| 13:30 | Registration, Welcome Coffee |
| P 1. Plenary session Italian Room 14:30 - 16:15 |
International co-operation on food security: The role of the G-8/G-20 system Chair: Giuseppe De Arcangelis (Director of CIDEI – University of Rome “Sapienza”) |
| Welcome address: Pietro Sebastiani (Italy’s Ambassador to the United Nations agencies in Rome) |
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| Paolo Ciocca (Secretary, IFAD) |
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Hafez Ghanem (Assistant Director-General, Economic and Social Development Department, FAO) |
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Paolo Guerrieri (CIDEI – University of Rome “Sapienza”, Conference Chair) |
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Paul Larsen (Director, Multilateral and NGO Relations,WFP) |
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| 16:15 - 16:45 | Coffee break |
| I 1. Invited session Italian Room 16:45 – 18:30 |
Food security vs. fuel security: The new global political economy of agriculture Chair: Ulrich Brand (University of Vienna) |
| Ulrich Brand and Markus Wissen (University of Vienna) The “agrofuels project”: a key to the solution of the energy, environmental and economic crises? |
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| Aaron Leopold (University of Kassel and Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research) The changing constellation of power and resistance in the global debate over agrofuels |
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| Melanie Pichler (University of Vienna) Agrofuels – Structures, conflicts and consequences in Indonesia according to the mandatory target in the EU |
| C 1. Contributed session Oval Room 16:45 - 18:30 |
Governance of food security and sustainable development Chair: Roziah Omar (Asia-Europe Institute, University of Malaya) |
| Javier Alcazar (European Commission) |
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| Doris Fuchs - Katharina Glaab Ulrich Hamenstadt (University of Münster) The sustainability of the agri-food system: determinants of the interaction between global and local agri-food governance |
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| Abbas Ibrahim Zahreddine (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona) Regional market matters: Policy analysis institutional development and capacity building |
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| Katarzyna Marzeda-Mlynarska (Maria Curie – Sklodowska University of Lublin) Multilevel governance of food security:Theoretical model or new international practice |
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| Azmi Mat Akhir - Roziah Omar - Hamidin Abd Hamid
(Asia-Europe Institute, University of Malaya) Food security: a national responsibility of regional concern: Malaysia’s Case |
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| C 2. Contributed session C 300 Room 16:45 - 18:30 |
Measuring food security and sustainable development Chair: Pasquale De Muro (University of Roma Tre) |
| Luca Alinovi (FAO) Understanding food security analysis for decision making |
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| Selim Cagatay (Akdeniz University) - H. Hakan Mihci (Hacettepe University) Efficiency assessment of the European Union and Turkish agricultural sectors from the sustainability perspective |
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| Pasquale De Muro (University of Roma Tre) Matteo Mazziotta (Istat) - Adriano Pareto (Istat) Composite indices for multidimensional development and poverty: An application to food insecurity measurement |
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| Jan Delbaere (World Food Programme) Analysing food security - experiences from WFP |
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| Doris Hanzl-Weiss - Josef Pöschl (Vienna Institute for International Economic Studies) Technology foresight as a tool for triggering and structuring long-term thinking about food security and sustainable development |
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| 19:00 | Welcome Reception |
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I 2. Invited session Italian Room 9:00 - 10:45 |
EU, development policies and governance - 1 Chair: Wil Hout (International Institute of Social Studies,The Hague) |
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Maurizio Carbone (University of Glasgow) The European Union, good governance and aid effectiveness: in search of a role in international development |
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Franco Conzato (European Commission) - Giorgia Giovannetti (European University Institute)
European Report on Development |
