International Conference on Agribusiness Economics and Management

The 9th International Conference on Agribusiness Economics and Management

ICAEM 2019 Welcome Dinner

ICAEM 2019, November 14, 2019

Organizers and Sponsors for this year's conference

Dr. Rodolfo Nayga, Jr. delivered his Keynote Lecture on "Consumer Acceptance and Valuation for Alternative Protein Products:The Case of Lab-Produced Meat"

Mr. Grahame Dixie speaking about "Inclusivity in the Agricultural Value Chains:Learning from the Experience of ASEAN Countries"

15 November 2019 Plenary Lecture: Challenges and Opportunities for Smallholder Integration Into Commercial Agri-food Chain. Mr. Howard Hall, Australian Centre for International Agricultural Research

15 November 2019 Plenary Lecture: Going against a tsunami: How can Agricultural Research for Development (AR4D) support innovation for sustainable technologies?- Dr. Rica Joy Flor from International Rice Research Institute

15 November 2019 Plenary Lecture: Social capital, conflict and agricultural extension - Dr. Kenneth Menz from RMIT Australia

14 November 2019 Plenary: Inclusivity in the agricultural value chains: learning from the experience of ASEAN countries - Mr. Graham Dixie from Grow Asia

14 November 2019 Keynote Lecture: Consumer Acceptance and Valuation for Alternative Protein Products: The Case of Lab-Produced Meat. Prof. Rodolfo Nayga, University of Arkansas

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Prof. Rodolfo Nayga, Jr., Ph.D. is a Distinguished
Professor and Tyson Endowed Chair in Food
Policy Economics and Agribusiness at University
of Arkansas. He received his Ph.D. in agricultural
economics from Texas A&M University, MS from
The University of Delaware, and BS Agribusiness
Economics from the University of the Philippines
Los Baños (UPLB). His research interests
include the economics of food consumption,
policy, and health. Prior to joining the University
of Arkansas, he was a professor at Texas A&M
University for 12 years and was a faculty member
at Rutgers University and at Massey University,
New Zealand. He has published more than 250
refereed articles in several economics, behavioral
science, marketing, and public health journals.
Dr. Nayga worked with other universities such as
Korea University, Norwegian Institute of
Bioeconomy Research, Zhejiang University,
Waseda Institute of Advanced Studies,
Wageningen University, and Institute of Global
Food Security, Queens University Belfast.

Dr. Kenneth Menz began his career as an agricultural
a scientist before spending the bulk of his working
life as an agricultural economist. He specialized on the interface between agricultural science and economics from a range of perspectives (e.g. farming systems research, evaluation of agricultural research, factors affecting agricultural productivity, social science). He
spent 20 years as a research program manager for
the Australian Centre for International Agricultural Research (ACIAR), where such a multi-disciplinary orientation proved valuable. He has worked for Universities (Queensland, Minnesota, RMIT), Government agencies (Australian Bureau of Agricultural Economics) International agencies (IITA, Nigeria) and he spent 6 years undertaking graduate work in the USA. Since ‘retiring’ from ACIAR 10 years ago, he continued engagement in head office consultancies as well as via active research roles
in ACIAR research projects in Vietnam and the Philippines. Dr. Menz’ notable publications are in
w**d control economics and impact assessment.

Rica Joy B. Flor, Ph.D. is postdoctoral Fellow of International Rice Research Institute (IRRI) and Wageningen University, the Netherlands
(Wageningen University Postdoc Talent
Program). She received her Bachelor of Arts in Anthropology (cum laude) and Master of Arts in Anthropology from the University of the Philippines Diliman. She got her Ph.D. in Social Science (Innovation Studies) from Wageningen University where she was on a Global Rice Science Scholarship from IRRI. Dr. Flor has relevant experiences in applied social science research on technology adoption and innovation, impact assessment of technology change in agricultural innovation systems, and facilitating multi-stakeholder processes in agricultural research for development (AR4D) in Southeast Asian countries such as Bangladesh, Cambodia, Indonesia, Lao PDR, Myanmar, Philippines, Thailand, Vietnam.

Mr. Hall is the Research Program Manager for
Agribusiness in the Australian Centre for
International Agricultural Research (ACIAR). He finished a Bachelor of Applied Science (Rural Technology) from the University of Queensland and a Graduate Diploma of Business Studies from the University of New England. Prior to joining ACIAR, he founded and operated a specialist agribusiness consultancy for almost 30 years, working across tropical and temperate horticulture, intensive and extensive meat and seafood industries, grains, pulses and field crops, food packaging and processing. He has also worked as a senior manager in corporate agribusiness in the agricultural inputs sector and in both food manufacturing and food and grocery distribution. Howard has worked across North and South-east Asia, Papua New Guinea and the Pacific.

Speaker: Mr. Graham Dixie, Executive Director of Grow Asia

Mr. Grahame Dixie is the Executive Director of Grow Asia, a multi-stakeholder partnership platform that catalyzes action on inclusive agricultural development in South East Asia. The platform convenes governments, farmers, NGOs, and other stakeholders to co-create value chain initiatives focused on smallholder farmers and the environmental sustainability of agriculture. Mr. Dixie brings over 35 years of professional experience as a practitioner of agricultural development in over 75 countries, including an early career in the private sector. For the past decade, he served as the World Bank’s lead agribusiness advisor where he was involved in the design and review of the World Bank’s portfolio of projects linking smaller-scale farmers to markets and agribusinesses. These programs leveraging public and private investment involved innovative financing and research on key issues. His work included advising World
Bank teams globally on project design, emerging
good practices and key trends in the food and farm sector, with a focus on market-oriented farming and multi-stakeholder partnerships. More recently, he has served as an advisor to the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation and the International Fund for Agricultural Development.

The plenary speakers of the conference are Prof. Rodolfo Nayga from the University of Arkansas, Dr. Rica Joy Flor from International Rice Research Institute, Mr. Graham Dixie from Grow Asia, Mr. Howard Hall from the Australian Centre for International Agricultural Research, and Dr. Ken Menz from RMIT.

ANNOUNCEMENT. Deadline for the call for abstracts extended until 29 July 2016. Contact us at [email protected]

The conference organizers would like to reiterate our invitation for interested parties to submit abstracts for the 8th International Conference on Agribusiness Economics and Management. Theme: "Building Resilience: Agribusiness in Times of Flux" Deadline for submission of abstracts: 30 June 2016. For more information, contact the secretariat through email at [email protected]

Call for Abstracts for the Joint International Conference on Agribusiness and Cooperatives extended until 30 June 2015. For more information, visit http://ocs.upmin.edu.ph/index.php/JointConference/index

Joint International Conference on Agribusiness and Cooperatives ICOOP is organized by the Institute of Cooperatives and Bio-Enterprise Development (ICOPED), College of Economics and Management (CEM), University of the Philippines Los Baños, in cooperation with the Cooperative Development Authority (CDA) in celebration of the Centennial Year of Philippine Coopera…