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2024 Track Session

  • Building resilience and promoting productivity among farmers in Latin America (Joint with INT)

2023 Track Sessions

  • Evidence of International Trade Impact on Food Consumption
  • How climate change and changes in consumer preferences could affect export markets in Latin America?
  • The economic implications of COVID-19 on the Agricultural Supply Chain in Latin America and the Caribbean

2022 Track Sessions

  • Cattle Prices, Transaction Efficiencies, Production Challenges, and Technologies in Latin America,  Joint with INT
  • Labor in Agri-food Systems,  Joint with INT
  • Linking food security, land use, and climate change in Latin America,  Joint with FSN
  • Revising Determinants of Fruit and Vegetable Consumption

2021 Track Sessions

  • Cost of nutritious diets: Cross-country comparisons of retail food prices and diet costs,  Joint with FSN
  • Strategies for Success in Modern Food Value Chains in Latin America,  Joint with FAMPS
  • The impact of COVID 19 on the Agribusiness Sector and Economy of Latin America,  Joint with FSN
  • The Impact of COVID-19 in the Agricultural Supply Chain in Latin America ,  Joint with INT
  • The Impact of the Food Safety Modernization Act on US imports from Latin America,  Joint with SCE
  • The politics and economics of commodity trade restrictions,  Joint with INT

2019 Track Sessions

  • Strategies to adapt to and mitigate the effects of climate change in Latin America (Co-sponsored by International Section).
  • Cocoa and Palm Oil value chains and the role of producers associations in the production systems of Latin America (Co-sponsored by Senior Section).
  • How U.S. Trade Policies Have Shaped Latin America’s Food and Ag industry: Risks and Opportunities (Co-sponsored by COSBAE).
  • Productivity & Technical efficiency in Latin America.

2019 LAS Outstanding Selected Research Paper Award and Selected Poster Award
Call for Nominations
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2018 Track Sessions

  • Food labeling to limit diet-related disease in Latin America (Joint with INTL)
  • The Double burden of malnutrition in Latin America (Joint with INTL)
  • Impact assessment of agricultural projects in Latin America
  • Analysis of Agricultural Policies in the Caribbean – Evidence, Trends, and Perspectives (Joint with COSBAE)

2018 LAS Outstanding Selected Research Paper Award and Selected Poster Award

  • Outstanding Selected Research Paper Award: “Land use and the opportunity cost of forest preservation in Bolivia” by Felipe de Figueiredo Silva, Juan M. Murguia, Wanderley Ferreira, Brisa Rejas Galindo, and Boris Hinojosa Guzman.
  • Outstanding Selected Poster Award: “Development and inclusive businesses in rural Colombia” by Emiliano Lopez Barrera and James Lowenberg-Deboer.

2017 Track Sessions

  • Trends in preferential trade agreements in Latin America (Joint with International)
  • The Colombian Peace Process and Economic Development (Joint with CRENET)
  • Land issues in Latin America: A Broad View from Titling to Carbon Sequestration
  • Performance and challenges for US trade free agreement with Latin America: Do these accords need improvements? (Joint with Senior)
  • Challenges Impacting Economic Sustainability of Specialty Crops (Joint with SCE)

2017 LAS Outstanding Selected Research Paper Award and Selected Poster Award

  • Outstanding Selected Research Paper Award: “Land Titling and Property Rights: Does Legislating Small Farm Land as a Non-Seizable Family Asset Improve Small Farmers’ Welfare?” by Juan Manuel Murguia Baysse and Kassu Wamisho.
  • Outstanding Selected Poster Award: “The Effect of ‘Traffic-Light’ Nutritional Labelling in Carbonated Soft Drink Purchases in Ecuador.” by Luis Sandoval Mejia et al. 

2016 Track Sessions

  • Study Abroad in Agricultural Economics & Agribusiness Programs (Joint with TLC)
  • Evaluating Trade Performance in Agriculture (Joint with COSBAE)
  • Development Issues in Latin America: Food Security, Health and Female Labor Force, Property Rights, and Agricultural R&D
  • Soybean Expansion in the Tropics (Joint with AEM)
  • Agricultural productivity, nutrition and food security in Latin America
  • Competitive Factors of Latin American Countries in the U.S. Fruit and Vegetable Markets (Joint with Senior)

2016 LAS Outstanding Selected Research Paper Award and Selected Poster Award

  • Selected Research Paper Award: “Climate Change Interaction with Agriculture, Forestry Sequestration and Food Security” by Luis Moises Pena-Levano et al.

2015 Track Sessions

  • The Future of the CGIAR (Joint with Senior)
  • Immigration and Agricultural Labor (Joint with Senior)

2014 Track Sessions

  • Major Factors That Will Impacts the Role of Latin America in Meeting Future Food Demand (Joint with Senior)
  • The Impact of the Food Safety Modernization Act on the U.S. Produce Industry:  Domestic Production and Latin American Imports (Joint with FSN)

2013 Track Session

  • US-Latin America Free Trade Agreement Implementation and Impacts