Risk Assessment of Food Supply

Tetsuji Tanaka is a Research Fellow at the Rowett Institute of Nutrition and Health, University of Aberdeen. He is also an author of the fifth report by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). His principal research interest lies in computable general equilibrium analysis of issues in food security and climate change. He holds a PhD in Finance and Management from the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London.Nobuhiro Hosoe earned a PhD in Economics at Osaka University and has been an Associate Professor at the National Graduate Institute for Policy Studies in Tokyo since 1999. He is specialized in computable general equilibrium models and other simulation models for empirical analysis of trade policy and regulatory reforms in public utilities.Huanguang Qiu is Associate Professor at the Center for Chinese Agricultural Policy (CCAP), Chinese Academy of Sciences. He is also Newton Fellow at the University of London and a Visiting Research Fellow at the Free University of Amsterdam. His major research fields include rural and regional agricultural development, agricultural trade, biotechnology policy, and general equilibrium model analysis. He has published more than 80 papers in international and Chinese peer reviewed academic journals. He received a PhD in Agricultural Economics from the Chinese Academy of Sciences in 2005.