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| There are strong indications and already evidence that the agricultural and food system as well as the rural areas across the world are experiencing major change. Increased urbanisation and the increased affluence in emerging economies combined with the demand for agricultural commodities for biofuels is changing the whole landscape of global agricultural and food systems as we used to know it. The current financial crisis and the recent food price crisis also provided a further realisation that the global agricultural landscape is indeed likely to be totally different. This International Conference of Agricultural Economists in Beijing in August 2009 is therefore not only dealing with these issues but at the same time providing the opportunity to think about the adjustments in our discipline needed to address these new emerging and likely more complex issues. Amongst other things this calls for an expansion of the traditional toolkit of agricultural economists. The question the conference should address is: Are we as agricultural economists equipped to deal with these complex problems and issues on our own? What are the principles and techniques and approaches from other disciplines we can use? | |
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Internacional
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http://www.iaae2009.org/ |
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Entidad relacionada
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International Association of Agricultural Economists (IAAE) |
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Nacionalidad Entidad
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Sin nacionalidad |
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Lugar del congreso
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Beijing, China |