Important Schedules  30 June 2023Deadline for session proposal submission

31 July 2023Deadline for regular paper submission

31 August 2023 Notification of decision for session  proposal  and regular paper submission

20 October 2023Registration and Pre-conference workshop

21-22 October 2023The15^th CAER-IFPRI Annual Conference

# 02 Call for Papers The regular paper submissions are solicited on a wide variety of topics including but not limited to:

• Agricultural and Rural Development

• Food Safety and  Nutrition Security

• Labor Supply and Human Capital

• Agricultural Market, Trade and Prices

• Agri-food System, Seed System Security

• Rural Revitalization

• Natural Resources, Environment and Climate Change

• Rural Land and Rural Finance

• Agribusiness, E-commerce and Supply Chain Management

• Agricultural Productivity and Sustainable Development

# 03 Call for Sessions The themes of proposed sessions including but not limited to:

• PreTransforming Agriculture in the digital age

• Machine Learning Applications in Agricultural Economics

• Smart Agriculture and Sustainable Development

• Precision Nutrition and Health

• AI Tools and Labor Market Development

• ArtificialIntelligence and Agricultural Productivity

• Negative Population Growth, Rural Transformation, and Urbanization

• Carbon Neutrality and the Transformation of the Agri-Food System

• Big Data and Agribusiness

• Information and Communication Technology Adoption and Rural Development

# 04 Submission Guidelines

• Please format the submission following the Author’s Guidelines, which is available onhttps://www.emeraldgrouppublishing.com/journal/caer?id=caer

• Please submit your regular paper onhttp://caer-ifpri-confer.scievent.com

• Please find the session proposal form on the following link: https://caer-ifpri-confer.scievent.com/file/60cca4fff483456ab3918ebeeebf1170.docxand submit to the email address: caer@cau.edu.cn

• All submissions will be evaluated by two independent reviewers with respect to their  (a) relevance of the topics and potential for discussion, (b) originality, (c) academic quality, and (d) clarity of exposition.

• The proposed sessions are encouraged to be Perspectiveness, Diversification, Internationally and Interdisciplinary.

• Author(s)of the accepted papers/sessions, or at least one of them, are required to register and present their work at the conference.

# 05 Registration Fee RMB 1200 (Chinese Currency),  including entrances to the sessions, badge, conference program, printed proceedings, coffee breaks, welcome reception, and meals during the conference. The registration fee will be paid at the conference registration desk. No Registration Fee for one student with one accepted paper. # 06 Publication The conference will compile a proceedings for reference, and the organizing committee will select and recommend the high-quality submitted papers to be published in CAER journal. # 07 Language  English. No simultaneous language interpretation will be provided. # 08 Award We will award the best papers presented at the conference and the most cited paper published in CAER. The award winner will receive a certificate and a RMB 5,000 prize. # 09 Preliminary Schedule

Contact For any information, please contact Dr. Yitian Xiao at caer_conference@163.com, and86-10-6273 8685 (office).