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April 2023, Issue 8

AAEA Deadlines    

May 3, 2023: Volunteers for AAEA Committees

May 12, 2023: 2023 Extension Competition for Graduate Students Submissions

May 15, 2023: 2023 AAEA Election Closes

May 24, 2023: AAEA Invited Paper Sessions at 2024 ASSA Annual Meeting Submissions

May 25, 2023: Domestic and International Travel Grants

May 25, 2023: Applications for Editor of AEPP

June 7, 2023: 2023 Annual Meeting Early Bird Registration

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2023 AAEA Executive Board Election and AAEA Section Elections

President-Elect
Timothy Beatty, University of California, Davis
Lisa House, University of Florida

Director
Vincenzina Caputo, Michigan State University
Kathleen Liang, North Carolina A&T State University
Ashok Mishra, Arizona State University
Marco Palma, Texas A&M University

Section Elections
The AAEA Section elections will also take place concurrently with the Executive Board election. You will be able to complete the Executive Board and Section elections all in one place. Section members will be directed to the Section ballots for which they are eligible to vote upon submitting the Executive Board ballot.

The AAEA elections will end on May 15, 2023 at 11:59 pm CDT.

Cast Your Vote

After logging into your AAEA account, please be sure to click on "My Account" on the left-hand side of the webpage to begin your voting. 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.

Register for 2023 AAEA Annual Meeting

Membership Type Early Bird
on or before June 7
Advanced
June 8 - July 7
Onsite
July 8 or after
Member Non-member Member Non-member Member Non-member
Professional $475 $630 $550 $700 $625 $775
Senior $365 $485 $440 $560 $515 $635
Graduate Student $105 $290 $140 $325 $180 $370
Guests $60 $60 $60

*Guests include any interested party not professionally in or a student of the fields of agricultural or applied economics, or a related discipline. Guest fees include the welcome reception, plenary sessions, and all concurrent sessions (Guests under the age of 16 are free, and don’t need to register).

*Cancellation: Cancellations of meeting registrations are subject to a $50 processing fee. After the "Advanced" Registration deadline, no refunds will be given for meeting registrations or special event tickets. To cancel your Annual Meeting registration and/or special event tickets, contact the AAEA Business Office at (414) 918-3190 or info@aaea.org. Website: www.aaea.org. If AAEA cancels the meeting any paid meeting registration fees will be fully refunded.

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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.
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Call for Applications
Travel Grants for Early Career Professionals and Graduate Students

The AAEA Trust seeks applications for Early Career Professional and Graduate Student Travel Grants. These grants defray housing and transportation costs associated with attending the 2023 AAEA Annual Meeting in Washington, D.C. from July 23–25. The amount of the travel grant awarded will depend on the number of applications received. AAEA Trust Travel Grants (if awarded) are generally not large enough to offset all travel and lodging costs, but are instead meant to supplement institutional support.
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Call for Applications
AAEA Annual Meeting International Travel Grants

The AAEA Trust seeks applications for AAEA Annual Meeting International Travel Grants. These grants defray housing and transportation costs associated with attending the 2023 AAEA Annual Meeting in Washington, D.C. from July 23–25. The amount of the travel grant awarded will depend on the number of applications received. AAEA Trust Travel Grants (if awarded) are generally not large enough to offset all travel and lodging costs and will likely cover less than half of international travel costs.
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Call for Applications
Editorship of the Applied Economics Perspectives and Policy

The AAEA Executive Board invites ap­plications for one editor for Applied Economics Perspectives and Policy (AEPP) to serve from 2024 through 2026.  This call for applications is for an editor to manage Submitted Articles which contain original research results addressing real-world problems with sound research approaches and/or have strong policy relevance within the subject matter of the journal.   The degree to which candidate’s expertise complements that of the continuing editors, will be considered in the selection process. The AAEA is particularly interested in candidates who will bring ideas and innovations for helping AEPP to further its mission. Applica­tions should be sent electronically via PDF to Kristen McGuire, Executive Director, at kmcguire@aaea.org by May 25, 2023.
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Call for submissions: AAEA invited paper sessions at the 2024 ASSA Annual Meeting

President-Elect Rudy Nayga is soliciting proposals and suggestions for AAEA invited paper sessions at the 2024 Allied Social Sciences Association (ASSA) Annual Meeting in San Antonio, TX, January 5-7, 2024. 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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Preview of AAEA 2023 Annual Meeting Ticketed Events

Registration is NOW OPEN!; Registration is required for all workshops and luncheons. Additional details for each workshop a luncheon are coming soon.

