PANEL 1
CLIMATIC AND ENVIRONMENTAL CHALLENGES FACING LATIN AMERICAN AGRICULTURE
Co-MODERATORS:
Dr. Pedro Martel - Division Chief of Environment and Rural Development, Inter-American Development Bank.
and
Dr. Lina Salazar - Lead Economist, Division of Environment and Rural Development, Inter-American Development Bank.
PRESENTERS:
Dr. Miguel Carriquiry - Professor Universidad de la República, Uruguay.
Prof. Dr. Johannes Sauer - Agricultural Production and Resource Economics, Technical University of Munich, Germany.
Dr. Carmine Paolo De Salvo - Senior Economist, Division of Environment and Disaster Risk Management, Inter-American Development Bank.
Dr. Jerome Dumortier - Associate Professor, Director of Research, Indiana University–Purdue University Indianapolis.
PANEL 2
AGRIBUSINESS DEVELOPMENT AND TRADE: OPPORTUNITIES AND CHALLENGES
MODERATOR:
Dr. Rigoberto López - Professor, Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics, University of Connecticut, USA.
PRESENTERS:
Dr. Nelson Villoria - Associate Professor, Department of Agricultural Economics, Kansas State University. Fulbright U.S. Scholar, ESALQ-Universidad de Sao Paulo, Brazil.
Dr. Sergio Lence - Professor and Marlin Cole Chair of International Agricultural Economics, Department of Economics, Iowa State University.
Dr. Stephan von Cramon - Taubadel, Professor and Chair of Agricultural Policy, Department of Agricultural Economics and Rural Development, University of Göttingen, Germany.
PANEL 3
CONSUMER WELFARE AND AGRIBUSINESS DEVELOPMENT
Co-MODERATORS:
Chema (José M.) Gil Roig - Director of CREDA and Professor of Agricultural Economics Universidad Politécnica de Cataluña (UPC), Spain.
and
Karina Casellas - Economist, Instituto Nacional de Tecnología Agropecuaria (INTA), Argentina.
PRESENTERS:
Sofia Boza - Associate Professor of Agricultural Economics, Universidad de Chile and Chilean Ambassador to the World Trade Organization in Geneva, Chile.
Margarita Brugarolas - Professor of Agricultural and Environmental Economics, Universidad Miguel Hernández de Elche, Spain.
PANEL 4
THE ECONOMICS OF WATER RESOURCES IN THE AGRICULTURAL SECTOR
MODERATOR:
Dr. Francisco Rosas - Professor, Department of Economics, Universidad ORT Uruguay & Centro de Investigaciones Económicas (CINVE), Uruguay.
PRESENTERS:
Dr. Tihomir Ancev - Professor of Agricultural and Resource Economics, School of Economics, University of Sydney, Australia.
Dr. Guillermo Donoso Harris - Professor and Chair, Department of Agricultural Economics, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, Chile.
Dr. Michael Hanemann - Professor, Department of Economics, Arizona State University, Tempe USA.
Dr. Kurt Schwabe - Associate Dean and Professor, Environmental Economics and Policy, School of Public Policy, University of California Riverside, USA.
PANEL 5
IMPROVING AGRICULTURAL DATA IN LATIN AMERICA
MODERATOR:
Dr. Amparo Palacios - Senior Economist, the Development Data Group, the World Bank.
PRESENTERS:
Patricio Riveros - Jefe Departamento de Información Agraria, Análisis Económico y Transparencia de Mercados, Oficina de Estudios y Políticas Agrarias (ODEPA), Ministerio de Agricultura, Chile.
Verónica Durán - Directora Oficina de Programación y Política Agropecuaria (OPYPA), Ministerio de Ganadería, Agricultura y Pesca (MGAP), Uruguay.
Eric Njuki - Research Agricultural Economist USDA ERS.
