24 June 2020 - Digital transformation and food economy

Plenary Session 1: Using digital tools in agricultural economics

• From time series analysis to data based decision making and machine learning - Sarah Hallerberg
• Digital transformation in food value chain research – how is the toolbox in Agricultural Economics evolving? - Bernhard Brümmer

Organized Session A1: Digital transformation and sustainable agri-food system in China

• How can digitalization contribute to improving sustainability of Chinese food system? - Fangfang Cao
• The effect of e-commerce on the sales of agricultural products: an empirical analysis based on heterogeneities operating entities - Yongxiang Zhang
• Does internet use improve rural household’s income? Evidence from china - Shengnan Huang
• Impact of content-based e-commerce model on rural poverty alleviation in China - Jia Ni
• Model Innovation and Countermeasures of Digital Agricultural Transformation: A Case Study of e-commerce of agricultural products in China - Xia Ying
• Impacts of internet access on food and nutrition consumption: Evidence from rural china - Xinru Han
• Mobile finance and household livelihood: panel evidence from rural china - Jing Wang

Parallel Session B1: Innovation adoption

• Welfare Effects of Green Certification Adoption on Rice Farmers: Evidence from China - Yanjun Ren
• Does ICT Adoption Promote More Pro-Environmental Actions among Chinese? - Zhongkun Zhu
• Heterogeneous effects of Internet use and adoption of sustainable production practices on rural incomes: Evidence from China - Wanglin Ma
• Awareness and Adoption of precise agriculture in order to reduce inputs, increase sustainability along with food production_ A case study of Southwest China - Mansoor Ahmed Koondhar

Parallel Session C1: Trade and markets

• Can farmers earn from selling their data? A theoretical framework - Nikolai Svetlov
• Internet Search Predicts Food Market Performance in the Era of Digitalization: An Evidence from Iran - Omid Zamani
• Web Scraping of Food Retail Sales Prices - Jens-Peter Loy
• The effects of blockchain technology on unfair trade practices in the food supply chains – The case of beef and dairy in Germany - Tinoush Jamali Jaghdani
• Impact of ICT use on self-produced agricultural products selling price of small holder farmers - Evidence from apple advantage regions in China - Jing Chen

Parallel Session D1: Institutional framework and policy

• Agricultural insurance in Kazakhstan: demand analysis and insurance digitalization perspective - Yuliya Bayeva
• New opportunities for land use analysis - Hanna Yailymova
• Effect of the local land market imperfections on the land prices: Evidence from online auctions - Roman Neyter
• Ethical and legal aspects of open data in agricuture and nutrition - Foteini Zampati
• Agridigitalization progress and challenges: the case of Sumy region Ukraine - Inna Koblianska

Plenary Session 2: Digitalization of food value chains: an overview

• Digital acceleration of agricultural transformation - Kateryna Schroeder
• Digitalizaiton empowers the development of China's agriculture and rural areas - Wenbin Wu
• Applications of machine learning and artificial intelligence to economic forecasting - Gopinath Munisamy

Organized Session A2: Digital platforms to forecast and facilitate international markets and trade

• The Expanding role of Remote Sensing Technology in agricultural production and trade decisions - Estefania Puricelli
• Digital platforms along the grain value chain of the Black Sea region - Ivan Duric
• Digital technologies in management and production systems of agricultural enterprises in Ukraine - Taras Gagalyuk

Organized Session B2: Sustainable innovation dissemination in smallholder agriculture – Design, implementation and upscaling of a satellite-based drought insurance

• The potential of satellite remote sensing data in index insurance development: An application in agricultural lands of Central Asia - Sarvarbek Eltazarov
• How peer imitation affects the adoption of index insurance: Evidence from an experiment in rural Kyrgyzstan - Laura Moritz
• (Re-)Purchasing index insurance: Panel data evidence on the demand for index-based livestock insurance in Mongolia - Lukas Mogge
• Short term success vs. long term sustainability of innovation diffusion – An overview of international experience - Lena Kuhn

Parallel Session C2: Tools and methods 1

• UAV application in Agriculture: A Case Study of Mapping Rapeseed Damages in Romania - Zhanli Sun
• Emergence of Digital Technologies in Russian farms - Oane Visser
• State and prospects of using social networks and models of complex systems based on them in the agricultural industry - Svetlana Maltseva
• The net climate effect of digitalisation, differentiating between firms and households - Thomas Kopp

25 June 2020 - Digital solutions for agribusiness

Organized Session A3: From plowshares to drones? - On the prospects of digitalized agriculture in China

