@article{Csaki:92319,
      recid = {92319},
      author = {Csaki, Csaba and Forgacs, Csaba and Koester, Ulrich and  Liefert, William M. and Banse, Martin and Gay, Stephan  Hubertus and McDonald, Scott and M'Barek, Robert and  Swinnen, Johan F.M. and Kim, Hanho and An, Donghwan and  Hubbard, Lionel J. and Rieger, Laszlo and Szoke, Gyula and  Cristoiu, Adriana and Udovc, Andrej and Kagan, Adam and  Sassi, Maria and Takacs, Istvan and Takacs, Emese and  Cimpoies, Dragos and Ertsey, Imre and Kovacs, Sandor and  Przygodzka, Renata and Dziemianowicz, Ryta Iwona and Magda,  Robert and Borodina, Elena and Borodina, Alexandra and  Gavrilescu, Dinu and Pecze, Denes and Balogh, Peter and  Cechura, Lukas and Sayin, Cengiz and Cengiz, M. Nisa and  Osanami, Fumio and Szabo, Gabor G. and Karaman, Suleyman  and Szekely, Geza and Szczepaniak, Iwona and Szczegolska,  Monika and Serova, Eugenia and Pieniadz, Agata and Barmon,  Basanta Kumar and Kondo, Takumi and Becvarova, Vera and  Levkovych, Inna and Hockmann, Heinrich and Bezlepkina,  Irina V. and Kupavych, Alexander and Konig, Gabor and  Halmai, Peter and Vasary, Viktoria and Vincze,  Maria-Magdolna and Lerman, Zvi and Kolcsey, Andrea and  Bokusheva, Raushan and Turtoi, Crina Sinziana and Toma,  Camelia and Gavrilescu, Camelia and Davidova, Sophia and  Blaas, Gejza and Antonova, Maria and Zeller, Manfred and  Deininger, Klaus W. and Savastano, Sara and Carletto,  Calogero and Caceres-Clavero, Francisco and Lucena-Cobos,  Blanca and Latruffe, Laure and Takacs-Gyorgy, Katalin and  Bandlerova, Anna and Sadowski, Adam and Gomez y Paloma,  Sergio and Luca, Lucian and Ciaian, Pavel and Pokrivcak,  Jan and Drabik, Dusan and Voneki, Eva and Tonini, Axel and  Burger, Anna and Szep, Katalin and Majewski, Edward and  Raggi, Meri and Viaggi, Davide and Maccarini, Elisa Ricci  and Monasterolo, Irene and Vandeplas, Anneleen and  Jongeneel, Roelof A. and Novak, Petr and Brasili, Cristina  and Meyer, William H. and Kuhne, Bianka and Fanfani,  Roberto and Gellynck, Xavier and Molnar, Adrienn and  Gagalyuk, Taras and Traikova, Diana and Mollers, Judith and  Cochrane, Nancy J. and Kazlauskiene, Natalija and  Fekete-Farkas, Maria and Molnar, Jozsef and Szucs, Istvan  and Popp, Jozsef and Udovecz, Gabor and Florkowski,  Wojciech J. and Fritzsch, Jana and Buchenrieder, Gertrud  and Kasarjyan, Milada and Podruzsik, Szilard and Korff,  Rudiger and Wilkin, Jerzy and van Leeuwen, Myrna and  Bartova, Lubica and Erjavec, Emil and Katona-Kovacs, Judit  and Baranyai, Zsolt and Hubbard, Carmen},
      title = {Agricultural economics and transition: What was expected,  what we observed, the lessons learned  Proceedings (Volume  I / II)},
      address = {2008},
      number = {920-2016-72797},
      series = {Studies on the Agricultural and Food Sector},
      pages = {326, 330},
      year = {2008},
      abstract = {Over fifteen years have elapsed since the transition from  the centrally planned
economic system started in the early  1990’s. During this time agricultural and
rural areas of  Central and Eastern Europe have undergone profound  structural
changes with wide variations in the degree of  transformation and in the rate of
success in creating a  competitive market and private ownership based food  and
agricultural system. By becoming member of the European  Union the "transition"
in its traditional interpretation  has been concluded in ten of the Central East
European  countries. The transition to market based agriculture,  however, is far
from completion in Southern and Eastern  Europe and especially in the CIS
countries.
International  Association of Agricultural Economists (IAAE) and  European
Association of Agricultural Economists (EAAE) in  collaboration with the
Corvinus University of Budapest and  with a number of other institutions in
Hungary organized an  inter-conference seminar on the subject of  agricultural
transition in Central and Eastern Europe and  Central Asia. The major objective
of the seminar was to  discuss and draw conclusions on the role of  agricultural
policy in the transition process in the light  of actual progress and current situation
in Central and  East European countries and in formal Soviet States. In  addition
the contribution of agricultural economics – both  from the West and from the
East – as a discipline and a  profession to the transition process in agriculture  were
discussed. A specific objective was to identify  priorities and means to strengthen
the agricultural  economics profession in the transition countries and  determine
research and educational priorities for the  future.
The seminar was attended by 118 participants  representing 26 countries from
Europe, North America and  Asia. The Seminar was the largest professional
meeting  organized by the two associations in 2007. Over 110  abstracts were
submitted and evaluated by the International  Program Committee. In the two
day program of the meeting, 8  presentations were made during the 3 plenary
sessions, 66  papers were presented in the 15 contributed paper sessions  in 8 subject
categories. In addition there were 15 posters  discussed in the poster session and
the findings of a World  Bank study on distortions of agricultural incentives in
the  region was the subject of a pre-conference workshop.  Plenary speakers
included Ulrich Koester, Johan Swinnen,  Jerzy Wilkin, Zvi Lerman, Eugenia
Serova and József  Popp-Gábor Udovecz. At the end of the seminar David Colman,  President of IAAE gave a global assessment of the status of  agricultural
economics discipline and profession, while  Csaba Csáki, former President of
IAAE made summary comments  on major issues discussed during the seminar.
This volume  includes the plenary and contributed papers presented at  the seminar
and submitted for publications by the authors  as well as the abstracts of the poster
papers  discussed.
The seminar was supported and sponsored by a  number of organizations and
persons. All of their  contributions have to be greatly acknowledged. First  the
two international organizations IAAE and EAAE have to  be mentioned, which
provided overall organizational  framework and logistical support. The IAAE
provided in  addition a generous grant to support the participation of  young
agricultural economists from Central and Eastern  Europe on the seminar. On the
Hungarian side the Corvinus  University of Budapest, the Szent István University
of  Gödöllő, the Research Institute for Agricultural Economics,  the Hungarian
Agricultural Economics Association, the  Hungarian Association of Agricultural
Sciences and the  Hungarian Ministry of Agriculture and Rural  Development
were the major material and organizational  supporters. The International Program
committee was chaired  by David Colman and Csaba Csáki and included
Ulrich  Koester, Joe Swinnen, Eugenia Serova and Jerzy Wilkin. The  local
Organizing committee was chaired by Csaba Forgács and  István Szűcs and
included Zoltán Lakner, András Nábrádi,  József Popp, József Tóth, Gábor Udovecz,
László Vajda,  László Villányi, Krisztina Fodor, Attila Jámbor and Tamás  Mizik.
Finally IAMO, Halle facilitated the publication of  this proceedings.},
      url = {http://ageconsearch.umn.edu/record/92319},
      doi = {https://doi.org/10.22004/ag.econ.92319},
}