The Southern Agricultural Economics Association's Declining Membership

Financing Agricultural Economics Research and Extension in the Southern Region

Each year, heads of agricultural economics as the number of SY's in the biological and departments meet to discuss mutual issues physical sciences in 1940-41, but the proporrelated to our teaching, extension, and retion was only 10.8 percent in 1970-71. search programs. A major continuing issue is Halvorson [1, p. 18] summarized his concerns our portion of research and extension fundsabout the ...

Purdue Agricultural Economics Report

Wither The Economics of Agricultural Development ?

In spite of healthy demand for a renaissance in economic policy for agricultural development, the academic supply response is found wanting. The infusion of public economics into the economics of agricultural development, which thrived during the 1970s and 80s, has stagnated due to the lack of foundations in transaction costs, dynamics, and the co-evolution of specialization and governance. Man...

The Economics of Agricultural R&D

Agricultural research has transformed agriculture and in doing so contributed to the transformation of economies. Economic issues arise because agricultural research is subject to various market fail­ ures, because the resulting innovations and technological changes have important economic consequences for net income and its distri­ bution, and because the consequences are difficult to discern ...

Agricultural, Food and Resource Economics

Sample Courses and Course Materials in Agricultural Economics Supported in part by the National Science Foundation, the DLESE offers access to electronic materials in all aspects of earth science education, including agricultural economics, for both teachers and learners at all levels. Has searchable database with such materials as maps, images, online courses, field and lab activities, curricu...