The Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics at the University of California, Davis invites applications for lecturer positions to teach courses in its undergraduate Managerial Economics major during the 2019-2020.
An article by Feed the Future Innovation Lab for Assets and Market Access highlights research by ARE professors Stephen Boucher, Michael Carter, Travis Lybbert; ARE Ph.D. Candidate Jonathan Malacarne; and ...
The study, directed by ARE graduate student Zachariah Rutledge and professor J. Edward Taylor, was based on a survey of 1,071 California farmers in the California Farm Bureau Federation database. ...
"Drinkers prefer Big Beer keeps it hands off their local craft brews," by Jarrett Hart, Ph.D. student in the UC Davis Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics (ARE), was published ...
Stephen Vosti, adjunct professor in the Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics (ARE), was recently honored with a 2019 Chancellor's Award for International Engagement for outstanding international engagement in carrying ...
The graduate students in ARE selected Pierce Donovan to receive the 2019 Scott McNiven Community Service Award. Throughout his graduate career, Pierce has made important contributions to strengthen the social ...
Ellen Bruno completed the best Ph.D. dissertation and Xun Wang completed the best M.S. thesis of all department graduate students in 2018, as selected by a faculty committee. Each year, ...
ARE Emeritus Professor Philip Martin discusses with Capital Public Radio how changes in overtime rules may affect California farmworkers. The changes were passed into law in 2016. The first phase ...
Catch shares are a management tool used worldwide and are typically implemented on a single-fishery basis. Using network analysis and data from the Alaska region, the paper offers empirical evidence ...
UC Davis Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics Professor and Vice Chair J. Edward Taylor is quoted in Fortune magazine's article, "The Real Cost of Cheap Groceries." The article focuses ...
In the article "Economists says still plenty of room for growth in walnut industry," the Western Farm Press reports that nut production in the western states is remaining popular among ...
Our faculty participate actively in the Giannini Foundation of Agricultural Economics. The broad mission of the Foundation is to promote and support research and outreach activities in agricultural economics and rural development relevant to California.
Continuing in celebration of the Ph.D. program's 50th anniversary, The UC Davis Agricultural and Resource Economics PhD Program: The First 50 Years by Alex F. McCalla, Julian M. Alston, and K. Aleks Schaefer is available to read.
K.P. Adams, E. Ayifah, T.E. Phiri, M.K. Mridha, S. Adu-Afarwuah, M. Arimond, C.D. Arnold, J. Cummins, S.Hussain, C.Kumwenda, S.L. Matias, U. Ashorn, A. Lartey, K.M. Maleta, S.A. Vosti, et al. The Journal of Nutrition (2017) 147 (12): 2309–2318.
Spatial Equilibrium, Imperfect Competition, and Calibrating Models
Q. Paris. In S. Msangi, D. MacEwan (Eds.) Applied Methods for Agriculture and Natural Resource Management (2019) Springer: 47-74.
D.A. Sumner. Annual Reviews of Resource Economics (2017) 9: 13-31.
Century of U.S. Farm Productivity Growth: A Surge Then a Slowdown
M.A. Andersen, J.M. Alston, P.G. Pardey, and A. Smith. American Journal of Agricultural Economics (2018) 100 (4): 1072-1090.
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The Feed the Future Innovation Lab for Assets and Market Access at UC Davis conducts and supports research on policies and programs designed to help poor and smallholder farmers and pastoralists worldwide to manage risk, adopt productive technologies and take an active part in economic growth. Operating with support from the United States Agency for International Development (USAID), our researchers from UC Davis and across the globe are developing and testing solutions that empower small-scale agriculturalists and their communities to build a resilient future free of the need for emergency aid.
Dr. Karen Klonsky, Emeritus University of California Cooperative Extension Specialist in Agricultural and Resource Economics, UC Davis died on September 26, 2018, at age 66 after an extended illness.
