Thursday,
March 15, 2007 |
| 8:30 am |
Welcome: Katherine Smith, ERS Acting Administrator |
| 8:40 am |
Introductory Remarks: Robbin Shoemaker |
Trends and Forces Affecting North American Productivity Growth
Moderator and introductory comments: Walt Armbruster |
| 8:50 am |
Wally Huffman, Bob Evenson and Xing Fan —U.S. state productivity from 1970 to 2010 and factors that might make a difference |
| 9:20 am |
Eldon Ball and Bob Chambers—Stochastic produtivity measurement |
| 9:50 am |
Jim Oehmke and Kate Stiefelmeyer —U.S. and Canadian farm programs and post-harvest productivity |
| 10:20 am |
Discussion—Lessons from the U.S. experience |
| 10:50 am |
Break |
Productivity and Science Policy in Europe
Moderator and introductory comments: Jenifer Piesse |
| 11:05 am |
Krijn Poppe—Dutch agricultural productivity and reorganizations in Holland's public agricultural research system |
| 11:35 am |
David Schimmelpfennig and Colin Thirtle—Trends in UK productivity, R&D and
patents |
| 12:05 pm |
Lunch (in the Waugh auditorium) |
| 1:05 pm |
Eldon Ball, Jean-Pierre Butault,
Carlos San Juan—Productivity
and international competitiveness of EU
and U.S. agriculture, 1973-2002 |
| 1:35 pm |
Discussion—Lessons from the U.S. experience |
| 2:05 pm |
Break |
Patterns of Productivity Growth and Explanatory Factors in Developing Countries
Moderator and introductory comments: Jenifer Piesse |
| 2:20 pm |
Bob Evenson—Regional trends in agricultural productivity and influences of ‘technology capital’ |
| 2:50 pm |
Songqing Jin, Scott Rozell and Jikun Huang—
Keys and constraints to productivity growth in China’s agriculture |
| 3:20 pm |
Break |
| 3:35 pm |
Shenggen Fan—Productivity
growth and policy changes in Indian and
Chinese agriculture |
| 4:05 pm |
Bob Evenson and Keith Fuglie—Comparing agricultural productivity change in Brazil and Indonesia: the influence of R&D and globalization |
| 4:35 pm |
Discussion—Lessons from developing countries |
| 5:05 pm |
Closing Remarks by Robbin Shoemaker |
