All Events
Food is increasingly in the day-to-day consciousness of Canadians. Consumers are hearing more about food in the media and in the broader conversation. They are also seeking more information about their food – where and how it’s produced.
The Master of Science defence for Yuetian Jiang took place on Wednesday, December 13 at 10:00 am in Room 101, JD McLN Building. The title of his presentation is “The Effect of Climate and Innovation on Year-to-year Crop Yield Volatility in Ontario”.
Examination Committee
John Cranfield (Chair)
Getu Hailu (External)
Alan Ker (Advisory Committee)
Bill Deen (Advisory Committee)
The Master of Science defence for Syer Haque took place on Wednesday, December 13, 2017 at 4:15 pm in Room 107, J.D. McLN Building. The title of his presentation is: "Effects of Disease Outbreak on the Ontario Pork Industry."
Examination Committee
Mike von Massow (Chair)
Andreas Boecker (External)
Alan Ker (Advisory Committee)
Ken McEwan (Advisory Committee)
This workshop will be at UC Davis, Agricultural and Resource Economics in Davis, California on Thursday, December 7, 2017, 4:10 PM - 5:30 PM.
Date: Tuesday, December 5, 2017
Time: 2:30-4:00 pm
Room: MCLN 107
Abstract:
Yu Na Lee, an Assistant Professor in the Department, will be at the FAO in Rome this week. She will present her paper “Commodity price volatility and migration: Evidence from rural Ethiopia” at a technical workshop entitled "The drivers and impacts of migration and labour mobility in origins and destinations". The workshop brings together scholars from diverse backgrounds in an effort to better understand the evidence related to policies that promote mobility as a means of achieving poverty
Qin Xu’s Doctoral Defence took place on Thursday, December 14th at 10:00 a.m. in Room 101, J.D. MacLachlan Building. The title of her research presentation is: A Spatial Stochastic Model of Water Use Efficiency in Ontario Field Crop Production.
Alan Ker, a Professor in the Department, will be in Arizona this week, where he will be giving a talk entitled “Is there Too Much History in Historical Yield Data?”. This work is co-authored with Yong Liu, a Ph.D. student in FARE. Alan will be presenting in the Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics at the University of Arizona on Monday, and at Arizona State University on Wednesday.
University of Rhode Island
Department of Environmental & Natural Resource Economics
Seminar Series 2017-2018
Fridays 11:00 am – 12:00pm
Weaver Auditorium
Kingston Coastal Institute Building, 1st Floor
1 Greenhouse Road, Kingston, RI 02881
Please click on this link for more information -
Dr. Ker will be speaking about "BRM Policy Options and Efficacy".