A detailed program matrix is now available for all main conference sessions.

Saturday 12 August
Pre-conference Policy and Learning Workshops

Policy Workshops

• Biotechnology Workshop
  Biosciences and Biotechnology Policy
• China Workshop
  China and its Development Challenges
• Trade Policy Workshop
  Distortions to Agricultural Incentives in Asia-Pacific Countries
• Water Workshop
  Water Resource Policy

Learning Workshop

• Learning Workshop
  Environmental Service Incentives and Poverty Reduction

Conference theme:
Contributions of Agricultural Economics to Critical Policy Issues

Six main plenary sessions, including:

• Presidential Address
  Prabhu Pingali
  "Agricultural Growth and Economic Development: A View Through the Globalization Lens"
  
  
• Elmhirst Lecture
  Hans Binswanger
  "Empowering Rural People for their Own Development"
  

And panels of speakers addressing the four plenary themes:

• Economics of Natural Disasters
• Trade and Marketing of Agricultural Commodities in a Globalizing World
• Risk, Food Safety, and Health
• Transformations of Unfavorable Areas: Technologies, Institutions, and Market Access

The conference will also include a range of parallel sessions featuring:

• Invited panels
• Contributed papers
• Symposia
• Poster papers
• Computer Sessions

Closing remarks will be Friday, 18 August.

• Morning plenary on Agriculture and Natural Resources in Australia and New Zealand
• Afternoon field tours of Agriculture and Natural Resources in south-east Queensland and northern New South Wales
• Evening Aussie BBQ and Bush Band

Tourism images courtesy Tourism Queensland

26th Conference of the International Association of Agricultural Economists
12-18 August 2006 | Gold Coast, Australia