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October 2024, Issue 20

Upcoming Deadlines

October 14, 2024

  • AAEA Trust Call for Proposals
  • Anthony Grano Fellowship Award Call for Applications
  • BOEHLJE AGRIBUSINESS MANAGEMENT FELLOWSHIP
  • Uma Lele AERA India/AAEA Mentorship Program
  • Sylvia Lane Mentor Fellowship Call for Applications
  • McCorkle Scholarship Applications
  • Uma Lele Mentor Fellowship Award for Women
  • Uma Lele Mentor Fellowship Award Call For Applications

December 2, 2024

  • Pre- and Post-conference Workshop Proposals

December 13-15, 2024

  • 2024 AAEA Early Career Professionals Workshop

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AAEA News

AAEA Trust Call for Proposals

The AAEA Trust supports the work of agricultural and applied economists by funding programs, initiatives, activities, or other creative endeavors designed to advance the profession. Proposals are chosen to receive funding based on their ability to accomplish at least one of the following goals:

  • support graduate student and early career professional development
  • enhance the AAEA Annual Meeting
  • broaden participation in AAEA across the year (beyond Annual meetings)
  • address our strategic goal to be more inclusive through outreach to new groups
  • broaden the horizons of the current membership

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Anthony Grano Fellowship Award Call for Applications

The AAEA Trust is now accepting applications for the Anthony Grano Fellowship Award for 2025. Two recipients will be chosen to travel for one week to Washington, DC to meet with senior staff from USDA, Congressional offices, agricultural trade associations, farm and commodity organizations, and NGO’s.  Meeting schedules will be personalized to reflect recipient’s policy interests.  Scholarships of $1,250 will be awarded. The application deadline is Monday, October 14, 2024.
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Call for Applications
BOEHLJE AGRIBUSINESS MANAGEMENT FELLOWSHIP

The AAEA Trust Committee is accepting applications for the 2025 Boehlje Agribusiness Management Fellowship. The purpose of this Fellowship is to provide financial support for graduate students with an interest in agribusiness management to continue their education through the PhD in preparation for an academic career in these areas. The goal of the Fellowship is to support the education of graduate students for faculty positions in Departments of Agricultural Economics in the critical area of agribusiness management. Applicants should be submitted by Monday, October 14, 2024.
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Uma Lele AERA India/AAEA Mentorship Program
Call for Applications

The AERA along with one representative from AAEA will play a facilitating role in the selection of Indian students/young professionals to participate in the mentorship program. The offer and themes for each year will be published in one of the issues of Agricultural Economics Research Review (AERR) and recommendation of the Association shall be sent to AAEA for Award of the grant. Applications should be submitted in a single PDF format to Kristen McGuire at kmcguire@aaea.org by Monday, October 14, 2024.
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Sylvia Lane Mentor Fellowship Call for Applications

The Sylvia Lane Mentor Fellowship provides an opportunity for early career women scholars working on food, agricultural, or resource issues to collaborate with an established expert at another university, institution, or firm. The application deadline is Monday, October 14, 2024.
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Call for Applications
McCorkle Scholarship Applications

The AAEA Trust Committee is accepting applications for the 2025 Chester O. McCorkle Jr. Student Scholarship. This scholarship will support applied research by a graduate student on economic issues relating to agriculture. At least one (1) scholarship of up to $2,000 will be awarded. Funds can be used for research related expenses, data collection, tuition and program related expenses such as fees, books, supplies and equipment, provided the items are required of all students in the program. Applications are due Monday, October 14, 2024.
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Uma Lele Mentor Fellowship Award for Women
Call For Applications

The Agricultural & Applied Economics Association (AAEA) Trust is now accepting applications for the Uma Lele Mentor Fellowship Award for Women.  The Uma Lele Mentor Fellowship Award for Women supports a mentorship relationship between an early career woman agricultural, resource and environmental economist from low income and lower-middle income countries, and a mentor who is a member of the AAEA. A complete list of qualifying countries is available under the headings “Low-income economies” and “Lower-middle-income economies” at: http://data.worldbank.org/about/country-classifications/country-and-lending-groups#Low_income.
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Uma Lele Mentor Fellowship Award Call For Applications

