15 July 2022, Friday (10:00 am – 12:00 pm)
Moderator: Donghyun Park, ADB
Social Protection Expenditure and Growth in the Agricultural Sector in Asia
Ervin Prifti (International Monetary Fund), Noemi Pace (Università di Teramo), Irene Staffieri ( Food and Agriculture Organization), and Abiodun A. Ogundeji (Univeristy of Bloemfontein)
Extreme Weather and Agricultural Input Management in Rural Thailand and Vietnam: Intensify or De-Intensify?
Nguyen Thi Lan Huong (Leibniz University Hannover), Sabine Liebenehm (University of Saskatchewan), and Hermann Waibel (Leibniz University Hannover)
Natural Disasters and
Economic Dynamics: Evidence from the Kerala Floods
Robert Beyer (International Monetary Fund), Abhinav Narayanan (Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank) and Gogol Mitra Thakur (Centre for Development Studies)
Exploration of Farm Mechanization among Smallholder Farmers: Evidence from Indian States of Haryana and Bihar
Jeetendra Prakash Aryal (International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center), Stein T. Holden (Norwegian University of Life Sciences), Madhusudan Bhattarai (International Food Policy Research Institute), and Dil Bahadur Rahut (Asian Development Bank Institute)