Organized Symposium sessions highlight ideas or works-in-progress on a topic involving cooperative or competing efforts by two or more panelists. Symposia may involve panel discussions of prepared questions, debates, roundtable meetings, or other formats. Formal paper presentations are discouraged, nonetheless if such presentations are proposed, the organizer should explain how they will fit into a tightly coherent theme. At least half of the session time will be reserved for discussion among the panelists and between the panelists and the audience. Symposia may offer discussions of policy issues, research methods, emerging research results, teaching or outreach topics, issues in professional organization, or other matters.
Organized Symposia are concurrent sessions. Each concurrent session is 90 minutes in duration. Other concurrent sessions include, Selected Paper Sessions, Lightning Sessions, Organized Symposia, Track Sessions, Invited Paper Sessions, and Invited Case Study Sessions.
Session information, date, and time are subject to change. All sessions listed are in Pacific.
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Session #3207
This session will discuss how different approaches across psychology, cognitive science and behavioral economics are important in understanding farmers´ and consumers´ attitudes and behavior. The discussion will start with Paolo Sckokai who will show how behavioral models are important in understanding farmers´ risk perception and behavior; then Travis J. Lybbert will discuss how studying the interface of psychology, cognition and behavioral economics raises important socio-cultural dimensions of the attitudes and behavior of farmers and other related actors of the agri-food supply chain. At this point the discussion will move to the realm of consumers, with Edoardo Maria Pelli showing how the Moral Foundations Theory can be helpful in understanding consumers´ attitudes towards the nutritional evidence of foods followed by Ellen Goddard who will show how different psychological approaches can be helpful to understand consumers´ attitudes and behavior towards the new market trend of plant-based meat. After these initial statements, the panelists will discuss these issues with the audience.
Session #3217
Agriculture consists of a web of supply chains that link research and discovery through farming and processing to the final consumer. Data that can be used to monitor and receive advance warning of shocks to supply chains and the associated impacts is potentially vast, going beyond price indicators and including the full agribusiness complex on- and off-farm. However, incorporating disparate sources such as administrative, federal statistical system, and proprietary data into a useable set of indicators is challenging due to technical, bureaucratic, opportunity cost, and other factors. The participants in the panel will discuss approaches to conceptualizing supply chain measurement and leveraging government and proprietary business microdata to monitor pandemics and other shocks, and present work-in-progress to build new data assets for measurement of business and employment dynamics in agricultural and food industries.
Session #3220
ERS develops and maintains a wide array of foundational data that support research on relevant and timely topics of interest to public and private decision makers as part of its mission to anticipate and examine trends and emerging issues in agriculture, food, the environment, and rural America. In addition to supporting the ERS research and outlook programs, these data are available to the research community. ERS would like to invite you to come and see what we have to offer.
Session #3225
Carbon markets have risen to high visibility as a win-win solution for agriculture for addressing climate change.
This symposium will bring together panelists with a range of expertise and experience, including carbon market managers, university and non-governmental research leaders, and industry representatives who will explore current experience with carbon market functioning and solutions and visions for their future.
The symposium is paired with a research paper track session organized by the Environmental Economics Section and Senior Section that focuses on the opportunities and challenges of carbon markets for agricultural producers and forestry operations.
Session #3226
This session provides an overview of USDA commodity market and production agriculture data, including details of how the data is collected, reported, and used in the public and private sectors. Representatives from several USDA statistical agencies will describe their data offerings while an Executive from the Kansas City Fed will talk about ways this data is used to support policy analysis, research, and decision making. A question and answer period is included.
Session #3230
Since the late 2000s, various papers have assessed the market-mediated effects of biofuel production and policy including Induced Land Use Changes; Rebound Effects in fossil fuels consumption; food price consequences, and biofuels GHG emissions. This symposium will discuss and summarize the major findings of existing literature in these areas and compare them with historical observations to evaluate the actual biofuels’ market-mediated effects.
Session #3232
This roundtable discussion will introduce the new ERS leadership team, present the vision and priorities for ERS over the coming years, and highlight significant research accomplishments. USDA’s Economic Research Service (ERS) has undergone a significant transformation in the last few years. Approximately 75% of the staff and leadership is new to their roles and working to continue the agency’s long tradition of providing rigorous, policy neutral data, analysis, and information to inform public and private decision making for the agricultural sector.
Session #3233
The quality of applied economics research depends fundamentally on the quality of the data collected, whether that data comes from primary or secondary sources. Data collection is costly for both researchers and government entities, and presents many challenges, especially as technology evolves. This session will be an interactive discussion about recent challenges regarding survey participation from the agricultural industry, including potential obstacles that must be overcome when conducting surveys and strategies to increase response rates. Specific topics to be discussed regarding publicly available data collected by USDA NASS involve concerns with and approaches to receiving adequate response rates to the USDA Census of Agriculture and other surveys, and the development and implementation of new surveys, e.g. industrial hemp. For researchers collecting primary data through survey participation, topics explored will involve differing methods of participation incentives for surveys and experiments, and deterring automated bot responses to online surveys with incentives. Questions and experiences from members of the audience will be encouraged.
Session #3235
This session will examine approaches to increasing agricultural sustainability by reducing emissions, increasing productivity, reducing poverty and improving nutrition. As a basis for discussion , four short presentations will examine country approaches to sustainability; approaches to repurposing agricultural support for sustainability; potential approaches to reducing emissions and the political economy of reform.