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| Nikki Slocum (UNU-CRIS) -Andrew Bradley (ACP Secretariat) Is the EU’s governance ‘good’ ?: An assessment of EU governance in its partnership with ACP states |
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| Ian Taylor (University of St.Andrews) Governance and relations between the European Union, the African Union and NEPAD |
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| C 3. Contributed session Oval Room 9:00 - 10:45 |
International financial integration and food security Chair: Ganesh Thapa (IFAD) |
| Alessandro Borin - Virginia Di Nino (Bank of Italy) The role of financial investments in agricultural commodity derivatives markets |
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| Alberto Gabriele (UNCTAD) Financial liberalization, food security, and malnutrition |
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| Raghav Gaiha (University of Delhi) - Katsushi Imai (University of Manchester) - Ganesh Thapa (IFAD) Financial crisis in Asia and the Pacific region - Its genesis, severity and impact on poverty and hunger |
| C 4. Contributed session C 100 Room 9:00 - 10:45 |
International integration and food security - case studies - 1 Chair: Gabriella Vindigni (University of Catania) |
| Victor Afari Sefa (International Institute of Tropical Agriculture, Accra) The micro-level distributional effects of horticultural export value chains among smallholders in southern Ghana |
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| Nicolas Depetris Chauvin - Guido Porto (Dubai School of Government) Changes in the structure of the value chain in agriculture and its impacts on farm income |
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| Mario D’Amico - Giuseppe Di Vita - Gabriella Vindigni (University of Catania) Mexico’s economic integration process: a case study based on a community driven perspective in rural Michoacan |
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| C 5. Contributed session C 200 Room 9:00 - 10:45 |
Governance of innovation policies in the EU Chair: Evisa Kica (University of Twente) |
| Maja Bucar - Metka Stare (University of Ljubljana) Governance of innovation policy in the new member states |
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| Andrea Filippetti (Italian National Research Council) Marion Frenz (Birkbeck College, University of London) Daniele Archibugi (Italian National Research Council – CNR – IRPPS) The effects of the economic downturn on innovation: Creative destruction versus creative accumulation |
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| Evisa Kica - Nico Groenendijk (University of Twente) The governance of European intellectual property rights: towards a differentiated community approach |
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| 10:45 - 11:15 | Coffee break |
| I 3. Invited session Italian Room 11:15 – 13:00 |
EU, development policies and governance - 2 Chair: Wil Hout (International Institute of Social Studies,The Hague) |
| David Chandler (University of Westminster) EU, governance and South-Eastern Europe |
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| Karim Knio (International Institute of Social Studies,The Hague) Politics of governance in the Euro-Mediterranean region: Liberalisation of services without financialisation |
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| Wil Hout (International Institute of Social Studies,The Hague) Between development and security: The European Union, governance and fragiles states |
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| I 4. Invited session Oval Room 11:15 – 13:00 |
Food security & world trade: squaring the circle? Chair: Jean-Pierre Lehmann (Evian Group) |
| Panel Giulia di Tommaso (Unilever) Michael Hindley (Georgetown University) Jonathan Peel (Jonathan Peel EU Communications Ltd) |
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| I 5. | The paradox of democracy "becoming world-wide" Chair: Daniele Archibugi (Italian National Research Council CNR – IRPPS) |
| Daniele Archibugi (Italian National Research Council CNR – IRPPS) Should a democratic state have a democratic foreign policy? |
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| Tiziana Torresi (University of Oxford) - Eszter Kollar (LUISS University of Rome) What kind of democracy do we want? European ideals for global practices |
| C 6. Contributed session C 200 Room 11:15– 13:00 |
ICTs and innovation Chair: Sumanjeet Singh (University of Delhi) |
| Fulvio Castellacci (Norwegian Institute of International Affairs, NUPI, Oslo) Structural change and the growth of industrial sectors: empirical test of a GPT model |
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| Simona Iammarino (London School of Economics) Cecilia Jona-Lasinio (Istat ) ICT and labour productivity: evidence for the Italian regions |
