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 reduction and sustainable development.
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.
Examination Committee
John Cranfield (Chair)
Diane Dupont (external examiner)
Richard Vyn (internal examiner)
Glenn Fox (advisory cmt.)
Gary Parking (advisory cmt.)
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
Dr. Ker will be speaking about "BRM Policy Options and Efficacy".
Alan Ker will also be presenting in the department of Agribusiness and Agricultural Economics on "Borrowing information across time from like DGPs” on November 7th, 2017.
Qin Xu, PhD student working with Dr. Glenn Fox presented at the OMAFRA Climate Change Research
Knowledge Exchange Day, Highlighting OMAFRA-sponsored climate research on October 19, 2017.
She presented on The Effect of Climate Change on Crop Production in Ontario and The Economic Viability of Irrigation.