Session #3236
The objective of this proposed organized symposium is to foster discussion regarding current and future developments related to digital technology innovations in the agri-food sector. Particular emphasis is placed on digital technologies that hold promise to promote and enhance food traceability and food safety. Five expert panelists will be asked to share an overview of their ongoing work related to digital technology innovations in the food system. After the introductions, the panelists will be asked a series of prepared questions focusing on topics related to new digital technology advancements, related multidisciplinary research efforts, the entrepreneurial and financial environment to foster digital technology innovation, consumer and supply chain participant acceptance, and potential policy implications of digital technology adoption.
Session information, date, and time are subject to change. All sessions listed are in Pacific.
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| Session Id | Session Name | Session Type | Subject Code | Date | Time |
| 3227 | Linking data for research in public health and nutrition research | Organized Symposium | Food Safety, Nutrition, and Policy | 8/23 | 9:00 AM - 10:30 AM |
| 3231 | Agricultural Productivity and Innovation | Organized Symposium | Productivity Analysis and Emerging Technologies | 8/25 | 8:00 AM - 9:30 AM |
| 3235 | Achieving Agricultural Sustainability | Organized Symposium | Environmental Economics and Policy | 9/13 | 6:00 AM - 7:30 AM |
| 3221 | Data Set Procurement and Research Development in Emerging Markets: The Case of Hemp | Organized Symposium | Food and Agricultural Marketing | 9/22 | 12:30 PM - 2:00 PM |
| 3234 | Food prices and nutrition: What least-cost diets reveal about access to a healthy diet in the U.S. and worldwide | Organized Symposium | Food Safety, Nutrition, and Policy | 9/26 | 7:00 AM - 8:30 AM |
| 3215 | What COVID-19 has Taught Us about Regional Food Supply Chains | Organized Symposium | Agribusiness Economics and Management | 9/26 | 11:30 AM - 1:00 PM |
Tuesday, August 23 at 9:00 am (pacific)
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Nationally over 133 million (or 6 in 10) adults have at least one preventable chronic disease. Many of these diseases, including cardiovascular disease, Type 2 diabetes, and several types of cancer, are linked to poor dietary quality. Researchers have explored why consumers make both healthy and less healthy food choices. Explanations include food cost, poverty, food availability, the food environment, cultural preference, available health care, and lack of time, skills, or knowledge. To test which explanations are strongest, we have linked population health data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), the ERS Food Environment Atlas, ERS Food Access Research Atlas, retail and household food scanner data, and USDA nutrition data. Population health data include the Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System (BRFSS), County Health Rankings (CHR) and the CDC Social Vulnerability Index (SVI) and the CDC PLACES databases. The primary goal of the symposium is two spark interest in using our linked data for policy-informing research.
Thursday, August 25 at 8:00 am (pacific)
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Innovation through investment in public and private research & development (R&D) is the key driver of productivity growth in agriculture. The proposed session features four presentations that will examine the scope of technological innovations funded by venture capital, the knowledge capital stock based on pattern data, the trend growth of public R&D investment, and productivity growth in the U.S. farm sector and its drivers.
Tuesday, September 13 at 6:00 am (pacific)
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This session will examine approaches to increasing agricultural sustainability by reducing emissions, increasing productivity, reducing poverty and improving nutrition. As a basis for discussion, four short presentations will examine country approaches to sustainability; approaches to repurposing agricultural support for sustainability; potential approaches to reducing emissions and the political economy of reform.
Thursday, September 22 at 12:30 pm (pacific)
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Hemp makes for an interesting case study of how colleagues across the country have collaborated to address the needs of this emerging market. The reemergence of hemp ended its 60 plus year hiatus, during which minimal research was conducted in the United States on the crop and its market. Since its reintroduction, agricultural economists across the country have been working to evaluate hemp's potential, marketing opportunities and develop decision aids to help producers, processors, and policymakers navigate the regulatory uncertainties and the media frenzy driving the industry. Hemp presents unique challenges for agricultural economists when considering how to develop research or extension programs around this industry.
Monday, September 26 at 7:00 am (pacific)
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This session will discuss the use of least-cost diets and food choice optimization to inform food policy. Opening summaries from Andi Carlson of ERS on the USDA’s Thrifty Food Plan and William Masters of Tufts University on the Tufts-World Bank-IFPRI analysis of worldwide access to healthy diets will be followed by remarks from five discussants with experience in the U.S. and abroad: George Davis (Virginia Tech), Parke Wilde (Tufts University), Chen Zhen (University of Georgia), Luis Sandoval (Zamorano University) and Sudha Narayanan (IFPRI-India). Q&A with participants will then address how AAEA members can use new food price data and analytical methods to measure the cost of meeting nutritional standards, as a complement to revealed preference and other methods of studying food consumption.
Monday, September 26 at 11:30 am (pacific)
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This Organized Symposium builds upon a USDA-funded COVID-19 Rapid Response project: “Lessons from COVID-19: Positioning Regional Food Supply Chains for Future Pandemics, Natural Disasters and Human-made Crises.” Participants in the project will provide brief research summaries and engage in a panel discussion of what conclusions can be drawn about the pandemic and its impact on regional food supply chains.