8th Symposium on Agri-Tech Economics for Sustainable Futures

8th Symposium on Agri-Tech Economics for Sustainable Futures
15-16 January 2026
Harper Adams University, England

This symposium provides an opportunity for all those interested in the topic of Agri-Tech Economics for Sustainable Futures to discuss their research and to exchange ideas. Researchers are invited to submit both empirical and theoretical papers that are broadly consistent with the symposium’s special topic.

Papers from all the following fields may be submitted: Agricultural Economics, Agri-business Management and and Rural Land Use. However, in particular we welcome papers focused on the economics or adoption of innovative agricultural technologies under any of the following themes:

• Farm management, adoption, risk and economics
• Productivity and efficiency of the farming sector
• Value chains, markets and trade
• Sustainable Economic Growth and Sustainable Production and Consumption
• Rural land use and sustainability valuation in agricultural systems

This includes aspects of innovative technology in agriculture, economics, adoption, sustainability, statistics, marketing, agri-business and farm management, agricultural policy, food marketing and technology, environmental studies, geography,  the digitisation of agricultural landscapes, and society, agricultural technologies influence land use decisions, land use optimisation in agri-business contexts, and the economic valuation of sustainable land management practices

Special Sessions led by invited keynotes and Symposium partners include:

1. Centre for Effective Innovation in Agriculture Session: Adoption & Innovation in Agriculture: Keynote Presenter – TBC. 
2. ISPA Economics Community Session: Economics and Adoption of Precision Agriculture: Keynote Presenter – TBC.
3. INFER Session: Agricultural Economics on the frontier: Keynote Presenter – TBC. 
4. TBC – Please contact symposium organisers if your organisation would like to support a special session

Please indicate with your submitted paper if you like to be considered to be part of one of these special sessions.

Publication of papers
A selection of papers presented at the workshop may be published in one or more international publications. All presented papers and abstracts will be published in the edited symposium proceedings and made available post-symposium via AgEcon Search. INFER  and ISPA also offer several publication possibilities to workshop participants, including book volumes and journal publications. 

Symposium Participation
The symposium is open to anybody involved in these research areas, including both young and experienced researchers, Ph.D. students, post-doctoral researchers, and professionals from business, government, and non-governmental institutions.

As the symposium intends to build a network in this research area, participation is welcome even without paper contributions.

Organizing Committee

• Dimitrios Paparas, Harper Adams University, UK (Chair)
• Karl Behrendt, Harper Adams University, UK (Chair)
• Itua Omokhomion (Chair)
• Nigel Hill, Harper Adams University, UK
• James Lowenberg-DeBoer, Harper Adams University, UK
• Dimitrios Iakovidis, Harper Adams University, UK
• ​Anne Mumbi, Harper Adams University, UK
• Ourania Tremma, University College Dublin, Ireland
• Bikramaditya Ghosh, Symbiosis Institute of Business Management, Deemed University, India

Scientific Committee​​

• Karl Behrendt, Harper Adams University, UK
• James Lowenberg-DeBoer, Harper Adams University, UK​   
• Dimitrios Paparas, Harper Adams University, UK
• Anne Mumbi, Harper Adams University, UK
• ​Jorge Campos Gonzalez, University of Reading, UK
• Nadja El-Benni, Agroscope, Switzerland
• Andreas Meyer-Aurich, ATB, Germany
• Ioannis Kostakis, Harokopeio University, Greece
• Daniel May, Harper Adams University, UK​
• Hairong Mu, Harper Adams University, UK
• Dimitrios Iakovidis, Harper Adams University, UK
• Eleni Sardianou, Harokopeio University, Greece
• Paul Thomassin, McGill University, Canada​
• Bikramaditya Ghosh, Symbiosis Institute of Business Management, Deemed University, India

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Important dates

Extended Abstract or Full Manuscript Submissions:  30 September 2025
Submission Notifications: 30 October 2025
Registration closes: 15 December 2025
Symposium: 15-16 January 2026