Days: Monday, February 1st Tuesday, February 2nd Wednesday, February 3rd Thursday, February 4th Friday, February 5th
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This half-day Pre-conference Workshop will explore new opportunities in the face of the current challenges for the Consultative Group on International Agricultural Research (CGIAR) as it undertakes, in its 45th year, yet more governance reforms in 2016. During these 45 years the CGIAR has contributed to massive improvements in food security in developing countries, and OECD countries including Australia have benefited from substantial technological spill-ins. With the increasing globalization of science and the shifting landscape of research providers, the CGIAR continues to have a critical but ever-evolving leadership role to play in international agricultural research.
Australians now chair the Boards of 4 of the 15 CGIAR Centres (IFPRI, ILRI, IWMI, WorldFish) and will also Chair CIMMYT’s Board from next October. The country is also present on the Boards of ICRISAT and IRRI; and the D-G’s of two Centres (IRRI and WorldFish) also are Australian. Australia still has much to gain from this multilateral institution, but also a great responsibility to ensure it thrives.
14:00 | Welcome and introduction ( abstract ) |
14:05 | Current state of play in the CGIAR: Funders' View ( abstract ) |
14:20 | Public and private investments in food and agricultural R&D worldwide: The emerging new reality ( abstract ) |
14:50 | The next phase of CGIAR Research Programs: global impact assessment ( abstract ) |
15:40 | Panel 1: What’s the rationale for maintaining/strengthening the system? ( abstract ) |
16:30 | Panel 2: Governance, resource mobilization and implications for Australia ( abstract ) |
17:20 | Summing up, conclusion and close ( abstract ) |
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In February 2016 it will be 60 years since the first Annual Conference of the Australian Agricultural Economics Society. It will also be 20 years since we added ‘and Resources’ to the Society’s name and Journal. A fitting way to commemorate those anniversaries is to hold a pre-Conference workshop on Tuesday, February 2nd to highlight the most significant contributions of Australian and New Zealand agricultural and resource economists over the past six decades. A large number of senior members of the Society have volunteered to review those contributions as they pertain to the workings of the economy and to public policy related to agriculture and natural resources in ANZ. The papers will not be merely historical, but will treat the progressive development of thought in a way that focuses on what remains important, and point also to a future research agenda in each of the covered fields. Revisions of those papers are expected to become a special issue of the AJARE.
08:30 | Registration ( abstract ) |
09:15 | Welcome and introduction ( abstract ) |
09:30 | Farm production and agribusiness economics ( abstract ) |
10:00 | Risk and uncertainty ( abstract ) |
10:30 | Morning Tea/Coffee ( abstract ) |
11:00 | Agricultural markets and marketing policies ( abstract ) |
11:30 | National and global price and trade-distorting policies ( abstract ) |
12:00 | Economics of innovation in agriculture ( abstract ) |
12:30 | Lunch ( abstract ) |
13:30 | Agricultural adjustment ( abstract ) |
14:00 | Agriculture’s contribution to economic development ( abstract ) |
14:30 | Booming sector economics ( abstract ) |
15:00 | Afternoon Tea/Coffee ( abstract ) |
15:20 | Economics of climate change and energy policies ( abstract ) |
15:50 | Natural resource management ( abstract ) |
16:20 | Environmental economics ( abstract ) |
16:50 | Conclusions, next steps and close ( abstract ) |
The Commonwealth government’s Agricultural Competitiveness White Paper was released in 2015 and includes a commitment to strengthen policy approaches to drought and risk management.
The authors of the White Paper note that drought is one of the biggest challenges faced by farmers and note its significant impact on agricultural output, productivity and farm incomes. Regardless of the magnitude of the challenge, there is also a steadfast commitment that “The Government will always stand by farmers in drought”.
This symposium brings together experts in drought and agricultural policy to scrutinise different policy approaches to drought. The purpose is to generate a discussion about current responses and to assess the merits of alternatives.
The symposium specifically aims to bring together practitioners, policy makers and academics with aninterest in this field.
08:30 | Registration ( abstract ) |
08:45 | Welcome and Introductions ( abstract ) |
08:55 | The status of drought policy ( abstract ) |
09:20 | A fairer and sustainable way of financing drought relief ( abstract ) |
09:45 | Northern Australia: The answer to what? ( abstract ) |
10:10 | Chair/Discussant ( abstract ) |
10:15 | Morning Tea/Coffee ( abstract ) |
10:30 | Drought services for Australia ( abstract ) |
10:55 | Farming in drought ( abstract ) |
11:20 | The social and economic impacts of drought ( abstract ) |
11:45 | Complex interactions in a drying climate ( abstract ) |
12:10 | Panel discussion: An end-user and practitioner perspective ( abstract ) |
13:10 | Chair/Discussant ( abstract ) |
13:15 | Lunch ( abstract ) |
13:55 | The big dry in California ( abstract ) |
14:20 | Rethinking residual risk ( abstract ) |
14:45 | Afternoon Tea and forum discussion ( abstract ) |
15:20 | Crazy talk during drought ( abstract ) |
15:45 | Modelling the drivers of farm exit in the Murray-Darling Basin from 1991 to 2011 ( abstract ) |
16:10 | Concluding remarks ( abstract ) |
The global agriculture is in transition to a new stage where growing connectivity, food affordability and consumer awareness is driving new growth opportunities. This presents new challenges for agriculture industries to remain competitive and profitable. The past business model where farmers produced goods to markets where price discovery was beyond farmers’ control is proving redundant and the ‘new open globalized market’ presents opportunities for discriminating producers to seek innovation and business entrepreneurship to improving profit prospects.
