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doi:10.1016/j.aaspro.2010.09.001
Agriculture and Agricultural Science Procedia 1 (2010) 13
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International Conference on Agricultural Risk and Food Security
June 10~12, 2010, Beijing, China
Organized by
Agricultural Information Institute of CAAS
International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI)
UK Department for International Development (DFID)
Co-hosted by
Key Laboratory of Digital Agricultural Early-warning Technology Ministry of Agriculture, P. R. China
International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) Beijing Office
DelPHE project of DFID China Office
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1. Organization
Honorary President
Prof. Liangshu Lu Member of Chinese Academy of Engineering, and Former President of Chinese
Academy of Agricultural Sciences, China
General Chair:
Prof. Shiwei Xu DG of Agricultural Information Institute of CAAS, and Vice President of
State Food and Nutrition Consultant Committee, China
Associate Chairs:
Prof. Xianxue Meng DDG of Agricultural Information Institute of CAAS, China
Prof. Shenggen Fan DG of International Food Policy Research Institute, USA
Dr. Halima Begum First Secretary of Department for International Development, UK
2. Programme Committee
Chairman:
Prof. Shiwei Xu Agricultural Information Institute of CAAS, China
Co-Chairs:
Prof. Qiao Zhang Agricultural Information Institute of CAAS, China
Prof. Kevin Chen International Food Policy Research Institute Beijing Office, USA
Prof. Milton Boyd University of Manitoba, Canada
Members:
Prof. Huijie Zhang Agricultural Information Institute of CAAS, China
Prof. Zhiqiang Li Agricultural Information Institute of CAAS, China
Prof. Holly Wang Purdue University, USA
Prof. Wyn Morgan University of Nottingham, UK
Prof. Jeffrey Pai University of Manitoba, Canada
Prof. Samuel Shen San Diego State University, USA
Prof. Guozhu Tuo Capital University of Business and Trade, China
Prof. Yuanfeng Zhao Inner Mongolia Agricultural University, China
Prof. Shouyang Wang Center of forecast of Chinese Academic of Science, China
Prof. Qingbo Zhou Institute of Agricultural Resources and Regional Planning, CAAS, China
Prof. Zhemin Li Agricultural Information Institute of CAAS, China
Dr. Chuan Wang Agricultural Information Institute of CAAS, China
Secretariat:
Mr. Ke Wang Agricultural Information Institute of CAAS, China
Ms. Yumei Zhang Agricultural Information Institute of CAAS, China
Ms. Ailian Zhou Agricultural Information Institute of CAAS, China
Ms. Yan Liu Beijing Office of IFPRI, China
Mr. Zijie Liu Agricultural Information Institute of CAAS, China
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3. Foreword
Agriculture is an important industry for almost all economic entities in the world, especial for the developing
countries. But agriculture is also a high risk industry, not only subject to the adverse influence of natural hazards but
also challenged by the risk of market price fluctuations, policy changes, and ecology deterioration. Agricultural risk
not only restricts the stability of farmers income, but also can result in food security risks, spread to the entire
national economy. With possible global climate change and global food crisis in recent years, managing agricultural
risk has become an important issue and had draw great attentions from the agricultural researchers and economists
around the world.
In order to share international experience and enhance research on the issues of agricultural risk and food security in
the world, we organized the international conference on agricultural risk and food security (ARFS) on June 10-12,
2010. This conference was held in Beijing, and more than 160 well-know experts from 14 counties and 5
international organizations have attended this important conference. Prof. Fangquan Mei (former president of AII
CAAS) and Prof. Shenggen Fan (DG of IFPRI) gave the keynote speeches for the audiences of ARFS, 8
distinguished scholars from IFPRI, World Bank, OECD, Cornell University, CAU, CDC and CAAS take their
excellent presentations in the plenary sessions, and 48 authors present their researches in the parallel sessions.
Actually, ARFS conference was the first international conference focuses on crop insurance and agricultural risk
management since China start its new round agricultural insurance pilot program in 2007 and we had received many
active contributors.
More than 170 submissions from 16 counties had received by ARFS, and we finally accepted 80 manuscripts after
carefully review. According to the author's wishes, 61 articles were included to publish in this issue of Procedia
Agriculture--the official proceedings of ARFS. These papers investigate many important issues of agricultural risk
analysis, crop insurance and food security, including farmers risk behavior, ratemaking, catastrophic risk, weather
index insurance, food safety attitude, food security analysis and institution construction and the authors come from 7
counties, including China, USA, U.K. Japan, Belgium, India and Indonesian. We believe that this proceeding will
make a significant contribution to the better understanding of agricultural risk and food security issues in the world.
We would like to take this opportunity to thanks all authors for their contribution to the proceedings. Your works
have made an irreplaceable contribution to research on the issues of Ag risk management, Ag insurance and Food
security in China. We also sincerely thank the referees who participated in the reviewing process. You contributed
your precious time and energy, picked up high quality papers, and made sure the quality of ARFS conference and
this proceedings.
Shiwei Xu (China)
Qiao Zhang (China)
Kevin Chen (USA)
Milton Boyd (Canada)