• Technical challenges and chances of implementing digital applications in crop farming - Wenbin Wu
• Digitalization in China – A labor perspective - Xiaohua Yu
• Big data applications for making farming smarter - Hang Xiong
• Who benefits from digital transformation? A cross-country comparison along the value chain - Oane Visser
• Digital tools for small-scale and sustainable farming - Lessons learned and options for future research cooperation - Eva Sternfeld

Parallel Session B3: Digitalisation and ICT for the prevention and control of plant diseases in small holder farming: lessons from Rwanda

• Deploying Human-Centered Approach for Inclusive Digital Advisory in Agricultural  Systems: A Case of Banana in Rwanda - Julius Adewopo
• Transformations in Agricultural Extension: Experiences from developing and piloting a crop disease app -  Mariette McCampbell
• A smart phone-based solution for crop diseases management: A case study of Banana Xanthomonas Wilt (BXW) in Rwanda -  Michel Kabirigi
• Rapid Village Level Mapping of Banana Farms for Early warning on BXW Disease Using High Resolution Unmanned Arial Vehicle Imagery - Regina Kilwenge

Parallel Session C3: Tools and methods 2

• Finding traceability granularity influencing factors using rough set method: An empirical analysis on vegetable companies in Tianjin city, China - Jianping Qian
• Active Fire Detection For Stubble Burning Identification Using Remote Sensing Data - Leonid Shumilo
• Retirement and the digital age: a study on the online food shopping - Tereza Pilařová
• Networks and IT infrastructure in farmers’ cooperatives in Ukraine - Roman Bezus

Parallel Session D3: Productivity and efficiency

• Does Internet Use Improve Technical Efficiency of Banana production in China? - Hongyun Zheng
• Can Digital Finance Improve Household Income? Evidence from Grain Farmers in Rural China - Shaoxiong Yang
• Digital Technologies Towards Resource Efficiency in the Agrifood Sector: Key Challenges in Russia - Nadezhda V. Orlova

Plenary Session 3: Real-life challenges of digitalization – agribusiness perspective

• Experiences of a supraregional agribusiness in implementing digital technologies in crop production in Russia - Björne Drechsler
  
  Study of the cooperation project "German-Russian Agricultural Policy Dialogue": Stand und Entwicklungsperspektiven der Digitalisierung in der russischen Landwirtschaft - Eine Status-Quo-Analyse
   
• Digitalization in Ukrainian agribusiness - Bohdan Kryvitskyi
• The challenge to digitalize the grain trade and execution - Ludwig Striewe
• Change management in digital agriculture - Matija Zulj

Slam Session A4: Trade

• Russian import ban impact on regional milk prices cointegration after import ban: cointegration and causality analysis - Mikhail Krivko
• Effects of the Russian agricultural import ban on domestic fresh apple market in Ukraine - Oleksandr Donchenko
• Open Budgets and Tax Revenue Efforts of Local Governments in Ukraine - Oleg Nivievskyi
• The effect of crop profitability on land rental prices - Pavlo Martyshev

Slam Session B4: Profitability and efficiency

• The impact of Climate change on wheat productivity at district level in Uzbekistan - Mashkhura Babadjanova
• Agricultural Extension and Technical Efficiency: an Empirical Assessment in Central Asia - Mukhayyo Djuraeva
• Using digital methods and tools to manage agricultural land - Vitalii Evgenovych Dankevych
• Farmers’ preferences for land market regulation: Should local farmers be protected against competition by outsiders? - Stephan Brosig
• Projections of future drought conditions in Northwest China by coupling the shared socioeconomic pathway and the representative concentration pathway - Suyuan Li

Slam Session C4: Value chains

• Directions of digital technologies implementations in the organic segment of agri-food value chains - Iuliia Samoilyk
• Proceeding agriculture 4.0 in Russia - Olga Rodionova
• Food Waste in the Retail Sector in Russia and Germany - Ekaterina Galaktionova
• Identifying the Determinants and Extent of Crop Diversification at Farm Level: A case study of Uzbekistan - Abdulla Primov
• Small Producers in Modern Value Chains: How small farms are coping with changes in Tajikistan? - Jarilkasin Ilyasov

Slam Session D4: Social aspects

• Attitudes toward Gender-Roles in Kyrgyzstan and Nutritional Outcomes: Latent Profile Analysis - Bekhzod Egamberdiev
• Fostering Agricultural ICT Teaching in Higher Education in the Partium Region - Zoltan Zakota
• Long- and short-term effects of field training on farmers’ nitrogen fertilizer reduction: Dose training intensity matter? - Cheng Xiang
• How Doe Financial Literacy Affect Rural Households’ Consumption: Evidence from Shandong Province, China - Huiling Wang
• Does Internet use increase the subject and psychological well-beings of rural residents? Evidence from China - Jie Dong