This symposium, sponsored by the Council of Rural R&D Corporations (TBC) brings together experts in farming systems, marketing and business strategy to scrutinise issues and identify information gaps that may present opportunities for R&D. The purpose is to provide a forum for discussing potential inadequacies in current thinking and to assess the merits of alternatives available for profitable exploration.
08:30 | Registration ( abstract ) |
09:00 | Welcome and introduction ( abstract ) |
09:10 | Trends in Australian farm profitability ( abstract ) |
09:30 | Lead discussant ( abstract ) |
09:40 | A yield gap analysis perspective on why Australia’s grain yields have remained stagnant over the past 2 decades ( abstract ) |
10:00 | Opening discussant ( abstract ) |
10:10 | Morning Tea/Coffee ( abstract ) |
10:30 | Limiting factors and their management for profit ( abstract ) |
10:50 | Opening discussant ( abstract ) |
11:00 | Profit drivers in a farming business ( abstract ) |
11:20 | Opening discussant ( abstract ) |
11:30 | Contracting and Business organization: Producer cooperatives and other business models ( abstract ) |
11:50 | Opening discussant ( abstract ) |
12:00 | Farming to resource use: managing the broader goals of sustainability ( abstract ) |
12:20 | Opening discussant ( abstract ) |
12:30 | Lunch ( abstract ) |
13:20 | Innovation, Business Capabilities and Performance in Australian Horticulture ( abstract ) |
13:40 | Opening discussant ( abstract ) |
13:50 | Determining winning strategies: key challenges and opportunities ( abstract ) |
14:10 | Opening discusmant ( abstract ) |
14:20 | Guided group discussion ( abstract ) |
15:10 | Afternoon Tea/Coffee ( abstract ) |
15:30 | The Way forward ( abstract ) |
This networking event, sponsored by the ACT Branch of the AARES, is designed to allow early career researchers to get to know their peers in an informal setting.
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07:00 | TBA ( abstract ) |
Prof Kym Anderson, University of Adelaide
09:00 | Competitiveness of Australia's Agricultural and Resource Sectors: Retrospect and Prospect ( abstract ) |
09:40 | Discussant ( abstract ) |
09:50 | Discussion ( abstract ) |
Organizer: Prof Craig Gundersen, University of Illinois
10:30 | The Incidence, Depth, and Severity of Food Insecurity in the United States from 2002 to 2013 ( abstract ) |
11:00 | Food Insecurity and Homelessness in the Journeys Home Survey ( abstract ) |
11:30 | Natural Disasters and Financial Stress in Agricultural Areas ( abstract ) |
Improving agricultural productivity has long been considered as a critical way to increase farmers’ real income and international competitiveness of Australian agricultural commodities. Between 1949 and 2014, Australian agricultural productivity has grown at the rate of 2.0 per cent a year which has contributed to more than two thirds of gross agricultural output growth. Productivity growth has also helped to negate the adverse impact of changing climate condition, declining terms of trade and resource supply constraints, and faciliate agricultural industry releasing valuable resources.
It is widely believed that technology progress, on-farm innovation and industry structural adjustment are three pillars supporting ongoing agricultural productivity growth in Australia over the past three decades. Previous studies show that domestic public investment in agricultural RD&E has on average accounted for around one third of agricultural productivity growth since 1953 while resource reallocation between farms has contributed to more than half of efficiency improvement of input use of the industry. However, limited efforts have been made to convert these useful findings into applicable public policies. In particular when productivity growth slowed down in the recent decade, it is more important to bridge academic researchers and policy makers to develop a strategy to maintain productivity growth.
The mini-symposia is designed to host three presentations focusing on the discussion of agricultural productivity growth and its drivers in the United States, Australia and some Asian developing countries, like Indonesia and Thailand. These presentations are based on the researches either using the industry-level or farm-level data, and each provides good experiences and lessons of a particular country.
10:30 | Agricultural Productivity, Innovation and International Comparison ( abstract ) |
10:35 | The Rise and Fall of U.S. Farm Productivity Growth, 1910–2007 ( abstract ) |
11:00 | Agricultural Productivity Drivers and Its Implications for Public Policy ( abstract ) |
11:25 | Research and agricultural productivity: Indonesia and Thailand ( abstract ) |
11:50 | Technology Discrimination and the Rate of Adoption of Alternative Technologies: A Global View ( abstract ) |
Climate change is associated with increasing frequency of weather-related disaster events (IPCC, 2012), and from the 1990s, the area affected by droughts in China has been increasing (NSBC, 2012), while the frequency of flood events has also been increasing since the 1980s (Zhao et al, 2004). These extreme weather events pose a significant threat to the agricultural production, thereby contributing to food insecurity in rural China. Maintaining a reasonable level of food security is challenging, particularly, for subsistent farmers who are heavily relying on agriculture for their livelihood. In this context, farmers must decide how to respond to climate change. They risk poverty and food security by not responding to these climate variations appropriately. There will be costs of adjustment, which will vary between households and which will affect farmers' choices. These adaptations require a combination of agricultural management practices including technical and non-technical measures that usually depend on technologies, mechanisms and institutions available in the region.
