CHANGING FRAMEWORKS OF AGRICULTURAL AND
RURAL POLICY

Working group 29 at the XI World Congress of Rural Sociology
Globalization, Risk and Resistance
Trondheim, July 25th-30th
Program, Final Draft, June 15th

Working group convenors:
Peter H. Feindt (University of Hamburg, Germany, phfeindt[at]botanik.uni-hamburg.de)
Lutz Laschewski (University of Rostock, Germany, lutz.laschweski[at]uni-rostock.de)
Philip Lowe (University of Newcastle, UK, philip.lowe[at]ncl.ac.uk)
Hilkka Vihinen (MTT Economic Research, Finland, hilkka.vihinen[at]mtt.fi)

Please notice that the schedule is subject to change. Presenters should be be prepared to present their paper on any of the five days of the congress (except Wednesday).

Paper Room                    Abstacts

Session 1 Changing Agricultural Policies?

Monday, 14-15:45

• Introduction (WG convenors)
• Wayne Moyer, Grinnel College, Iowa, USA
   Embedded Inflexibility in US and EU Agricultural Policy
   Processes: Why Policy Change is Difficult
• Hellmuth Lange, University of Bremen, Germany
   Rapid change in agricultural policies. The BSE crisis in 
   Germany (2000-2001)
• Peter H. Feindt, University of Hamburg, Germany
  Radicals, reformers, diplomats. German agricultural consumer protection, CAP reform and trade liberalisation

Session 2 Social and Societal Issues in Agricultural and Rural Policy

Monday, 16:15-18:00

• Reginaldo Sales Magalhes, University of Sao Paulo, Brazil
  Development in low entrepreneurial density territories
• Lutz Laschewski, University of Rostock, Germany
  New Wine in Old Bottles? -The politics for organic farming in Germany
• Kalyn Sankar Mandal, Indian Institute of Management, Calcutta, India (not confirmed)  Nature of Poverty Alleviation in India
• Magnar Forbord and Jahn Petter Johnsen, Norwegian University of Science and  Technology, Trondheim, Norway
  Recruitment to an agriculture under restructuring: a paradox?

Session 3 National strategies in a liberalising environment

Tuesday, 8:30-10:30

• Jos G. Vargas-Hernndez, Universidad de Guadalajara, Mexico
  Economic and Social Impact of Recent Developments on rural and agricultural Policies
  and Institutions
• Maria Grazia Quieti, FAO, Policy Assistance Unit
  Support to institutional development for food and agriculture policy analysis: the case of Syria
• Ana Bocchicchio, Universidad de Buenos Aires, Argentina
  New farmer organizations in the Argentine agriculture within the  framework of a new  institutionality
• Short presentation of all posters (three minutes each, no discussion)

Session 4 Integration and Localisation of agricultural policy

Tuesday, 11:00-13:00

• Hilkka Vihinen, MTT Economic Research, Finland
  Integrating the politics of rural and agricultural policy
• Alexandra Franklin, Cardiff University, Wales
  Closing the Rural-Agricultural Divide?
• Philip Lowe, University of Newcastle, England
  The Localisation of Farm Policy: Comparative Perspectives on the relations between
  Agriculture and Environment in Advanced Societies

Session 5 Additional Facets of European Agricultural Policy

Thursday, 14-15:45

• Zografia Bika, University of Aberdeen, Scotland
  Farmers Early Retirement Policy and EU Cohesion
• Fernando Collantes, University of Zaragoza, Spain
  Exit and voice: genesis, implementation and inelasticity of Spanish Mountain policy
  (1975-2000)
• James Breen, Teagasc Rural Economy Research Centre, Ireland
  Modelling Farmer Response to the Luxemburg Agreements: An Irish Example
• Giordano Sivini, Universit Calabria, Italy
  The need of a New Agricultural Policy

Session 6 Constructing the Rural in Agricultural and Rural Policy

Thursday, 18:00-20:00

• Jrn Cruickshank, Agder Research, Kristiansand, Norway
  Revealing Norwegian discourses in rurality
• Hans Leinfelder, Ghent University, Belgium
  Switch of scope on development perspectives for agriculture in urbanised and urbanising
  regions
• Kjell Andersson, University of Helsinki, Finland
  Projectifying the rural 
• Anders Branth Pedersen, National Environmental Research Institute of Denmark
  Environmental networks contra agricultural networks  A comparative analysis of the
  political decision-making processes regarding land reclamation and restoration of
  wetlands

Session 7 New Governance of Food Systems

Friday, 8:30-10:30

• Bill Vorley, International Institute for Environment and Development, London, England
  Third-party regulation of supermarkets: opportunities and obstructions

• David Barling, City University, London, England
  What we eat is what we grow? International food standards setting and the politics of food governance
• Carsten Daugbjerg, University of Aarhus, DK / Christilla Roederer-Rynning, University
  of Southern Denmark
  Power, Learning, or Path Dependency? Investigating the Roots of the European Food
  Safety Authority
• Regina Birner, University of Goettingen, Germany
  Using Political Resource Theory for Analyzing the Changing Frameworks of Agricultural
  Policy: The Case of GM Food Policy in Germany

Posters

• Rosana P. Mula, Benguet State University, Philipines
  Assessment of the Philippine Agriculture Research, Development and Extension System
• Jos Enrique Rodriguez Rojas, Universidad Central de Venezuela
  Internationalisation of agriculture and Latinoamerican food dependency: the Venezuelan
  case
• Laszlo Vasa, Szent Istvan University, Hungary
  The role of the households in the evolving of multifunctional agriculture in Hungary
• Amir Hossain Chowdhury, Institute for Environment and Development Studies
  Sustainable livelihood in the era of globalisation: Does it make sense?
• A. Ramo Davancyr, Instituto de Economica Agrcola, So Paulo, Brazil (not confirmed)
  Invigoration of Rural Communities in Brazil  a case study
• Edson Lopes, Agricultural Ministry, Brazil (not confirmed)
  Efficiency of Cocoa production in Brazil