CIRAD is a semi public French R&D institute, oriented to international cooperation, employing 1 800 persons (1/3 outside of France) with headquarters in Montpellier, France. The ES department includes several research units (UR) that relate to international trade policy, supply chain competitiveness, impact assessment etc. The UMR MOISA (Markets, Organisation, Institutions and Strategies) research team investigates the conditions for sustainable development of agrifood systems in emergent and developing countries.
The Institute for Food and Resource Economics, University of Bonn (UBonn), is one of the leading German university institutions in the field of agricultural economics.
The Institute for Agricultural Economics (The Hague) is the leading institute in the Netherlands for social and economic research in agriculture and rural areas. Nationally and internationally, LEI focuses on the increasing integration of agriculture and agribusiness with the social environment, concentrating on issues such as competition, agri-food supply chains, environmental planning and protection, natural resources. There is a long tradition of quantitative research on international trade, including NTMs.
The Institute of Development Studies, in the United Kingdom, is one of the world's leading organisations for research and advisory work and teaching training sharing on international development. The Institute works with a network of global partners to generate cutting edge knowledge as a basis for bringing alternative ideas and fresh solutions to the real world challenges of development policy and practice. Research at IDS is multidisciplinary, grouped around five key themes - governance, participation, competing in the global economy, governing science and technology, and managing risk and vulnerability.
The French National Institute for Agricultural Research (INRA) is a public research organisation funded mainly by the French Ministry of Research and by contracts with public administration as well as private firms, covering all aspects of research related to agriculture and biology. The total number of employees in the agency is roughly 8600 including 1700 researchers and engineers. The Department of Economics and Social Sciences, with a total of 290 people, including more than 100 researchers, is involved in economics, econometrics, sociology, computer sciences and operations research.
LICOS, Centre for Institutions and Economic Performance is an international research centre of the Catholic University of Leuven (K.U.Leuven), Belgium, studying the economics of institutions and institutional change, and its impact on economic performance and development. The Development and Food Policy Analysis Research Group of LICOS, K.U.Leuven studies institutions, policy reform and economic performance in developing and transition countries.
The University of Sao Paulo, is the leading university in Brazil. The project will be conducted by the Center for Advanced Studies in Applied Economics - Cepea. This is a research centre of the University of São Paulo located at the ESALQ campus in Piracicaba. Cepea is focused on agribusiness issues and is organized by specialists that have been collecting and analyzing data from primary sources for more than 15 years. Its staff currently sums up to 140 professionals.
INTA is an Argentine public research and extension Institute founded in 1956. 42 experimental stations, 240 extension and technology transfer units, and 12 national research institutes, enable INTA to contribute substantially to production and managerial change processes the Argentine agri-food sector needs to be able to compete in the world's new production and marketing scenario.
Virginia Tech is a US public land-grant university founded in 1872. The Institute for Society, Culture and Environment (ISCE) is a multi-disciplinary academic unit at Virginia Tech tasked with strengthening the university's competitive position in the social sciences, arts, and humanities.
Laval University is one of Canada's leading universities. It was the very first institution in North America to offer higher education in French. Laval is ranked in the top ten Canadian universities in research. The Faculty of Agricultural and Food Sciences hosts five departments, 20 research centres and one research institute.
The University of Otago was New Zealand's first University, founded in 1869. The University has earned an international reputation for the quality of its research and teaching and currently has over 20,000 enrolled students. In 2007, the New Zealand Tertiary Education Commission carried out an assessment for the Performance-Based Research Fund (PBRF), covering the period 2001-2006.
RIS is an autonomous non-profit research institution. It is India's contribution to the need of a 'Think-Tank' on global issues in the field of international economic relations and development cooperation. RIS is also mandated to function as an advisory body to the Government of India on matters pertaining to multilateral economic and social issues, including regional and sub-regional cooperation arrangements.
IPC, based in Washington (USA), is a non-profit organization, which, since its foundation in 1987 advocates for pragmatic trade and development policies in food and agriculture to meet the world's growing needs. By holding seminars on agricultural trade around the world, it has sought to inform all stakeholders involved in the food and agriculture production chain about the gains that can be realized from trade liberalization.
IKAR is Moscow based leading Russian private agribusiness informatics institution. The company is specializing in agribusiness market intelligence services, such as price and supply-demand information, foreign trade, general market situation, strategic sector studies and so on. The Institute is analysing foreign trade flows of major agricultural and food commodities, including volume and value, changes in government regulations, price and margin calculations, etc.
he Slovak University of Agriculture (SAU) in Nitra is a top educational and scientific institution whose main aim is to provide students with a university education, drawing on scientific knowledge in agriculture and neighboring areas, as well as on creative scientific research. Due to the fact that it is the only university of its kind in Slovakia, it has acquired a unique, national status.
CCAP is a leading research center in agricultural policy in China. The Center is comprised of a group of motivated and vibrant young economists dedicated to pursuing CCAP's aims of analyzing policies related to food, agriculture, nature resource and environmental issues in China, and helping formulate practical and feasible policies for the development and modernization of rural China.
The University of Sydney, founded in 1850, is Australia's first university and has an international reputation for outstanding teaching, as a centre of research excellence and as an active and engaged community leader. It currently has more than 46,000 enrolled students including one of the largest Ph.D. student cohorts in Australia. Latest figures confirm the University of Sydney as Australia's leading research university.
PhD in Agricultural and Resource Economics in University of Maryland in 2001, is Associate Professor in economics in Osaka University. He worked as Research Analyst in the Trade Team, Development Economics Research Group at the World Bank from 2000 to 2004 before he assumed the current position. His research interest includes standards and agricultural trade, and trade facilitation.
Has been Professor, Faculty of Economics, Keio University, Tokyo, Japan since 2000. He was born in Tokyo in 1958 and received his Bachelor of laws from the Faculty of Law, University of Tokyo in 1982, his Master of Science and Ph.D. in economics from the Department of Economics, University of Wisconsin-Madison in 1990 and 1991. He worked for the International Development Center of Japan as Researcher in 1982-1986..