In addition to the financial resources provided by the organizing institutions [the Department of Economics and Statistics, University of Calabria (Italy), the Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics, University of California, Davis (USA), and the Economic Research Service of the United States Department of Agriculture] and the International Agricultural Trade Research Consortium, the Conference obtained generous support from

• Agricultural Economics Research Institute (LEI), The Netherlands
• Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada
• European Commission
• Farm Foundation
• Giannini Foundation of Agricultural Economics
• International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI)
• Italian National Institute of Agricultural Economics (INEA)
• Italian National Research Council (CNR)
• National Institute of Agronomic Research (INRA), France