Public Trade Policy Research and Analysis Symposia are aimed at furthering broader professional interest and involvement in agricultural trade research, and contributing to informed debate of current trade policy issues.

Previous Symposia

Papers from post-2004 Symposia can be downloaded by using the links below. See Publications: Proceedings Issues, for published proceedings issues related to Symposia since 1986.

Date/Location Symposium Topic
2023
June 26
Virtual

2023 Symposium

Fields of Discord: Understanding the Intersection of Geopolitics and Agriculture

Organizers: Sílvia Helena Galvão de Miranda (University of São Paulo) and Sandro Steinbach (North Dakota State University)

2021
June 29-30
Virtual Platform

2021 IATRC – OECD Symposium

The contributions of trade to resilience - what have we learned from the COVID 19 crisis

Organizers: Marcel Adenäuer, Annelies Deuss, LeeAnn Jackson (OECD), and Andrew Muhammad (University of Tennessee)

2019
June 23-25
Seville, Spain

2019 IATRC – EU Commission Summer Symposium

Trading for good - Agricultural trade in the context of climate change adaptation and mitigation: synergies, obstacles and possible solutions

Organizers: Fabio Santeramo (University of Foggia, Italy), Dragan Miljkovic (North Dakota State University, USA), and Emanuele Ferrari (European Commission, Spain)

2017
August 29-01
Parma, Italy

IATRC Session at 2017 EAAE Congress

CETA and Food Safety Standards

Organizers: European Association of Agricultural Economics and the International Agricultural Trade Research Consortium

2016
June 22-24
Halle, Germany

IATRC Session at 2016 IAMO Forum

Rural Labor in Transition

Organizers: IAMO (Leibniz Institute of Agricultural Development in Transition Economies), IZA (Institute for the Study of Labor), and IATRC

2014
June 25-27
Halle (Saale), Germany

2014 Symposia

The Rise of the 'Emerging Economies': Towards Functioning Agricultural Markets and Trade Relations?

Organizers: Leibniz Institute of Agricultural Development in Transition Economies (IAMO), the Agricultural Applied Economics Association (AAEA), and the International Agricultural Trade Research Consortium (IATRC).

2013
July 02-04
Seville, Spain

2013 Symposia

Productivity and Its Impact on Global Trade

Organizers: Tassos Haniotis, European Commission, Colette Kaminsky, Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada, Steve Neff, FAS, USDA, Pierluigi Londero, European Commission, Robert M'barek, European Commission, Stephan Hubertus Gay, European Commission (Co-sponsored by the European Commission's Director-General for Agriculture and Rural Development (DG-AGRI), as well as the Institute for Prospective Technological Studies (JRC-IPTS), and the Factor Markets Project)

2010
June 27-29
Stuttgart, Germany

2010 Symposia

Climate Change in World Agriculture: Mitigation, Adaptation, Trade and Food Security

Organizers: Harald Grethe, Ian Sheldon, Edda Thiele, Harald von Witzke, and Gregg Young (Co-sponsored by the German Federal Ministry of Food, Agriculture and Consumer Protection and Universität Hohenheim, Agricultural and Food Policy Group)

2009
June 22-23
Seattle, WA

2009 Symposia

Confronting Food Price Inflation: Implications for Agricultural Trade and Policies

Organizers: Philip Abbott, Neil Conklin, Pierre Charlebois and Won Koo (Co-sponsored by the Farm Foundation and the Center for Agricultural Policy and Trade Studies)

2008
June 30-01
Seoul, Korea

2008 Symposia

Globalization and the Rural-Urban Divide

Organizers: Munisamy Gopinath and Hanho Kim (Co-sponsored by the Korea Rural Economic Institute, Oregon State University and Seoul National University)