robertson Khataza Federico Ciani (2) Climate change, multilateral trade and national food security 10:30 – 11:00 Coffee Break Larry Crump Foyer (3) Bilateral CDM project flows: Stand‐alone, or substitute for FDI and 11:00 – 12:30 Plenary Session aid? Balkonsaal Chair: Rashid Hassan, University of Pretoria Dirk Röttgers Climate change and food security in the developing regions: Vulnerability and resilience of food and agricultural systems Vulnerabilities and potential of maize and wheat research to expand Blauer Saal Chair: Martina Brockmeier, University of Hohenheim options for adaptation and mitigation Shiferaw Bekele, International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center (CIMMYT) (1) Survival, vulnerability to food insecurity and global warming Jeronim Capaldo, Panagiotis Karfakis, Marco Knowles and Mark Smulders Climate change and its impact on rice, the irrigation schemes and the (2) Livelihoods strategies and household resilience to food insecurity: market An empirical analysis to Kenya Samarendu Mohanty, International Rice Research Institute (IRRI) Luca Alinovi, Marco D’Errico, Erdgin Mane and Donato Romano 12:30 – 14:00 Lunch (3) Using panel data to estimate the effect of rainfall shocks on University smallholders food security and vulnerability in rural Ethiopia Cafeteria Abera Birhanu Demeke, Alwin Keil and Manfred Zeller 5 6 th th 117 Seminar 117 Seminar European Association of Agricultural Economists European Association of Agricultural Economists 14:00 – 16:00 Parallel Contributed Paper Session II 14:00 – 16:00 Economics of rural food systems' adaptation to climate change Balkonsaal Chair: Alwin Keil, University of Hohenheim Vulnerability and resilience of food and agricultural systems Blauer Saal Chair: Regina Birner, University of Hohenheim (1) Assessing the impact of climate variability on poverty and food (1) Food security in crisis: Resilience of farming systems in post‐ security in Northern Ghana Tesfamicheal Wossen and Nedumaran Swamikannu conflict Burundi Marijke D’Haese, Stijn Speelmann, Ellen Vandamme, Tharcisse Nkunzimana, Jean (2) The credit constraint of market‐oriented farmers in Chile Ndimubandi and Luc D’Haese Alvaro Reyes and Robert Lensink (2) Building integrated assessment tools for climate change (3) Food sovereignty and agricultural trade policy commitment: What adaptation in agriculture – A case for coupled land model systems are the margins of maneuver for West African states? at regional scale with fine resolution C. Laroche Dupraz and A. Postolle Christian Troost, Thomas Berger and Evgeny Latynskiy Economics of climate change mitigation Aula Chair: Donato Romano, University of Florence Economics of agricultural adaptation to climate change Grüner Saal Chair: Hermann Waibel, University of Hannover (1) Large plantation, small farmers and the labour market Kees Burger and Floor Peters (1) Drought impacts and related risk management by smallholder farmers in developing countries: Evidence from Awash River Basin, (2) Potential of sustainable Jatropha oil production in Tanzania: An Ethiopia economic land evaluation approach Conrad Murendo, Alwin Keil and Manfred Zeller A. Segerstedt, J. Bobert, A. Fasse, U. Grote, H. Hoffmann, H. Kabir, S. Sieber and G. Uckert (2) On adaptation to climate change and food productivity: A micro‐ perspective from Ethiopia (3) Options of mitigating climate change in agriculture: Financial Salvatore Di Falco, Marcella Veronesi