Transition in Agriculture - Agricultural Economics in Transition VI. November 5, 2009

Transition in Agriculture – Agricultural Economics in Transition VI.

Friday, 6 November, 2009

8:55: Imre Fertő (Institute of Economics, HAS): Introduction

9:00: Zvi Lerman (Hebrew University/FAO): Agricultural recovery and individual land tenure: lessons from Central Asia

Discussant: Csaba Csáki (BCE)

9:45: Lajos Zoltán Bakucs (Institute of Economics, HAS), Jan Fałkowski (University of Warsaw) and Imre Fertő (Institute of Economics, HAS): Milk market ingertation between Hungary and Poland

Discussant: Heinrich Hockmann (IAMO)

10:35-10:45 cofee break

10:45: Cristina Marreiros: Explaining organic food choice on the basis of socio-demographics. A study in Portugal and Germany

Discussant: Krisztina Dörnyei (BCE)

11:30: Štefan Bojnec (University of Primorska) and Imre Fertő (Institute of Economics, HAS): Agro-food export variety growth: Empirical evidence from Central and Eastern European countries

Discussant: Attila Károly Soós (Institute of Economics, HAS)

12:15-13:30: Lunch break

13:30: Štefan Bojnec (University of Primorska) and Imre Fertő (Institute of Economics, HAS): The Effect of Internet on Food Trade

Discussant: János Gács (Institute of Economics, HAS)

14:15: Heinrich Hockmann (IAMO): Competition on the world market for milk products: Skimmed milk powder

Discussant: Viktor Várpalotai (MNB)

14:45-15:00: coffee break

15:00: J. Stephen Clark and Lukáš Čechura: Simultaneous estimation of cost and distance function share equations

Discussant: Álmos Telegdy (Institute of Economics, HAS)

15:45: Oleksandr Perekhozhuk (IAMO) Lajos Zoltan (Institute of Economics, HAS) Bakucs, Imre Fertö(Institute of Economics, HAS), Heinrich Hockmann (IAMO): Market power: An investigation of the Hungarian dairy sector

Discussant: Gergely Csorba (Institute of Economics, HAS)

Saturday, 7 November, 2009

9:00: Áine Macken-Walsh: Operationalising Governance and Rural Development in Post-Socialist CEE: a case-study of the Rural Partnership Programme (RPP) in Lithuania

Discussant: Chris High, Open University, UK

9:45: Chris High (Open University): Participatory technologies: Fried eggs and phronesis

Discussant: Áine Macken Walsh, TEAGASC

10:30: – 10:45 cofee break

10:45: Gábor G. Szabó (Institute of Economics, HAS): The importance and role of trust in agricultural producer-owned organisations

Discussant: Balázs Szepesi

11:30: Jan Fałkowski (University of Warsaw): Dairy supply chain modernisation in Poland – what about those not keeping the pace?

Discussant: Gábor Kőrösi (Institute of Economics, HAS)

12:15-13:30: Lunch break

13:30: Gusztáv Nemes (Institute of Economics, HAS) and Chris High (Open University): Social Learning, adaptation, to the project state and the implementation of EU rural policies in a transition economy

Discussant: György Pataki

14:15: Barbara Bodorkós (Szent István University) and György Pataki (Szent István University): PAR as Means to Establish Democratic Communicative Spaces for Sustainable Rural Development

Discussant: Gusztáv Nemes, IEHAS

15:00-15:15: cofee break

15:15: – 16:00: Eszter Kelemen (Szent István University) and Ágnes Kalóczkai (Szent István University): Ecosystem Services as a Practical Tool for Conflict Management Between Agriculture and Nature Conservation

Discussant: Katonáné Kovács Judit University of Debrecen

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