This session aims to address some key issues in climate change and agricultural adaptation in China such as impacts of climate change on crop production in China and characteristics of farmers at risk from climate change while discussing adjustment policy options. The research is based on a household survey of rice farmers in China, which was undertaken as a part of an ongoing project funded by Australian Centre for International Agricultural Research on ‘Assessing Farmer Responses to Climate Change –Adjustment Policy Options’(ADP/2011/039). The session will also draw evidence from US agriculture on impacts of and adaptation to climate change.
10:30 | Farmer Adaptation to Climate Change ( abstract ) |
10:55 | Impacts of Climate Change on Major Crop Yield in China ( abstract ) |
11:15 | Climate Change and China’s Agriculture: Impact and Adaptation ( abstract ) |
11:35 | Adaptation to Climate Change in Guangdong Province in China: Do Property Rights Matter? ( abstract ) |
11:55 | The Economic Impacts of Climate Change on U.S. Agriculture: the Role of Adaptation ( abstract ) |
This session is sponsored by the Australian Bureau of Statistics
Session description: The session will focus on the Environmental Accounts program at the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS), with a focus on the framework (the United Nation's System of Environmental-Economic Accounting, or SEEA) on which it is based, as well as specific components of the program, namely Water Accounts, Land Accounts and Agriculture Accounts (SEEA-Agriculture). The set of ABS Environmental-Economic Accounts measures the interactions between the economy and the environment (in both physical and monetary terms), and the stocks, and changes in stocks, of environmental assets. The ABS accounts cover environmental assets, water, energy products, waste, greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, carbon, environmental taxes, environmental expenditures and land cover. They include physical supply and use tables, functional accounts (such as environmental taxation accounts and environmental expenditure accounts), and asset accounts for natural resources. Our accounts are generally produced at a national level, often with state/territory splits.
Individual presentations:
1. System of Environmental-Economic Accounting (SEEA) - Ross Alexander
2. Water Accounts - Steve May
3. Land Accounts - Tom Walter
4. SEEA Agriculture - Lisa Green
10:30 | System of Environmental-Economic Accounting (SEEA) ( abstract ) |
10:55 | Water Accounts ( abstract ) |
11:20 | Land Accounts ( abstract ) |
11:45 | SEEA Agriculture ( abstract ) |
10:30 | Optimal Local Surveillance Measures for an Exotic Pest in Heterogeneous Spaces over Time ( abstract ) |
10:45 | Introducing compliance-based inspection protocols to Australia’s biosecurity system ( abstract ) |
11:00 | Compliance-Based Regulatory Regimes for Biosecurity Border Inspections: An Experimental Investigation ( abstract ) |
11:15 | Budgeting and Portfolio Allocation for Biosecurity Measures ( abstract ) |
11:30 | Incorporating passive surveillance into invasive-species management programmes ( abstract ) |
11:45 | Increasing the Robustness of Invasive Species Eradication Programs ( abstract ) |
This session sponsored by the Murray Darling Basin Authority includes a number of presentations drawing in different aspects of the water policy puzzle including information, incentives, institutions and infrastructure. The session will conclude with a panel discussion led by Prof Lin Crase which will allow ample opportunities for audience participation.
10:30 | Water property rights in rivers with large environmental water holders ( abstract ) |
10:45 | Prices, yields, costs and returns for irrigated crops in the Murray Darling Basin 2006-07 to 2013-14 ( abstract ) |
11:00 | Modelling future irrigation demand at a statewide level: lessons from Florida USA ( abstract ) |
11:15 | Incremental water charging in agriculture. A case study of the Regione Emilia Romagna in Italy ( abstract ) |
11:30 | Optimal taxes and charges in the management and use of water resources ( abstract ) |
11:45 | Improving ecosystem service values through trade in the Murrumbidgee catchment, Australia ( abstract ) |
12:00 | Discussion and Q&A ( abstract ) |
10:30 | Transforming Agricultural System under Socio-economic Change, Climate Change and Ecosystem Change ( abstract ) |
10:45 | Options for simultaneous greenhouse gas abatement and profitability on Australian broadacre cropping farms ( abstract ) |
11:00 | The stability of mechanisms for matching abatement commitments when not all countries commit ( abstract ) |
11:15 | The importance and challenge of targeting Traditional Farmers in Carbon Farming Initiatives ( abstract ) |
11:30 | Australian Emissions Pricing Policies under Persistent Productivity Shocks: Fixed vs. Flexible Policies ( abstract ) |
11:45 | The Effect of Extreme Weather and Climate Anomalies on U.S. Wheat Production ( abstract ) |
12:00 | The Effect of ENSO on World Cereal Production ( abstract ) |
This session is sponsored by CSIRO Water for a Healthy Country Flagship
13:00 | Productivity ( abstract ) |
13:25 | Developing northern Australia’s agriculture: potential scale, location, benefits and costs ( abstract ) |
13:50 | Tropical agricultural development: managing expectations for food, incomes and the natural environment ( abstract ) |
14:15 | Lead discussant ( abstract ) |
14:25 | Panel Discussion ( abstract ) |