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| Carl Henrik Knutsen (University of Oslo) Democracy, dictatorship and technological change |
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| Sumanjeet Singh (University of Delhi) Digital divide in India: measurement, determinants and policy for addressing the challenges in bridging the digital divide |
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| C 7. Contributed session C 300 Room 11:15– 13:00 |
The food security challenge Chair:Tanim Laila (Institute of Hazrat Mohammad SAW, Dhaka) |
| Aline Alves Martins (State University of Campinas, São Paulo) Possibilities and limits of trangenics in ensuring food security and food sovereignty |
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| Francesco Burchi – Pasquale De Muro (University of Roma Tre) From food availability to nutritional capabilities: a review of different approaches to food security |
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| Francesco Burchi – Pasquale Tridico (University of Roma Tre) Institutions, famine and inequality |
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| Tanim Laila (Institute of Hazrat Mohammad SAW, Dhaka) Zakat-based solutions to food security |
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| 13:00 – 14:30 | Lunch |
| P 2. Plenary session Italian Room 14:30 - 16:15 |
Right to food Chair: Dwijen Rangnekar (University of Warwick) |
| Panel Barbara Ekwall (FAO) Nora McKeon (University of Roma Tre - Masters in Food Security and Human Development) Sarojeni V. Rengam (PAN Asia and the Pacific) Geoff Tansey (Joseph Rowntree Visionary for a Just and Peaceful World) |
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| 16:15 - 16:45 | Coffee break |
| I 6. | Europe, regionalism and cosmopolitanism: convergence and divergence Chair: Mario Telò (Université Libre de Bruxelles) |
| Panel Daniele Archibugi (Italian National Research Council CNR – IRPPS) The global commonwealth of citizens. toward cosmopolitan democracy Furio Cerutti (University of Florence) Why political identity and legitimacy matter in the EU Nicolas Levrat (European Institute, Geneva University) European federalist models and the federalist theories Sebastiano Maffettone (LUISS, Rome) The legacy of the Enlightment and the exemplarity of the EU model |
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| I 7. Invited session Oval Room 16:415– 18:30 |
The multilateral and regional regulation of knowledge accumulation and diffusion Chair: Carl-Henrik Knutsen (University of Oslo) |
| Helge Hveem (University of Oslo) – Lelio Iapadre (University of L’Aquila) The international governance of knowledge policies: A survey |
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| Panel Olga Memedovic (UNIDO) Adolfo Morrone (OECD) Dwijen Rangnekar (University of Warwick) |
| C 8. Contributed session C 100 Room 16:45 – 18:30 |
International integration and food security - case studies - 2 Chair: Dheeraj Singh (Central Arid Zone Research Institute, Pali) |
| Laure Dutoit (UN-ECLAC) - Cristòbal Urrutia (UN-ECLAC) - Karla Hernández-Villafuerte (University of Göttingen) Price transmission in Latin American maize and rice markets |
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| Yvonne Franke (Graduate School of Politics, Münster / FU Berlin) The expansion of big retailers in developing countries and emerging markets – a challenge for food security and food sovereignty. New evidence from Argentina |
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| M.K. Chaudhary - H. Dayal - A. Dudi M. L. Meena - D. Singh (Central Arid Zone Research Institute, Pali) The political economy of vegetable trade in India |
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| C 9. Contributed session C 200 Room 16:45 – 18:30 |
Competing uses of natural resources - 1 Chair: Franco Rosa (University of Udine) |
| DharmPal Malik (CCS Haryana Agricultural University) Management of land and water resources for sustainable crop production |
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| Yogesh Jadhav (Institute of Professional Education and Research, Bhopal) Achieving sustainable development through leveraging international environmental legislations for reducing emissions from deforestation and forest degradation (REDD) in India |
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| Franco Rosa (University of Udine) Are the agricultural commodities used for biofuel and non food industries, responsible of market turbolences and famine in the Southern part of the globe? Some evidences from the price trends |
| C 10. Contributed session C 300 Room 16:45 – 18:30 |
Governance of food security and trade Chair: Laura Uzquiza (FLACSO Argentina and Latin American Trade Network) |