Organized Session A5: Agricultural Work in Digitalised and Automated Work Environments – Case Studies from German Dairy Farming and Dutch Horticulture

• Cultural Dimensions of Digital Agriculture in Switzerland: Theoretical Perspectives and Initial Findings - Jan Moritz Dolinga
• The limits of the promises of digitization and automation – An explorative case study on working with cows and milking robots - Christa Gotter 
• Impacts of Technological Change on CEE Agricultural Labor Migrants in Dutch Horticulture - Andreea Ferent, Oane Visser

Parallel Session B5: Consumer behavior and trust

• Mobile phone apps for the digital transformation of urban and regional agro-food products’ purchasing and consumption - Antonella Samoggia
• Demographic and psychographic profiles of online grocery shoppers in Western Europe – A cross-cultural comparison - Lijun Angelia Chen
• Gaining Trust in the Digital Age: The Potential of Social Media for Increasing the Competitiveness of Small and Medium Agri-Food Enterprises - Borislav Rajkovic

Parallel session C5: Social and ethical aspects

• Internet, social networks, and residents' subjective well-being - Empirical Evidence from China Family Panel Studies - Xutao Qu
• Digital technology and food security in the case of COVID-19 health emergency in China - Junying Lin
• 3D Bioprinting for sustainable food production - Anton Elemoso
• Human Decision versus Machines: A Self-Selection Experiment - Johanna Jauernig

Organized Session A6: Satellite monitoring as a driver of digital transformation for agriculture

• Satellite agricultural monitoring techniques and their role in digital economy of Europe - Guido Lemoine
• World bank project “Supporting Transparent Land Government in Ukraine” as a step towards the digitalization of Ukraine economy and ecology - Nataliia Kussul
• Very high spatial resolution satellite data for Agricultural monitoring - Sergii Skakun
• Monitoring of SDG’s indicators and agricultural lands productivity using Amazon Cloud Platform - Andrii Shelestov

Parallel Session B6: Coordination of food value chain 

• Digital Technologies and Paradigm Change in the Governance of Global Value Chains - Ivan Duric
• Impact of digital technologies on certain segments of agri-food value chains in the Western Balkans - Dori Pavloska Gjorgjieska
• Blockchain and its impacts on agri-food supply chain network management - Michael P. Kramer
• Digitizing; a Doorway to the Sustainable Meat Supply Chain in Iran - Afsaneh Ehsani

Organized Session C6: Price analysis on agricultural markets

• Price transmission in the cannabis market in the USA: Identifying the influence of legislation - Barry Goodwin
• Pass-through of crude oil prices to grain prices in Russia and Ukraine - Stanislav Yugay, 
• How does political intervention affect wheat price volatility? The case of trade restrictions by Black Sea exporters - Maximilian Heigermoser
• Why grain merchants will never be so naïve to use minimum variance hedging in daily business: A critical discussion - Sören Prehn
• Farmers, traders, and processors: buyer market power and double marginalization in Indonesia - Richard J. Sexton

26 June 2020 - Enabling sustainable digital transformation

Organized Session B7: Digitalization in the agro-food value chains in the Western Balkan countries: Status, Challenges and Potentials

• Potential, challenges and impact of online marketing and digital promotion in the tourism value chains - Benjamin Mohr
• Digitalization in the agro-food value chains in the Western Balkans: Status, Challenges and Potentials - Blagoja Mukanov, Viktorija Ilieva
• Challenges in the introduction of digital tools in the Farm Accountancy Data Network (FADN) as an instrument for evaluating the income of agricultural holdings and the impacts of the agricultural policy in EU candidate countries - Daniela Gidalova
• Tracebility in soya supply chain in europe - Jovana Djisalov

Organized Session C7: Vulnerability of the food chain as result of unseen risks of digitalization

• Vulnerability of the food chain as result of unseen risks of digitalization - Reiner Brunsch, Roland Scholz, Jana Zscheischler

Special Session

• Ethics in times of corona - Ingo Pies

Plenary Session 4: Future of digitalization in food value chains

• The Digital Transformation of Agri-food Value Chains - Máximo Torero

Kids Session

• Bits, Bytes & Burger?! Digitalization in food production (in German) - Iren Schulz