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The DIME Workshop of the Max Planck Institute of Economics will be held from February 18-19, 2011, on the topic of Technology, institutions and development: Perspectives from economics, anthropology and geography on agrarian change.

The following is an incomplete list of themes and topics that should serve as a guide to submit  papers, and for which one or more leading scholars in the field has been invited to contribute.

AGRARIAN CHANGE:

• Technological change in agriculture (A)
• Production and exchange practices (B)
• Agricultural markets: local and global (C)
• Value chains, contract farming, fair trade, and the multiple forms of global demand/production relations (D)
• The impact of bio-fuels on agrarian change (E)
• GMO’s and the market of seeds (F)
• Land distribution and land grabbing (G)
• Quality standards and certification (H)

TECHNOLOGY, INSTITUTIONS AND DEVELOPMENT:

• Power and institutional asymmetries in the process of development (I)
• Gender issues in institutional and technological change to development (J)
• Science and technology: producers and users (K)
• Change in consumption, structural change and agrarian change (L)
• Economic development: evolutionary approaches (M)
• Development studies: historical views (N)

More information (pdf).

Deadline: December 12, 2010

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