Tabla de Contenidos: “…by Jean-Jacques Deschamps -- Prospects for the Participation of Commercial Banks in Providing Credit to the Agriculture and Food Sectors in Russia in View of the Financial Crisis by Jury Trushin -- Session III: Complementary Commercial Credit Schemes in the Agricultural Sector -- Leasing, Trade Credit and Commodity Financing in OECD Countries by Glenn Pederson -- The Impact of FDI in the Downstream Sector on Agricultural Finance, Investment, and Production: Evidence from the CEEC by Hamish Gow -- The Impact of FDI in the Upstream and Downstream Sectors on Investment in Agriculture in the NIS by Christian Foster -- Practice and Problems of Agricultural Crediting by Private Food Market Operators by Arkadiy Zlochyevskiy -- Grain Receipts in Economies in Transition: An Introduction to Financing of Warehouse Receipts by Eusebio Martin -- Agricultural Insurance in a Transition Economy by Jerry Skees -- Session IV: Credit Subsidies and Credit Guarantees in Agriculture -- Preferential Credits in Countries in Transition from the Perspective of a Commercial Bank by Gerard Van Empel -- Credit Support Schemes Provided by the Support and Guarantee Fund for Farmers and Forestry in the Czech Republic by Tomas Doucha -- The Agricultural Credit Guarantee System in Japan by Takao Yurugi -- The Activities of the Rural Credit Guarantee Foundation in Hungary by Aniko Ulrich -- Agricultural Loan Guarantee Fund for Nizhny Novgorod Oblast: Key Design Issues by Vera Matusevich -- Country Notes -- -Belarus by Teresa Degtyareva -- Brazil by Marcelo Guimaraes -- Bulgaria by Experts from the Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry, and Agrarian Reform (MAFR) and State Fund for Agriculture -- China by Shaojun Yang -- Croatia by Vesna Matijasevic -- Estonia by Katrin Noorkoiv -- Indonesia by Dibyo Prabowo -- Kazakhstan by Muratbek Takambayev -- Slovak Republic by Zuzana Chrastinova…”