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October 2023, Issue 21

AAEA Deadlines    

November 30, 2023

  • Pre & Post-conference Workshops

December 3, 2023

  • Track Sessions
  • Case Studies
  • Invited Papers

December 31, 2023

  • AETR Special Issue on AI

January 14, 2024

  • Selected Presentations: Papers and Posters
  • Organized Symposia

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November 30, 2023

December 3, 2023

January 14, 2024

Listening to the Diverse Voices of AAEA

As our AAEA Past President Norbert Wilson put it so aptly in his Presidential Address—what’s your story? In this webinar, we’ll hear from our panelists about their stories—where they are in their career now, how they got there professionally, and what experiences or forces shaped them and their career that might not be evident from their CVs or résumés.

When: Friday, October 20, 11:00 AM – 12:00 PM (Eastern Time)
Format: Zoom
Agenda: Each panelist will be given approximately 10 minutes to share their story. Additional time is reserved for audience Q&A and moderator questions.
Panelists:

  • Lazaro Sandoval, Senior Agricultural Attaché, USDA Foreign Agriculture Service
  • Kate Vaiknoras, Research Agricultural Economist, USDA Economic Research Service
  • Vidalina Abadam, Agricultural Economist, USDA Economic Research Service

Moderator: Andrew Sowell, Agricultural Economist, USDA Economic Research Service (AAEA Mentorship Committee member)

Note that space is limited. If at anytime you find out that you can longer attend the webinar, please email us at info@aaea.org to cancel so we may better accommodate pending registrations. Any pending registrants will be reviewed during the time of the webinar in the event there is room.

This webinar series was started in 2020 by the AAEA Mentorship Committee to provide an opportunity for AAEA members to share their diverse experiences, career paths, and backgrounds and for others to learn from their experience. Recordings of previous webinars in this series are available on AAEA’s YouTube channel (search within the channel for “diverse voices”).

SAS Webinar: How to Fight Hunger & Food Insecurity (and How Not to)

South Asia’s success in rapidly transitioning from massive food deficits to food surpluses and significant improvements in food security provides important lessons on the pathways towards getting to the SDG goal of zero-hunger. The historic focus on smallholder productivity growth and the consequent rise in incomes has long been seen as a blueprint for agriculture as an engine of economic growth and rural transformation. However, the unilateral strategy of increasing the “pile of grain” has resulted in substantial environmental and societal costs and climate related consequences. Staple grain fundamentalist agricultural policy has hampered food system diversity and slowed the fight against malnutrition. A reboot of food and agricultural policies that promote healthy, equitable and sustainable food systems are an urgent priority. We welcome you to join the South Asia Section of AAEA webinar with guest speaker Dr. Prabhu Pingali from Cornell University.

When: Wednesday, October 25, 9:00am—10:00am Eastern
Agenda: 40 minutes for presentation and 20 minutes for Q&A
Speaker: Dr. Prabhu Pingali, Professor & Director, Tata-Cornell Institute, Cornell University

Register now: https://us06web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZIqfuChqz0oGdWaKhMBFdHCtefgG-8lkTcW

Special Issue: Artificial Intelligence and Data Analytics Use in the Classroom and Academy

Applied Economics and Teaching Resources is calling for manuscripts about use of artificial intelligence (AI) and data analytics in undergraduate and graduate education in the classroom and across the academy. Submissions of case studies, teaching and extension scholarship and research, educational innovations and methods, extension education innovations and methods, and commentaries about use of artificial intelligence, including use of large language models (LLMs) and platforms, such as ChatGPT, Bing AI, Bard, amongst other, and data analytics in undergraduate and graduate education, extension education, and other learning venues in institutions of higher learning. This special issue is open to a wide array of topics related to artificial intelligence and data analytics across the agricultural and applied economics and agribusiness and management economics disciplines. Topics may include but are not limited to innovative use of AI and data analytics in the classroom; innovative data analytic teaching modules and teaching case studies; teaching case studies about the impact of AI on agriculture, the agricultural industry and society; ethical and academic concerning the use of AI in the academy; assessments of AI for different learning outcomes and tasks; and use of AI and data analytics in extension education programming.
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Other News

28th ICABR Conference

Call for Abstract Submissions
Innovation, Agricultural Productivity and Sustainability of the Bioeconomy 

In 2021, the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development released their report Making Better Policies for Food Systems, which documented that since 1960, global food production increased 390%, while the amount of land used to produce food increased by 10% and food systems account for 21-37% of GHG emissions. The OECD went on to say that agriculture is facing the triple challenge of providing adequate, affordable, safe and nutritious food for the growing population, providing livelihoods all along the food value chain and doing so while increasing the sector’s sustainability and contributing to combatting climate change. Meeting these challenges will require innovations that improve crop productivity, as well as contributing to a circular bioeconomy.
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2024 NAREA Conference

June 9 – 11, 2024   |    Rehoboth Beach, Delaware

Program Committee: Chair and President-Elect Donna Ramirez Harrington (University of Vermont, donna.ramirez-harrington@uvm.edu), and Selected Paper Committee Chair Christina McGranaghan (University of Delaware cmcgran@udel.edu).

NAREA invites abstracts for selected papers and posters to be presented at its 2024 Annual Meeting to be held in Rehoboth Beach, DE. We welcome submissions in all areas of resource, environmental, and agricultural economics and encourage submissions from a diversity of scholars—faculty, post-docs, students and other professionals— and especially from those who are under-represented in the economics profession.

Where to Submit: Abstracts for the annual meeting should be submitted through NAREA’s Annual Meeting submission system

Individual Selected Papers and Posters: Submission Deadline: February 10, 2024
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2024 NAREA Annual Meeting Post-Conference Workshop

Measuring and Enhancing Resilience of United States Rural Communities in the Context of Climate Variability

June 11 – 12, 2024   |    Rehoboth Beach, Delaware
Organizers: Laura Paul (USDA ERS, laura.paul@usda.gov) and Jonathan Malacarne (University of Maine, jonathan.malacarne@maine.edu)

Theme: Resilience describes the ability of an individual or community to anticipate, absorb, and recover from a negative shock. This workshop is motivated by the need to better understand the implications of increasing climate variability for the resilience of communities in the United States, acknowledging that implications can be either direct, such as the impacts of negative shock events on individuals and communities where they occur, or indirect, such as impacts on communities connected or adjacent to those experiencing shocks.
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68th Annual Conference of the Australasian Agricultural & Resource Economics Society

Date: February 6-9, 2024
Venue: Australian National University Campus, Canberra, Australia

Description: Theme: Grand Challenges at the Frontier of Applied Economics
The Australasian Agricultural and Resource Economics Society (AARES) is the pre-eminent organisation promoting applied economics research and policy engagement in agricultural and resources industries including, agribusiness, food systems, and the environment. Our journal, the Australian Journal of Agricultural and Resource Economics (AJARE) publishes original, high-quality, and interdisciplinary research and policy analysis pertaining to agriculture, the environment and natural resources.
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