13:00 | Challenges for Australia in mining investment: lessons learned from mega-projects in small developing countries ( abstract ) |
13:30 | Risks, Resilience and Resource Management ( abstract ) |
14:00 | Challenges and Opportunities for Energy and Food Security ( abstract ) |
14:30 | Panel Discussion ( abstract ) |
15:15 | Big Data Applications and Prospects in Precision Agriculture ( abstract ) |
15:30 | Profit Efficiency of Chinese Pear Farmers ( abstract ) |
15:45 | Structural change, farm adjustment and profitability in Australia ( abstract ) |
16:00 | Agricultural productivity, poverty and inequality in Indonesia ( abstract ) |
15:15 | Estimating supply functions for agri-environmental schemes: Water quality and the Great Barrier Reef ( abstract ) |
15:30 | Ex-post evaluation of a water quality tender ( abstract ) |
15:45 | Socio-economic evaluation of water sharing plans - A case study of the Murrumbidgee Valley. ( abstract ) |
16:00 | Tactical horticultural water decisions in northern Victoria: fruit tree irrigation options and economic responses ( abstract ) |
16:15 | Investigating factors affecting customers’ decisions to switch to different water tariffs ( abstract ) |
15:15 | Using choice modelling to estimate PES scheme benefits in Lao PDR ( abstract ) |
15:30 | Accounting for Social Relations in Group Choice: Eliciting Willingness to Pay for Clean Energy ( abstract ) |
15:45 | Preference for sustainable and liveable features of the neighbourhoods and homes ( abstract ) |
16:00 | Valuing urban riparian corridors: The interaction of riparian buffers and channel condition and their influence on property prices ( abstract ) |
15:15 | Bioeconomic modeling of zoonotic disease transmission: A case study of Bovine Johne’s ( abstract ) |
15:30 | Compensation Payments and Animal Disease: Incentivising Farmers Both to Undertake Costly On-farm Biosecurity and to Comply with Disease Reporting Requirements ( abstract ) |
16:00 | Consumer Willingness to Pay for Farm Animal Welfare in New Zealand ( abstract ) |
16:15 | The Economics of Farm Animal Welfare and Consumer Choice – Evidence from Australia ( abstract ) |
15:15 | Reducing soil erosion on grazing land in catchments adjacent to the Great Barrier Reef ( abstract ) |
15:30 | Prioritising neighbourhood catchments in the Fitzroy basin to achieve cost effective outcomes. ( abstract ) |
15:45 | Assessing risk preferences of smallholder farmers: A case study from Nepalese coffee producers ( abstract ) |
16:00 | The El Nino Southern Oscillation and Growth in the Developing World ( abstract ) |
16:15 | Investigating variable rate nutrient application on sugarcane farms in the Mackay Whitsunday region. ( abstract ) |
15:15 | The role of reputation in explaining wine clusters: A spatial analysis of Hunter Valley wine producers ( abstract ) |
15:30 | Using BWS and DCEs to understand the grain functionality preferences of Australian export grain markets. ( abstract ) |
15:45 | Fundamental Determinants of World Food Demand and Supply ( abstract ) |
16:00 | Food Security Impacts of Productivity and Trade Policy Changes in Selected African Countries ( abstract ) |
16:15 | Winners and losers: Another look at the potential impacts of a Doha Round agreement on agriculture ( abstract ) |
15:15 | Uncertainty, Ambiguity and implications for Coal Seam Gas development: An experimental investigation ( abstract ) |
15:30 | Economic Complexity and Regional Resilience ( abstract ) |
15:45 | You always take the weather with you: The role of climate in determining rural land values in New Zealand ( abstract ) |
16:00 | Could a resource export boom impede poverty alleviation? The labor market channel in Indonesia ( abstract ) |
16:15 | Spatial Spillover effect in the Adoption of Conservation Agriculture in Nicaragua ( abstract ) |
15:15 | The Role of Food and Ag Based Tourism in the Western US ( abstract ) |
15:30 | Sustainable Green Market Consumption in Thailand: Teenagers’ Perception and Attitudes ( abstract ) |
15:45 | Consumption Pattern of the Poor Households in Jambi Province, Indonesia ( abstract ) |
16:00 | Price Variations of Cattle Grades: How Are Quality Attributes Related? ( abstract ) |
16:15 | Measuring Efficiency in the Electricity Sector: Evidence from SIDS ( abstract ) |
Renewable energy sources including hydro, wind, solar, geothermal, biofuel, are used in many countries to provide power (typically electricity), fuel and heat. Very many countries have policies targeting increased renewable energy capacity and consumption. The merits of renewable energy, of targeted renewable energy policies, and appropriate evaluation methods, are each hotly contested at various levels including national politics and in energy policy literature. I briefly review the range of renewable energy goals sought and the policies directed at achieving those goals. Secondly, the arguments advanced to support use of renewable energy policies in many nations are critiqued. Third, some principles are proposed for design of renewable energy policies. Context often matters, and it is essential to consider energy, economic, and geography opportunities and constraints before developing renewable energy policies. To ensure renewable energy policies contribute towards attainment of high level national goals, a decision support approach is outlined that considers the energy context, and asks a series of evaluation questions to aid identification of first best policy measures. Barriers to and benefits from implementation of appropriate renewable energy policies are briefly reviewed.
