The international seminar is organised by the Department of Agricultural Economics and Engineering of the Alma Mater Studiorum University of Bologna. It has been endorsed by the European Association of Agricultural Economists (EAAE) as its 105th seminar.
It is organised also under the patronage and with the financial support of the Italian Ministry of Agricultural and Forestry Policies.
The BEAN-QUORUM project is co-funded by the European Union through the Asia-link Programme. The Asia-Link Programme is an initiative by the European Commission to promote regional and multilateral networking between higher education institutions in Europe and developing countries in Asia. The programme aims to promote the creation of new partnerships and new sustainable links between European and Asian higher education institutions, and to reinforce existing partnerships.