CAER International Annual Conference

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(2010), "CAER International Annual Conference", China Agricultural Economic Review, Vol. 2 No. 1. https://doi.org/10.1108/caer.2010.40602aac.002

CAER International Annual Conference

Article Type: Awards From: China Agricultural Economic Review, Volume 2, Issue 1

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CAER International Annual Conference (Plates 3 and 4) held its two-day first annual conference in Beijing, October 31 and November 1, 2009. The CAER 2009 Conference with the theme “Globalization and China's Agricultural and Rural Development” was hosted by the CAER editorial office, Center for Rural Development Policy, the College of Economics and Management at the China Agricultural University, the Chinese Association of Agricultural Economists, Emerald, and Norinchukin Research Institute.

China's top agricultural policy maker Xiwen Chen, Deputy Director of Office of Central Leading Group of Finance and Economy, Director of Office of Central Leading Group of Rural Affairs, and the Director of Center for Rural Development Policy presented a keynote speech on China's agricultural polices. Professor Calum G. Turvey of Cornell University, Professor Qing Chang of China Agricultural University, and Professor Kevin Chen of International Food Policy Research Institute were also invited to present keynote speeches at the opening ceremony.

Over 50 submitted papers were presented at the conference and authors came from 44 institutes such as Purdue University, Cornell University, China Agricultural University, Chinese Academy of Social Science, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Ministry of Agriculture, and, etc. The papers covered a wide variety of topics including agricultural economic theory and policy, agricultural markets, agricultural trade, agricultural investment, rural finance, resource economics and environment protection, employment, labor use and migration, agribusiness, rural sociology, development economics, rural household behavior, and rural cooperatives. Over 300 scholars all over the world, including established experts from the USA, Canada, Australia, Germany, Korea, Japan, India, Sweden, Africa, and China attended the conference.

Dr Donggang Zhang, Deputy Director of Social Science Department at China's Ministry of Education; Dr Liexun Yang, Division Head of Natural Science Foundation of China; Professor Bingsheng Ke, President of China Agricultural University; Dr Fuqing, General Secretary of Chinese Association of Agricultural Economists; Mr Junji Sato, President of Japanese Norinchukin Research Institute; Professor Holly Wang from Purdue University and also President of the Chinese Economists Society, delivered their congratulations on the CAER Annual Conference.

The CAER journal session was also held during the conference. The CAER journal editors and Editorial Advisory Board (EAB) members as well as editors and EAB members from other journals, including the Canadian Journal of Agricultural Economics, China and World Economy, Agricultural Finance Review, and the Journal of Rural Development had a fruitful discussion on how to make CAER more successful. CAER authors and deans of Agricultural Economics from over 15 China's universities joined in the discussion.

The CAER 2010 Annual Conference will be held in fall at Beijing. The theme of 2010 CAER Annual Conference is “Agriculture and the Wealth of the Nation”. Contributions are warmly welcome at: http://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/caer