Organized Symposium sessions highlight ideas or works-in-progress on a topic involving cooperative or competing efforts by two or more panelists. Symposia may involve panel discussions of prepared questions, debates, roundtable meetings, or other formats. Formal paper presentations are discouraged, nonetheless if such presentations are proposed, the organizer should explain how they will fit into a tightly coherent theme. At least half of the session time will be reserved for discussion among the panelists and between the panelists and the audience. Symposia may offer discussions of policy issues, research methods, emerging research results, teaching or outreach topics, issues in professional organization, or other matters.
Organized Symposia are concurrent sessions. Each concurrent session is 90 minutes in duration. Other concurrent sessions include, Selected Paper Sessions, Lightning Sessions, Organized Symposia, Track Sessions, Invited Paper Sessions, and Invited Case Study Sessions.
Tuesday, July 30
1:00 pm - 2:30 pm CST
Studio 2 (2nd Floor)
The “Draft National Strategy for Reducing Food Loss and Waste and Recycling Organics” released in December 2023 noted that data gaps and limitations regarding food waste measurement make it difficult to understand the extent and consequences of food loss and waste and track progress toward the national goal of reducing food loss and waste by 50%. Several efforts are underway to develop and test methods of measuring household food waste including those using primary data collection, modeling, and analysis of secondary data. The purpose of this session is to present and discuss the pros and cons of different methods of measuring household food waste and the resulting estimates.
Moderator: Linda S. Kantor, USDA-Economic Research Service
Panelists:
Monday, July 29
10:00 am - 11:30 am CST
Studio 9 (2nd Floor)
Drawing on a group of panel members with a wealth of experience conducting, supporting, funding, and managing interdisciplinary research, this session will focus on a wide-ranging discussion of several key dimensions of the interdisciplinary research process, with specific focus on its conduct and management, its evaluation in the promotion and tenure (P&T) process, and building academic structures to support it.
Organizer: Ian M. Sheldon, The Ohio State University
Moderator: Amy W. Ando, The Ohio State University
Panelists:
Tuesday, July 30
1:00 pm - 2:30 pm CST
Studio 9 (2nd Floor)
This session is for current and potential new instructors to discuss existing or potential courses in agriculture and food economics designed to attract students from other fields. AAEA members have increasing opportunities to teach these “outreach” electives, which typically have minimal prerequisites and combine students from various backgrounds, posing special challenges for course design and teaching not encountered when teaching agricultural economics majors. We will open with discussion of experience with a course that has no textbook (AREC 150 at Arizona), then courses from which textbooks have been developed such as Food & Nutrition Economics (Davis & Serrano, 2016) and the forthcoming Food Economics: Agriculture, Nutrition & Health (Masters & Finaret 2024), to help AAEA members find and use course materials best suited to their university’s needs.
Moderator: William A. Masters, Tufts University
Panelists:
Monday, July 29
2:45 pm - 4:15 pm CST
Studio 2 (2nd Floor)
This panel session intends to offer dynamic discussions for both international and domestic students seeking job opportunities immediately after completing their PhD. The panelists will share experiences and offer examples to assist participants creating various feasible pathways in early career establishment and decisions.
Organizer: Chyi-Lyi Liang, North Carolina A&T State University
Panelists:
Monday, July 29
2:45 pm - 4:15 pm CST
Salon E (3rd Floor)
Members of our profession who work in Academia must navigate the complex world of academic hierarchy. Increasingly, we are asked to work in multidisciplinary teams, and almost assuredly, our departments and units answer to some administrators who do not understand our profession. Thus, it is essential to “sell our vision and value” to non-economists. The three speakers come from the agriculture and applied economics professions and have moved into administration.
Moderator: Keith H. Coble, PhD
Panelists:
Tuesday, July 30
10:00 am - 11:30 am CST
Acadia (3rd Floor)
This symposium will provide information on the NIFA application and proposal process as well as solicit feedback from researchers regarding new, emerging, and missing topics in the AFRI-RFA. The session will include:
New researchers and researchers from underserved institutions including MSIs, HBCUs, and small- to mid-sized institutions are particularly encouraged to attend as well as seasoned researchers who can provide insight on the proposal process.
Organizer: Charlotte Tuttle, National Institute of Food and Agriculture
Panelists:
Tuesday, July 30
4:30 pm - 6:00 pm CST
Studio 9 (2nd Floor)
Spurred by the White House’s September 2022 Executive Order 14081, USDA is devising policies to support the development of the U.S. bioeconomy, whose goal is to substitute renewable resources for non-renewable resources through cutting-edge technological innovations in biotechnology and biomanufacturing, and through the production and processing of biomass feedstocks for bioenergy and biobased products. However, many producers and community-based organizations, particularly underserved communities, have not been fully informed or engaged in the discussion. It is also uncertain if stakeholders across agricultural sectors share the same perspectives of why, what, how, and where we are at various stages of the bioeconomy development. The participants in the panel will provide academic and Federal perspectives on how to identify best practices to further development of the bioeconomy in the U.S. and globally and how to measure their benefits and costs both to the overall economy as well as their distributional consequences.
