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April 2022, Issue 8

AAEA Deadlines    

February 15, 2022
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AAEA News

2022 AAEA Executive Board Election Candidates

President-Elect
Rodolfo Nayga, Texas A&M University
Brian Roe, Ohio State University

Director
Gail Cramer, Louisiana State University
Aslihan Spaulding, Illinois State University
Glynn Tonsor, Kansas State University
Parke WIlde, Tufts University

The AAEA elections will end on May 15, 2022 at 11:59 pm CDT.

Cast Your Vote

If you have any questions or trouble accessing the online ballot, please contact the AAEA Office at (414) 918-3190 or at Info@aaea.org.

President-Elect Seeks Volunteers for AAEA Committees

Members interested in shaping the future of the AAEA can play an essential role by serving on an association committee. Committee service also offers an excellent opportunity for developing contacts and increasing professional networking.

Any AAEA member interested and willing to serve on a committee should contact Kristen McGuire at kmcguire@aaea.org or (414) 918-3190 by May 3, 2022.
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2022 AAEA Annual Meeting
Anaheim, CA

We look forward to seeing everyone at the 2022 AAEA Annual Meeting, which will take place from July 31-August 2 at the Marriott Anaheim in Anaheim, CA.

Registration for the 2022 AAEA Annual Meeting is open! Please contact the AAEA Business Office at info@aaea.org or (414) 918-3190 with any questions.
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2022 Travel Grants

These grants defray housing and transportation costs associated with attending the 2022 AAEA Annual Meeting in Anaheim CA, July 31 - August 2, 2022. The amount of the travel grant awarded will depend on the number of applications received. There are Travel Grants for both International and Domestic travel.

The AAEA Trust is now accepting applications for Travel Grants to the 2022 AAEA Annual Meeting in Anaheim, CA. Deadline for applications is May 25, 2022.

Domestic
Travel Grants

International
Travel Grants

Register for the 2022 Employment Center

Registration is now open for the 2022 Employment Center taking place Monday, August 1, during the 2022 AAEA Annual Meeting in Anaheim, CA. The Employment Center offers a great opportunity for highly qualified candidates to connect with a number of employers during the Joint Annual Meeting. This year's Employment Center features a simplified registration and posting process that is integrated into the AAEA Job Board. Applicant registration is FREE.

For more information, please visit the online Employment Center. If you have any questions please feel free to contact Samantha Bilgrien. We hope to see you in Anaheim!

2022 Teaching, Learning, and Communication Section: Graduate Student Teaching Awards

The TLC is an active group of AAEA members interested in the theory, scholarship and practice of learning, teaching, and communication. Given that a large majority of AAEA members have responsibilities in these three areas, the TLC’s activities are developed to enhance members’ skills in the on-campus classroom, off-campus workshop, and in a presentation to a community group.
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Call for submissions: AAEA invited paper sessions at the 2023 ASSA Annual Meeting

President-Elect Norbert Wilson is soliciting proposals and suggestions for AAEA invited paper sessions at the 2023 Allied Social Sciences Association (ASSA) Annual Meeting in New Orleans, LA, January 6-8, 2023.

The objective of AAEA sessions at the ASSA Annual Meeting is to share new knowledge of interest to economists. The AAEA encourages sessions that will draw widely from ASSA attendees, including sessions jointly sponsored with other ASSA member associations.
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Upcoming Workshop: Using Scanner Data for Food Economics Research—Resources and Approaches for New and Advanced Researchers

Dates: August 3-4, 2022 (immediately following the AAEA meetings)
Location: Hilton Hotel, Anaheim, CA with the option to attend virtually

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The 2022 Extension Competition for Graduate Students

The AAEA Extension Competition for Graduate Students provides an opportunity to develop and/or get feedback on programs that communicate research to extension (usually noneconomist) audiences. Entries can be based upon graduate student research for a thesis, dissertation or other academic work. The competition is sponsored by the Extension and Graduate Student Sections.
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AETR General Call for Papers

