Post-pandemic: Global agricultural markets under uncertainty

Stephan Hubertus Gay

OECD, France

Crisis and recovery in Central Asia

William Hutchins Seitz

The World Bank, Kazakhstan

Food security and poverty alleviation as drivers for digital village initiatives in China

Eva Sternfeld, Amadijan Rouzi, Michaela Böhme

IAK Agrar Consulting, Germany

Digital approaches to improving ecosystem services and biodiversity in agricultural landscape: Digital decision support systems and digital platform

Cheng Chen

ZALF, Germany

Farmers’ perception of mobile phone-based advisory services: the case of banana disease management in Rwanda

Michel Kabirigi

IAMO, Germany

Extension services via social media and virtual reality: a random control trial study

Hang Xiong¹, Hui Tao²

1: Huazhong Agricultural University; 2: IAMO, Germany

Multidimensional poverty impacts of climate shocks: evidence from Kyrgyzstan

Barchynai Kimsanova^1,2, Atabek Umirbekov^1,2, Thomas Herzfeld^1,3, Daniel Müller^1,4

1: IAMO, Germany; 2: TIIAME, Uzbekistan; 3: University of Halle, Germany; 4: Humboldt University, Germany

Governmental assistance programs and the resilience of Mongolian herders to food insecurity after a covariate shock

Daniel Schau, Ihtiyor Bobojonov, Lena Kuhn

Iamo, Germany

Dynamics of Livelihood Strategies of Smallholder Rubber Farmers in Southwest China

Haowen Zhuang¹, Shaoze Jin², Hermann Waibel¹

1: Leibniz University Hannover, Germany; 2: Rural Economic Research Center of the Ministry of Agriculture ,Beijing, China

The potential of commodity futures contracts for reducing entrepreneurial risk in arable farms in Bavaria

Lukas Sigl, Norbert Hirschauer

Martin-Luther-Universität Halle-Wittenberg, Germany

The impact of digitalization and automation on horticultural employees – a systematic literature review and a field study

Sam Schröder, Dr. Mira Lehberger, Dr. Kai Sparke

Hochschule Geisenheim University, Germany

Market Information Systems as response to crises and potential users willingness to pay for agriculture price information.

Edvin Zhllima, Orjon Xhoxhi, Drini Imami, Engjell Skreli

Agricultural University of Tirana, Albania

COVID 19, Climate Change, Gender and Agriculture in Central and Southeast Asia

Kamiljon Akramov

IFPRI, United States of America

Higher freight rates lower agricultural trade--or do they? The Chinese soybean conundrum

Sören Prehn, Tinoush Jamali Jaghdani

Leibniz Institute of Agricultural Development in Transition Economies (IAMO), Germany

Competitiveness in international soybean trade during the COVID19-pandemic and trade disputes: case of China, USA and Brazil

Tinoush Jamali Jaghdani, Sören Prehn, Lena Kuhn

Leibniz-Institut für Agrarentwicklung in Transformationsökonomien (IAMO),, Germany

The association between the Covid-19 pandemic and food price increases: how important is market integration?

Lukas Kornher, Pallavi Rajkhowa, Muhammed Usman

Center for Development Research/Uni Bonn, Germany

Green Economy as a strategic approach to a post-pandemic recovery: The Case of Armenia

Davit Markosyan

Panteion University of Social and Political Sciences, Greece

Post-crisis resilience of French Farmers: how biogas production affects employment and work in rural area

Pascal Grouiez

Université Paris Cité, France

Different but same? Enhancing farm resilience through sustainable agricultural practices and investments in productive assets among farmers in Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan

Zafar Kurbanov^1,2, Abdusame Tadjiev^1,2,3, Nodir Djanibekov^1,2

1: Leibniz Institute of Agricultural Development in Transition Economies (IAMO), Germany; 2: Tashkent Institute of Irrigation and Agricultural Mechanization Engineers (TIIAME)-National Research University; 3: Samarkand Branch of Tashkent State Agrarian University (SBTSAU)

Post-Pandemic Challenges for Trade and Food Security

William Meyers¹, Ekaterina Krivonos², Thomas Reardon³, Nodir Djanibekov⁴, Herzfeld Thomas⁴, Schroeder Kateryna⁵

1: University of Missouri; 2: FAO; 3: Michigan State University; 4: IAMO; 5: World Bank

Pathways to smallholder resilience: A model of cocoa farmers’ general resilience tested during the real-world shock of the COVID-19 pandemic

Moritz Egger¹, Patrick Michael Curran¹, Lina Tennhardt¹, Angela Boettcher²

1: FiBL Switzerland, Switzerland; 2: Universität Landau, Germany

Covid 19 pandemic impact on Albanian greenhouse tomatoes value chain

Orjon Xhoxhi, Edvin Zhllima, Engjell Skreli, Drini Imami

Agricultural University of Tirana, Albania

Agricultural Productivity and Resilience to External Shocks: the case of Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan

Etenesh Bekele Asfaw, Iroda Amirova

WIUT, Uzbekistan

Overview of the current state of education and science in Ukraine in terms of russian aggression

Oleh Skydan

Polissia National University, Ukraine

Stay calm and keep farming: short-term projections for agricultural markets development in Ukraine

Mariia Bogonos¹, Valentyn Litvinov¹, Olga Nykolyuk², Petro Pyvovar², Pavlo Topolnyckyi²

