AAEA Awards/Honors for the Department of Agricultural Economics
Here is a list of our 2010 AAEA award winners:
Dr. Ken Foster Named President-elect of the NAAEA: Professor and Department Head Ken Foster was named the President-elect of the National Association of Agricultural Economics Administrators (NAAEA). The mission of the NAAEA is to improve the leadership and management of agricultural economics programs; to support the acquisition of resources to carry out agricultural economics research, teaching, and extension programs; and to address common needs and concerns of agricultural economics administrators. Membership in the NAAEA includes individuals who administer departments or units in academia, public agencies and foundations offering and supporting agricultural economics, resource economics, agribusiness management and similar research, teaching, and/or Extension programs.
Dr. Maria Marshall Honored at AAEA Conference: Earlier this week, Professor Maria Marshall was recognized for her contributions to stakeholders. Dr. Marshall received the Distinguished Extension/Outreach Program: Less Than Ten Years Experience Award from the Agricultural and Applied Economics Association. This is the most prestigious award available for early career Extension professionals in the Agricultural Economics profession. For more information about Dr. Marshall and her programs visit her directory page.
Dr. Tom Hertel's 2010 AAEA Presidential Address: Over the past three years, there has been a convergence of interest in the global farm and food system and its contributions to feeding the world’s population as well as to ensuring the environmental sustainability of the planet. The 2007/2008 commodity crisis underscored the vulnerability of the global food system to shocks from extreme weather events, energy and financial markets, as well as government interventions in the form of export bans and other measures designed to avoid domestic adjustment to global scarcity. We have learned that a “perfect storm” in which all these factors coincide can have a devastating impact on the world’s poor, as well as putting considerable pressure on the world’s natural resource base.
Posters:
How Do Agribusiness Companies Select Their Innovation Projects?
Maud Roucan-Kane, Benjamin Gramig, Michael Boehlje, and Allan Gray
Syngenta and Sustainability: Implications for Corporate Strategy
Amber Rankin and Michael Boehlje
Producer Technology Use and the Value of Autonomy: The Case of rbST
Nicole Olynk (Christopher Wolf and Glynn Tonsor)
Demand for Live Seafood in the North Central Region
Kwamena K. Quagrainie
Making a Market for Miscanthus: Can New Contract Designs Solve the Biofuel Investment Holdup
Problem?
Steven Wu, Stephanie Rosch, Corinne Alexander, Wallace Tyner, and Joshua Yoder
Estimating the Inefficiency in Auction for Congestion Contracts
Devendra Canchi, Douglas Gotham, and F.T. Sparrow
The Economics of Reducing Package Size: Consumer Response and Returns to manufacturers
Metin Cakir, Joseph Balagtas and James Binkley
Business Dynamics and Informal Contracts: Experimental Evidence from the Cowpea Street
Food Sector in West Africa
Miriam Otoo, Joan Fulton, and Steven Wu
Improving Agricultural Irrigation on the Balkhab River, Afghanistan
Carson Jon Reeling, John Lee, Peter Mitchell, and Ghulam Hazrat Halimi
Potential Demand for a New Value-added Cowpea Product as Measured by the Willingness-to-
Pay for Cowpea Flour in West Africa
Miriam Otoo and Joan Fulton
Land Use Implications of Biofuel Production in the Presence of Idled Cropland and Crop Yield
Improvement: Analytical and Numerical General Equilibrium Analyses
Farzad Taheripour, Wallace Tyner and Dileep Birur
A Competing Values Approach to Small Family Business Succession
Amber Remble and Roman Keeney
Moderator:
H. Holly Wang Chinese Agricultural Commodity Price and Demand, and Their
Implications to Trade with United States
Alicia English Navigating Article Writing and the Publishing Process
Joseph Balagtas New Evidence on the Structure of Agricultural and Food Markets
Maria Marshall Enhancing Student Learning: Theory and Practice
Panelist:
Michael Boehlje Agribusiness Economics and Management: 100 Years of Professional
Contributions
Otto Doering, III Agricultural and Applied Economics Research: What Makes It Relevant
for Policy Advice?
