Greetings and welcome to our web site
Welcome to our ‘virtual home’ and thank you for your interest in the International Center for Applied Finance and Economics (InterCAFE). We are a specialized research center under the umbrella of Institute of Research and Community Empowerment (LPPM), Bogor Agricultural University (IPB). We are located in IPB Baranang Siang Campus next to the beautiful Botanical Garden in Bogor.
The dynamic, innovative and passionate team of researchers of the InterCAFE is proud to share information on our activities. The Center has been in existence since 2005 and we continue our mission of studying applied finance and economics in relation to the development process. We welcome you to learn more about our researches, training and other activities and throughout this website you will find sections devoted to our activities, our research coverage and our published contributions to the literature of applied finance and economics.
We hope you find your visit fruitful. Your feedback on how our website could be improved and also any contributions would be very much welcomed.
InterCAFE team
As part of supporting IPB as World Class University through excellent research, InterCAFE has built some international collaboration. Following collaboration with Adelaide University, cooperation with Georg August University of Goettingen, Germany has been established. Those co-operations cover such matters as exchange of staff and students, participation in seminars and academic meetings, joint trainings, joint research activities, exchange of publications, academic materials and other information, joint quality assurance and benchmarking. Joint research and publications between InterCAFE and the two international partners can be found in other pages.
Since February 2009, InterCAFE has been conducting research on Effects of Biofuels on Agricultural Development, Food Security, Poverty and the Environment in Indonesia funded by IFAD (International Fund for Agricultural Development). This research is aim to help Indonesian policy makers and other stakeholders put together a coherent set of policies on biofuel development based on a systematic and rigorous assessment of the effects of biofuel development on food security, poverty and the environment in the context of Indonesia’s political economy environment. This study is implemented in 2 years (will be ended in February 2011) and consist of field-based studies and quantitative modeling work to generate results and findings necessary to meet the objectives. In line with the project objectives, InterCAFE conducted training programs or capacity building for faculty members, researchers, NGO workers and government officials, on the application of CGE and InAPSiM models. Some series of Focus Group Discussion (FGD) to obtain feedback and inputs or other qualitative information from the participants such as policy makers and key stakeholders have been conducted.