Applied Economics Teaching Resources (AETR) is putting out a general call for papers for innovations in teaching and Extension education. Over the past two years, higher education has a seen dramatic shifts in teaching and extension, which has resulted in significant innovations in instructional delivery, new methods, new pedagogy and innovations in how we teach and do Extension. AETR seeks manuscript submissions highlighting these innovations and new methods, content, and approaches. Manuscript submissions can include research articles, commentaries, methods and case studies. Please email abstracts of your submission idea to the editor at aetr.editor@gmail.com. The abstract should include a proposed title, up to 500 word abstract for the proposed manuscript, and list of authors. The editor will review abstracts, provide feedback and invite submissions for regular submissions, thematic sections and feature articles on this topic.
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Call for Papers
Special Issue, “Agricultural and Applied Economics and Inequity and Discrimination Faced by African Americans in the United States”

Applied Economics Perspectives and Policy - Deadline extended
The editors of AEPP invite authors to submit articles for a special issue on inequities and discrimination faced by African Americans in the United States related to topics within agricultural and applied economics. AEPP publishes research related to agriculture; animal, plant, and human health; energy; environment; food and consumer behavior; international development; natural hazards, natural resources; population and migration; and regional and rural development.
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Call for Submissions:
AETR Diversity Special Issue

Submissions will be accepted for the special issue through February 15, 2022 March 16, 2022 extended to May 1, 2022. We encourage submissions sooner to be able to help readers benefit from accepted submission. All articles will go through a double-blind peer review process and be available online via Advanced Access for readers once accepted.
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Call for Papers
Special Issue, “Contemporary Adjustments Needed to Teaching Water Economics in Light of Challenges Facing the Water Sector and Its Users”

Water Economics has been taught for many decades at undergraduate and graduate levels. Teaching approaches included the traditional profit/utility-maximizing agents' behavior (farmers, households) where individuals decide the allocation of a given amount of water among consuming activities. Main issues such as availability, allocation, pricing, investment, technology, and management of water resources have been at the forefront of the field of water economics. In recent decades, water resources worldwide have seen many transformations both locally and globally, making the challenges facing water-using agents much more complicated and, as a result, higher skills are needed for the tools and methods they employ.
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Choices Magazine Call for Articles
Choices Themes, Single Articles, and Data Visualizations

The AAEA welcomes proposals for themes, and data visualizations and individual articles to be published in Choices Magazine.

Choices, a free, online-only publication, is the principal outreach vehicle of the Agricultural & Applied Economics Association (AAEA). Choices articles broadly communicate the results of quality economic analysis applied to issues and challenges faced by public and private sector decision makers in ways that enhance public understanding of and appreciation for the work of agricultural economists.
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Government Relations & Washington Update

April 2022

President Biden Releases FY 2023 Budget Request
On March 28th, President Biden released his budget proposal for fiscal year 2023.  The proposal had been delayed as Congress worked to finalize appropriations for 2022.  The proposed budget would increase overall domestic spending by about 7% over current levels.  USDA discretionary spending would be increased by $3.8 billion, with climate, conservation and clean energy being identified as priority areas for new funding.
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Other News

Imagine your Future as a Foreign Service Officer with the USDA Foreign Agricultural Service (FAS)

The Foreign Agricultural Service (FAS) is one of the U.S. government’s four foreign affairs agencies as designated by the Foreign Service Act of 1980. The core mission of FAS is to facilitate trade and international cooperation, which are critical to the vitality of the U.S. agricultural sector.  

Learn more: https://www.fas.usda.gov/fas-foreign-service-careers-0
https://www.fas.usda.gov/hear-our-officers

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Call for Applications: Promoting the Purchase to Plate Tools for Food Demand and Diet Quality Research

The Gifford Center for Population Students at UC Davis, in collaboration with the Economic Research Service of the USDA seeks to promote the use of the Purchase to Plate tools developed by USDA. To this end, the Gifford Center invites research proposals that use Purchase to Plate tools to conduct research on diet quality, food choices, the cost of a healthy diet, nutritional food insecurity, economic and racial/ethnic disparities in diets, and effects of policy on these outcomes, among other themes. Proposals may address multiple research areas. The goal of this program is to fund proposals focused on these core research areas that display sound research design and high potential impact. Thanks to generous funding from USDA-ERS, the Gifford Center anticipates funding up to five proposals, up to a maximum of $75,000 per award. Application deadline is May 2, 2022.

To learn more about this funding opportunity please visit: https://gifford.ucdavis.edu/usda-pp-grants/



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