September 2002

Calendar of Events

AGEC Graduate Student Organization Calendar of Events

Congratulations and Names in the News:

Wally Tyner is on sabbatical leave in Montpellier, France, September 1, 2002 – June 30, 2003.

The Center for Global Trade Analysis held the Tenth Annual Short Course in Global Trade Analysis at the University of Sheffield, Sheffield, UK, August 4th through August 10th. There were 25 participants in attendance representing 13 countries.

Jess Lowenberg-DeBoer was invited by the U.S. State Department to make a series of presentations in West Africa on “Sustainable Development and Sustainable Agriculture” in preparation for the World Sustainable Development summit in Johannesburg. He spoke in Nouakchott, Mauritania, on August 12th; in Bamako, Mali on August 15th and in Niamey, Niger on August. 20th.

Thought You Would Like To Know

For information on the Purdue Agricultural Economics Report see our web site or contact harrisog@purdue.edu.

All are invited to attend the Annual Awards for Excellence Program of the Indiana Council for Economic Education. I will take place on September 26th at the Westin Hotel in downtown Indianapolis. Reception and school displays will begin at 3:30 p.m., with awards presentation beginning at 4:30 p.m. Please call Shelly Surber at the ICEE office for more details and registration information – 765-494-8545.

Rainer Kuhl, Professor Agricultural Economics from Geissen University, Giessen, Germany will visit September 8-30, 2002. Dr. Kuhl’s primary interests are in cooperatives and supply chain management.

Center for Food and Agricultural Business

Upcoming Programs:

September 10-13, 2002 Marketing Planning for Field Marketers

An annual program that recognizes the role of the field salesperson and sales manager in tailoring company marketing plans to unique needs of local and regional markets. Participants put field marketing concepts to work in their organizations.

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.

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

Tom Hertel, Channing Arndt, Judy Conner, Ken Itakura, and Melanie Bacou of the Center for Global Trade Analysis (GTAP) staff traveled to Taipei, Taiwan to hold the Annual GTAP Advisory Board Meeting on June 2 and 3. They then participated in the Fifth Annual Conference on Global Economic Analysis, “Sustainable Development and the General Equilibrium Approach,” June 5-7, 2002. The Conference, organized by the Center for Sustainable Development at the National Tsing Hua University in conjunction with the Center for Global Trade Analysis, at Purdue University was hosted by Professor Chung-Huang Huang of National Tsing Hua University, Hsing Chu, Taiwan.

John Connor gave the keynote address at the annual meeting of the Organization for Competitive Markets in Omaha, NE on August 16th, entitled “The Globalization of Corporate Crime: Food and Agricultural Cartels of the 1990s”.

Publications

Kevin McNamara and David Brown, “A View from Purdue: Indiana Manufacturing”, available on-line InContext. http://www.incontext.indiana.edu/august2002/in_the_spotlight.html

Martin, Marshall A., Book Review, Agriculture and Modern Technology: A Defense, by Thomas R. DeGregori, Ames, IA, Iowa Sate University Press, 2001, published in The Quarterly Review of Biology, 77(2):224, June 2002.

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