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Open Position: Academic Coordinator Asst. Director, California Agribusiness Executive Seminar (CAES) and Communications Director, Giannini Foundation
March 23, 2020
The Assistant Director supports professional development for agribusiness executives through the CAES and the research and outreach missions of the GFAE and the UC faculty that comprise its membership. The ...
Kristin Kiesel and Co-authors Publish “Consumer and Strategic Firm Response to Nutrition Shelf Labels” in the American Journal of Agricultural Economics
Feb. 14, 2020
The majority of Americans do not meet dietary guidelines and continue to consume more than the recommended values for added sugars, saturated fats, and overall calories in their diets. While ...
Annual ARE Faculty-Grad Student Ski Day Held at Alpine Meadows
Feb. 13, 2020
ARE faculty and grads gathered at Lake Tahoe in the evening of February 10 for the annual departmental ski day on February 11, this year at Alpine Meadows ski resort. ...
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Brittney Goodrich, Jeffrey Williams and Rachael Goodhue publish study on “The Great Bee Migration” in the American Journal of Agricultural Economics
Dec. 18, 2019
Every winter, most honey bee colonies in the U.S. are loaded onto semi-trucks and shipped to California to pollinate almond orchards. Without this mass migration of honey bee colonies (and ...
Annals of The New York Academy of Sciences Features ARE - Institute for Global Nutrition Collaboration on Vitamin A Intervention for Children in Cameroon
Dec. 12, 2019
A new article, “Strategies to achieve adequate vitamin A intake for young children: options for Cameroon” appears in the latest issue of the Annals of The New York Academy of ...
Quirino Paris: Academician’s Academic
Dec. 9, 2019
Quirino Paris grew up in Italy and came to California as a PhD student at UC Berkeley in 1963. He then joined the UC Davis faculty, where he spent his ...
Rich Sexton on ABC 10: Housing a Growing Population While Preserving Productive Farmland
Nov. 27, 2019
ARE Distinguished Professor Richard Sexton was featured in an ABC 10 News story about the battle between housing a growing California population and preserving the state’s farmland. Using Sexton’s work ...
New Video Documents Unique UCD-WFP Collaboration on Kenya’s Home Grown School Meals Program
Nov. 27, 2019
The project, led by ARE Professor J. Edward Taylor, used simulation methods to measure the local-economy impacts of Kenya’s national school meals program. A team of UCD ARE graduate students ...
ARE Welcomes Dr. Jamie Hansen-Lewis to Faculty
Nov. 6, 2019
The Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics (ARE) is proud to welcome Dr. Jamie Hansen-Lewis to our faculty as an assistant professor. Dr. Lewis, a specialist in environmental and development ...
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Pierre Mérel Receives the Christophe Baron Prize for Best Wine Economics Presentation
Oct. 1, 2019
The prize acknowledges outstanding economic work, service to the association, and dedication to the discipline of wine economics.. Pierre received the prize at the 2019 annual meeting of the American ...
