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Jane Kolodinsky, University of Vermont School cafeterias hurting from supply chain issues and prices hikes By: NBC News - October 18, 2021 According to a recent survey of 1,400 school nutrition directors, nearly all are concerned about supply chain issues and 90 percent about staffing shortages. School cafeterias face an additional challenge of meeting USDA nutritional guidelines to get government funding while staying on budget. (Continued...) Madhu Khanna, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Di Fang, University of Arkansas Arkansas researchers receive part of $10 million federal agriculture grant By: Talk Business & Politics - October 14, 2021 “Forage-based agricultural production has always been important to the agricultural economy in Arkansas,” John Anderson, head of the agricultural economics and agribusiness department, said. “This project will provide a tremendous opportunity to explore innovative ways to improve the productivity of forage-based production systems as well as to capture additional environmental and social benefits from those systems.” Fang said her work will “estimate consumers’ and society’s valuation of agricultural products generated from diverse perennial circular systems as well as identifying and evaluating key health and social benefits of diverse perennial circular systems.” (Continued...) Craig Gundersen, Baylor University A spiritual calling to help the hungry brought Craig Gundersen to Baylor’s Collaborative on Hunger and Poverty By: Baptist News Global - October 19, 2021 Conquering food insecurity is not only one of the key social issues of our time but should be a top priority for people of faith, said Craig Gundersen, a leading expert on the subject who recently joined the Baylor Collaborative on Hunger and Poverty. (Continued...) Duncan Boughton, Michigan State University Myanmar's hidden hunger By: The New Humanitarian - October 19, 2021 “To overlook the food-insecure rural households in the Delta and Dry Zones would be to overlook almost half the food-insecure rural households in Myanmar,” said Duncan Boughton, a professor of agricultural, food, and resource economics at Michigan State University who was also part of the team behind the IFPRI paper. (Continued...) Jeffrey Dorfman, University of Georgia
Kun Peng, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Soybean futures held early COVID warning By: Morning Ag Clips & Herald News - October 20, 2021 Global financial markets collapsed in March 2020 as the COVID-19 pandemic spread across the world. But weeks earlier, soybean futures had already started providing an early warning sign of troubles ahead. Soybean futures were "the canary in the coal mine,” according to a team of agricultural economists from the University of Illinois, who studied soybean, corn, and wheat market trading in early 2020. (Continued...) Rodney Holcomb, Oklahoma State University Oklahoma’s Small Meat Processors- OSU’s Rodney Holcomb Looks Ahead By: Oklahoma Farm Report - October 15, 2021 At this year’s Rural Economic Outlook Conference at Oklahoma State University, Dr. Rodney Holcomb, agricultural economics professor at OSU, told Radio Oklahoma’s own KC Sheperd that in Oklahoma, the local food movement had small, local processing facilities backed up before COVID crippled processing capacity at the large plants. (Continued...) Trey Malone, Michigan State University Pork is already super expensive. This new animal-welfare law could push prices higher By: WSMV - October 11, 2021 Within California, the law could lead to a decline in the number of options, result in fewer niche offerings, and could make certain pork products too expensive for lower-income people, further limiting their access to proper nutrition, said Michigan State University agricultural economist Trey Malone. "There may be a brief period of disruption [when the regulations start Jan. 1], but nothing like the apocalyptic predictions of significant long-term shortages or drastically higher prices," Richard J. Sexton, report co-author and distinguished professor of agricultural and resource economics at UC Davis, told CNN Business. (Continued...) Jana Hilsenroth, University of Florida Past, Present, and Future: Status of Women and Minorities in Agricultural and Applied Economics By: WBOC, Manhattan Week, Magazines Today, News Blaze, Seed Daily, Next Wave Group, Sangri Times, One News Page, News Channel Nebraska, & KTVN - October 15, 2021 The last efforts to track diversity, equity, and inclusion in the agricultural and applied economic fields were more than two decades ago. Recent research shows data from a new survey collected by the Committee on Women in Agricultural Economics (CWAE) and the Committee on the Opportunities and Status of Blacks in Agricultural Economics (COSBAE) and supported by the AAEA Trust to provide an updated snapshot of the status of underrepresented and historically underserved groups in agricultural and applied economics, and further quantify faculty diversity using the Shannon's Diversity Index, capture sentiments regarding departmental culture, and document sexual harassment and discrimination experience within the profession. (Continued...) |
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