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Nathaniel Whittingham, a second year M.Sc. student in FARE, is one of two recipients of this year’s Agricultural Institute of Canada Foundation (AICF) Douglas McRorie Memorial Scholarships.
THE IMPACT OF INSECURE LAND TENURE ON SUSTAINABLE AGRICULTURE
Speaker: Prof. Jesse Richardson, Jr., West Virginia University College of Law
Date: Wednesday, May 24th, 2017
Time: 3:00-4:30 pm
Room: 101, JD MacLachlan Building
About the Speaker:
Mike von Massow is looking at what people are looking at in supermarkets -
Mike von Massow, Associate Professor in FARE, was featured in a number of news items regarding the opening of the Longo's Food Retail Lab at the University of Guelph. Professor von Massow, who is the Research Director for the lab, was interviewed by a variety of news outlets, and the lab was featured on the university front page:
Michael von Massow, Associate Professor in FARE, has been in the news recently. Mike provided commentary on Canada-U.S.
On Tuesday April 11, 2017, Professor Brady Deaton will testify in front of the House of Commons Standing Committee on Agriculture and Agri-Food. He will be speaking about contemporary issues facing young and start-up farmers seeking to begin or expand their farm operations, and the associated issue of generational transfer of farms.
One of our first year Master of Science students, Travis Jansen, has been selected as one of ten young farmers to participate in this year’s Successor Development Program, part of Farm Management Canada’s (FMC) Bridging the Gap: Step up to Succession Initiative.
Debate Proposition: “None of the main centers of economic education convey a theoretical understanding of real-world market institutions. That is not viewed as their educational purpose.”
Peter Boettke, (1997, p.44) “Where Did Economics Go Wrong? Modern Economics as a Flight from Reality” Critical Review 11(1): 11-64.
Congratulations to this year's Winners of the debate, the opposing team -
Prof. Getu Hailu, Associate Professor in the Department of Food, Agricultural and Resource Economics, and graduate students Natalia Piedrahita and Zili Lai have been studying the opportunities and challenges facing food processing businesses in Canada - https://www.uoguelph.ca/oac/news/innovation-investment-needed-grow-canada%E2%80%99s-food-processing-sector
The Agricultural Growth Act and Future of Crop Research in Canada
Richard Gray
Professor and Canadian Grain Policy Chair, Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics at the University of Saskatchewan.
Friday, March 24, 2017
10:00 - 11:30 a.m.
OVC Lifetime Learning Centre Room 1714