Giannini Foundation: Events

Events

Workshop on:
The Intersection of Energy and Agriculture: Implications of Biofuels and the Search for a Fuel of the Future
October 4-5, 2007
The Faculty Club
University of California, Berkeley

Presented by:
Economic Research Service, U.S. Department of Agriculture
Energy Biosciences Institute
The Farm Foundation
The Giannini Foundation of Agricultural Economics

Seats are limited. For more information and to Register, please go to: http://are.berkeley.edu/%7Ezilber/conference.html

76th Annual Meeting
of the Giannini Foundation of Agricultural Economics
Monday, May 14, 2007
Lipman Room, 210 Barrows Hall
University of California, Berkeley

State of the Foundation, David Zilberman, Director of the Giannini Foundation

Perspectives on Agricultural Economics and UC ANR
Paul Ludden, CNR Dean
Rick Standiford, Acting VP, ANR

Energy: New Opportunities for the Foundation
Short presentations on biofuel and its implications, energy challenges,
and new research initiatives and opportunities.

Bioenergy Crops in Illinois: Competitiveness and Non-Market Benefits
Madhu Khanna, University of Illinois at Champaign-Urbana

Energy: A Giannini Jingle
C.-Y. Cynthia Lin, Assistant Professor, UC Davis

Energy and Environment: Recent Research Initiatives
David Roland-Holst, Adjunct Professor, UC Berkeley

75th Anniversary Symposium
of the Giannini Foundation of Agricultural Economics
Wednesday, May 3, 2006
UC Davis Activities and Recreation Center

The 75th Giannini Foundation Anniversary Symposium was held on the Davis campus on May 3, 2006. The event memorialized A. P. Giannini’s early affiliation with agriculture, his generous gift to the University in support of California agriculture and rural areas in a period of difficult economic times (the early years of the Great Depression), accomplishments of the Foundation over the past 75 years in meeting the changing needs of this dynamic and ever changing sector of the California economy, and an examination of challenges and issues deserving the attention of the University while moving forward through the 21st Century. Speakers included some of our esteemed faculty and alumni, friends of the Foundation in California's private and public sectors, and Emeritus State Historian of California Kevin Starr. Commissioned papers and discussant comments will be published for general audiences.

Program

Doha, NAFTA, and California Agriculture
Friday, January 13, 2006
Sacramento Hilton, 2200 Harvard Street
www.sacramentoardenwest.hilton.com
For more information: 530-752-1530

The WTO in December 2005 agreed to eliminate agricultural export subsidies by 2013, Governor Schwarzenegger will release a proposed budget in January 2006, and the Senate will take up immigration reform in February 2006. We will deal with the implications of trade and policy for California agriculture at a Giannini Foundation conference January 13, 2006 at the Sacramento Hilton.

Three keynote speakers and three panels will tackle these issues on January 13, 2006 in Sacramento. Jason Hafemeister, the Agricultural Trade Negotiator at the US Trade Representative’s Office, and CDFA Secretary AG Kawamura will review what California agriculture can expect from Doha while Dan Walters will assess California’s evolving place in the global economy.

The three panels will examine NAFTA generally and then focus on specific commodities that have been the subject of dispute, including Canadian wheat and cattle and Mexican tomatoes, avocados and sugar. One panel will assess the effects of NAFTA in the Mexican countryside, which is experiencing a Great Migration to urban Mexico as well as to Canada and the US.

Agenda (Updated July 3, 2006 with speaker presentations now available for downloading in pdf format, REAL.rm and Windows Media Files.asx)

Calfornia Agriculture: Dimensions and Issues

The Giannini Foundation hosted a one-day conference in Sacramento on May 28, 2004.The organizing principal of the conference was a dialogue between practitioners, policymakers, and the academic experts that are the authors of the book's chapters. The conference surveyed the challenges that the environmental and political context in California, the United States, and the larger world presents to the agricultural sector in California, but also highlighted the challenges that agricultural producction presents to California's environment and society.

The 2nd Conference on Information and Entropy Econometrics:
Theory, Method, and Applications - Co-Sponsored by the Giannini Foundation

Information and Entropy Econometrics (IEE) is research that directly or indirectly builds on the foundations of Information Theory (IT) and the principle of Maximum Entropy (ME). IEE includes research dealing with statistical inference of (economic) problems given incomplete knowledge or data, as well as research dealing with the analysis, diagnostics and statistical properties of information measures.