Pre and Post Conference Workshops

SATURDAY, July 22
Event Time Registration Fee
PC11 BEER Section Industry Engagement Tour 1:00 pm – 5:00 pm $100
PC12 Numerical Methods in Agricultural Economics 8:00 am – 5:00 pm  $50
PC13 US Agricultural and environmental policy 9:30 am – 4:30 pm $55, GSS/ECP $25
Lunch Provided
PC14 Workshop on NIFA’s Agricultural Economics and Rural
Communities Awarded Projects
8:30 am – 5:00 pm $35
PC15    Understanding and utilizing USDA’s ERS  9:00 am – 12:00 pm $15
PC16    Conferencing Like a Pro: Strategies for a Successful
Conference Experience
4:00 pm-7:00 pm $20
$200 Stipend available to GSS and ECP
WEDNESDAY, July 26
PC51    Extension Section Agricultural Tour 8:00 am – 5:00 pm $100
PC52    Publishing Applied Economic Research on Health and Nutrition
Lunch Provided
8:00 am - 4:30 pm $55, GSS/ECP $30
PC53    Bayesian Econometrics and Machine
Learning
7:30 am – 5:00 pm $40

Speaker Series Luncheons

MONDAY, JULY 24
SP31 - Extension Section Speaker & Luncheon 11:30 am – 1:00 pm $74
SP32 - COSBAE and CWAE Speaker Series & Luncheon
Featured Speaker: Dr. Dewayne Goldman
“Equity Efforts at USDA”
11:30 am – 1:00 pm $74
TUESDAY, July 25
SP33     AERE and Land, Water and Environmental Economics (ENV) Section Luncheon
Featured Speaker: Dr. Seth Meyer
11:30 am - 1:00 pm $70
 

Register for the 2023 AAEA Employment Center

AAEA invites and encourages you to register for the 2023 AAEA Annual Meeting Employment Center, taking place July 23-25 in Washington, DC. This is a great opportunity for employers to connect with potential candidates.

Employers who register may post open positions on the AAEA Job Board, view resumes of applicants who are participating in the Employment Center, and they may also utilize a table in the Annual Meeting Employment Center to conduct in-person interviews with applicants.

Applicant registration is FREE. Please note: Applicants must be registered for the Annual Meeting in order to participate in the Employment Center.

For more information, please visit the online Employment Center. If you have any questions please feel free to contact Jessica Weister. We hope to see you in Washington, DC! Register Online.

Announcing the 2023 Extension Competition for Graduate Students
2023 AAEA Annual Meeting

The AAEA Extension Competition for Graduate Students provides an opportunity to develop and/or get feedback on programs that communicate research and practical information to Extension (usually non-economist) 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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AEPP Special Issue Announcement and Call for Participation: The Role and Scope of Agricultural and Applied Economics Departments

The past few decades have witnessed a dramatic change to the definition of agricultural economics. Long considered to be a profession dealing with supply and demand of agricultural commodities, it now compasses many dimensions of critical importance to the broader economy and global well-being: resource and environmental issues, health economics, rural and community economics, public policy analysis, social justice and equity locally and globally, and others. Many agricultural and applied economics (AAE) departments have led or adapted to these 21st century needs. However, AAE departments are also acutely challenged in many dimensions: defending their impact and budgets; pressures to become more interdisciplinary and address a wider set of stakeholders vis-à-vis the scarcity of human capital to address core production and farm management issues; and explaining their purpose as something other than a “second economics department.” If you have an idea for a topic or issue to be addressed in this special issue, please send a short paragraph describing your suggestion to Co-Editors: Jeff Dorfman (jdorfman@uga.edu) and Gopinath Munisamy (m.gopinath@uga.edu), University of Georgia, by April 15, 2023.
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Government Relations & Washington Update

