ISET PI Becomes a Member of Georgian Alliance on Agricultural and Rural Development (GAARD)
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ISET PI became a member of the Georgian Alliance on Agricultural and Rural Development (GAARD) on June 9th. The GAARD was established in 2014, and includes people from the Ministry of Agriculture, academic institutions, non-governmental organizations and independent experts.
The GAARD is a civil society mechanism which aims at:
Joint policy advocacy and lobbying
Research and evidence building to feed the relevant policy dialogue, identify policy needs and create analytical information database
Monitoring and evaluation of the implemented policies.
There are 5 different working groups in GAARD: (i) Food Security, (ii) Access to Services, (iii) Access to Finance, (iv) Cooperation and Smallholder farmers, and (v)Environment and Diversity and Land Usage Group.
ISET Continues Exchanges with University of Lausanne
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After a group of economics students and professors from UNIL visited Tbilisi earlier this year and undertook a course in Mechanism Design taught by ISET’s senior academic advisor, Professor Motty Perry (University of Warwick), a delegation consisting of ISET professor Florian Biermann, three second year students (Mzia Giorgadze, Gela Gelashvili, Laura Manukyan) and two ISET alumni (Saba Devdariani and Aram Grigorian) paid a return visit to Switzerland.
The main purpose of the visit was to participate in a research workshop about Economic theory with Bettina Klaus (HEC Lausanne). The ISET students presented their Master’s Theses, while Lausanne PhD students shared their recent and ongoing papers and exchanged ideas about related research topics. ISET students also had a chance to discuss their future
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