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Special Events
RC-40/Sociology of Agriculture Mini-Conference
AN AGRICULTURE WITHOUT SUBSIDIES?
VISIONING A MARKET DRIVEN AGRICULTURE
Monday, August 8, 2005 ˜ Hyatt Regency Tampa
Program Schedule
8:00 - 8:15 am
Welcoming Remarks: RC40 Mini-Conference
8:15 - 9:45 am
William Friedland, University of California, Santa Cruz,
"Unsubsidied Subsidies: Taxes, Tariffs, and Trade"
Reidar Almas, Centre for Rural Research, Norway,
"A Norweian Agriculture Without Subsidies- justice to whom?"
Kimberly Pfeifer, Oxfam America,
"Finding the Moral Fiber: Why Reform is Urgently Needed for a Fair Cotton Trade"
9:45 - 10:00 am
Break
10:00 - 11:45 am
Robert K. Schaeffer, Kansas State University,
"China and Agricultural Studies in the Core"
Harwood Schaffer, Agricultural Policy Analysis Center, University of Tennessee,
"Food Sovereignty: Challenging the Conventional Wisdom in International Trade"
Jim Bingen, Michigan State University,
"Politics, Ethics and Economics in West Africa"
11:45am - 1:00 pm
Lunch
1:00 - 2:30 pm
Michelle R. Worosz, Michigan State University,
"Choose Cherry!"
Raymond A. Jussaume Jr, Marcy Ostrom, and Leland Glenna, Washington State University,
"Northern Farmer's Perceptions of the Role of the State Support in an Industrialized Agricultural Setting"
2:30 - 3:00 pm
General Discussion - What Have We Learned
3:00 - 3:15 pm
Break
3:15 - 4:45 pm
Begin Bill Friedland Tribute Sessions - Bill's Session on Commodity Systems Analysis
William H. Friedland, University of California, Santa Cruz,
"The Limits of Commodity Systems Analysis"
Alessandro Bonanno and Douglas Constance, San Houston State University,
"The Theoretical Importance of Friedland's Commodity Analysis in the Context of the Evolution of Globalization"
Alan P. Rudy, Michigan State University
"Look Out That Window and Show Me Nature: Friedland, Labor, Technology and Nature"
Robert Schaffer, Kansas State University,
"The Integration and Disintegration of Commodity Systems"
4:45 - 5:00 pm
Break
5:00 - 6:30 pm
Bill Friedland Sessions continue
Craig Harris, Michigan State University,
"Transnational State in the Development of Fisheries"
Laura Raynolds, Colorado State University,
"Fair Trade: Networks of Advocacy/Networks of Commodities"
Amy Guptill, SUNY College at Brockport and
Rick Welsh, Clarkson University,
"Relationship Marketing and the Conventionalization of Organic Agriculture: A Case Study of OFarm"
7:00 - 10:00 pm
Bill Friedland Roast and Tribute Banquet
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