Improved access to information appears to have greatly affected the performance of markets in many rural areas, especially in markets for perishable products. The emergence of money transfer and payment mechanisms has potentially enormous implications for access to fi nance and payment with options for a huge population of people currently without access to banks.

Agriculture in an Interconnected World is intended to capture the widespread adoption of new communication technologies. The theme embraces a broad range of interconnections that are contributing to unprecedented changes in global agriculture, such as:

- links between agricultural and energy markets through biofuels and inputs of fuel and fertilizer;- links between agriculture and other uses of land;- links between agriculture and other sectors, as labor moves out of agriculture in developing countries;- the supermarket revolution in developing countries;- trade policy debates, both when prices are high and when they are low;- the collective action problems associated with price volatility;- international investment in agricultural land;- links between scientifi c progress and productivity growth in agriculture;- climate change and agriculture;- competition between agriculture and other users of increasingly scarce water.

The 29th ICAE proposes to address these changes, their effects and the best ways to address the challenges. The conference will be held in the wonderful northern-Italian city of Milan, place of EXPO 2015, providing a forum for exchange of ideas and new insights.

March 2014. Call for papersAugust 1, 2014. Website open for submissions of full papersNovember 5, 2014. Submissions DeadlineApril 1, 2015. Acceptance of proposalsAugust 8, 2015. Pre-Conference WorkshopsAugust 9-14, 2015. ICAE Conference, Milan, Italy

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UNIVERSITÀ DEGLI STUDI DI MILANO,AUGUST 8 - 14 MILAN, ITALY

AGR ICU LTU RE IN AN INTERCONNECTED WORLD

29th INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE OF AGRICULTURAL ECONOMISTS

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Improved access to information appears to have greatly affected the performance of markets in many

March 2014. Call for papers

Agriculture in an Interconnected World

Important Dates

29th | Milan Italy 2015

Will Martin, IAAE President Elect, invites submission of manuscripts for contributed papers.Donald MacLaren will manage the contributed papers process. There will be a unifi ed submission process for all papers. All submitted papers will be subject to a blind peer review. Submitting authors will be asked to indicate their preference for presentation and papers that pass the review process will be accepted either for oral or visual (poster) presentation. All accepted papers will be considered refereed contributions and accorded equal status.There are no restrictions on co-authorship. However, each co-author will be allowed to present only one accepted paper (oral or visual presentation) at the conference. The deadline for submission of contributed papers will be November 5, 2014.Corresponding authors will be informed of the outcome of the review and selection process by April 1, 2015. The presenting authors must register for the conference before June 1, 2015; otherwise the paper will be withdrawn from the conference program.

UNIVERSITÀ DEGLI STUDI DI MILANO,AUGUST 8 - 14 MILAN, ITALY

AGR ICU LTU RE IN AN INTERCONNECTED WORLD

29th INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE OF AGRICULTURAL ECONOMISTS

Submitted Papers

Organized Symposia

Pre- and Post- Conference Workshops

Website for Submissions

Organized symposia will be an important feature of this conference and members are hereby invited to submit proposals for these before November 5, 2014. Organized symposia will be 2 hour sessions which can involve short paper presentations, debates, roundtable meetings and panel discussions of prepared questions. The program committee will also welcome any innovative format as long as the organizer justifi es how it sheds light on a tightly coherent theme. The emphasis of the symposia will be on discussion and at least half of the session time should be reserved for debate and participation of the audience.

Members are hereby invited to submit proposals for pre and post-conference workshops. One day pre-Conference workshops are scheduled on August 8th and half a day post-Conference workshops on August 14th. The deadline for proposals is November 5, 2014.

The website for submitting contributed papers, as well as proposals for pre-conference workshops and symposia, will be available as of August 1, 2014 (linked from the conference website, www. icae2015.org).

FIRST ANNOUNCEMENT29th INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE OF AGRICULTURAL ECONOMISTS

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29th | Milan Italy 2015