Programme
Wednesday, 01 September
| 19:00 – 20:00 | Registration (Conference Center) |
| 20:00 | Welcome Reception (Restaurant Mediterranee – Conference Center) |
Thursday, 02 September
| 09:00 – 09:30 | Registration (Conference Center) |
| 09:30 – 10:00 Aristotle Main Auditorium |
Welcoming address and formal opening Chaired by: Konstadinos Mattas, George Baourakis Addresses by: - Konstadinos Mattas - Alkinoos Nikolaidis, Director of MAICh |
| 10:00 – 11:00 Aristotle Main Auditorium |
Key-note speakers Chaired by: Konstadinos Mattas, George Baourakis |
| Measuring pesticide productivity Robert Chambers, University of Maryland, University of Western Australia, University of Queensland |
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| Costs and benefits of reducing pesticide exposure on the farm Richard Glass, Food and Environment Research Agency, UK |
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| 11:00 – 11:30 | Coffee break |
| 11:30 – 13:00 Aristotle Main Auditorium |
European Farming Policy Issues I Chair: Holger Bergmann |
| Experts' perspectives on the future of Common Agricultural Policy Theo Benos, Nikos Kalogeras, Spyros Dannelis, The Netherlands |
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| The impact of reforming the Common Agricultural Policy on the
sustainability of an irrigated area of Italy. An empirical assessment by
means of positive mathematical programming Simone Severini, Raffaele Cortignani, Italy |
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| The impact of the single farm payments on the expenditure on
fertilizers and crop protection inputs: a comparative study of the Italian
agriculture Michele Vollaro, USA |
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| Counterfactual approach to assessing agri-environmental policy: The
case of the Finnish water protection policy Jussi Lankoski, Markku Ollikainen, Finland |
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| 11:30 – 13:00 Thalis Room |
Efficiency and Productivity Measurement in Farming Sector Chair: Manuel Arriaza |
| Inputs use in the agriculture of Emilia-Romagna: farm comparison
through the total factor productivity (TFP) index Rino Ghelfi, Aldo Bertazzoli, Alan Marchi, Sergio Rivaroli, Antonella Samoggia, Italy |
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| Efficiency and environmental pressures of farrow-to-finish and
finishing pig farms in Hungary Yann Desjeux, Laure Latruffe, Jozsef Fogarasi, Lajos Bakucs, Imre Ferto, France, Hungary |
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| How much can be gained by optimizing nutrient abatement spatially –
Cost-efficiency comparison of non-point arable loads from different Finnish
watersheds Janne Helin, Sirkka Tattari, Finland |
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| Productivity analysis of external input use in rice production in the
Samsun Province of Turkey Mehmet Bozoglu, Elif Yurdakos, Turkey |
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| 13:00 – 15:00 | Lunch (Restaurant Mediteranee) |
| 15:00 – 16:30 Aristotle Main Auditorium |
European Farming Policy Issues II Chair: Nikos Kalogeras |
| Multiple environmental impacts of biofuel policies: net impact on environment
and social welfare Jussi Lankoski, Markku Ollikainen, Finland |
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| Manure separation of livestock slurry in the Netherlands and its
effect on manure market Solomie A. Gebrezgabher, Dora Lakner, Miranda P.M. Meuwissen, Alfons Oude Lansink, The Netherlands |
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| Mitigation options and policies in agricultural sector: a theoretical
model and application Asta Ervola, Jussi Lankoski, Markku Ollikainen, Finland |
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| 15:00 – 16:30 Thalis Room |
Organic and Integrated Farming Practices Chair: Margaret Loseby |
| Converting to organic farming in France: Is there an adverse selection
problem? Laure Latruffe, Celine Nauges, France |
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| Influence of production methods and transport distances on the Greenhouse
Gas-Balance of organic apple juice Jens-Karl Wegener, Marco Lange, Anna-Maria Engel, Germany |
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| How to increase the effectiveness of AES by including farmer
perceptions – a choice experiment on pesticide free buffer zones Tove Christensen, Anders Branth Pedersen, Helle Oersted Nielsen, Berit Hasler, Morten Raun Moerkbak, Denmark |
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| The relation between water use and pesticides – Some remarks on the
influence of integrated farming practices Eva Noack, Holger Bergmann, Germany |
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| 16:30 – 17:00 | Coffee break |
| 17:00 – 19:00 Aristotle Main Auditorium |
Regulation and Chemical Input Use Chair: Vangelis Tzouvelekas |
| A review of farm level responses to phosphorus regulations in
Manitoba, Canada Derek Brewin, Canada |
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| Environmental pressures on intensive olive groves in the Alentejo
region (Portugal) – the use of pesticides Pedro Reis, Joaquim Rolo, Isabel Calha, Vitor Martins, Portugal |
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| Evaluating the efficiency of a N-input tax under different policy
scenarios at different scales Athanasios Petsakos, Pierre-Alain Jayet, Greece, France |
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| An economic analysis of the possibility of reducing pesticides in
French field crops Florence Jacquet, Jean-Pierre Butault, Laurence Guichard, Franc |
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| Welfare effects of food miles labels Vincenzina Caputo, A. Vassilopoulos, Rodolfo M. Nayga, Maurizio Canavari, Italy, Greece |
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| 17:00 – 19:00 Thalis Room |
Modeling and Empirical Issues in Farming Activities Chair: Giannis Karagiannis |
| Variable input allocation: why heterogeneity matters? Alan Carpentier, Elodie Letort, France |