16:45 | Evaluating renewable energy policies ( abstract ) |
This interactive session will allow all members and well-wishers to join in with the AARES Council and Members of the Strategic Planning Committee to contribute to the Strategic Planning project being undertaken by the AARES Federal Council. President, and Strategic Planning Committee Chair, Ross Cullen will outline progress made to-date and Deborah Peterson will facilitate an open discussion with members.
Speaker: Angus Taylor, MP
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08:30 | A field experiment on multi-attribute utility for joint outputs of grazing commons in Rajasthan ( abstract ) |
08:45 | Enforcing energy and environmental policies in China ( abstract ) |
09:00 | Farming is adapting: lessons for adaptation to climate variability and change across regions of Vietnam ( abstract ) |
09:15 | The Feasibility, Costs, and Environmental Implications of Large-scale Biomass Energy ( abstract ) |
09:30 | An ex-ante evaluation of the potential implications of solar farms for Australian cattle graziers ( abstract ) |
09:45 | Empirical estimation of weather impacts on dairy production and quality ( abstract ) |
08:30 | Productive Efficiency based Collective Decision on allocating land for Sharecropping in Village Irrigation Systems of Sri Lanka ( abstract ) |
08:45 | The Cost Effectiveness of Remediating Erosion Gullies in the Fitzroy Basin ( abstract ) |
09:00 | Environmental benefits and economic consequences of a New Zealand national riparian restoration project ( abstract ) |
09:15 | A review and recalibration of empirically applicable sustainability economics ( abstract ) |
09:30 | How well do conservation auctions perform in establishing environmental corridors?: A comparison of pricing schemes and bid selection criteria ( abstract ) |
09:45 | Women’s empowerment and agriculture: A different perspective from Southeast Asia ( abstract ) |
08:30 | What determines low Peruvian anchovy consumption in Peru?: An evidence from Metropolitan Lima consumers ( abstract ) |
08:45 | Applying system dynamics to value chain analysis ( abstract ) |
09:00 | Intensification in Tanzanian dairy systems: the dynamics of the dairy value chain in Kilosa district in Tanzania ( abstract ) |
09:15 | Value chain analysis: providing an evidence base for agricultural development and policy interventions in Fiji ( abstract ) |
09:30 | Impact of Integrated Aquaculture-agriculture Value Chain Participation on Welfare of Marginalized Indigenous Households in Bangladesh: A Panel Data Analysis ( abstract ) |
08:30 | Reducing the business risk of expanding broadacre farm businesses ( abstract ) |
08:45 | Sources of instability in Australia wheat production ( abstract ) |
09:00 | Farmers' Adjustment Strategies to the Millennium Drought and the Association with Farm Profitability ( abstract ) |
09:15 | What Motivates Indonesian Smallholders’ to Adopt Non-Conventional Farming Systems? An Application of Best-Worst Scaling Methods ( abstract ) |
09:30 | A framework for modelling financial risk in southern Australia: the Intensive Farming (IF) model ( abstract ) |
09:45 | A financial risk analysis of two methods of establishing Lucerne pasture; by direct sowing or under-sowing a cover crop ( abstract ) |
08:30 | Modelling the Risk, Return and Resiliency of Future Dairy Farm Systems ( abstract ) |
08:45 | Customer satisfaction with dairy semen from AI Centres in Indonesia ( abstract ) |
09:00 | Understanding Indonesian Smallholder Dairy Farmers’ Decision to Adopt Multiple Farm-Level Innovations ( abstract ) |
09:15 | Technology Adoption and Technical Efficiency of Indonesian Dairy Farms ( abstract ) |
09:30 | The ‘Dairy Nitrogen Fertiliser Advisor’ - a tool to predict optimal N application rates in grazed dairy pastures ( abstract ) |
09:45 | The economic impacts of reduced nutrient loss for dairy farms in Southland, NZ ( abstract ) |
10:00 | The impact of nutrient regulations on dairy farm land values in Southland, New Zealand ( abstract ) |
08:30 | Role of Public Policies, Investments, Regional Inequalities and Agricultural Transformation in India ( abstract ) |
08:45 | Do Cultural Practices Affect Coffee Yield and Household Income? An Empirical Investigation in Timor Leste ( abstract ) |
09:00 | Government structure and interventions and social capital on the transformation of the smallholder vegetable industry: The case of Barangay Songco, Lantapan, Philippines ( abstract ) |
09:15 | Evaluating the productivity gap between commercial and traditional beef production systems in Botswana ( abstract ) |
09:30 | Information efficiency in a lemons market: Evidence from vegetable market in Pakistan ( abstract ) |
09:45 | Pass-On-The-Gift: A Social Institution to restock goats- Case of Afghanistan ( abstract ) |
10:45 | The New Economics of Entrepreneurship and Innovation: Considerations for Australian Agriculture ( abstract ) |
11:15 | Widgets Matter: So Do Policies and People ( abstract ) |
11:45 | Green innovation for agriculture: Prospects and lessons from other sectors ( abstract ) |
12:15 | Panel Discussion ( abstract ) |
10:45 | China’s Agriculture and Trade Policies: Challenges and Implications for Global Trade ( abstract ) |
11:15 | Regional Agricultural and Trade Policies: an Indian perspective (prepared by Professor Ramesh Chand, National Institution for Transforming India Aayog, India) ( abstract ) |
11:45 | Agricultural trade and regional economic integration: Opportunities and challenges for Indonesia ( abstract ) |
12:15 | Panel Discussion ( abstract ) |
12:30 | Non-market valuation and marine spatial optimization: complementing expert opinion with stakeholder’s preferences ( abstract ) |
12:30 | The feed-in tariff scheme and the electrical energy production by solar photovoltaics on the abandoned agricultural land in Hokkaido, Japan ( abstract ) |
12:30 | Challenges in successful implementation of ecological restoration projects: How can economics help? ( abstract ) |
