October 2002

Calendar of Events

AGEC Graduate Student Organization Calendar of Events

Congratulations and Names in the News:

Diakalia Sanogo, PhD, has accepted a position as post-doctoral fellow at the Center for Research in the Economics of AgriFood (CREA) at University Laval, Quebec City, Canada, as of November 1, 2002.

Frank Dooley has been selected to the Teaching Academy.

James Joshua was awarded a Student Scholarship to attend the Council of Logistics Management Annual Meeting in San Francisco, CA.

Otto Doering is speaking to the Natural Resources Conservation Service state economists on Conservation Policy and the Farm Bill on October 24th in Reno, NV.

Thought You Would Like To Know

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The Indiana Council for Economic Education is teaming with the School of Ag Office of Academic Programs to co-sponsor the second annual Econ Camp, an Institute for High School Teachers of Economics. It will take place Oct. 26-27 at Camp Tecumseh near Brookston. Econ Camp speakers will include Otto Doering, Freddie Barnard, and Allan Gray. Call Harlen Day for details.

Luanna DeMay and Lou Ann Baugh will attend the ABA National Agricultural Bankers Conference “Celebrating the 21st Century Country Banker”, November 10-13th in Indianapolis. They will host a display on the EMBA and Graduate Studies Programs in AGEC.

On September 5 and 6, the Center for Global Trade Analysis and the MIT Center for the Study of Global Change hosted a workshop at MIT on land use and climate change policy. Twenty experts from North America and Europe participated in this workshop. It was funded under a three year grant from the US-EPA to work in this area.

The Department will also sponsor a booth on Graduate Study at the National FFA Convention, October 30-November 1, at Louisville’s Kentucky Fair & Exposition Center.

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

October 14-18, 2002 Strategic Agri Marketing

Agri Marketing focuses on integrated marketing strategy. It is a practical, hands-on look at market segmentation, product and pricing strategies, distribution, people, and marketing communications decisions necessary for creating a new marketing approach in the agricultural marketplace. For more details, visit the Center Web site or contact Scott Downey, associate director at (765) 494-4325; downeyws@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

Janet Ayres participated in the National Public Policy conference September 15-17 in Reno, Nevada. The annual conference is sponsored by the Farm Foundation. The two major topics were agrosecurity issues and water rights in Nevada. Janet is a member of a task force that developed a publication titled, “Public Issues Education for Extension Educators”. It was distributed at the conference. If anyone would like a copy, contact Dr. Ayres.

Will Masters talked at the University of Illinois at Champaign-Urbana on October 3rd, on the theme of “Issues and Institutions for Global Food Security.” Slides for the talk are available online at www.agecon.purdue.edu/staff/masters.

Edna Loehman gave a department seminar at New Mexico State University, Dept. of Agricultural Economics on Sept. 4th, entitled, “A New Method of Water Utility Pricing”.

Channing Arndt traveled to Bangladesh Institute of Development Studies to assist with a course in modeling of trade policies.

"OECD Domestic Support and the Developing Countries” by Betina Dimaranan, Tom Hertel and Roman Keeney, presented at the workshop on “The Impact of the WTO Agreement on Low Income Countries”, sponsored by the UN World Institute for Development Economic Research, Helsinki, Finland.

John Connor is presenting a paper entitled “The Globalization of Corporate Crime: The Food and Agricultural Cartels” at the Annual meeting of the American Agricultural Law Association, Indianapolis, IN, October, 2002.

Publications

Hertel, Thomas W., Paul V. Preckel, John Cranfield and Maros Ivanic, 2002 “Poverty Impacts of Multilateral Trade Liberalization”, published in Liberalisierung des Weltagrarhandels – Strategien und Konsequenzen, M. Brockmeier, F. Isermeyer and S. von Cramon-Taubadel (eds.) Muenster: Landwirtshcaftsverlag.

Masters, W.A. and D. Sanogo, “Welfare Gains from Quality Certification of Infant Foods: Results from a Market Experiment in Mali” (2002). American Journal of Agricultural Economics, 84(4, November 2002): in press.

Sanogo, D. and W.A. Masters, “A Market-Based Approach to Child Nutrition: Mothers Demand for Quality Certification of Infant Foods in Bamako, Mali”, Food Policy, 27(3, November 2002): 251-268.

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