Otto Doering, III COSBAE’s Role and Legacy of Achievements within AAEA
Discussant:
Thomas Hertel The Contribution of Agricultural Economists to the Understanding of
International Trade
Organizer:
Benjamin Gramig Managing Risk through Livestock Disease Policy
Alicia English Navigating Article Writing and the Publishing Process
Joseph Balagtas New Evidence on the Structure of Agricultural and Food Markets
Michael Boehlje The Nascent Bioeconomy for Industrial Markets: Green Goes from Plant
Material to Spandex
Maria Marshall Women in Agricultural Economics: A Centennial Celebration
Presentations:
H. Holly Wang, Measuring Heterogeneity in Consumer Preferences for Select Food Safety
Attributes in China
Dileep Birur and Thomas Hertel, (Robert Beach and Bruce McCarl), Global Implications of U.S.
Biofuels Polices in an Integrated partial and General Equilibrium Framework
Wallace Tyner, Frank Dooley, and Daniel Viteri, Alternative Pathways for Fulfilling the RFS
Mandate
Benoit Delbecq and Raymond Florax, The Impact of Urban Growth and Sprawl on Peri-urban
Farm Production
William Masters, (Steven Block and Priya Bhagowalia) Child Under nutrition, Household Poverty,
and National Income in Developing Countries
Yunguang Chen, H. Holly Wang and George Patrick, The Impact of the Average Crop Revenue
Election on Farmers’ Risk Management and on Government Expenditure
James Eales, Traditional Demand Analysis: Still Relevant in the 21st Century?
Maria Marshall, Opportunities in Local Food Systems
(Jayson Beckman), Thomas Hertel and Roman Keeney, Commodity Price Volatility in the Biofuel
Era: An Examination of the Linkage between Energy and Agricultural Markets
Thomas Hertel, Syud Ahmed, Noah Diffenbaugh, Daid Lobell, William Martin and Wolfram
Schlenker, Adapting to Climate Extremes in East Africa through Trade
Patrick Ward, Raymond Florax (Alfonso Flores-Lagunes) Agricultural Productivity and Anticipated
Climatic change in Sub-Saharan Africa: A Spatial Sample Selection Model
Frank Dooley, Preserving Classroom Learning in Large Classes
Joseph Balagtas and Meting Cakir, Estimating Market Power of U.S. Dairy Cooperatives
Michael Boehlje and Maude Roucan-Kane, The Bioeconomy in Agri-food and Industrial Supply
Chains
Allan Gray, Managing Innovation in the Bioeconomy
Brent Gloy, Financial Risk
Joseph Balagtas and Bradley Rickard, Acreage Response for Processing Vegetables in the Great
Lakes Region
Thomas Hertel, William Martin and Amanda Leister, Potential Implications of the Special
Safeguard Mechanism (SSM) in Agriculture
Alla Golub and Thomas Hertel, Steven Rose and Brent Sohngen, Global Interactions between
Bioenergy and Climate Policies
Philip Abbott, Agricultural Trade, Prices, and Exchange Rates
Corinne Alexander, Challenges in Producers’ Adoption of Biotechnology
Christopher Hurt, corn and Soybean Situation and Outlook
Alla Golub, Thomas Hertel, (Yoon Hyung Kim, Brent sohngen, Steven Rose) The Impact of U.S.
and European Biofuel Policies on Forest Carbon
Alla Golub, Thomas Hertel, (Suk-Won Choi, Brent Sohngen) The effect of Caron Payments on
Deforestation Rates: Estimates from a Global Forestry and Agricultural Model
Monika Verma and Thomas Hertel, Ernesto Valenzuela, Are the Poverty Effects of Trade Policies
Invisible?
Roman Keeney and Amanda Leister, Global Inequality Impacts of Multilateral Liberalization
Maria Marshall and Helen Pushkarskaya) How Biases toward the Default Option Affect
Estimation of the Personal Discount Rate