Catsei project activities duiring the period of the triennial conference of the international association of agricultural economists (IAAE)
The triennial conference of the International Association of Agricultural Economists (IAAE) was held from 16-22 August in Beijing. In this conference, professors Michiel Keyzer and Jikun Huang organized on behalf of the CATSEI project a mini-symposium about the big events facing China’s agriculture in the 21st century.
In the mini-symposium, which was well attended, presentations were given by Jun Yang (CCAP) on China’s international trade, by Wim van Veen (SOW-VU) on China’s biofuel plans until 2020 and by Günther Fischer (IIASA) on the environmental problems related to China’s agriculture such as climate change, nitrogen emissions and surface ozone damage. Please download the three PPTs here. Discussant was Dr. Peng Tingjun, deputy division director of China’s Ministry of Agriculture. The full text of the biofuel paper (a revised version of the one presented in June at the EAERE conference) can be found here.
Presentation by Guenther Fischer
During the conference week, the CATSEI members also held a meeting to discuss the progress of the project and the division of work for its final period. Project members from all six collaborative institutes have joined this meeting, including Michiel Keyzer and Wim van Veen (SOW-VU), Jikun Huang, Huanguang Qiu and Jun Yang (CCAP), Günther Fischer (IIASA), Laixiang Sun and Scott Rozelle (SOAS), Martin Banse and Xiaoyong Zhang (LEI), Xiaobo Zhang (IFPRI). Furthermore, Bo Liu and Michiel Keyzer gave a presentation at CCAP on the use of SOW-VU’s GRCP software package in analyzing the poverty characteristics of China’s rural population on the basis of the nationwide 2005 household survey and the project’s own village survey.