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Agriculture Risk and Food Security International Symposium
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Agenda
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11th June 2010 (Firday Morning)
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Opening Ceremony
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Address
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Huqu Zhai: President of Chinese Academy of Agricultural Science
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Ze Zhu: General Secretary of policy research office of the CPCCC
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Baorui Wan: Chair of National Food and Nutrition Advisory Committee
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Xingwang Zhang: Deputy General Director of Department of Market and Economic Information, MOA
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Ashok Gulati: Director in Asia of International Food Policy Research Institute
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Halima Begum: First secretary (Development) and policy adviser of DFID
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Keynote Speech
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Fangquan Mei: Food Safety and Risk Management
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Invited Paper Session
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Maximo Torero: Insuring for the poor
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Jesus Anton: Risk Management in Agriculture: Why a Holistic Approach is needed?
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Calum Turvey: Risk, Savings and Farm Household Credit Demand Elasticities in Rural China
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William Dick: Government Interventions in Agricultural Insurance
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11th June 2010 (Firday Afternoon)
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Contributed Paper Sessions A--Risk Perception and Farmer's Behavior
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Ling Jin: Saving for the Rainy Days: Evidence from Rural Zhejiang
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Milton Boyd: A Survey of Chinese Farmers' Risk Behavior
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Marrit van den Berg:Natural Shocks and Risk Behavior: Consequences of An Earthquake in Pisco,Peru
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Kathy Baylis:Risk Preferences and Farm Input Choice from Field Experiments in China
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Contributed Paper Sessions A--Climate Variability, Public Program and Food Security
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Xinshen Diao:Impact of Climate Variability and Change on Poverty and Food Security in Zambia
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Tingju Zhu:Climate Change Impacts on Agriculture in Vietnam
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Yumei Zhang:Impacts of Public Agricultural and Rural Support Programs on Chinese Food
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Li Xin:Make Full Use of Two Kinds of Resources and Two Markets to Protect Our Food Security and Raise Farmers’ Income: Taking Soybeans as An Example
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Contributed Paper Sessions A--Application of New Methods in Agricultural Insurance
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Alan Basist:Satellite Derived Surface Wetness and Temperature Products and Crop Yields Prediction in Real Time
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Joseph Cole:Analysis and Feasibility of Crop Revenue Insurance in China
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Craig Tillman:Managing Typhoon-Related Crop Risk
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Samuel Shen:Structure of A Digital Agriculture System and Agricultural Risks Due to Climate Change
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Contributed Paper Sessions B--Consumer Demand for Food Safety Attributes
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H. Holly Wang:Who Can Chinese Consumers Trust for Safe Foods?
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Ying Cao:Cognitive Dissonance under Food-Borne Risk: A Lab Experiment
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Rong Zhao:Influencing Factors on Consumers' Willingness to Buy Traceable Foods: An Analysis of Survey Data from Two Chinese Cities
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Renee Kim:Consumer Perception of Food Safety Regulations and Attributes in China and South
Korea
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Contributed Paper Sessions B--Issues on the innovation of Agricultural Risk Management
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Dana LK Hoag:Risk in Agriculture: A strategic Risk Management Approach
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Junsheng Zhu:Performance Evaluation of Weather Index Based Insurance Scheme in China
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Ruth Vargas Hill:An Experiment on the Impact of Weather Shocks and Insurance on Risky
Investment
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Li Xing:The Public-Private Partnerships in Agricultural Insurance in China: Policy Implication for
Beijing
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Contributed Paper Sessions B--Climate Risk and Catastrophic Insurance
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Karl Pauw:The Economic Costs of Extreme Weather Events: A Hydro-meteorological CGE Analysis
for Malawi
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Buchun Liu:Analysis of the Demand for Weather Index Agricultural Insurance on Households level in
Anhui, China
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Valentina Hartarska:Climate Variability and Agricultural Lending in the Southeastern U.S.