April 2023

AAEA Joins Coalition Partners Advocating for Research Infrastructure
AAEA recently signed a letter to Congress led by the Association of Public and Land-grant Universities (APLU) requesting funding in the farm bill to support agricultural research infrastructure.  The letter calls on Congress to provide $5 billion in mandatory funding over five years through the Research Facilities Act within Title VII of the next Farm Bill. This investment would advance the critical work being done at public colleges of agriculture, veterinarian, forestry, and natural resources across the country.  Updated facilities would support American jobs, enable the recruitment of diverse workforce talent, address agricultural production challenges, and ensure U.S. leadership in food and agricultural innovation.
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Other News

Graduate Advising in Agricultural and Applied Economics Departments: Effects of the Student-Advisor Relationship

"Researchers Glynn Tonsor, Brian Coffey, and Justin Bina (Kansas State University) are seeking to quantify the impact of the graduate student-advisor relationship on student performance outcomes and faculty advising engagement. As part of that research effort, they are asking graduate students and faculty across the country's agricultural economics departments to participate in a brief online survey.

Please take 10 to 15 minutes to complete the provided online survey. Your participation is greatly appreciated. Questions about the survey or research project can be addressed to Glynn Tonsor (gtonsor@ksu.edu) or Justin Bina (jbina97@ksu.edu).

The Qualtrics link is :https://kstate.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_0TBd9V5YHlg0M9U.  

Distributional Impacts of Climate Change in the Agricultural Sector

Chicago, IL – November 16-17, 2023

Climate change affects all aspects of the agricultural sector, from technology and input choices, to the wages and welfare of workers, to the prices consumers pay for food and agricultural products. To promote research on the distributional impacts of climate change, the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER), with the generous support of the Economic Research Service at the US Department of Agriculture (USDA), will convene a research conference in Chicago on November 16-17, 2023.  The conference will be organized by Ellen Bruno and Meredith Fowlie of the University of California, Berkeley, and Danae Hernandez-Cortes of Arizona State University.
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Water Economics and Policy Journal: Call for Papers: Special Issue on Economic Impact of Climate Change on the Water Sector in MENA and Northern Mediterranean Countries

Climate change in MENA countries as well as Northern Mediterranean countries (Portugal, Spain, Italy, Cyprus, Greece and Southern France) has already made an evident impact affecting rain-fed agriculture as well as surface water reservoirs, aquifers’ natural recharge and cities. Crop varieties and tree species currently under cultivation in the Southern Mediterranean would progressively be appropriate in the North Mediterranean farming systems for adaptation. Rain is becoming more sporadic and more intensive with fewer number of rainy days, higher temperatures and longer summer months, leading to crop area shrinkage and increased need for water desalination. Hence, the increased water scarcity is affecting all the economic sectors (agriculture, water utilities, industry, tourism and the environment) and driving a higher demand for water, including for adaptation purposes. Domestic urban and rural water are under increased stress/variability and water service failures/interruptions are becoming more frequent causing social discontent. Although quantitative technical-physical climate impacts are quite abundant, the lack of economic value tags attached to such studies makes them less valuable for policy consideration and undertaking the necessary shifts and adaptations. Previous economic impact studies based their adaptation measures on deficit irrigation for instance, however data is showing that aquifers are under high stress and cannot be used for such a purpose. Similarly, surface water reservoirs’ storage capacity is negatively affected by siltation caused by the more torrential sporadic intensive rains reducing the supply of water and increasing the supply uncertainty. This special issue of Water Economics and Policy aims to bridge this gap.
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Special Issue in Food Policy: Transforming Global Agri-Food Value Chains

This special issue of Food Policy invites research papers that contribute to our understanding of the complex relationships between agri-food value chains, trade, domestic and international policies, and global value chains (GVCs). Recent socioeconomic and political events (e.g., COVID-19, Russia-Ukraine War) challenge conventional wisdom regarding the structure and importance of agri-food GVCs, raising the need for new research. The transformation of agri-food GVCs is necessary for addressing some of the global challenges identified in the UN Sustainable Development Goals. We encourage studies that address various aspects of the issues facing agri-food GVCs and their impact on various socioeconomic outcomes, such as food safety, consumer nutrition and health, employment and wages, and technology spillovers. We welcome submissions based on diverse approaches and methods (e.g., empirical and qualitative analyses, simulation models, case studies, and systematic reviews). We welcome submissions from various relevant disciplines, including applied economics, food systems science, transportation sciences, and other sciences, provided the studies are accessible to scientists from different disciplines.
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