Moderator: Joseph C. Cooper, USDA-Office of the Chief Economist
Panelists:
Monday, July 29
1:00 pm - 2:30 pm CST
Studio 2 (2nd Floor)
This COSBAE-organized symposium brings together university administrators to explore creative solutions toward the sustainability and growth of agricultural economics and agribusiness programs at 1890 land-grant institutions. Given financial and other constraints, the symposium creates a space for discussing directions for advancing the discipline and broadening the impact of existing programs.
Moderator: Patricia E. McLean-Meyinsse, Southern University and A&M College
Panelists:
Monday, July 29
10:00 am - 11:30 am CST
Studio 2 (2nd Floor)
In our organized symposium, we intend to discuss the positive and negative ramifications of policy options that could address farm employee and employer labor challenges in the United States. We aim to identify a set of policy options that could be mutually beneficial for employers and employees. Our format includes a small set of lightning talks on empirical issues of importance to the agricultural-labor policy discussion by rising stars in the agricultural labor field.
Organizers:
Tuesday, July 30
10:00 am - 11:30 am CST
Studio 2 (2nd Floor)
This session features four oral presentations and a discussion by leaders in the Agricultural and Applied Economics (AAE) profession. The topics addressed include quantifying the value generated by AAE departments, how to fund departments, AAE departments’ relationship with general economics, and a content analysis of how AAE leaders have approached the U.S. Land Grant mission over time.
Organizer/Moderator: Jill J McCluskey, Washington State University
Discussant: Rodolfo M. Nayga Jr., Texas A&M University
Presentations:
Monday, July 29
2:45 pm - 4:15 pm CST
Studio 9 (2nd Floor)
The objective of this proposed organized symposium is to bring AAEA members together to discuss the stressors and anxieties that AAEA members face, share techniques to alleviate mental and physical challenges related to work activities, and gather information on how AAEA can support member needs related to mental health and wellbeing. The session will consist of interactive activities and a panel of AAEA members with varied backgrounds and experiences. The panelists will share their experiences and provide insights on skills and techniques that could be used, for example, to increase comfort and reduce anxiety and stress levels in the work environment, respond to anxious and stressed students/colleagues, and tap into one's' own potential for inspiration and creativity to create a motivating learning/work environment and to maintain personal motivation.
Moderator: John Lai, PhD, University of Florida
Organizers:
Panelists:
Monday, July 29
1:00 pm - 2:30 pm CST
Studio 9 (2nd Floor)
This session features short presentations on issues of smallholder farming, agricultural development, and food security in low-and middle-income countries. Despite economic development in many countries, food insecurity remains widespread, affecting hundreds of millions of humans. The concept of food security is evolving, if not politicized, and now encompasses gender, inequality, and healthy diets unattained by most, including in industrialized countries. Several concepts get amalgamated into food insecurity, although they are vastly different and have very different implications for human development. The short presentations are followed by a moderated discussion with the audience. The presenters involve a mixture of high-potential early-career researchers and more senior colleagues.
Organizer: Ashok Mishra, Arizona State University
Moderator: William Masters, Tufts University
Sponsoring Association: IAAE
Tuesday, July 30
10:00 am - 11:30 am CST
Studio 9 (2nd Floor)
The European Green Deal aimed at transforming the EU into a more competitive and resource-efficient economy with a final objective of zero emissions of greenhouse gasses by 2050. The food sector (Farm to Fork Strategy) was at the forefront of this strategy trying to make EU food systems healthy, fair and environmental-friendly, as well as more resilient to unanticipated shocks. Consumers are playing a key role in such a transition process. Regulations have generated a race among stakeholders to provide more sustainable food choices through with a large number of claims. Recently, in March 2024, the UE Commission launched the New Directive to empower the green transition through better protection against unfair practices (greenwashing) and better information. There is a need of new research about consumers’ preferences for sustainable extrinsic food attributes, including packaging and the role of information and communication in purchasing decisions. This Session is organized around three cases studies to stimulate a discussion about the role of consumers to facilitate the green transition and the future research challenges.
Organizer: Jose M. Gil, EAAE
Discussant: Vicenzina Caputo, Michigan State University
Wednesday, May 15, 2024
May 24, 2024
May 31, 2024
June 27, 2024