1: Kyiv School of Economics, Ukraine; 2: Polissia National University, Zhytomyr, Ukraine

Agricultural production and agrifood trade implications of the war in Ukraine for the economies of Central Asia

Roman Mogilevskii

University of Central Asia, Kyrgyzstan (Kyrgyz Republic)

Main transmission channels of the economic crisis from the Russian Federation and Ukraine in the regional economy (focus on Republic of Moldova)

Alexandru Stratan¹, Victoria FALA²

1: Academy of Economic Studies of Moldova, Moldova; 2: National Institute for Economic Research

Role and experiences of the development cooperation in enchanting rural resilience in the pandemic and post-pandemic era

Dr. Irena Djimrevska¹, Dr. Klodjan Rama², Sirvard Amatuni³

1: GIZ, North Macedonia, Republic of; 2: GIZ, Albania; 3: GIZ Armenia

Rural Development in the Pandemic Era: Research Insights

Inna Koblianska

Sumy National Agrarian University, Ukraine

Identifying causal pathways to different forms of solidarity in agri-food cooperatives using crisp-set QCA

Stefanie Friedel¹, Tim Haesebrouck², Frédéric Dufays^1,3

1: KU Leuven, Belgium; 2: UGent, Belgium; 3: ULiege, Belgium

Gender Based Perceptions of Food (In)security during the COVID-19 Pandemic: Evidence from panel data in Kyrgyz Republic

Marzhan Aikimbaeva

Insitute of Public Policy and Administration, University Of Central Asia, Kyrgyzstan (Kyrgyz Republic)

Kosovo consumers' perception of food quality and safety

Iliriana Miftari

University of Prishtina, Kosovo

Energy price liberalization and its impact on the economy and on the households

Abdurashid Bozorov

Center for Economic Research and Reforms under President Aministration, Uzbekistan

Gender, agricultural innovation, and sustainable rural development

Vijayalaxmi Dundappa Khed

International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center, India

Intention of Local People to Participate in the Management and Protection of the Wetlands (The case of Parishan wetland in Iran)

Raha Zarei¹, Eric T. Micheels²

1: Shiraz University, Iran, Islamic Republic of; 2: University of Saskatchewan, Canada

Mind the Gap: Lessons from earlier crises and The COVİD-19 pandemic in rural areas

Fatma Nil Doner

Istanbul Medeniyet University, Turkey

Patterns and Mechanisms of Differentiation within the Common Agricultural Policy

Jana Katharina Demoustier, Thomas Herzfeld

IAMO, Germany

The Political Economy of Agricultural Finance in Tajikistan: Can commercial agriculture survive?

Don A. Van Atta

independent consultant and researcher, United States of America

Land Commissions in Kazakhstan: Rethinking Policy Change in “homeostatic” Policy Subsystems

Akbikesh Mukhtarova

Nazarbayev University, Kazakhstan

Conflict Dynamics Over the Farmland-Use in the Multifunctional Countryside

Adam Czarnecki¹, Dominika Milczarek-Andrzejewska², Łukasz Widła-Domaradzki³, Anna Jórasz⁴

1: Polish Academy of Sciences, Institute of Rural and Agricultural Development, Poland; 2: University of Warsaw, Faculty of Economic Sciences; 3: University of Warsaw, the Robert Zajonc Institute for Social Studies; 4: Independent researcher

Global costs and policy options of hunger eradication: implications to the Central Asian region

Maksud Bekchanov

CEN/ University of Hamburg, Germany

The role of river basin management in achieving water security

Aliya Assubayeva¹, Stefanos Xenarios², Riccardo Pelizzo³

1: Nazarbayev University, Kazakhstan; 2: Nazarbayev University, Kazakhstan; National University of Singapore, Singapore; 3: Nazarbayev University, Kazakhstan

Rural Livelihoods in Southeast Europe – Coping with Out-migration, Climate Change and the Pandemic

Drini Imami¹, Antje Jantsch², Judith Möllers², Thomas Herzfelf², Dmitry Zvyagintsev³, Aleksandra Martinovska⁴, Iliriana Miftari⁵

1: Agriculture University of Tirana, Albania; 2: Leibniz Institute of Agricultural Development in Transition Economies (IAMO); 3: FAO; 4: Ss. Cyril and Methodius University in Skopje; 5: Faculty of Agriculture, University of Pristina

Intra-household Distribution of Food Insecurity in Kyrgyzstan: Evidence from the Life in Kyrgyzstan Study

Damir Esenaliev¹, Bernadette Morris², Tilman Brück¹

1: Leibniz Institute of Vegetable and Ornamental Crops (IGZ), Germany; 2: Independent researcher

Landlessness, Livelihood and Food Security: Evidence from Nepal’s Squatters

Dikshit Poudel

University of Georgia, United States of America

Can an ongoing CCT program protect child nutrition against aggregated shocks?

Rodolfo Eduardo Herrera Martínez

Center for Development Research (ZEF)/University of Bonn, Germany

Resilient and sustainable farming systems in Europe - Stakeholder visions for 2030

Miranda Meuwissen

WUR, Netherlands, The

Agricultural Policy Development in the Western Balkans

Tilman Reinhardt

GFA - General Agent, Bilateral Cooperation Programme of the Federal Ministry of Food and Agriculture (BMEL), Germany