Plenary Session 1

• The Economic Lives of Small Family Farmers - George Rapsomanikis

Parallel Session A1: Small farm diversification

• Crop diversification among Thai smallholder rice farmers: Determinants, benefits and limitations - Isriya Nitithanprapas Bunyasiri
• Determinants of farm and nonfarm employment: Evidence from rural Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan - Golib Sanaev

Parallel Session B1: Farm structures and typologies

• Family farms‘ typology as a tool for developing a sustainable agricultural policy in Moldova - Dragos Cimpoies
• Factors influencing farm structures in times of demographic change-The case of Albania - Edvin Zhllima
• Small farms typology for targeted policy support - Diana Caporale
• Area-Based Development Approach: Improving the Economic Prosperity of Rural Smallholders in the Western Balkans' Cross-Border Regions - Irena Djimrevska

Parallel Session C1: Smallholder strategies

• Farmers’ Sensitivity to Crop Loss: Evidence from a Nationally Representative Farm Survey in India - Md Riyazuddin Khan
• Crop Production as a Coping Strategy following an Economic Shock – Evidence from Kyrgyzstan - Hanna Freudenreich
• The economic importance of livestock keeping for farming households in Azerbaijan and Georgia - Naiba Allahverdiyeva

Organized Session A2: Current challenges and way forward for Chinese agriculture after 40 years of rural reforms

• China’s Rural Poverty Alleviation: Regional Difference and Policy implications - Lan Fang
• Farmland Transfer in China: Some Research Gaps - Shuyi Feng
• "Rural revitalization" in China under conditions of migration and urbanization - Elena Meyer-Clement
• Agricultural Production and Food Consumption in China: A Long-term Projection - Yu Sheng
• Towards Green Development: Agricultural Resource & Rural Environment Renovation in China - Minjuan Zhao

Parallel Session B2: Cooperatives

• Re-emergence of agricultural service cooperatives in Russia - Renata Yanbykh
• What explains collective action in the context of a transition economy - Economic versus Social determinants - Klodjan Rama
• The Development of the Agricultural Cooperatives in Kyrgyzstan - Nazik Beishenaly
• Analysis of the economic performance of small farmers in post-Soviet Eastern countries: case of Georgia and Moldova - Samuel Ahado

Organized Session C2: Development of small-scale farms in Kyrgyzstan: Policy challenges and productivity driving factors

• Milk Purchase Price Determinants: An Interdisciplinary Approach - Results of Milk Value Chain in the Chu area of Kyrkyzstan - Baimat Niiazaliev
• Smallholders Family Farms in Kyrgyzstan: current state and public policy implications on future growth trends - Kanat Tilekeyev
• Small wheat producers in Kyrgyzstan: Evidence from the survey of wheat production in three wheat clusters in Kyrgyzstan - Dilbara Kirbasheva

Special Session

• Development in the post-socialist small open economies: economic history and modern agricultural credit - Aleksandr V. Gevorkyan

• Small farms and policy development in China - Heather Xiaoquan Zhang

• Where are Chinese farmer cooperatives heading now? Evidence from Zhejiang Province - Jia Lei
• Is there a niche for Agricultural Production Cooperatives? Evidence from Sichuan Province, China - Shemei Zhang
• Cooperation among small-scale farmers - cases of Poland and Lithuania - Jolanta Drozdz
• Self-perception of food security among smallholder farmers in Poland - Agnieszka Sapa
• The role of agricultural cooperatives in promoting smallholders in transition economies - William Meyers, Axel Wolz

• Common herding in the South Caucasus – What motivates smallholders and how do they sustain cooperation? - Regina Neudert
• Understanding (informal) cooperation among smallholder farms – the case of Kosovo - Theresa Baeuml
• Intermediaries’ power and trading relationship performance – can intermediaries’ bargaining power improve farmers' business? - Orjon Xhoxhi
• Agricultural transition and technical efficiency: An empirical analysis of wheat-cultivating farms in Samarkand Region, Uzbekistan - Sherzod Babakholov
  

• Productivity in dairy farming – Does size matter? - Klaus Salhofer
• Can large-scale farmland transfer improve agricultural productivity? Evidence from rural Jiangsu, China - Lan Zhang
• The growth of dairy farms: A Hungarian-Slovenian comparison - Imre Ferto
• Characteristics and spillover effects of medium-scale farms: Evidence from Tanzania - Emma Isinika Modamba

