The conference focusses on the following 14 themes:

1. Mega-trends and transmission of shocks versus risk in the agri-food sector.
2. Fundamental risk management issues within the food sector.
3. Microeconomic roots of risk in the food sector.
4. Public policy including agricultural policy in the risk management context.
5. Social polarization and economic stability issues in agriculture.
6. Structural changes and risk management.
7. Exo- and endogenous risks of innovative development within the agri-food sector.
8. Environmental threat in sustainable development processes.
9. Bio-economy and economy in the closed cycle. Problems of risk.
10. GMO in agriculture. Multi-dimensional issue of opportunities and threats.
11. Production, price and income risks for agricultural enterprises and farms.
12. Risk factors and their reduction on agricultural markets today and in the future.
13. Determinants of margin volatility risk in agri-food sector.
14. Risk classes and risk assessment (valuation) in agri-food sector.

Programme of the conference

The first day of the conference - 23.XI.2016

Session I

Prof. Andrzej Kowalski, Prof. Włodzimierz Rembisz - The question of price and income risks in agriculture

Prof. Bernardo Reynolds Pacheco de Carvalho - Risks and vulnerability in the food system: food security and sustainable development

Prof. Jacek Kulawik, Dr Joanna Pawłowska-Tyszko, Dr Michał Soliwoda - The major problems of risk management in the food sector

Session II

Prof. Thomas Doucha, PhD Marie Pechrova, MSc Ondrej Choloupka - Price prediction tool for agricultural risk management and policy-making purposes

Prof. Szczepan Figiel - Incentives versus risk associated with innovation activity in the agri-food sector. Theoretical premises

Prof. Dimitre Nikolov, Prof. Adriana Mihnea, Dr hab. Ivan Boevsky, PhD Petar Borisov, PhD Teodor Radev - Benefits, opportunities, cost and risk in delivering public goods in agriculture: south central planning region in Bulgaria case study

PhD Boris Kuzman, PhD Radivoj Prodanovic, PhD Jonel Subić - Managing risk and uncertainty on the farm

Dr Mariusz Hamulczuk - Globalization of price risk ? the example of cereal market

The second day of the conference - 24.XI.2016

Session III

Dr hab. F. Sinabell, PhD T. Url, PhD K. Heinschink - An index-based margin insurance for agriculture - the example of wheat production in Austria

Prof. Irena Kriščiukaitiene, PhD Tomas Baležentis - Production and price risk in Lithuanian crop farming

PhD Bozhidar Ivanov - Price transmission in dairy industry in Bulgaria

Dr Danuta Zawadzka - Price and production risk in the live pigs market

Prof. Anikó Juhász, Prof. Gábor Kemény, PhD András Molnár, MSc Anna Zubor-Nemes - The role of public policy in risk management: the case of the Hungarian Risk Management System

 Session IV

Prof. Adriana Mihnea, Dr. Liliana Craciun, PhD Student Andrei Raduţu - Production, price and income risk in expected gross margin in agriculture using analytic network processes modelling

PhD Vasyl D. Zalizko, MSc Andriy Gordiychuk, MSc Aleksandr Matiushok - Methodology for integral estimation of Ukrainian agriculture efficiency

PhD Cristian Kevorchian, PhD Camelia Gavrilescu - An approach based on state-space models for the agricultural production risk assessment

Prof. Wojciech Józwiak, Prof. Wojciech Ziętara, Mgr Zofia Mirkowska - Megatrends linear or nonlinear: is it possible today to predict reasonably the state of the economy in the year 2025?

The third day of the conference - 25.XI. 2016

Session V

Dr Iwona Szczepaniak, Dr Łukasz Ambroziak – The currency risk and the foreign trade in the Polish agri-food products

MSc Mirza Uzunović, PhD Aleksandra Nikolić, MSc Alen Mujcinovic - Mitigating financial risk through agile balancing between market orientation and total quality management factors: evidence from B&H beverages industry

PhD Merilin Ratas, PhD Maire Nurmet - Risk management approaches in Estonian agricultural enterprises

PhD Chrastinová Zuzana, PhD Weldesenbet Tesfu, MSc Masár Ivan - Agricultural production risk and its solution in Slovakia

Mgr Cezary Klimkowski - Incomes of farms versus the currency risk

Session VI

Prof. Oleksandr Pavlov - Risks of rural development in Ukraine

Prof. Józef Zegar, Dr Wioletta Wrzaszcz, Dr Konrad Prandecki - GMO in agriculture - the selected threats

Prof. Drago Cvijanonivić, PhD Vesna Kocic Vugdelija, PhD Željko Vojinović, PhD Otilija Sedlak - Entrepreneurial process and risks in small and medium-sized organic agricultural holdings in Serbia

Prof. Mirza Uzunović, PhD Aleksandra Nikolić, MSc Alen Mujcinovic - Successful certification schemes as a tool for marketing risk mitigation: case study - Organic and traditional labels in Bosnia and Herzegovina

Prof. Dr hab. Julia Doitchinova, Assoc. Prof. Dr Hristina Harizanova, Assoc. Prof. Dr Zornitsa Stojanova - Structural changes and agri-environmental assessment of agriculture in Bulgaria

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