Global agricultural and food systems are experiencing major change. Increased urbanization and the increased affluence in emerging economies combined with the demand for agricultural commodities for bio-energy are changing the landscape of global agricultural and food systems. The conference plans to address these issues and, at the same time, will consider what adjustments to the toolkit of agricultural economics are needed to address these complex issues.
agri benchmark Cash Crop has been invited to hold a mini-symposium at the 27. International Conference of Agricultural Economists in Beijing, China. The results presented there give answers to the question how rising energy prices affect the economics of agri benchmark farms worldwide and how they can adapt to them.
The results are based on research by
Simon Walther, Yelto Zimmer and Thomas de Witte (vTI/Germany),
Hu Xiangdong (CAAS/China),
Thomas Funke and Stefan van Zyl (University of Pretoria/South Africa),
Ben Lang (University of Cambridge/UK),
Kelvin Leibold (Iowa State University/USA)
Presentation “Farm level adaptations to high energy prices - Germany” Simon Walther, agri benchmark Cash Crop (pdf-Document, 934 kb)
First abstract “Global arable farming: How to adjust to high energy prices” (pdf-Document, 27 kb)
