On 13-15 October 2011, a number of ILRI colleagues attended the 7th international conference of the Asian Society of Agricultural Economists in Hanoi, Vietnam to present papers.

ILRI had organized two parallel sessions, (1) Food safety policy in developing country context: examples from case studies in livestock value chains and( 2) Assessing the impact of livestock research for development), and presented two contributed papers, (1) Are smallholders willing to pay for animal disease control? Empirical evidence from a study of mass vaccination for avian influenza in Indonesia and (2) On the economics of small-scale household pig production in Vietnam: survey results, analysis, and assessment).

Please visit the conference website for more details, http://7thasae.ipsard.gov.vn/index.htm