Provocateur
Webinars
As part of the agricultural
and applied economic priorities and solutions project, we are going to host
webinars to encourage greater engagement in the ideas presented at the
workshop. Please consider attending to hear more about these innovative and forward-thinking
ideas!
All webinars will be recorded
and made available on the C-FARE YouTube Channel.
This is a C-FARE facilitated event and part of AAEA Government Relations Activities.
This is a C-FARE facilitated event and part of AAEA Government Relations Activities.
Keith
Coble, A W.L. Giles Distinguished Professor of Agricultural Economics,
Mississippi State University
Keith
Coble will discuss his vision for how our profession can contribute to solving
important problems relating to agricultural production and policy questions
associated with those problems. He will suggest that long-standing risks such
as market volatility and weather and climate change will continue to pose new
challenges while environmental and resource constraints will grow. However, the
data used to answer important empirical questions appears be changing
dramatically and big data is opening many new doors for research. Ultimately
policy makers will still value quality scientific research from objective
sources. The challenge is for our profession to provide it.
James
Vercammen, Professor of Food and Resource Economics, University of British
Columbia
Academic
work in agricultural economics is increasingly driven by the availability of
high-quality data sets. While this is good in that important policy questions
can be answered more carefully, it does mean, however, that subject areas
such as agribusiness and food supply chains that are not well endowed with data
are not receiving the research attention they deserve. Graduate students
must be shown the value of strong conceptual frameworks, case studies and
structural econometric methods of empirical analysis to ensure
that they are well equipped to effectively tackle a broad array
of topics in their professional careers.
Jayson
Lusk, Regents Professor and Willard Sparks Endowed Chair, Oklahoma State
University
The
presentation will discuss emerging issues and priority areas related to food
policy and consumer concerns about the the food.
Madhu
Khanna, Professor
of Agricultural and Consumer Economics, University of Illinois at
Urbana-Champaign
Sustainably
growing the food needed to feed 9 billion people by mid-century in the face of
climate change and growing policy interest in bioenergy is a grand societal
challenge. Integrated approaches that link natural systems with human decisions
and that improve our understanding of the effects of climate change on human
and natural systems and the potential for adaptation are critical to finding
innovative solutions. The potential to use big data to improve private and
societal decision-making, the challenges of designing effective policies to
address the multiple ecosystem services affected by agricultural systems and
the importance of understanding the multi-dimensional spillover effects of
agricultural, energy and environmental policies will be discussed.
Mike
Woods, Chair of the Department of Agricultural Economics, Oklahoma State University
The
talk will briefly assess contributions made by agricultural economists to
enhance the well-being of rural residents through research and outreach. Many
models and approaches have been utilized to address issues of economic growth,
wealth creation, poverty, and many quality of life factors. Emerging needs
related to technology, health care and education will be reviewed. Agricultural
economists have much to offer through applied research, extension programming
and classroom instruction.
International economics
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