JIFMIM-FRL农业金融专刊征稿

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Journal of International Financial Markets,

Institutions & Money (ABS 3, SSCI Q1)

Finance Research Letters (ABS 2, SSCI Q1)

Special Issue Conference:

“金融科技与气候变化对农业金融和投资的影响”

“The Impact of Fintech and Climate Change on Agricultural Finance and Investment”

29-30 October 2022

College of Economics and Management,Northwest A&F University, China (hybrid conference)

CONFERENCE THEME:

由于人口压力、饮食偏好的变化、气候变化、水的需求和土壤污染，对农业和相关的促进增长的部门的资金和投资的需求日益增加。Covid-19大流行还强调了以更高质量和更可持续的方式生产更多农产品的紧迫性。此外，地缘政治的不确定性，如最近的俄乌危机，也对全球粮食供应构成了多重威胁，并强调了确保农业更有弹性的必要性。快速发展的技术创新为农民和农业企业更好地进入金融市场和信贷，以提高农业生产力提供了显得可能。这一创新也可能在某种程度上解决联合国的关键发展目标，特别是减轻贫困。

There is an ever increasing need to finance and invest in agriculture and related growth-enhancing sectors due to population pressures, changing dietary preferences, climate change, water needs and soil pollution. The COVID-19 pandemic has also highlighted the urgency of producing more agricultural products, at higher quality and in a more sustainable way. In addition, geopolitical uncertainty, such as the recent Russia-Ukraine crisis, has also posed multiple threats to global food supply and highlighted the need to ensure agriculture is more resilient. Rapidly evolving technological innovation is opening new possibilities for farmers and agriculture businesses to better access financial markets and credit to improve agricultural productivity. This innovation may also come some way to address key UN Development Goals, especially the alleviation of poverty.

考虑到这些事实，中国西北农林科技大学、爱丁堡大学、伦敦大学学院、提赛德大学和墨尔本皇家理工学院的金融市场与可持续发展小组以及中国经济学会（欧洲/英国）将与《国际金融市场、机构与货币杂志》（JIFMIM）和《金融研究通讯》（FRL）合作，共同组织一次专刊会议。会议旨在汇集学者、政策制定者和行业专业人士，并为他们提供机会，介绍和分享他们对金融技术和气候变化对可持续农业发展影响问题的研究和兴趣。

With these facts in mind, the Northwest A&F University, China, the University of Edinburgh, University College London, Teesside University and the Financial Markets and Sustainability Group at the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology (RMIT University) and Chinese Economic Association (Europe/UK), will collaborate with the Journal of International Financial Markets, Institutions & Money (JIFMIM) and Finance Research Letters (FRL) to jointly organize a special issue conference. The conference aims to bring together academics, policy makers and industry professionals and to provide them with the opportunity to present and share their research and interests on issues relating to the impact of financial technology and climate change on sustainable agricultural development. 

我们鼓励大家提交与会议主题相关的当前研究工作的最前沿的见解。具体的主题和研究问题可以包括但不限于： 

- 数字金融转型对农业和农村地区的影响

- 农业金融和农业保险

- 农业金融与粮食安全

- 农户的收入和财务状况

- 金融科技、金融包容性和收入不平等

- 金融技术与贷款风险管理

- 农业、气候和能源衍生品在对冲风险中的作用

- 为农村发展融资的正规和非正规金融市场

- 地缘政治的不确定性对农业融资和投资的影响

- 利用大数据分析对农牧业的破产风险进行预测

- 与农产品的组合风险管理和风险定价有关的问题

- 气候变化下的可持续农业融资

- 气候融资和投资对农业碳排放的影响

- 气候变化对农业生产、消费、价格和贸易的影响

We encourage submissions that provide cutting-edge insights into current research work related with the theme of the conference. Specific topics and research questions can include but are not limited to:

●The impact of digital financial transformation in agriculture and rural areas 

●Agriculture finance and agriculture insurance 

●Agricultural finance and food security 

●Farm household incomes and finances Fintech, financial inclusion, and income inequality 

