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Conference Agenda

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Date: Wednesday, 18/June/2025
8:00am - 9:00am	Registration Location: Foyer
9:00am - 9:15am	Conference Opening Location: Lecture Hall Welcome Address Antje Jantsch IAMO, Germany
9:15am - 10:15am	Plenary Session 1 Location: Lecture Hall Session Chair: Antje Jantsch, IAMO How can Big Data and Machine Learning Be Used in Social Science to Measure Well-Being? – The GNH.today Talita Greyling University of Johannesburg, South Africa
10:15am - 11:00am	Coffee Break and Group Participant Photoshoot Location: Foyer
11:00am - 12:30pm	A1: Quality of Life in Rural Contexts Location: Lecture Hall Session Chair: Kathleen Hermans, IAMO What 'quality of life' means to rural women in Ethiopia: Four regions compared Günther Schlee¹, Betel Begashaw², Desalech Daniel³, Demelash Emebet⁴, Defersha Eyob⁴, Assegid Lidia⁵, Sahledengle Tirsit⁶, Ayka Wengelawit³, Yitbarek Yohannes⁴, Alo Zera⁵ 1: Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology, Germany; 2: Hawassa University; 3: Bahar Dar University; 4: Arba MInch University; 5: Jimma University; 6: Addis Ababa University Welfare and well-being as components of farmers’ quality of life Piotr Sulewski, Anna Kłoczko-Gajewska Warsaw University of Life Sciences, Poland Does the improvement of rural living environment improve subjective well-being in rural China? Zhen Fang, Gu-cheng Li, Dan Wang Huazhong Agricultural University, China	B1: Gender and Rural Well-Being Location: Conference Room I Session Chair: J Möllers, IAMO A Happiness Paradox: Understanding the Impact of Migration on Women Left Behind in Pakistan Mansoor Ahmed Koondhar¹, Noshaba Aziz² 1: School of Advanced Agricultural Sciences, Peking University, China, People's Republic of; 2: School of Economics, Shandong University of Technology, Zibo China Double burden or burdenless? A mixed-method study on women’s empowerment in the face of large-scale male labor migration from rural Tajikistan Mohru Mardonova, Isabel Lambrecht, Sarah Pechtl, Sharanya Rajiv International Food Policy Research Institute Empowering Women and Reclaiming Roots: Women’s Regenerative Farming Creates Livelihoods and Counters Migration Kritika Mishra¹, Farhat Naz² 1: PhD Research Scholar, School of Liberal Arts, Indian Institute of Technology, Jodhpur, Rajasthan, India; 2: Associate Professor, School of Liberal Arts, Indian Institute of Technology, Jodhpur, Rajasthan, India	C1: Return Migration and Social Integration Location: Conference Room II Session Chair: Janine Isabelle Pinkow-Läpple, IAMO Why do “I choose Croatia“? Quality of life considerations in (return) migration decisions. Caroline Hornstein Tomić¹, Janine Isabelle Pinkow-Läpple², Ana Budimir³ 1: Ivo Pilar Institute of Social Sciences; 2: IAMO, Germany; 3: University of Zagreb Can Cooperatives Help Mitigate Rural Exodus? Insights from a Croatian Case Study Mario Njavro¹, Miroslav Kovac², Tajana Cop¹, Duro Njavro³ 1: University of Zagreb Faculty of Agriculture, Croatia; 2: Živo Selo” ("Living village"), an informal expert group of agronomists; 3: Zagreb School of Economics and Management The farmer I want to be: Farmers' role identity in multifunctional agricultural landscapes Malin Gütschow¹, Bartosz Bartkowski^1,2 1: Helmholtz Center for Environmental Research UFZ, Germany; 2: Martin-Luther University Halle-Wittenberg
12:30pm - 2:00pm	Lunch Location: Foyer
