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About AARES
The Australian Agricultural and Resource Economics Society aims to encourage study, research, discussion and extension in the discipline of agricultural and resource economics in order to promote the efficient development of agricultural and natural resources. AARES has a federal structure with branches in major States, New Zealand and North America.

Invitation to attend
The members of the Australian Agricultural and Resource Economics Society extend a warm invitation to you to attend the Annual Conference in 2008. The Committee and contributors are developing a dynamic and diverse program incorporating a range of industry professionals and specialist speakers and presenters. The Conference venue is the Rydges Lakeside Canberra, ACT, Australia.

The Conference presents a great opportunity for all those involved in research, extension, teaching, policy making and managing agriculture and natural resources to catch up with and contribute to the latest research into those issues and to hear broader perspectives about where the issues fit in the Australian, New Zealand and world economies from some of the world’s leading agriculture and resource economists.

Conference Themes and Keynote Speakers

The Conference will consist of contributed and invited papers in all areas of agricultural and resource economics, with particular focus on trade and agricultural policy, risk and uncertainty, research and development policy, and environmental economics. Keynote speakers include:

Marca Weinberg, Chief of Resource, Environmental and Science Policy Branch, Economic Research Service, US Department of Agriculture
(http://www.ers.usda.gov/AboutERS/Bios/view.asp?ID=Weinberg)

Jean-Paul Chavas, Professor of Agricultural and Applied Economics, University of Wisconsin, Madison
(http://www.aae.wisc.edu/chavas/)

Kym Anderson, Professor of Economics, University of Adelaide
(http://www.adelaide.edu.au/directory/kym.anderson)

John Beghin, Professor of International Agricultural Economics, Iowa State University
(http://www.econ.iastate.edu/people/faculty/facWebPage.asp?page=wp&fac=49)

Quentin Grafton, Professor of Economics, Australian National University
(http://www.crawford.anu.edu.au/staff/qgrafton.php)

Cathy Kling, Professor of Environmental and Resource Economics, Iowa State University
(http://www.econ.iastate.edu/people/faculty/facWebPage.asp?page=gen&fac=27)

John Kerin, former Federal Minister for Primary Industries (1983-1991), Minister for Energy (1987-1991), Minister for Transport and Communications (1991), Minister for Trade and Overseas Development (1992-3) and Treasurer (1991).

Mike Woods, Commissioner, Productivity Commission
(http://www.pc.gov.au/commission/personnel/woods.html)

Flavio Menezes, Professor of Economics, University of Queensland
(http://www.uq.edu.au/economics/index.html?page=50288)
Lata Ganghadaran, Associate Professor of Economics, University of Melbourne
(http://www.economics.unimelb.edu.au/SITE/staffprofile/lgangadharan.shtml)

Specific topics to be discussed include the impacts of policy reforms on southern hemisphere temperate agriculture, recent advances in measuring the effects of technical barriers to trade, the effects of agricultural practices and policies on water quality and the environment, the theory and practice of designing emissions trading markets, and the history and future of public support for science and innovation.

In addition, arrangements are being made for pre-conference workshops on:

the economics of adaptation and mitigation responses to climate change

real options: what, why and how?

an introduction to experimental economics for environmental and resource economists

Call for Papers
Interested parties are invited to submit a title for a contributed paper. For more information please go to the Contributed Papers and Presenter Information page.

Conference Organiser
All Occasions Management, 41 Anderson Street, Thebarton South Australia 5031.
Phone: +61 8 8354 2285; Fax: +61 8 8354 1456; Email: shanna@aomevents.com