12:30 | An Agent-Based Model for Forecasting Household Water Consumption, New Zealand ( abstract ) |
12:30 | Six decades of agricultural and resource economics in Australia: trends in topics, authorship, and influential papers ( abstract ) |
12:30 | Evaluation of the Upgrade Effects in Four Sewerage Treatment Plants in NSW, Australia ( abstract ) |
12:30 | Modelling farm modernisation of Japanese rice farming corporations ( abstract ) |
12:30 | Re-examination of rice productivity convergence across Korean regions using multilateral input-based and output-based productivity indices ( abstract ) |
12:30 | Consumers Response to Green Foods in Urban and Rural Thailand ( abstract ) |
13:15 | Option values and decision thresholds: towards a definition of economic resilience ( abstract ) |
13:30 | Risk attitudes of foresters, farmers and students: An experimental multimethod comparison ( abstract ) |
13:45 | An investigation of rural household biomass consumption in western China ( abstract ) |
14:00 | Is the risk attitude measured with the Holt and Laury task reflected in farmers’ production risk? ( abstract ) |
13:15 | Diversification and Productivity in Crop-livestock Farming Systems in the Forest Savannah Agro-ecological Zone of Ghana ( abstract ) |
13:30 | Consumer responses to food products produced near the Fukushima nuclear plant ( abstract ) |
13:45 | Big Data - the new productivity breakthrough for Australian grain growers ( abstract ) |
14:00 | The impact of RMB devaluation and ChAFTA on the Australian agricultural sector ( abstract ) |
14:15 | Revisiting Food Reserve Policies and Practices: Recent Observation from Asian Countries ( abstract ) |
13:15 | Foreign ownership in Australian agribusiness: results of a survey of firms ( abstract ) |
13:30 | Measuring Natural Capital on Agricultural Farms ( abstract ) |
13:45 | Economic impacts from coal seam water on agricultural enterprises. Case study: Chinchilla District, Queensland, Australia ( abstract ) |
14:00 | The local impacts of resource shocks: evidence from industrial mines, gas fields, and palm oil plantations in Indonesia ( abstract ) |
14:15 | A bioeconomic framework for phosphorus deep-placement decisions ( abstract ) |
14:30 | Risk-return prioritisation of global trade inspections ( abstract ) |
13:15 | Growing in isolation: Causes of regional variation in economic development in Australia ( abstract ) |
13:30 | Policy Formulation for Resource Rich Economies in an Environmental-Macroeconomic Framework ( abstract ) |
13:45 | Mapping the effects of forest governance on land use and land cover changes ( abstract ) |
14:00 | Agricultural Development in Emerging Africa: Can Farming Systems Approach help in Planning and Priority Setting for Climate Smart Agriculture? ( abstract ) |
14:15 | Update on Economic Impacts of Subsidence and Accretion in the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta ( abstract ) |
13:15 | Electricity consumption and economic growth in China: assessing Granger causality at provincial, electricity-market, and national levels ( abstract ) |
13:30 | Financial capital and national-level energy transitions ( abstract ) |
13:45 | The price and income elasticities of natural gas demand: International evidence ( abstract ) |
14:00 | Overlapping Environmental Policies and the Impact on Pollution ( abstract ) |
13:15 | Individualized Geocoding in Stated Preference Questionnaires: Implications for Survey Design and Welfare Estimation ( abstract ) |
13:30 | The hedonistic cost of the Black Saturday Bushfires ( abstract ) |
13:45 | Implications of geographical scope in valuing wilderness management in the Kimberley ( abstract ) |
14:00 | Valuing remote wilderness – estimating spatially explicit values for the Kimberley coast ( abstract ) |
14:15 | Valuing Melbourne’s Urban Blue Space: A Mixed Logit Approach ( abstract ) |
14:30 | Measuring public values for marine reserve networks and the effect of how information is delivered ( abstract ) |
13:15 | Analysing the impact of household health and economic shocks on food security and dietary diversity: Evidence from rural Bangladesh ( abstract ) |
13:30 | Testing the Nexus of Income, Agriculture, and Nutrition in Indonesia: evidence from longitudinal data ( abstract ) |
13:45 | Understanding the Determinants of Diet Quality among Rural Households in Fiji ( abstract ) |
14:00 | Understanding the Relationship between Production Diversity and Dietary Quality in Smallholder Farm Households in Fiji ( abstract ) |
14:15 | China’s changing diet and its domestic and international impacts on greenhouse gas emissions: an index decomposition analysis of embodied emissions in food ( abstract ) |
14:30 | Consumer preferences for attributes in food and beverages in developed and emerging export markets and their impact on the European Union and New Zealand ( abstract ) |
13:15 | Is Combine harvester speeding up Rural Transformation in India?: Innovations on Custom Hiring Services ( abstract ) |
13:30 | Adoption of Integrated Crop Management Technology in Smallholder Rice Production in Timor Leste ( abstract ) |
13:45 | The link between sequential innovation adoption and vertical coordination: Do contractual relations incentivize farmers’ sequential adoption of innovations in dairy sector in Indonesia? ( abstract ) |
14:00 | Australian Chickpeas and South Asian Consumers: Role of International Research Partnership and Trade Policies ( abstract ) |
Prof Jayson Lusk, Oklahoma State University
15:15 | When a Foodie meets an Economist ( abstract ) |
Old Parliament House is one of Australia’s most loved buildings. Restored to its original grandeur and with stunning views across Lake Burley Griffin, this historic venue (which is an easy 10 minute walk from the Park Hyatt Hotel) provides a sophisticated and elegant backdrop to the Museum of Australian Democracy which is housed within its walls.
