August 2018, Issue 17

AAEA News

2018 AAEA Annual Meeting
Thank you

AAEA would like to thank everyone who traveled and participated in the 2018 AAEA Annual Meeting in Washington, D.C. We had over 1,700 attendees and over 700 presenters. Please take some time to complete the brief online survey. An email was sent out on Friday to all attendees.

We hope to see everyone at the 2019 AAEA Annual Meeting in Atlanta, GA July 21-23!

AAEA/AARES Heading South Award
Call for Applications

The Australasian Agricultural and Resource Economics Society (AARES) and the Agricultural & Applied Economics Association (AAEA) through the AAEA Trust will jointly offer this travel award to attend the 2019 AARES Conference in Melbourne. It is available to members of AARES or AAEA normally resident in North America. Applicants for the award can be a member of either AARES or AAEA but must be a member of AARES to participate in the conference.
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Obituary

Seamus Sheehy
1935- 2018

Prof Seamus J Sheehy, who died in Dublin on July 20th aged 83, had substantial influence over the evolution of agricultural policy and development for close on 40 years. Over the years he advised many government ministers directly or indirectly on relevant matters, and he participated in many departmental groups dealing with commodity issues. He carried out a number of studies for and served as an adviser to several State bodies.
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Other News

2018 International Conference on Agricultural and Food Science
Instanbul, Turkey

AAEA Members receive a 15% discount on Registration

2018 International Conference on Agricultural and Food Science (ICAFS 2018)  in Istanbul, Turkey on October 28-30, 2018. (>>General Information). The conference is co-organized by Asia-Pacific Association of Science, Engineering and Technology, Bahri DaÄŸdaÅŸ International Agricultural Research Institute and Celal Bayar University.
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Animal Law and Policy Small Grants Program at UCLA Law

Thanks to generous funding from Bob Barker, UCLA Law School is pleased to offer the Animal Law and Policy Small Grants Program ("UCLA ALP Program"). The UCLA ALP Program exists to encourage new research, with the goal of developing better empirical bases from which to understand, evaluate, and pursue animal law reform. Applicants from a variety of academic disciplines - including economics, sociology, demography, social psychology, moral psychology, medicine, plant-based nutritional science, cognitive science, law, public health, and public policy - are encouraged to apply. The UCLA ALP Program has two goals:

Fostering sound empirical - quantitative or qualitative - knowledge related to human uses of animals, alternatives to uses of animals, and humans' relationship to animals, which animal law and policy academics and practitioners could use to develop animal law and policy reform applications.

Supporting empirical research that enables animal law and policy academics and practitioners to develop increasingly more sophisticated understandings of the impact of public policies and laws that affect animals directly or indirectly. Read more here: https://law.ucla.edu/centers/social-policy/animal-law-grants-program/about/ For questions, please contact the UCLA ALP Program through email: alp@law.ucla.edu.

2018 FDRS Student Food Marketing Challenge
Call for Participation

The 2018 Annual Meeting of the Food Distribution Research Society will be held at the Crystal Gateway Marriott Arlington, Virginia, from September 14th – September 18th 2018.  The conference will be held in conjunction with United States Department of Agriculture, Farm Credit, Farmers Market Coalition, and National Value-Added Conference under the umbrella of the “2018 Direct Agricultural Marketing Summit.”
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