Contributions of Agricultural Economics to Critical Policy Issues

CONTENTS.
 
Introduction: The 26th Conference of the IAAE.
 
Keijiro Otsuka and Kaliappa Kalirajan.
 
Agricultural Growth and Economic Development: A View through the Globalization Lens.
 
Prabhu Pingali.
 
Empowering Rural People for their Own Development.
 
Hans Binswanger.
 
Plenary 1.
 
The Economics of Natural Disasters: Implications and Challenges for Food Security.
 
Hartwig de Haen, Gunter Hemrich.
 
The Impact of Droughts and Floods on Food Security and Policy Options to Alleviate Negative Effects.
 
Stephen Devereux.
 
The Impact of Natural and Manmade Disasters on Household Welfare.
 
Yasuyuki Sawada.
 
Plenary 2.
 
The Doha Agenda and Agricultural Trade Reform: The Role of Economic Analysis.
 
Will Martin, Kym Anderson.
 
Globalization, Privatization, and Vertical Coordination in Food Value Chains in Developing and Transition Countries.
 
Johan Swinnen, Miet Maertens.
 
Food Regulation and Trade under the WTO: Ten Years in Perspective.
 
David Orden, Donna Roberts.
 
Plenary 3.
 
Economics of Biofortification.
 
Matin Qaim, Alexander J. Stein, J.V. Meenakshi.
 
Food Safety in a Globalizing World: Opportunities and Challenges for India.
 
Dina Umali-Deininger, Mona Sur.
 
Food Safety as a Global Public Goods: Is There Underinvestment?.
 
Laurian Unnevehr.
 
Plenary 4.
 
The Technological Progress for Sustaining Food-Population Balance: Achievement and Challenges.
 
Mahabub Hossain.
 
Rural Nonfarm Employment in Developing Countries in an era of Globalization.
 
Tom Reardon, Kostas Stamoulis, Prabhu Pingali.
 
Invited Panels.
 
Agricultural Research and Policy for Better Health and Nutrition in Developing Countries: A Food Systems Approach.
 
Per Pinstrup-Andersen.
 
The Nutrition Transition in High and

Keijiro Otsuka is a professorial fellow at the Foundation for Advanced Studies on International Development (FASID) in Tokyo and the Director of GRIPS/FASID Joint Graduate Program. He is president-elect of IAAE. He has been working extensively on the Green Revolution, land tenancy, property rights and natural resource management, and the poverty dynamics in both Asia and Africa.
 
Kaliappa Kalirajan is also a professorial fellow at FASID and a professor of development economics at the National Graduate Institute for Policy Studies (GRIPS). His areas of major interest include macroeconomic and trade policies and reform, poverty reduction, and technology issues. He is also an adjunct professor at the Madras School of Economics, Chennai, India.