The evening will include a delicious dinner in one of the Members Dining Rooms where you can hear George Megalogenis, an author and journalist with three decades' experience in the media, talk about his latest book, "Australia's Second Chance: What our history tells us about our future."
“Most nations don't get a first chance to prosper. Australia is on its second. For the best part of the nineteenth century, Australia was the world's richest country, a pioneer for democracy and a magnet for migrants. Yet our last big boom was followed by a fifty-year bust as we lost our luck, our riches and our nerve, and shut our doors on the world. Now we're back on top, in the position where history tells us we made our biggest mistakes. Can we learn from our past and cement our place as one of the world's great nations?” (From Penguin)
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Organisers
Rosie Duffy, Wiley-Publishing
John Rolfe, CQU and Editor of the Australian Journal of Agricultural and Resource Economics (AJARE) Lin Crase, La Trobe University and AJARE Editor John Tisdell, University of Tasmania and AJARE Editor
The AJARE-Wiley breakfast will provide an opportunity for AARES members to meet with the Wiley representatives and AJARE Editors. Come along to the breakfast to hear about trends in publishing, opportunities to increase impact and citations, and what the AJARE editors are looking for in new submissions.
08:45 | The contribution of shark fisheries to local livelihoods in the Louisiade Archipelago, Papua New Guinea ( abstract ) |
09:00 | Maximising net economic returns in mixed fisheries: how many species do we need to control? ( abstract ) |
09:15 | The future economics of marine ecosystem services in Kimbe Bay, Papua New Guinea: implications for Locally Managed Marine Areas ( abstract ) |
09:30 | A stochastic frontier analysis (SFA) of the Commonwealth Trawl Sector (CTS) of the Southern and Eastern Scalefish and Shark Fishery ( abstract ) |
09:45 | A theoretical framework for resource sharing between commercial and recreational fishers ( abstract ) |
08:45 | Water buyback in Spain: what should we expect? ( abstract ) |
09:00 | Waimea Plains: Economics of freshwater quantity management ( abstract ) |
09:15 | The spatial influence of neighbours’ water sale behaviour on irrigators’ water entitlement selling ( abstract ) |
09:30 | The value of water sensitive landscaping styles in residential property market ( abstract ) |
09:45 | Selling the farm: understanding irrigators’ intentions to sell the farm in the Murray-Darling Basin in Australia ( abstract ) |
08:45 | Risk Aversion and Preferences for an Environmental Good: A discrete choice experiment ( abstract ) |
09:00 | Putting Your Money Where Your Mouth Is ( abstract ) |
09:15 | A choice experiment to examine farmer preferences for joint venture farm business structures ( abstract ) |
09:30 | Problems in reporting scale heterogeneity models ( abstract ) |
09:45 | Environmental services auctions for PES schemes ( abstract ) |
10:00 | Estimating the cost of strengthening ecosystem connectivity in an agricultural landscape in central Sumatra. ( abstract ) |
08:45 | Evaluating resistance management options ( abstract ) |
09:00 | Exploring the economic concepts behind One-Health: What can we learn from IPM? ( abstract ) |
09:15 | Investing in Biosecurity Preparedness – an opportunity for Australia to limit economic impacts of disease incursions? ( abstract ) |
09:30 | A bioeconomic analysis of wild dog management in northern NSW livestock industries ( abstract ) |
09:45 | Environmental assurance, biosecurity and animal welfare: How best to evaluate these defensive investments? ( abstract ) |
08:45 | Evaluating the impact of the rice price policy on economic well-being of farm households in Thailand ( abstract ) |
09:00 | Political Participation and Access to Public Resource: Evidence from Indonesia Subsidized Rice Program ( abstract ) |
09:15 | Adoption potential of two wheel tractor drill technology in the lowland rice growing areas of Cambodia – An economic analysis ( abstract ) |
09:30 | Socio-economic factors influencing productivity among cassava farmers in East Africa ( abstract ) |
09:45 | Agrarian distress among small farms in rice cultivation in India ( abstract ) |
08:45 | Seasonal variation in hybrid seed adoption: the case of chili in Indonesia ( abstract ) |
09:00 | Supermarket development in Indonesia and its impacts on agricultural labor markets ( abstract ) |
09:15 | Horticulture crop diversification, agricultural and off-farm income: empirical evidence from Indonesia ( abstract ) |
09:30 | Determinants of Cocoa Marketing Efficiency in Pasaman Regency, West Sumatra, Indonesia ( abstract ) |
09:45 | Effects of Agricultural Land-occupying Inequality on Rural Income Inequality: Evidence from Indonesia ( abstract ) |
08:45 | The nature of farm succession planning in the Riverina Region ( abstract ) |
09:00 | Determinants of Farmers’ Adoption of Technology: Evidence from Rural Timor-Leste ( abstract ) |
09:15 | Price formation on agricultural land markets – A microstructure analysis ( abstract ) |
09:30 | Performance of smallholder seed yam farm enterprises in Cameroon ( abstract ) |
09:45 | Mixed-method evaluation of improved cassava varieties’ adoption in Ghana: implications for policy and extension activities ( abstract ) |
10:00 | Emulating maize yields from global gridded crop models using statistical estimates ( abstract ) |
The aim of this Mini-symposia is to provide a forum to engage interested delegates in a guided session in examining key challenges we are facing in the years ahead and how we as a profession can meet those challenges.
