Partecipanti: Elisabetta Carfagna
Organizer: Elisabetta Carfagna – Department of Statistical Sciences - Alma Mater Studiorum University of Bologna
18:20 Welcome – Gianluca Fiorentini, Vice Rector for Teaching and Education of Alma Mater Studiorum University of Bologna
18:30 Message from Simonetta Di Cori, representing the Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation First session
Evaluating the impact of agricultural and rural development policies and projects
Chair: Elisabetta Carfagna – University of Bologna
18:40 Minà Dowlatchahi – Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)
Statistics for food security: FAO’s assessment of countries’ capacities for evidence-based policy making
19:00 Alessandra Garbero – International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD) Challenges to impact evaluation, solutions for IFAD
19:20 Fabien Santini – Joint Research Centre of the European Commission
Uncertainties in impact assessment of policies or external drivers on agricultural markets, the case of the Russian crisis
19:40 Bettina Baruth – Joint Research Centre of the European Commission
Crop monitoring to support food security policies - initiatives by the European Commission
20:00 Discussion
Second session
Monitoring the impact of agricultural development on the environment
Chair: Minà Dowlatchahi – FAO
20:10 Giuseppe Blasi – Head of European and International Policies and rural development - Italian Ministry of Agricultural, Food and Forestry Policies
Common agricultural policy and agro-environment preservation
20:30 Sven Gilliams – Vlaamse Instelling Voor Technologisch Onderzoek N.V. (VITO)
The use of Time series of Remote Sensing data to monitor the impact of agricultural intensification at global scale
20:50 John Latham – FAO and Elisabetta Carfagna – University of Bologna Impact evaluation of agricultural intensification at country level -
21:10 – 21:30 General discussion and concluding remark.