IAMO Forum 2019: Call for Submissions

Dear Colleagues and Friends,

We would like to warmly invite you to participate in the IAMO Forum 2019 "Small farms in transition: How to stimulate inclusive growth?"! Be part of this unique conference and present your latest results to an international audience from academia and politics from 26 to 28 June 2019 in Halle (Saale), Germany.

Submit your abstract or propose your organised session by February 10, 2019!

Farms below two hectares produce one third of the global food supply. Furthermore, they are engines of agricultural growth, a reserve employment source and an important element in securing social stability in rural areas of many European and Asian transition economies. However, their future is uncertain due to a low interest in farming of the younger generation and because agricultural policy instruments rather benefit medium-size and large farms. Against this background, the IAMO Forum2019 addresses important challenges and focuses on the interlinkages between small farm development as well as agricultural and public policies. The drivers and consequences will be debated from a social sciences perspective, including economics, political sciences, sociology, anthropology and history. 

We welcome contributions addressing the following issues with a regional focus on Europe, Central Asia and China:

•    Role of small farms for agricultural growth, food security and resilience
•    Public policies promoting competitiveness of small farms and enabling livelihood strategies of rural households
•    Political economy of agricultural and pro-poor public policies
•    Commercialization and smallholder participation in value chains 
•    Role of corruption and informality for small farms
•    Interaction between corporate agribusiness and small farms
•    New forms of cooperation in rural areas
•    Allocation of land and tenure security
•    Access to production inputs and finance 
•    Role of income diversification and migration in small farm development 
•    Role of women in small farm development

Here you can download the call for submissions.

For more information please see the conference website: www.iamo.de/forum/2019.
Feel free to forward this information to other interested colleagues.

Kind regards,
IAMO Forum 2019 scientific and organising committee