Tim Capon (CSIRO) and Thilak Mallawaarachchi (University of Queensland) will provide a short background presentation and Will Martin (IFPRI) Ian Coxhead (University of Wisconsin-Madison) will open the Panel discussion with two presentations covering key issues. Jammie Penm (ABARES) and Adam Jaffe (MOTU) will join the Panel in a Q&A session that follows. John Dixon will moderate the Q&A session.
We aim is to prepare a paper drawing on the deliberations at the session, for wider circulation, afterwards.
10:45 | Welcome and introduction ( abstract ) |
10:50 | Agricultural and Resource Economics: times ahead ( abstract ) |
10:55 | TBA ( abstract ) |
11:10 | TBA ( abstract ) |
11:25 | Panel Discussion ( abstract ) |
The session would build upon the material contained in a book on transformational environmental policy reforms that is being edited by Mike Young and Chrissy Esau. The book builds upon a course that taught at Harvard University during 2013/14 and conference held under Australia Chair sponsorship on the same topic. Publication is scheduled for early 2015. The most likely date is in mid-March.
10:45 | Welcome ( abstract ) |
10:50 | An emerging framework ( abstract ) |
11:10 | Learning from Energy, Mining and Water Reform ( abstract ) |
11:30 | Learning from drought policy reform ( abstract ) |
11:50 | Structured discussion and debate ( abstract ) |
This session was organized by Regina Betz, University of New South Wales
The Paris Climate Summit will give more clarity about what the international community is willing to commit to in terms of action to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. This session features analysis and perspectives from Australian and international academics undertaking applied research. It will cover topics such as comparison of climate change targets, Australia's options to cut emissions, prospects for international emissions markets, and comparative studies.
10:45 | Introduction ( abstract ) |
11:00 | The COP21 negotiations: An insider perspective ( abstract ) |
11:15 | From Kyoto to Paris ( abstract ) |
11:30 | The Paris emissions targets and what they mean for domestic emissions reductions ( abstract ) |
11:45 | How many carbon markets do we need? An Economic Sociology perspective on mitigation economics before and after Paris ( abstract ) |
12:00 | Moderated discussion ( abstract ) |
The Asian region is made up of economies at different stages of development, including within their agriculture sectors. Drivers of change include on the demand side population growth, income growth, urbanization, consumption patterns and non-food demand (e.g., biofuels, ecological services) (Gulati et al., 2007; Reardon and Timmer, 2007; Bai et al., 2010) and, on the supply side, constraints on access to land and water, falling yield growth rate, climate change and slower growth in agricultural investment (World Bank, 2008). Various economies find themselves at different points in a series of stages of transitions but the expectation is that those various stages have features in common. Overall, the outcome, if the process is successful, is a transition from a grain economy to a food economy which will be a contribution to important development objectives, including higher levels of income in rural areas, higher degrees of equality of incomes, lower poverty rates, greater levels of environmental amenity and degrees of efficiency of resource use and greater degrees of food security, dietary diversity, nutrition and health (Huang, 2015).
The issue is that some countries are not successful and become caught in the food transition trap. They fail to make the transition between the stages, they become stuck in one of them and they therefore fail to achieve the development objectives just listed.
The goal of this session is to report on a model of the transition and its application to a useful specification of the stages of the transition. Questions for discussion then include
1. How can developing economies in Asia use policy reform and good investment decisions to avoid the food transition trap in order to capture the development benefits that a successful transition offers?
2. How can cooperation among developing countries contribute to the escape from the food transition trap?
3. What actions including policy reforms and investments can be taken within countries to share more widely the benefits of a successful food transition?
4. What are the institutional gaps in the discussion of policy reform and investment decisions in this field?
10:45 | TBA ( abstract ) |
11:10 | TBA ( abstract ) |
11:35 | Discussant ( abstract ) |
13:15 | Moving from fisheries economics to Ocean Economics ( abstract ) |
13:45 | Coastal adaptation: estimating values of sensitive coastal environments and planning for the future ( abstract ) |
14:15 | Provisioning seafood in Australia’s ocean economy: challenges and opportunities ( abstract ) |
14:45 | Panel Discussion ( abstract ) |
13:15 | Changing Food Demand and Consumer Preferences: Opportunities and Challenges ( abstract ) |
13:45 | How agricultural and environmental economics can contribute to assuring safe food ( abstract ) |
14:15 | Food Policy with Endogenous Preferences: Theory and Evidence ( abstract ) |
14:45 | Panel Discussion ( abstract ) |