The Agricultural & Applied Economics Association (AAEA) Trust is now accepting applications for the Uma Lele Mentor Fellowship Award.  The Uma Lele Mentor Fellowship Award supports a mentorship relationship with a view to promote high quality research of a policy/problem solving nature in countries with food insecurity and environmental pressures. It is meant to promote collaboration between an early career scholar who is a citizen of and resides in a developing country and a distinguished mentor.
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Pre- and Post-conference Workshops
Call for Proposals:

The AAEA Executive Board invites proposals for Pre- and Post-conference Workshops at the 2025 AAEA & WAEA Joint Annual Meeting in Denver, CO. The deadline for proposals is December 2. Selections will be finalized at the AAEA Executive Board meeting in early January and organizers will be notified soon thereafter by the AAEA President.
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Choices Magazine: Article Highlight

U.S. Agricultural Trade Challenges Amid Climate and Geopolitical Disruptions

Raghav Goyal, Sandro Steinbach, Yasin Yildirim, and Xiting Zhuang

We discuss the impact of climate events and geopolitical disruptions on U.S. agricultural trade, highlighting the vulnerabilities to droughts and shipping blockades affecting key transport routes like the Mississippi River and the Panama Canal. We stress the need for adaptive strategies to safeguard global market access.

Interested in publishing in Choices? Submit your Individual, Theme, or Data Visualizations here.

2024 AAEA Early Career Professionals Workshop

What: AAEA Early Career Professionals Workshop: Supporting Scholars to Thrive in Applied Economics
Where: Davis, CA
When:  December 13, 2024 (6:30 PM Pacific) to December 15, 2024 (2:00 PM Pacific)
Who: Open to pre-tenure or equivalent career stage applied economists with a PhD currently working in US or Canadian universities or organizations who have seven or fewer year of work experience post-PhD (not including time for parental leave, or similar)

Topics to include: Career goals and motivations; being an ethical applied economist; teaching, advising, and mentorship; Extension, outreach, and policy communication; building the field you want to see through service; generating ideas and scholarly projects; funding and carrying out scholarship; publishing and disseminating scholarship; building a mentorship network; and more!
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New Sections

Agricultural Trade and Policy Section (ATP)
The section aims to serve as a platform for empirical and theoretical research and scholarly discussion of agricultural trade and policy globally within both domestic, regional, and international contexts. The Agricultural Trade and Policy section distinguishes itself from other AAEA sections by focusing on agricultural trade and policy rather than international development and value chain marketing. The section aims to advance understanding and knowledge in agricultural trade and policy by promoting high-quality research, supporting evidence-based policymaking, and facilitating informed dialogue among researchers, policymakers, industry stakeholders, and the broader academic community. The scope of the section will include theoretical and empirical studies that employ quantitative methods to analyze various aspects of agricultural trade and policy around the world. This involves trade theory, econometric modeling, statistical analysis, causal inference, and spatial analysis techniques to ex-amine patterns, trends, and relationships in agricultural trade and global value chain flow data. Research within the section may address questions related to market access, foreign market opportunities, competitiveness, trade negotiations, trade disputes, the political economy, and the welfare implications of trade policies for different stakeholders along the agricultural value chain. Furthermore, the section will welcome interdisciplinary research that integrates insights from economics, food safety and nutrition, geography, and other relevant fields to provide a comprehensive understanding of the complexities of agricultural trade and policy. Learn more>>

Labor Economics Section (LES)
We intend for the Labor Economics section to serve as an academic home for researchers who are primarily concerned with applying modern research methods from the labor economics and human resource management fields to problems in agriculture and the food system more generally. Our hope is that the Section provides a way for AAEA members to share scholarly research on issues of common and mutual interest by organizing periodic meetings, both within the formal AAEA meeting structure (i.e., summer AAEA meetings and winter ASSA meetings) and through workshops sanctioned by the Section. The Labor Economics section distinguishes itself from other AAEA sections by focusing specifically on labor-related issues of interest to agricultural and food-system firms in the US, and other developed economies, rather than household-based problems in less developed countries that are the primary focus of development economists. However, to the extent that immigration and global trade connect labor markets across developed and developing countries, we welcome research and discussion from development economics that has direct implications for labor markets in the agrifood system in developed countries. We also invite participation from transdisciplinary scholars who conduct research that may be relevant to the conduct of labor markets and the management of human resources within food-system firms, including researchers in sociology, psychology, supply chain management, ecology, and other related disciplines. We intend to produce fact-based, policy-relevant research that will be relevant to policymakers charged with enacting and implementing labor-related legislation and rulemaking, along with research that seeks to advance our understanding of methods and concepts in labor economics and human resource management. Learn more>>

