The Royal Society of Thailand (RST) together with the Committee on Foreign Affairs of National Assembly of Thailand and the Policy Studies Organization (PSO) organized the 2017 World Food Policy Conference during January 16-17 in Bangkok. The Conference on World Food Policy brought together policymakers and scholars to discuss and share relevant research findings on global and regional perspectives of food economy and policy, referring to the roles of China and India in the global food economy. The main theme is China and India's agricultural and food policy transformation – concentrating on the transformation as well as each component of the major transformation, consequences of transformation, and enabling factors.

 

Drivers of structural changes were discussed and include: climate change, consumption patterns (particularly growth of meat, fish and dairy consumption), and increasing pressure on water supply. Our discussions also covered the responses to drivers including: the impact of possible macroeconomic downturn on investments, investments in foreign sources of food, the research capacity, and concerns with food safety. In addition to the theme on China and India, the conference discussed global and regional perspectives of food economy and policy – referring to the roles of China and India in the global food economy. Concentrating further on the global and regional impact from sectoral perspectives – given the demand from China and India – the role of multinational corporations was discussed under the topics of production technology (i.e. research, GMO), retail, and food safety.

 

A full overview: 2017 Program

 

 

Dr. Mark Rosegrant: International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI), Washington DC 

 

 

 

Professor Jikun Huang: School of Advanced Agricultural Sciences, Peking University and Director of the Center for Chinese Agricultural Policy, Chinese Academy of Sciences 

 

Quantitative evidence on various drivers of structural changes for India

Professor Prabhu Pingali: Professor of Applied Economics and Founding Director, Tata-Cornell Institute Cornell University will contribute the lead paper for India 

 

 

  

 

Impacts of Climate Change on Cropping Structure in China

Jinxia Wang, Professor School of Advanced Agricultural Sciences,

Peking Universty and Deputy Director of CCAP

 

The Impact of Climate Change on Indian Food Systems

Asha Sharma, Tata Cornell Institute for Agriculture and Nutrition, Cornell University

 

Discussion of Climate Change papers

 

 

                   

Kevin Z. Chen, Ying Chen, and Shenggen Fan, International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI)

 

Sukhpal Singh, Center for Management in Agriculture, Indian Institute of Management

 

Prabhu Pingali, Professor of Applied Economics & Director of Tata-Cornell Institute

 

                           

 

Jikun Huang, China Center for Agricultural Policy, Peking University

 

Changing Landscape of Indian Farms: Holdings, Labor, and Machinery

Ashok Gulati, Shweta Saini and Stuti Manchanda, Indian Council for Research on International Economic Relations

 

 

 

         

Ruifa Hu, Haiyan Deng, Beijing Institute of Technology

Jikun Huang, Peking University

Carl Pray, Rutgers Univeristy

Presented by Haiyan Deng

 

Suresh Pal, National Institute of Agricultural Economics and Policy Research

 

 

 

                             

Food System and Safety in China

Yingheng Zhou, Nanjing Agricultural University

 

India’s food security policies and nutrition outcomes
Bhaskar Mittra, Associate Director
Tata-Cornell Agriculture and Nutrition Initiative (TCi), Mumbai

 

Technology change, food security and poverty reduction in India

Samarendu Mohanty. Principal Scientist, Head, Social Sciences Division,

International Rice Research Institute (IRRI)

Presentation file