●Fintech and loan risk management 

●The role of agricultural, climate and energy derivatives for hedging risks 

●Formal and informal financial market for financing rural development 

●The effects of geopolitical uncertainty on agricultural finance and investment 

●Bankruptcy risk prediction of Agro-farm using big data analytics 

●Issues associated with portfolio risk management and risk pricing of agricultural products 

●Financing sustainable agriculture under climate change 

●The impacts of climate finance and investment on agricultural carbon emissions

●Impacts of climate change on agricultural production, consumption, prices, and trade

CONFERENCE SUBMISSIONS PROCEDURE:

会议将于2022年9月30日前以电子邮件发给[e-mail]的完整论文的形式提交。论文将在会议上进行评审，作者将在2022年10月10日前通知作者。

Submissions to the conference will be in the form of complete papers emailed to [e-mail] by 30 September 2022. Papers will be reviewed for presentation at the conference and authors will be notified by 10 October 2022. 

PUBLICATION OPPORTUNITIES:

JIFMIM和FRL将在这次会议的基础上出版专刊/栏目。期刊编辑将与特邀编辑团队合作，从会议上发表的论文中挑选出可考虑在JIFMIM或FRL上发表的论文。被邀请的论文将通过Elsevier Editorial Manager平台的标准审查程序。请注意，JIFMIM特别主题的重点是跨国研究，并将支持阐明上述具体会议主题的理论和经验论文。关于这些特定会议主题的非国际性和较短的论文将被考虑在FRL上发表。

The JIFMIM and FRL will publish special issues/sections based on this conference. The journal editors will work with the guest editorial team to select papers from those presented at the conference to be considered for publication with JIFMIM or FRL. The invited submissions will then proceed through the standard review process via the Elsevier Editorial Manager platform. Note that the focus of the JIFMIM special theme is on cross-country studies, and will favour theoretical and empirical papers that shed light on the specific conference topics outlined above. Non-international and shorter papers on these specific conference topics will be considered for publication with FRL.

CONFERENCE CO-CHAIRS:

Minjuan Zhao, Northwest A&F University, China 

Baofeng Shi, Northwest A&F University, China

Jonathan A. Batten, RMIT University, Australia 

SPECIAL THEME GUEST EDITORS:

Mohammad Abedin, Teesside University, UK

Yizhe Dong, University of Edinburgh Business School, UK 

Xi Liang, University College London, UK

Baofeng Shi, Northwest A&F University, China

IMPORTANT DATES:

30 September 2022: Deadline for conference submission 

10 October 2022: Notice of acceptance for the conference 

20 October 2022: Conference registration deadline 

29-30 October 2022: A two-day conference will be held in Yangling China, at Northwest A&F University 

15 January 2023: Deadline for invited paper submissions to the journals 

July of 2023: Completion of the first round of reviews 

End of 2023: Completion of all reviews and Publication 

CONFERENCE ACADEMIC COMMITTEE:

Mohammad Abedin, Teesside University, UK

Galina Andreeva, University of Edinburgh Business School, UK

Jonathan A. Batten, RMIT University, Australia

Raffaella Calabrese, University of Edinburgh Business School, UK

Jian Chen, Nottingham University Business School, UK

Yizhe Dong, University of Edinburgh Business School, UK

Iftekhar Hasan, Fordham University, USA

Wenxuan Hou, University of Edinburgh Business School, UK

Bingyi Kang, Northwest A&F University, China

Zhiyong Li, Southwestern University of Finance and Economics

Xi Liang, University College London, UK

Diandan Ma, University of Auckland, NZ

Sushanta Mallick, Queen Mary University of London, UK

Zhifu Mi, University College London, UK

Baofeng Shi, Northwest A&F University, China

Liming Wang, University College Dublin, Ireland

Tingting Wang, Northwest A&F University, China

Xianli Xia, Northwest A&F University, China 

Bing Xu, Heriot-Watt University, UK

Xiaohua Yu, Georg-August-Universität Göttingen, Germany

Bohui Zhang, Chinese University of Hong Kong-Shenzhen, China

Jeffrey Zhang, University of Dayton, USA

Minjuan Zhao, Northwest A&F University, China 

CONTACT:

For general enquires about the conference and special issues should be directed to Baofeng Shi ([e-mail]) or Chunliu Dong ([e-mail]).

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