How to get to ZEF:
Agricultural Knowledge
and Knowledge Systems
in Post-Soviet Societies
Central Station
Date:
September 12 – 13, 2013 Bonn, Germany
Venue:
Heussallee /
Museumsmeile
ZEF
International
Academic
Conference
September 12 - 13
2013
Center for Development Research (ZEF),
right conference room,
University of Bonn,
Walter-Flex-Str. 3, 53113 Bonn
For further details and registration contact:
Anastasiya Shtaltovna (shtaltov@uni-bonn.de)
Phone: +49 (0)228 73 - 4917
Conference website: http://bit.ly/15viye2
From Bonn Central Station:
Underground to “Heussallee / Museumsmeile”
U16/63 (Direction: Bad Godesberg)
U66/68 (Direction: Bad Honnef - Ramersdorf)
Exit in direction Walter-Flex-Straße / Heussallee
or Bus to “Heussallee / Deutsche Welle:
610 / 611 (Direction Heiderhof)
Conference Program
Day 1: Thursday, September 12, 2013
Coffee / tea
09:00 – 09:30 Registration and coffee
15:00
09:30 – 09:45 Welcome address: Epistemic cultures in
post-Soviet agriculture
Anna-K. Hornidge, Center for Development
Research (ZEF), Bonn, Germany
15:30 – 16:30 Panel IV: Agricultural advisory service
development
Chair: Petra Geraedts, Consultant
on agricultural extension and rural
development
Providing financial services in rural areas
of Kazakhstan
Galina Akimbekova, Kazakh Research
Institute of Agricultural Economics and
Rural Territories Development, Almaty,
Kazakhstan
What are the effects of knowledge,
innovations and agricultural services on
the productivity of different farm types?
Evidence from Kazakhstan
Katharina Vantomme, Leibniz Institute of
Agricultural Development in Central and
Eastern Europe, Halle, Germany
09:45 – 10:45 Panel I: Cultures of knowledge production
and sharing in agriculture
Chair: Anna-K. Hornidge, Center for
Development Research, Bonn, Germany
Goldmine of unique archival information
about age-old water management
practices and knowledge and their modern
application in Uzbekistan
Darya Hirsch, Independent Environmental
Services Professional, Bonn, Germany
Foot-soldiers of development: the role
of Kyrgyzstani ‘traineri’ in agricultural
knowledge transfer
Jeanne Féaux de la Croix, Center for
Modern Orient, Berlin, Germany
10:45 – 11:15 Coffee / tea
11:15 – 12:15 Panel II: Agricultural advisory service
development
Chair: Kristof Van Assche, Wageningen
University, The Netherlands
Agricultural extension service providers in
the Sughd region of Northern Tajikistan. An
experience from the field
Filippo De Danieli, Independent Scholar,
Florence, Italy
Agricultural knowledge systems in Georgia
Anastasiya Shtaltovna, Center for
Development Research, Bonn, Germany
12:15 – 14:00 Lunch
14:00 – 15:00 Panel III: Agricultural advisory service
development
Chair: John Lamers, Center for
Development Research, Bonn, Germany
Transformation of the agricultural higher
education system in Azerbaijan
Anar Hatamov, State Agricultural
University, Baku, Azerbaijan
Agricultural organization and the role
of contractual structures in post-Soviet
Uzbekistan
Nodir Djanibekov, Leibniz Institute of
Agricultural Development in Central and
Eastern Europe, Halle, Germany
17:00 – 19:00 Public Lecture: Knowledge Transfer and
Cultural Context
Dirk Tänzler, University of Bonn, Germany
19:30
Dinner
Day 2: Friday, September 13, 2013
09:00
Arrival and coffee
09:30 – 11:00 Panel I: Local governance arrangements
and knowledge production
Chair: Conrad Schetter, Bonn International
Center for Conversion, Bonn, Germany
The role of personal networks in choosing
the types of crops in the cotton sector of
southern Tajikistan
Hafiz Boboyorov, Academy of Sciences,
Dushanbe, Tajikistan
Farmers’ future perspectives on
agricultural production in the Zarafshan
Valley, Tajikistan
Andreas Mandler, Center for Development
Research, Bonn, Germany
Institutional bricolage in a post-Soviet
context: water user associations in
Azerbaijan
Svenja Fox, Free University, Berlin,
Germany
11:00 – 11:30 Coffee / tea
11:30 – 12:30 Panel II: Local governance
arrangements and knowledge
production
Chair: Hafiz Boboyorov, Academy of
Sciences, Dushanbe, Tajikistan
Problems in the development of
innovations in agricultural activities in
the Republic of Bashkortostan
Alfiya Kuznetsova, Bashkir State
Agrarian University, Ufa, Russia
Contribution of scientific knowledge to
dryland pastoral system development in
the former Soviet Uzbekistan
Makhmud Shaumarov, Institute of
Agricultural Economics and Social
Sciences in Tropics and Subtropics,
Hohenheim, Germany
12:30 – 14:00 Lunch
14:00 – 15:00 Panel III: Local governance
arrangements and knowledge
production
Chair: Hiltrud Herbers, University of
Cologne, Germany
Plains of the North Caucasus: the
experience of economic actors during
the disintegration of the kolkhoz system
and start of migration processes
Ekaterina Kapustina, Peter the
Great Museum of Anthropology and
Ethnography, St. Petersburg, Russia
„There is a new law?“ Experiences
from the implementation of pasture
governance reform in Kyrgyzstan
Wibke Crewett, Humboldt-University of
Berlin, Germany
15:00
Conclusion of the conference
Day 3: Saturday, September 14, 2013
10:00
Excursion to the surroundings of Bonn