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Tao Han:Modeling Agriculture Risk: An International Perspective
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12th June 2010(Saturday Morning)
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Keynote Speech
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Shenggen Fan:Role of Emerging Countries in Global Food Security
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Invited Paper Session
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Shiwei Xu:Ensuring Security of Agricultural Products and Platform of Intelligent Early-Warning
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Xiaoguang Yang:Nutrition Situation and Food Safety in China
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Ashok Gulati:Feeding Dragon and Elephant: Reforms, Lessons, and Perspectives
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Funing Zhong:Do Stock Reserves and Price Control Stabilize Grain Market?--Lessons from recent
world food crisis
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Contributed Paper Sessions C--Improvement and Impact of Food Safety Regulations
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Haiying Song:Trade Effect and Compliance Costs of Food Safety Regulatory: China’s Experience
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Yan Ren:Efficient Food Safety Regulation in the Agro-Food Wholesale Markets
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Ching Lu:Reformation of Voluntary Food Recall System from the Angle of the Theory of Risk
Society
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Yun Li:A Study on Household Food Security in Poverty-stricken Regions: Evidence from Western
Rural China
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Contributed Paper Sessions C--Food Security Issues and Risk Management
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Fengying Nie:Study on China’s Food Security Status
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Jingjing Wang:Cycle Phase Identification and its Impacting Factors of Agricultural Commodity
Prices in China
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Laping Wu:Contracting: An Instrument of Risk Management for Farmers aping Wu:Contracting:
An Instrument of Risk Management for Farmers
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Sahat M. Pasaribu:Developing Rice Farm Insurance in Indonesia
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Contributed Paper Sessions C--Effectiveness of Crop Insurance
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Yu-Zhen Zeng:Evaluation of Operating Model and Efficiency for China’s Policy-oriented Agricultural Insurance: Taking Tianjin City as An Example
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Lihong Wang:Analysis of Crop Insurance Efficiency and Risk Factors in Major Grain Production
Areas in China
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Shingo Kimura:Do Agricultural Policies Crowd-out Risk Management Strategies? Evidence from Farmer-level Analysis
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LingLing Hou:Testing the Existence of Adverse Selection in Subsidized Crop Insurance Markets in
China
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12th June 2010 (Saturday Afternoon)
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Contributed Paper Sessions D--Crop Risk Evaluation and Ratemaking
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Qiao Zhang:The Influence of Flexible Crop Yield Distributions on Crop Insurance Premium Rate in
Crop Yield Distributions on Crop Insurance Premium Rate in China |
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Erda Wang:Crop Insurance Premium Design Based on Survival Analysis Model
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Weihua Fang:On the Crop Insurance Premium Rate with Claim Data from the Pilot Agriculture
Insurance Programme in Zhejiang Province
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Erwin Wauters:Institute for Agricultural and Fisheries Research, Merelbeke, Belgium
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Contributed Paper Sessions D--Methods in Forecasting Prices and Assessing Food Insecurity Risk
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Wenbin Wu:A Method for Spatially Explicit Assessment of Potential Risks of Food Insecurity
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Chuan Wang:Measurement of the Fluctuation Risk of the China Fruit Market Price based on VAR
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Ganqion Li:Short-Term Price Forecasting For Agro-products Using Artificial Neural Networks
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Jing Cheng:Fuzzy Comprehensive Evaluation of Drought Vulnerability Based on the Analytic
Hierarchy Process: An Empirical Study from Xiaogan City in Hubei Province
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Contributed Paper Sessions D--Demand Studies on Crop Insurance
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Yue-hua Zhang:The Research on Livestock Insurance, Demands and Participation Rate: An empirical
research based on questionnaires of 471 pork producers in Zhejiang
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Yanyan Liu:Dynamic Insurance Demand under Liquidity Constraint and Possible Insurer Default
straint and Possible Insurer Default
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Rong Kong:Factors Influencing Farmers’ Willingness to Purchase Weather Insurance: Experimental
Results from Shaanxi and Gansu Provinces
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Jeffrey Pai:Perceptions of Crop Insurance: A Survey of Western Canadian Grain Producers
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Western Canadian Grain Producers
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Closing Session
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Comments by:
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Holly Wang: Professor, Purdue University
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Milton Boyd:Professor, University of Manitoba
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GuoZhu Tuo, Professor, Capital University of Economics and Business
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Samuel Shen:Professor, San Diego State University
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Closing Remarks by Professor Xianxue Meng,Deputy Chairman of Organization Committees and
DDG of AII of CAAS
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