Seminar — UNU-WIDER and HECER autumn seminar on climate change adaptation and fair trade agriculture

UNU-WIDER and HECER autumn seminar on climate change adaptation and fair trade agriculture

Thu, 18 November 2010

Adapting to Climate Change: An Integrated Biophysical and Economic Assessment for Mozambique by James Thurlow & Impacts of Fair Trade in Coffee: Impacts on the Global Coffee Markets by Pertti Haaparanta.

Adapting to Climate Change: An Integrated Biophysical and Economic Assessment for Mozambique by James Thurlow

James Thurlow is Research Fellow at the United Nations University's World Institute for Development Economics Research. He conducts applied research on the linkages between policies, economic growth and poverty reduction, and is currently the focal point for UNU-WIDER's 'Development under Climate Change' research project.  

Impacts of Fair Trade in Coffee: Impacts on the Global Coffee Markets by Pertti Haaparanta (Professor, Aalto University School of Economics), Niina Niemi (Programme Coordinator, Corporate Partnerships, Plan International), Joni Valkila (Researcher, Institute of Development Studies, University of Helsinki.

Pertti Haaparanta is Professor of International Economics at the Economics Department of the Aalto University School of Economics. He has led a multidisciplinary project on the development impacts of Fair Trade in coffee with Niina Niemi and Joni Valkila as researchers. The project was funded by the Finnish Ministry of Foreign Affairs.