| Silvia Gaiani (University of Bologna) The economic partnership agreements (EPAS): a threat or an opportunity for sustainable development? |
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| Matias E. Margulis (McMaster University & Institute on Globalization and the Human Condition) The global food security crisis and multilateral cooperation: can international trade rules help? |
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| Laura Uzquiza (FLACSO Argentina and Latin American Trade Network) Food security and international trade: a Latin American perspective about implications for multilateral and regional institutions |
| I 8. Invited session Italian Room 09:00 – 10:45 |
Financial regulation and the crisis: origins and responses Chair: Caroline Dufy (EHESS & Sciences Po Bordeaux) |
| Geoffrey Underhill (University of Amsterdam) Policy rent-seeking, financial liberalization and the origins of the crisis. Discuss: Edwin Le Heron (Institut d'Etudes Politiques, Bordeaux) |
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| Brigitte Young (University of Muenster) Willi Semmler (The New School, New York) Lost in temptation of risk: Financial market liberalization, financial market meltdown and regulatory reforms. Discuss: Edwin Le Heron (Institut d'Etudes Politiques, Bordeaux) |
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| Eleni Tsingou (University of Warwick) Regulatory reactions to the credit crisis: Analysing a policy community under stress. Discuss: Alice Nicole Sindzingre (CNRS/SOAS) |
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| Daniel Mügge (University of Amsterdam) The fragmented representation of a financial giant: a principal-agent perspective of the representation of the EU in global financial regulation. Discuss: Alice Nicole Sindzingre (CNRS/SOAS) |
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| C 11. Contributed session Oval Room 09:00 – 10:45 |
Gender inequalities, women and food security Chair: Wendy Harcourt (Society for International Development, Rome) |
| Sabrina Aguiari (Newcomb College Center for Research on Women (NCCROW),Tulane University of New Orleans) Gender roles and food security: exploring the nexus |
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| Saleh Ahmed (University of Rome "Sapienza") Spatial poverty trap, local employability and the impacts through international development assistance programs: scenario analysis from South-Western Bangladesh |
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| Parto Teherani-Krönner (Humboldt Universität zu Berlin) Food Security or Meal Security? That is the Question! Looking from a Gender Perspective |
| C 12. Contributed session C 100 Room 09:00 – 10:45 |
Intellectual property rights, competition policies and innovation - 1 Chair: Dwijen Rangnekar (University of Warwick) |
| Daniele Archibugi - Andrea Filippetti (Italian National Research Council CNR – IRPPS) The globalization of intellectual property rights : four learnt lessons and four theses |
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| Zahoor Khan (University of Peshawar) Intellectual property rights (IPRS) and economic growth : a case for developing countries |
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| Dwijen Rangnekar (University of Warwick) Geneva rhetoric, national reality: the “organised hypocrisy” of implementing TRIPS obligations in Kenya |
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| I 9. Invited session C 200 Room 09:00 – 10:45 |
The UNU-CRIS regional integration knowledge system Chair: Philippe De Lombaerde (UNU-CRIS) |
| Panel Birger Fuhne (UNU-CRIS) P. Lelio Iapadre (University of L’Aquila) |
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| I 10. Invited session C 300 Room 09:00 – 10:45 |
Governance and the depoliticisation of development Chair: Wil Hout (International Institute of Social Studies,The Hague) |
| Wil Hout (International Institute of Social Studies,The Hague) - Richard Robison (Murdoch University) Development and the politics of governance: framework for analysis |
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| Richard Robison (Murdoch University) Strange bedfellows: Political alliances in the making of neo-liberal governance |
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| Wil Hout (International Institute of Social Studies,The Hague) Development and governance: An uneasy relationship |
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| 10.45 - 11:15 | Coffee break |
| I 11. Invited session Italian Room 11:15 – 13:00 |
The impact of the financial crisis and policy responses Chair: Daniel Mügge (University of Amsterdam) |
| Edwin Le Heron (Institut d'Etudes Politiques, Bordeaux) The macroeconomic impact of the financial crisis in a Post-Keynesian model Discuss: Geoffrey Underhill (University of Amsterdam) |
