April 2023, Issue 7
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President's Column April 2023 Since becoming President-Elect, I have had the opportunity to visit departments affiliated with AAEA. Thank you to all of the wonderful hosts who have received me. During the visits, I gave a talk, reconnected with old friends, and met new folks, including an amazing array of faculty, students, and staff. In the seminars, you asked insightful questions and engaged me in rich and supportive discussions. While you asked some tough questions, I learned from you, and you have strengthened my work. Thank you for helping me grow. AAEA News Register for 2023 AAEA Annual Meeting
*Guests include any interested party not professionally in or a student of the fields of agricultural or applied economics, or a related discipline. Guest fees include the welcome reception, plenary sessions, and all concurrent sessions (Guests under the age of 16 are free, and don’t need to register). *Cancellation: Cancellations of meeting registrations are subject to a $50 processing fee. After the "Advanced" Registration deadline, no refunds will be given for meeting registrations or special event tickets. To cancel your Annual Meeting registration and/or special event tickets, contact the AAEA Business Office at (414) 918-3190 or info@aaea.org. Website: www.aaea.org. If AAEA cancels the meeting any paid meeting registration fees will be fully refunded.
President-Elect Seeks Volunteers for AAEA Committees Members interested in shaping the future of the AAEA can play an essential role by serving on an association committee. Committee service also offers an excellent opportunity for developing contacts and increasing professional networking. Call for Applications The AAEA Trust seeks applications for Early Career Professional and Graduate Student Travel Grants. These grants defray housing and transportation costs associated with attending the 2023 AAEA Annual Meeting in Washington, D.C. from July 23–25. The amount of the travel grant awarded will depend on the number of applications received. AAEA Trust Travel Grants (if awarded) are generally not large enough to offset all travel and lodging costs, but are instead meant to supplement institutional support. Call for Applications The AAEA Trust seeks applications for AAEA Annual Meeting International Travel Grants. These grants defray housing and transportation costs associated with attending the 2023 AAEA Annual Meeting in Washington, D.C. from July 23–25. The amount of the travel grant awarded will depend on the number of applications received. AAEA Trust Travel Grants (if awarded) are generally not large enough to offset all travel and lodging costs and will likely cover less than half of international travel costs. Call for Applications The AAEA Executive Board invites applications for one editor for Applied Economics Perspectives and Policy (AEPP) to serve from 2024 through 2026. This call for applications is for an editor to manage Submitted Articles which contain original research results addressing real-world problems with sound research approaches and/or have strong policy relevance within the subject matter of the journal. The degree to which candidate’s expertise complements that of the continuing editors, will be considered in the selection process. The AAEA is particularly interested in candidates who will bring ideas and innovations for helping AEPP to further its mission. Applications should be sent electronically via PDF to Kristen McGuire, Executive Director, at kmcguire@aaea.org by May 25, 2023. Call for submissions: AAEA invited paper sessions at the 2024 ASSA Annual Meeting President-Elect Rudy Nayga is soliciting proposals and suggestions for AAEA invited paper sessions at the 2024 Allied Social Sciences Association (ASSA) Annual Meeting in San Antonio, TX, January 5-7, 2024. The objective of AAEA sessions at the ASSA Annual Meeting is to share new knowledge of interest to economists. The AAEA encourages sessions that will draw widely from ASSA attendees, including sessions jointly sponsored with other ASSA member associations. Preview of AAEA 2023 Annual Meeting Workshops Registration will open in March; registration is required for all workshops. Additional details for each workshop coming soon Pre-Conference Workshops
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Register for the 2023 AAEA Employment Center AAEA invites and encourages you to register for the 2023 AAEA Annual Meeting Employment Center, taking place July 23-25 in Washington, DC. This is a great opportunity for employers to connect with potential candidates. Employers who register may post open positions on the AAEA Job Board, view resumes of applicants who are participating in the Employment Center, and they may also utilize a table in the Annual Meeting Employment Center to conduct in-person interviews with applicants. Applicant registration is FREE. Please note: Applicants must be registered for the Annual Meeting in order to participate in the Employment Center. For more information, please visit the online Employment Center. If you have any questions please feel free to contact Jessica Weister. We hope to see you in Washington, DC! Register Online. CWAE Virtual Professional Development and Networking Series CWAE Virtual Professional Development and Networking Series starts on April 13, 2023 “Are you starting a new position or considering a change in your career path? Join us for the first panel discussion in the CWAE professional development and networking series on “Navigating Career Transitions”. Panelists Dr. Anne Byrne (Research Agricultural Economist, USDA ERS), Dr. Sarah Low (Professor and Department Head, U of Illinois), and Dr. Qiujie Zheng (Associate Professor, U Maine) will share their experiences and insights on transitions at different career stages. We will have plenty of time for Q&A and an opportunity to network with colleagues