Examples of regulatory areas in the bio-based economy are risk, health, environment, competition, intellectual property rights. Regulations in all these areas have deep implications for trade issues, global value chains and for the provision of public goods. The fifth AIEAA Conference aims at...

Specific questions to be addressed, with reference to both developing and developed countries, are the following: - Is agriculture playing a buffer role against the global crisis? - How the crisis has changed the pro-poor features of agricultural growth? - What are the impacts of crisis on...