Deadline: 31 January 2015
The Global Development Network (GDN) invites conference Papers (abstracts)/ Posters and Session Submissions for the forthcoming annual Global Development Conference to be held from 11-13 June 2015 in Benguerir, Morocco. Theme of the conference is Agriculture for Sustainable Growth: Challenges and Opportunities for a New ‘Green Revolution’.
Sub-Themes
- Food security and nutrition
- Environmental challenges and natural resources management
- Economic, social and political transformations: effects and impacts of agricultural development
- Financial and technological innovations: which new tools for the next ‘green revolution’?
Interested individuals can apply under different categories of competition and and various sub-themes of the conference. Submissions from female researchers are highly encouraged.
Topics to be covered by the Conference
- Agricultural productivity, farm policies, new industrial policies for entrepreneurship in agribusiness sector,
- Agricultural products, sustainable food systems and nutrition;
- Land and water management;
- Priorities and financing of agricultural research;
- Agriculture and environmental services;
- Agriculture and rural development;
- The functioning of primary commodity and food markets (both nationally and globally);
- The mitigation of risks facing producers, including weather events and climate change;
- Governance and agriculture: political economy aspects at the national, regional and international level;
- Bioeconomics, linkages between agriculture and other sectors;
- Trade and agricultural sector;
- Agriculture and development aid to support strategic choices in agricultural development;
- Indicators and measure of food security, natural and wealth accounting.
