Established in 1988

To promote and encourage scientific analysis of the social organization of agriculture and food systems; organization of the substantive content of the RC40 sessions of the quadrennial meetings of the ISA World Congress of Sociology; organization of additional international meetings.

Statutes

RC40 Listserv
An electronic bulletin board has been set up by Gianluca Brunori, Dip Economia dell'Agricoltura, Pisa University, Italy, listserv@vm.cnuce.cnr.it

President
Gianluca Brunori, University of Pisa, Italy,
gbrunori@agr.unipi.it
Secretary
Masashi Tachikawa, Ibaraki University, Japan,
mtachi@mx.ibaraki.ac.jp
Board Members
Monica Bendini, Universidad Nacional Comahue, Argentina
Vaughan Higgins, Monash University, Australia
Elizabeth P. Ransom, University of Richmond, USA
Marie-Christine Renard, Chapingo University, Mexico
Tomiko Yamaguchi, International Christian University, Japan
Manuel Belo Moreira, Universidad Tecnica de Lisboa, Portugal
Wynne Wright, Michigan State University, USA

RC40 sessions at XII World Congress of the International Rural Sociological Association
Goyang, Korea
July 6-11, 2008
Submissions: January 18, 2008
Scientific Discourse, Governance and the Agri-Food System
Co-convenors: Gianluca Brunori, University of Pisa, Italy, Masashi Tachikawa, Japan, Elizabeth Ransom, University of Richmond, USA, eransom@richmond.edu
Inquiries can be made to Elizabeth Ransom, University of Richmond, USA, eransom@richmond.edu
Forr more information about the conference,
see http://irsa-world.org

RC40 Newsletter, Spring.Summer 2008, [ Acrobat pdf file 96 KB]

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Category B countries: USD 20
Category C countries: USD 10.
Table of countries per category.
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