after the structured discussion. We look forward to seeing you there! Register here.” Announcing the 2023 Extension Competition for Graduate Students The AAEA Extension Competition for Graduate Students provides an opportunity to develop and/or get feedback on programs that communicate research and practical information to Extension (usually non-economist) audiences. Entries can be based upon graduate student research for a thesis, dissertation, or other academic work. The competition is sponsored by the Extension and Graduate Student Sections. AEPP Special Issue Announcement and Call for Participation: The Role and Scope of Agricultural and Applied Economics Departments The past few decades have witnessed a dramatic change to the definition of agricultural economics. Long considered to be a profession dealing with supply and demand of agricultural commodities, it now compasses many dimensions of critical importance to the broader economy and global well-being: resource and environmental issues, health economics, rural and community economics, public policy analysis, social justice and equity locally and globally, and others. Many agricultural and applied economics (AAE) departments have led or adapted to these 21st century needs. However, AAE departments are also acutely challenged in many dimensions: defending their impact and budgets; pressures to become more interdisciplinary and address a wider set of stakeholders vis-à-vis the scarcity of human capital to address core production and farm management issues; and explaining their purpose as something other than a “second economics department.” If you have an idea for a topic or issue to be addressed in this special issue, please send a short paragraph describing your suggestion to Co-Editors: Jeff Dorfman (jdorfman@uga.edu) and Gopinath Munisamy (m.gopinath@uga.edu), University of Georgia, by April 15, 2023. Other News Distributional Impacts of Climate Change in the Agricultural Sector Chicago, IL – November 16-17, 2023 Climate change affects all aspects of the agricultural sector, from technology and input choices, to the wages and welfare of workers, to the prices consumers pay for food and agricultural products. To promote research on the distributional impacts of climate change, the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER), with the generous support of the Economic Research Service at the US Department of Agriculture (USDA), will convene a research conference in Chicago on November 16-17, 2023. The conference will be organized by Ellen Bruno and Meredith Fowlie of the University of California, Berkeley, and Danae Hernandez-Cortes of Arizona State University. Water Economics and Policy Journal: Call for Papers: Special Issue on Economic Impact of Climate Change on the Water Sector in MENA and Northern Mediterranean Countries Climate change in MENA countries as well as Northern Mediterranean countries (Portugal, Spain, Italy, Cyprus, Greece and Southern France) has already made an evident impact affecting rain-fed agriculture as well as surface water reservoirs, aquifers’ natural recharge and cities. Crop varieties and tree species currently under cultivation in the Southern Mediterranean would progressively be appropriate in the North Mediterranean farming systems for adaptation. Rain is becoming more sporadic and more intensive with fewer number of rainy days, higher temperatures and longer summer months, leading to crop area shrinkage and increased need for water desalination. Hence, the increased water scarcity is affecting all the economic sectors (agriculture, water utilities, industry, tourism and the environment) and driving a higher demand for water, including for adaptation purposes. Domestic urban and rural water are under increased stress/variability and water service failures/interruptions are becoming more frequent causing social discontent. Although quantitative technical-physical climate impacts are quite abundant, the lack of economic value tags attached to such studies makes them less valuable for policy consideration and undertaking the necessary shifts and adaptations. Previous economic impact studies based their adaptation measures on deficit irrigation for instance, however data is showing that aquifers are under high stress and cannot be used for such a purpose. Similarly, surface water reservoirs’ storage capacity is negatively affected by siltation caused by the more torrential sporadic intensive rains reducing the supply of water and increasing the supply uncertainty. This special issue of Water Economics and Policy aims to bridge this gap. Special Issue in Food Policy: Transforming Global Agri-Food Value Chains This special issue of Food Policy invites research papers that contribute to our understanding of the complex relationships between agri-food value chains, trade, domestic and international policies, and global value chains (GVCs). Recent socioeconomic and political events (e.g., COVID-19, Russia-Ukraine War) challenge conventional wisdom regarding the structure and importance of agri-food GVCs, raising the need for new research. The transformation of agri-food GVCs is necessary for addressing some of the global challenges identified in the UN Sustainable Development Goals. We encourage studies that address various aspects of the issues facing agri-food GVCs and their impact on various socioeconomic outcomes, such as food safety, consumer nutrition and health, employment and wages, and technology spillovers. We welcome submissions based on diverse approaches and methods (e.g., empirical and qualitative analyses, simulation models, case studies, and systematic reviews). We welcome submissions from various relevant disciplines, including applied economics, food systems science, transportation sciences, and other sciences, provided the studies are accessible to scientists from different disciplines. |
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