SITES X Annual Conference 2025
15-16 September 2025 in Roma - Italy
Conference Agenda
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Session Overview |
| Date: Tuesday, 16/Sept/2025 | |||
| 9:00am - 9:30am |
Welcome coffee Location: Room Lunch |
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| 9:30am - 10:30am |
Fireside chat: Kevin Urama (African Development Bank) & Indermit Gill (World Bank Group) Location: Sala Svizzeri Chair: Domenico Fanizza, African Development Bank The chat will explore the state of multilateral cooperation amid fragmentation, the evolving role of multilateral development banks, and implications for Africa’s growth and development.
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| 10:30am - 12:00pm |
Plenary Session: Mattei Plan Location: Sala Svizzeri Role of the Piano Mattei for the Development of Africa and the Mediterranean Region Presentations of the Symposium Speakers |
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| 12:00pm - 1:30pm |
C1: Evidence Generation and Impact Evaluations in Fragile and Conflict- Affected Contexts (Session organized by FAO) Location: Sala Svizzeri Chair: Nicholas Sitko, FAO •How to Pay? Experimental Evidence on Early Warning-Based Cash Transfer Modalities in Somalia FAO, Italy Measuring the Impacts of a Poultry Transfer on Women’s Empowerment in Afghanistan FAO, Italy The impacts of the 2023/2025 Gaza Conflict on agriculture: Estimates of short- and medium-term losses in agricultural income and nutrition FAO, Italy Promoting agricultural value chains in refugee and host communities: impacts on household livelihood and community social cohesion in Uganda. Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, Italy |
C2: Trade, Value Chains, and Global Integration Location: Sala Terrazzo Chair: Till Arne Meissner, London School of Economics and Political Science The European Deforestation Regulation, Africa and Cocoa Biena Consulting Srl, Italy How Natural Disasters Shape Innovation in China: A Firm- Level Staggered DiD Analysis 1: Department of Social Sciences and Economics, Sapienza University of Rome, Italy; 2: CNRS, France; 3: Centre d’Economie de la Sorbonne, Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne, France Fossil Fuel Subsidy Reform and Carbon Emissions in the MENA Region: Evidence from Jordan’s 2005 Reform University Paris-Dauphine, France Global Value Chain Participation and Firm-Level Upgrading: Evidence from Africa London School of Economics and Political Science, United Kingdom |
C3: Gender Location: Sala Giardino Chair: Paolo Groppo, FAO (R) Securing Rights, Securing Safety? Women’s Access to Land and Vulnerability to Intimate Partner Violence in Tanzania 1: Catholic University of the Sacred Heart, Italy; 2: University of Perugia, Italy Misperceived Gender Norms and the Gender Gap in Labor Force Participation: Experimental Evidence from Couples in Colombia 1: University of Strasbourg,, France; 2: Pontificia Universidad Javeriana, Bogota, Colombia; 3: IADB Domestic Equality Index FAO (R), Italy Weathering inequality: Age and gender divides in labour outcomes under climate stressors in rural sub-Saharan Africa Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, Italy |
| 1:30pm - 2:30pm |
Lunch Location: Room Lunch |
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| 2:30pm - 4:00pm |
D1: The Mediterranean at the crossroads: challenges and opportunities for Africa and Europe (Session organized by CNR-ISMed) Location: Sala Svizzeri Chair: Salvatore Capasso, ISMED-CNR The Mediterranean at the crossroads: challenges and opportunities for Africa and Europe - CNR-ISMed Presentations of the Symposium Offshore Wind and Fisheries: Economic Impacts in the Strait of Sicily China’s Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) and Its Impact on Trade: Evidence from the MENA and Mediterranean Region The socio-economic impact of Marine Spatial Planning on some key sectors of the blue economy in Sicily Beyond the Battlefield: Geoeconomic Drivers of Country-Specific Geopolitical Risk |