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| An evaluation of the economic impact of climate change through a
three-stages discrete stochastic programming model Gabrile Dono, Raffaele Cortignani, Graziano Mazzapicchio, Luigi Ledda, Luca Doro, Italy |
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| Optimal design of Cross-Compliance under asymmetric information and
differentiated value of environmental improvements Fabio Bartolini, Meri Raggi, Davide Viaggi, Italy |
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| A hedonic price analysis of corn and soybean herbicides Michael Vassalos, Carl R. Dillon, USA |
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| The effect of childhood obesity on social welfare Robert Sandor Szucs, Zsolt Csapo. Hungary |
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| 19:00 | Dinner – Cretan Night (Restaurant Mediterranee) |
Friday, 03 September
| 09:30 – 11:00 Aristotle Main Auditorium |
Chemical Inputs and Irrigation Water Use Chair: Rino Ghelfi |
| Agricultural costs for reducing nitrogen surpluses in the Weser river
basin Claudia Heidecke, Peter Kreins, Germany |
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| The adoption of water saving irrigation practices in the region of
West Macedonia Anastasios Michailidis, Stefanos Nastis, Stratos Loizou, Konstadinos Mattas, Greece |
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| Agriculture and nitrate contamination in Austrian groundwater
aquifers: An empirical analysis Katharina Wick, Christine Heumesser, Erwin Schmid, Austria |
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| 09:30 – 11:00 Thalis Room |
Farming Activities and Environmental Externalities Chair: Margarita Genius |
| Positive externality of honey production in Hungary Georgina Arvane Vanyi, Zsolt Csapo, Laszlo Karpati, Hungary |
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| Determining shadow prices for negative externalities from agricultural
production Raushan Bokusheva, Subal C. Kumbhakar, Phatima Mamardashvili, Switzerland, USA |
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| Impacts of CO2 emission policies in
the Dutch greenhouse sector Daphne M.I. Verreth, Grigorios Emvalomatis, Frank Bunte, Alfons Oude Lansink, The Netherlands |
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| Integrated model of paddy rice production and related environmental
effects in Japan Hiroki Sasaki, Japan |
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| 11:00 – 11:30 | Coffee break |
| 11:30 – 13:00 Thalis Room |
Biodiversity and Sustainable Agricultural Development Chair: Alfons Oude Lansink |
| Sustainability assessment of olive groves in Andalusia (Spain): A
methodological proposal Jose A. Gomez-Limon, Laura Riesgo, Spain |
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| Value of diversity affected by crop production in Hajdu-Bihar county
of Hungary Szilvia Kovacs, Janos Felfoldi, Hungary |
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| Assessing the costs of measuring biodiversity: methodological and
empirical issues Stefano Targetti, Davide Viaggi, David Cuming, Italy |
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| Integrated land use modeling of agri-environmental measures to
maintain biodiversity at landscape level Martin Schoenhart, Thomas Schauppenlehner, Erwin Schmid, Austria |
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| 11:30 – 13:00 Aristotle Main Auditorium |
Modeling Issues in Risk Management Chair: Constantinos Zopounidis |
| The possible role of futures market and the public warehousing in
trade-financing activity Laszlo Kozar, Hungary |
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| Hazardous agrochemicals and farmers' differences in wage-risk tradeoffs Stefanos A. Nastis, Anastasios Michailidis, Greece |
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| Application of fuzzy sets within measuring and managing certain
agricultural risks Otilija Sedlak, Vesna Kocic Vugdelija, Serbia |
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| Auctioning conservation contracts and risk attitude of farmers: Economic
experiments in Japan Hiroki Sasaki, Takeshi Fujie, Kentaro Kawasaki, Norikazu Inoue, Kentaro Koito, Japan, France |
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| 13:00 – 14:30 | Lunch (Restaurant Mediterranee) |
| 14:30 – 16:00 Thalis Room |
Experience from Asian Countries Agriculture Chair: Pierre-Alain Jayet |
| The capability of personal values and guanxi to reduce negative
external effects of Chinese agriculture Daniela Weber, Holger Bergmann, Germany |
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| Chinese farmers' perception of Nitrogen use Frank Von Walter, Daniela Weber, Holger Bergmann, Germany |
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| Groundwater irrigation in rice fields of South India: Finding the
economic optimum for bore-well investment in the context of reciprocal
externalities Shalet Korattukudy Varghese, Jeroen Buysse, Aymen Frija, Guido Van Huylenbroeck, Belgium |
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| 14:30 – 16:00 Aristotle Main Auditorium |
TEAMPEST: The TEAMPEST Project: Results and Ongoing Research Chair: Laure Latruffe |
| Evaluating the environmental and economic impact of taxes on
pesticides: Case study of a tax on toxicity Ficre Zehaie, Nicholas Jarvis, Dennis Collentine, Jenny Kreuger, Yves Surry, Sweden |
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| Do farmers internalize external impacts of pesticides in production? Theodoros Skevas, Spiro E. Stefanou, Alfons Oude Lansink, The Netherlands, USA |
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| Optimal tax on pesticide use Mamuneas, Kalaitzidakis, Stengos, Greece |
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| 16:00 – 16:30 Aristotle Main Auditorium |
Closing Session Chaired by: George Baourakis, Konstadinos Mattas Concluding remarks |
Saturday, 04 September
| 08:00 | Post seminar excursion to Knossos and Archaeological Museum of Heraklion |