November 2002

Calendar of Events

AGEC Graduate Student Organization Calendar of Events

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Thought You Would Like To Know

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Center for Food and Agricultural Business

Upcoming Programs:

New program designed for seed industry managers takes place in February

The ASTA (American Seed Trade Association) Advanced Management Forum is a natural follow-up to the longstanding ASTA Management Academy (to be held in March 2003), that has been conducted for over 15 years by the Center for Food and Agricultural Business in collaboration with ASTA. “The ASTA Management Skills Committee has given a lot of thought about the next step in regard to format, length, timing and how to provide the best value in a follow-up program,” says Betty Ottinger, associate director of the Center. “The forum will be an opportunity for participants to dig deeper into topics introduced in the ASTA Management Academy.” The forum takes place Feb. 5 -7, 2003, at the University Place Conference Center in Indianapolis, Ind. Contact Betty Ottinger for information at (765) 494-4328 or bettyso@purdue.edu

ALPs participants gather in Washington, DC for third seminar in series

Agribusiness Leadership Plus (ALPs) is a customized program designed by the staff and faculty of the Center for Food and Agricultural Business in conjunction with Syngenta. The ALPs program is a six-session management development program designed for future leaders in the Syngenta organization. Session topics include marketing, economics, supply chain management, strategy, and human resource management. Recently, the group of over 30 ALPs participants met in Washington, DC. This carefully constructed field experience, which focused on the role of government in the food and agricultural industries, was to help Syngenta participants build their understanding of the policy process and how agribusiness (and Syngenta) works to shape policy. Over 25 experts representing different (and sometimes contradictory) viewpoints contributed to a week of dialogue and debate on a host of issues from environment and regulation, to intellectual property and genetic diversity, to globalization, to food safety and security.

Programs sponsored by the Center are taught primarily by Purdue faculty in the Department of Agricultural Economics and Center staff. Other Purdue faculty and guests from other universities also serve as instructors in the programs.

For more information: www.agecon.purdue.edu/cab

Travel, Speeches and Presented Papers

Channing Arndt traveled to Mozambique in October to prepare for his long term assignment at the Ministry of Planning and Finance. While there, he gave a seminar entitled “HIV/AIDS and Human Capital Accumulation: Evidence from Tanzania and Implications for Mozambique.”

Publications

Effects of Climate Change and Variability on Agricultural Production Systems, Edited by Otto Doering, Et. Al, Klewer Academic Publishers, 2002.

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May 22, 2012

Introducing a Special Issue of Agricultural Economics on the World Food Crisis of 2007-08

Now accepting applications for Natural Resources Leadership Development Institute

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USDA National Needs Fellowships In The Economics Of Alternative Energy are available. For more information, download the pdf.