D2: Migration, Mobility, and Social Inclusion Location: Sala Terrazzo Chair: Maria C. Lo Bue, University of Trieste Driven to leave: Analyzing the factors behind emigration in Africa 1: Bank of Italy; 2: la Sapienza university, Italy Should I Stay or Should I Go? Return migration: evidence from Italy University of Rome "Tor Vergata", Italy Intergenerational mobility of education in Vietnam: Evidence from the Vietnam War 1: University of Trieste, Italy; 2: Department of Applied Economics, University of Minnesota, USA Migration and Local Development in Italy’s Inner Areas 1: INAPP, Italy; 2: Riabitare l'Italia, Italy |
D3: Governance, Institutions, and Political Economy Location: Sala Giardino Chair: Rita De Siano, University of Naples Parthenope Assessing the Socioeconomic Co-benefits of Nature-based Solutions in Agriculture: A Systematic Review 1: Sapienza University, Rome, Italy; 2: BOKU University, Wien, Austria Laïcité in schools: Evidence from a School Ban in Belgium University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg Exploring the relationship between Corruption and Ethnic Fractionalization: The Role of Foreign Aid in Developing Countries 1: Parthenope University, Italy; 2: Parthenope University, Italy; 3: Parthenope University, Italy Digitalization and Agricultural Resilience to Climate Change: The Case of Nigeria 1: Università degli Studi di Roma Tor Vergata; 2: Università degli Studi di Napoli Parthenope; 3: Università degli Studi Niccolò Cusano |
| 4:00pm - 4:30pm |
Coffee break Location: Sala Svizzeri |
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| 4:30pm - 6:00pm |
E1: One health Location: Sala Svizzeri The One Health Approach and Development: Relevance of the Research on the Social Exposome Presentations of the Symposium The One Health Approach and Development Understanding Expotypes in Europe The Evolution of Health Inequalities in Italy (1984-2023) The Italian Ministry of Health through a One Health approach: a new vision of integrated health |
E2: Infrastructure, Development and Evaluation (Session organized by SIET) Location: Sala Terrazzo Chair: Jerome massiani, Università Milano Bicocca Chair(s): Jerome Massiani (Univ Milano at Bicocca), Federico Perali (Uniiversity of Verona, Italy)
Infrastructure, Development and Evaluation (SIET) Presentations of the Symposium From Chao-Phya to Orbassano: how should we deal with taxation in project evaluation? Structural gravity trade model and transport policy analysis How Will Climate Change Reshape The Car? The Potential of Artificial Intelligence as Core Infrastructure in the Tourism Sector |
E3: Polycrisis, Well-Being, Education Location: Sala Giardino Chair: Erdgin Mane, The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) Understanding Relative Well-Being: Empirical Insights from Subjective Rankings 1: University of Florence, Italy; 2: International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI); 3: Partnership for Economic Policy (PEP) Driving Impact or Missing the Mark? Lessons learned from e-Extension Platform Deployment in Rural Sri Lanka 1: FAO, Italy; 2: FAO, Italy; 3: FAO, Italy; 4: FAO, Italy; 5: CGIAR, Italy; 6: HARTI, Sri Lanka; 7: HARTI, Sri Lanka Broken Continuity: The Adverse Effects of Teacher Turnover on Academic Outcomes European University Institute, Italy Polycrisis in Agrifood Systems: Climate-Conflict Interactions and Labor Dynamics for Women and Youth in 21 African Countries 1: ISDC – International Security and Development Center, Berlin, Germany; 2: IFPRI – International Food Policy Research Institute, Washington, DC, USA; 3: FAO – The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, Rome, Italy; 4: Humboldt University of Berlin, Berlin, Germany; 5: Leibniz Institute of Vegetable and Ornamental Crops, Großbeeren, Germany |
| 6:00pm - 7:00pm |
Keynote: Nathalie Picard Location: Sala Svizzeri Chair: Federico Perali, Uniiversity of Verona |
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| 8:00pm | Social Dinner (Cacciani Ristorante Storico, Frascati) |
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