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| Alice Sindzingre (CNRS/SOAS) The impact of the global crisis on commodity-dependent low-income countries: confirming the relevance of the concept of poverty trap? paper slides Discuss: Geoffrey Underhill (University of Amsterdam) |
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| Caroline Dufy (EHESS & Sciences Po Bordeaux) Is Russia a protectionist state? Some assumptions based on the delayed accession to the WTO and the effects of the financial crisis Discuss: Brigitte Young (University of Münster) |
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| Emmanuel Carré (University Bordeaux IV) Two views of the monetary policy strategy against financial instability: Benign neglect versus leaning against the wind Discuss: Brigitte Young (University of Münster) |
| I 12. Invited session Oval Room 11:15 – 13:00 |
National security cultures Chair: Emil Kirchner (University of Essex) |
| James Sperling (University of Akron) National security cultures, technologies of public goods supply, and security governance |
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| Sebastian Harnisch (Heidelberg University) Comparing French and German security cultures and their implications for regional and global security governance |
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| Emil Kirchner (University of Essex) National security cultures and barriers to global security governance |
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| Han Dorussen (University of Essex) Technologies of public goods supply and barriers to global security governance |
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| Sonia Lucarelli (Forum on the Problems of Peace and War, Florence) Discussant |
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| C 13. Contributed session C 100 Room 11:15 – 13:00 |
International channels of knowledge diffusion Chair: Laura Serlenga (University of Bari) |
| Michele Cincera - Claudio Cozza - Alexander Tübke (European Commission, JRC, IPTS) The main drivers for the internationalisation of R&D activities by EU MNEs |
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| Michael Hubler (Kiel Institute for the World Economy) Avoiding the trap: the dynamic interaction of North-South capital mobility and technology diffusion |
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| Viviana Maftei (Université des Sciences et Technologies de Lille) Multinational firms’ R&D investment in developing countries: determinants of location choices |
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| Marcella Mulino (University of L'Aquila) Economic integration, knowledge spillovers and trade |
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| Camilla Mastromarco (University of Salento) - Laura Serlenga (University of Bari) - Yongcheol Shin (Leeds University) Globalisation and technological convergence in EU |
| C 14. Contributed session C 200 Room 11:15 – 13:00 |
Intellectual property rights, competition policies and innovation - 2 Chair: Anamaria Maftei (Alexandru Ioan Cuza University) |
| Archana Jaktar - Atul Kaushik (CUTS International) Compulsory licensing and the anti-competitive effects of patents for pharmaceutical products: from a developing countries’ perspective |
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| Anamaria Maftei (Alexandru Ioan Cuza University) The impact of trade secret laws on the innovation activity |
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| C 15. Contributed session C 300 Room 11:15 – 13:00 |
Competing uses of natural resources - 2 Chair: Jakeline Velazco (University of Girona) |
| Raphael Babatunde (University of Ilorin) Impact of off-farm income on food security and nutrition in Nigeria |
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| Umberto Triulzi - Rita L. D’Ecclesia Cristina Bencivenga (University of Rome “Sapienza”) Does speculation drive oil prices? |
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| Jakeline Velazco (University of Girona) Non-farm rural activities in a peasant economy: Options for poverty reduction, the case of Peru |
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| 13:00 – 14:30 | Lunch |
| P 3. Plenary session Italian Room 14:30 - 16:30 |
Global governance: lessons learnt from the GARNET experience Chair: Richard Robison (Murdoch University and Garnet International Advisory Board) |
| Panel Wil Hout (International Institute of Social Studies,The Hague) P. Lelio Iapadre (University of L’Aquila) Emil Kirchner (Essex University) Sonia Lucarelli (Forum for the Problems of Peace and War) Elzbieta Stadtmüller (Wroclaw University) Mario Telò (Université Libre de Bruxelles) |