South Asia Section Virtual Webinar: Seasonal Poverty and Internal Migration: A Research Agenda in Bangladesh and Nepal

https://assets.associationaccess.com/emails/aaea/image/mobarak_mushfiq_v3.jpgWhen: Friday, October 18, 2024
Time: 2:00-3:15pm Central Time
Organizer: Modhurima Dey Amin, Texas Tech University
Speaker: Dr. Mushfiq Mobarak, Yale University
CLICK HERE TO REGISTER

This virtual session hosted by AAEA's SAS Section will outline a research agenda and open questions around the causes and consequences of internal (within-country) migration, as well as the opportunities and impediments associated with such movements. Much of that movement in seasonal and circular, in response to seasonal deprivation during pre-harvest lean periods.
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AJAE Editorship Applications
Call for Applications

Editorship appointments for the American Journal of Agricultural Economics are staggered such that two new appointments are made every two years. The AAEA Board now seeks a diverse group of applicants at the full professor level (or equivalent) by the start of the appointment for two co-editors to be appointed to replace current co-editors Jesse Tack and Rudy Nayga for a four-year term beginning in January 2026. Each co-editor handles approximately one-fourth of the submitted manuscripts and makes independent editorial decisions on these submissions. The degree to which candidate’s expertise complements that of continuing editors Nicholas Magnan and Christian Langpap will be considered in the selection process.
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AERE & AAEA Fall Workshop

Online via Zoom • October 24 and 25, 2024 • 2:00 - 5:00 p.m. ET

Join AERE and the Agricultural and Applied Economics Association (AAEA) for an engaging and insightful virtual workshop dedicated to bridging the gap between economic research and policy implementation. This two-day event is designed to provide environmental and resource economists with actionable insights and strategies for influencing policy decisions.

Why Attend?
Gain Insight From Federal Experts: Learn directly from experienced panelists representing key federal agencies about the latest research trends and policy needs.

Practical Tools and Strategies: Gain practical knowledge on engaging effectively in policy conversations, securing research funding, and developing cutting-edge methodologies.

Collaborative Opportunities: Identify potential collaborations and partnerships with federal agencies to enhance the relevance and impact of your research.

Focused Sessions on Critical Issues: Benefit from focused discussions on emerging areas, resource allocation, methodological advancements, and inter-agency collaborations, particularly on pressing issues like water quality.

View the Agenda here: https://www.aere.org/assets/2024Fall/AERE%20-%20Fall%20Virtual%20Workshop%20%282024%29%20-%20Agenda.pdf

This workshop is free to attend. Don't miss this opportunity to enhance your research's policy impact and connect with key policymakers.

Register now to secure your spot!: https://aere.memberclicks.net/2024virtualfallworkshop#!/

If you have a question about an upcoming AERE workshop, please contact info@aere.org. Learn more about our past Fall Workshops here.

Government Relations & Washington Update

October 2024

Congress Passes Continuing Resolution, Avoids Shutdown
On September 26th, President Biden signed a short-term continuing resolution to avoid a government shutdown and provide funding through December 20th.  The bill resolution received bipartisan support in both chambers of Congress, passing the House 341-82 and Senate 78-18. Speaker Johnson had previously attempted to pass a resolution that would have funded the government into March 2025 and included a policy rider addressing non-citizen voting. When it became clear that the measure didn’t have sufficient support, he pivoted to a “clean” resolution that was consistent with the approach advanced in the Senate. This sets the stage for another potential shutdown just before the holidays with the results of the November election likely impacting how Congress moves forward with completing fiscal year 2025 appropriations.
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Other News

Gund Institute for Environment
Funded PhD Opportunities

The Gund Institute for Environment at the University of Vermont (UVM) seeks exceptional PhD applicants to conduct interdisciplinary research on global environmental challenges beginning in fall 2025. Applications are due January 5, 2025.
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