• Dynamics of the financial state of the sector of agricultural enterprises and a role of state support in the development of agri-food systems - Ekaterina Gataulina
• The Political Economy of Phasing out Energy Subsidies for Irrigation Water in Iran - Tinoush Jamali
• Food and power: regime type, agricultural policy and political stability - Henry Thomson
• The political economy of Russian agricultural subsidies - Thomas Herzfeld
  

• Do remittances facilitate utilization of pressurized irrigation systems? The evidence from the Republic of Moldova - Tereza Pilařová
• Stress Tolerant Rice Varieties (STRV) adaptation practices in smallholder agriculture: emerging evidence from Chinese rice farming - Liqun Tang
• New digital farm technologies. Exploring bottom-up innovations in data & technology for smaller farms - Oane Visser
• Revisiting the story of mechanization of cotton harvesting in Central Asia: The case of Uzbek farmers - Nodir Djanibekov

• What drives Black Sea grain price volatility? - Maximilian Heigermoser
• The impact of the Russian agricultural import ban on domestic fresh apple market in Ukraine - Oleksandr Donchenko
• Does Currency Devaluation Increase Meat Import? An Empirical Evidence from Ukrainian Pork Industry - Pavlo Martyshev
• How do world oil prices and exchange rate influence price developments on the Russian wheat market? - Stanislav Yugay

• Introduction - Henriette Hanf
• Agri-food value chain governance, farm access to market and performance in the Western Balkans - Drini Imami
• Contract farming and public-private partnership: „The case of plums and berries in SEE“ - Slaviša Jovanović
• Export promotion as strategy for income and employment creation, the case of Kosovo - Johanna Grawunder
• Income diversification: The potential of rural tourism as driver for economic development - Benjamin Mohr

• Effect of subsidies on farms’ exit decision - Roman Neyter
• Drivers of farm income in the EU regions. Does farm size really matter? - Łukasz Kryszak
• The Role of Domestic and Supranational Bargaining Resources in Negotiations over Agricultural Transfers within the European Union - Jana Katharina Demoustier
• The effects of the agricultural policy on the small farms resilience in Romania - Dan-Marius Voicilas

• Revealing farmers' behavioral intentions to recultivate agricultural land in Russia. A case study of Buryat Republic - Elena Ponkina
• Implications of land market imperfections on policy design - Dan Tavrov
• Improving fertilizer use efficiency of large-scale farming in China: Do plot size and tenancy duration matter? - Fang Li
• Comparing meat market institutions across transition economies: A new regulatory/business environment index - Rustam Rakhmetov

Organized Session A6: Dichotomy between small-scale and large-scale farms

• Beyond the small-scale large-scale divide - Agribusiness models that deliver?? - Dilini Abeygunawardane
• Small and large farms in Russia & Bulgaria: Competition or cooperation? An evolutionary economic geography perspective - Pascal Grouiez
• Environmental baselines, nostalgia and field patterns: an environmental history of agriculture in the southern Ukrainian steppe - Brian Kuns

Parallel Session B6: Extension services

• Agricultural extension for women smallholder’s in Central Asia: Improving food security, nutrition, and income - Peter George Malvicini
• Farmers' preferences towards extension services. Insights from a Discrete Choice Experiment in Kosovo - Egzon Bajrami

Parallel Session C6: Food security

• Socioeconomic implications of sharing homegrown food: Insights from the Republic of Moldova - Simone Piras
• Self-perception of food security among smallholder farmers in Poland - Agnieszka Sapa
• Yerevan Brandy Company – Role model for smallholders' integration in the grape sector - Linda Bitsch

Plenary Session 3

• The future of smallholder farms in Central Asia: The World Bank's perspectives - Zergiy Zorya
• IFAD impact assessment agenda: a bridge between research and policy - Sara Savastano
• Regional policy dialogue and multi-stakeholder approach on socio-economic development of rural areas in the Western Balkans - Boban Ilic

Panel Discussion D1: The future of semi-subsistence farms and public policies towards inclusive agricultural development

• The Megatrends & Implications for Poverty and Smallholders - Sara Savastano
• Future Pathways of Different Types of Smallholders in Different Parts of the World - Sergiy Zorya
• Unlocking farming potential of smallholders with inclusive ecosystems - Lino Dias
• Small farms in Russian agriculture - Aleksandr Petrikov