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AREC Student Selected to Attend the USDA Agricultural Outlook Forum
Mr. Yuandong Qi was chosen to be one of the 25 students from around the nation to partipate in the 2012 USDA Agricultural Outlook Forum in Arlington, VA.
Spring 2012
AREC Welcomes Two New Faculty
The Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics is pleased to welcome Pamela Jakiela and David Newburn to the faculty.
Dr. Jakiela, who received her doctorate in 2008 from the department of economics at the University of California, Berkeley, joins the AREC faculty as an assistant professor and director of the Experimental Economics Laboratory.
Continue reading about Dr. Jakiela....
Dr. David Newburn joins the faculty as an Assistant Professor with the Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics.
Dr. Newburn's primary research interests focus on the economics of land use and water resources.
Continue reading about Dr. Newburn....Spring 2012
AREC In the News:
Local, organic produce hold promise for Maryland farmers
Problem is getting food items to markets
Fall 2011
Hanson Honored with the Prestigious Landmark Award
Professor and Extension Economist James C. Hanson (shown here with University of Maryland President Wallace Loh) has been awarded the University's prestigious Landmark Award, for distinguished international research.
Fall 2011
AREC Faculty Named Distinguished University Professor
AREC Professor Marc Nerlove has been awarded the the title of Distinguished University Professor—the highest academic honor that the University confers upon a faculty member—in recognition of his pioneering work in developing and applying statistical methods to analyze economic data in the field of agricultural and resource economics. His work in time-series econometrics has had an enduring impact on the field of agricultural economics by changing the way economists think about farmers’ response to price. Continue reading......
Fall 2011
Marquee Lectures in Science and Technology
“Restoring the Chesapeake: Is It Worth It?”
"At a lecture in September, about 400 students learned pros and cons to conserving the Chesapeake Bay.
Although students continuously hear about the degrading environment and the harmful effects of global change, few knew they could actually help solve the problem.
But when agricultural and resource economics professor Douglas Lipton spoke to a crowd of about 400 students yesterday in the Biosciences Research building about pollution in the Chesapeake Bay, he challenged audience members to think critically about whether it would be worth the potentially millions of dollars to restore the bay."
Read more from The Diamondback...
Fall 2011
Talking about the taboo: Women’s menstrual practices and sanitation in Africa
University of Maryland researcher Vivian Hoffmann has studied poverty, migration, and economic development in Africa and elsewhere, and she has first-hand experience with issues facing women in the developing world. Now, through a $1.3 million grant from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, she will lead a team of researchers in a project that will shed light on women’s menstrual practices, needs, and product demands and help to inform sanitation planning in developing countries.
Spring 2011
AREC Professor Jim Hanson Leads USAID Agricultural Capacity Building Team in Afghanistan.
University of Maryland College of Agriculture and Natural Resources faculty member Jim Hanson traveled to Afghanistan in December 2010 - the team leader for a group of American and Afghan faculty experts who are working to revitalize agricultural research and extension services in the war-torn nation.
Fall 2010
Helping the Chesapeake Crab, as well as Crabbers
AREC economists have helped establish and are monitoring a program to buy back fishing licenses in order to lift pressure off of the Chesapeake crab population.
A Baltimore Sun article noted:
"Economists believe that they can set a rational price for almost everything, so a few are trying their hand at crabbing.
A team of economists from the University of Maryland, working with the Maryland Department of Natural Resources, has devised an intriguing program to use $3.5 million in federal funds to buy back and retire seldom-used commercial crabbing licenses that have been issued to watermen working the Chesapeake Bay. The state has tried this before, with at best modest success, but this time they may have a better idea...."
Spring 2010
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