2:00pm - 4:00pm	A2 Organized Session: China’s Rural Renaissance: The Multifacet Case of Rural Revitalization Strategy Location: Lecture Hall Session Chair: Zhanli Sun, IAMO Session Chair: Lena Kuhn, IAMO Discussants: Prof. Dr. Jan-Henning Feil, Martin-Luther-Universität Halle-Wittenberg, Germany Prof. Dr. Fantao Kong, Institute of Agricultural Economics and Development, CAAS, China Presentations: Review of China’s Rural revitalization: motivation, policies and implications Kuhn Lena, Zhanli Sun IAMO, Germany How does rural-urban migration influence the intergenerational (social) mobility of rural residents in China? Yifei Ding¹, Gucheng Li² 1: IAMO, Germany; 2: Huazhong Agricultural University The Impact of Poverty Alleviation Resettlement on the Non-farm Labor Supply: Evidence from China Junna Sun Institute of Agricultural Economics and Development, CAAS, China Cropland displacement and carbon emissions of grain transport in China Liangzhi You International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI), United States of America How does social capital influence rural residents’ contribution to public goods? An empirical analysis Furong Chen¹, Yifu Zhao¹, Zhanli Sun² 1: Hunan Academy of Social Sciences, China; 2: IAMO, Germany	B2: Data, Models and Indicators for Well-Being and Mobility Location: Conference Room I Session Chair: Johnson Kansiime, IAMO Revitalising Well-being: A Novel Approach with the Index of Well-being (IoW) Johnson Kansiime, Antje Jantsch IAMO, Germany Analysing countries ability to transform inputs into well-being using WHR data Nikolaos Rigas, Francesco Sarracino STATEC Research, Luxembourg The Success of Microfinance and the Moderating Effect of Communists: Large-Scale Quasi-Experimental Evidence from Rural China Yunzhou Wang¹, Jing You^1,2, Qianyu Zhu¹, Jiajuan Zhi¹ 1: Renmin University of China, China, People's Republic of; 2: University of Cambridge, UK Gendered Dimensions of Environmental Change-Induced Migration in Rural Ghana Issah Baddianaah², Benedicta Frimpong³, Sabine Liebenehm¹, Alirah Weyori⁴ 1: University of Saskatchewan, Canada; 2: Tubman University, Harper City, Maryland County, Liberia; 3: CSIR-Crops Research Institute, Ghana; 4: World Food Programme	C2: Place Attachment and Staying Decisions Location: Conference Room II Session Chair: Arjola Arapi-Gjini, Leibniz Institute for Agriculture Development in Transition Economies (Im)mobility patterns of older adults living in small rural Iowa towns Ilona Matysiak Maria Grzegorzewska University, Poland Rooted in Place: The Influence of Place Attachment and Well-Being on Staying Intentions in Rural Southeast Europe Arbnora Shala, Arjola Arapi-Gjini, Antje Jantsch Leibniz Institute of Agricultural Development in Transition Economies (IAMO), Germany Inertia, place attachment and staying intentions of rural youth in the Western Balkans Thomas Dufhues¹, Möllers Judith¹, Ana Simonovska², Emelj Tuna², Iliriana Miftari³, Desjana Grymshi¹ 1: IAMO, Germany; 2: University Ss Cyril and Methodius in Skopje; 3: University of Pristina ’You Can Have a Very Good Life Here if You Want!’ Four Typologies of Stayers Explaining Rural Immobility Arjola Arapi-Gjini, Antje Jantsch Leibniz Institute for Agriculture Development in Transition Economies, Germany
4:00pm - 4:30pm	Coffee Break Location: Foyer
4:30pm - 5:30pm	Plenary Session 2 Location: Lecture Hall Session Chair: Thomas Herzfeld, IAMO Lifestyle and Livelihood: Motivations for Economic Migrants to Settle in Small Towns and Rural Areas Anne White University College London, United Kingdom
5:30pm	End of Conference Day 1 Location: Foyer
6:00pm	Welcome Dinner Location: Peißnitzhaus We will meet at 5:45 pm in the foyer near the main entrance of IAMO to go together to Peißnitzhaus. The walk will take about 15 minutes. Please note that the ground on the terrace of the restaurant is partly sandy, so we recommend wearing comfortable shoes.