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Program

Keynote speakers:

  • Professor Prasenjit Duara, National University of Singapore

         Liberalizing Reforms and Rural Society: Comparing China and India

  • Jim Harkness, President of the Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy

        China and Global Food Security

Program sketch

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Friday, April 8th

                                    Plenary session

                                      Meeting room 2

8.30 – 9.15 

Registration

9.15– 10.30

Welcome speech by Stig Thøgersen

Keynote Speech by Professor Prasenjit Duara, Singapore National University

10.30 – 10.45

Coffee/Tea break

 

                                    Parallel sessions

Meeting room 2

Meeting room 1

10.45 – 12.15

Governance in Rural China I

Agricultural Trade: Competitiveness, Impacts and Growth

12.15 – 13.15

Lunch (Richard Mortensen Stuen)

13.15 – 15.30

Current Challenges in China’s Agricultural Sector I

Rural Microeconomics

15.30 – 16.00

Coffee/Tea break

16.00 – 17.00

Current Challenges II

Emerging scholars I

 

 

Saturday, April 9th

 

                                      Plenary  Session

                                        Meeting room 2

9.00 – 10.00

Keynote speech by Jim Harkness, President of the Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy

10.00 – 10.15

Coffee/Tea break 

 

                                    Parallel sessions

Meeting room 2

Meeting room 1

 

10.15 – 12.00

Rural Development and Farmers’ Rights

Researching and Consuming Rural China

12.00 – 13.00

Lunch

 

                                    Parallel sessions

Meeting room 2

Meeting room 1

13.00 – 14.30

Governance in Rural China II 

Emerging Scholars II

14.30 - 15.00

Coffee/Tea break (ECARDC Steering Committee Meeting)

15.00 - 16.30

 Land Issues: Transitions and  Conflicts

 Foreign Capital and Overseas Chinese Investment in Rural China

16.45 Bus departure - sightseeing

 18.30

Conference dinner.

Sunday, April 10th

 

                                    Parallel sessions

 

Meeting room 2

Meeting room 1

9.00 – 10.30

 Commodities and Value Chains I

 Organizing Rural China

10.30 – 10.45

Coffee/Tea break

10.45 – 11.45

Commodities and Value Chains II 

 

                                    Plenary session

                                      Meeting room 2

11.45 – 12.30

Announcement of time, venue and organizer of ECARDC XI followed by discussion.

Closing of Conference

12.30 – 13.30

Lunch

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Revised 2011.04.06