Agri-food policy research at the University of Guelph will be enhanced through a new grant and scholarship supported by the former George Morris Centre.
Liam Kelly, a graduate of the M.Sc. program in FARE, has won the O.P. Dwivedi Prize for International Development. Awarded by the University of Guelph, the O.P. Dwivedi Prize recognizes the student's overall scholastic achievement, as well as the practical and social significance of their graduate research. Liam’s thesis (entitled An Assessment of Land Tenure Security on Haiti’s Central Plateau: Implications for Farm-Level Investments) was supervised by Dr.
You were thrilled that the U of G CAMA Student Team won fourth place out of 28 in the Agri-Marketing Conference in Kansas City but you couldn't be there to witness their stellar performance?
The Institute for the Advanced Study of Food and Agricultural Policy will be hosting a mini-conference which addresses farm financial issues in agriculture on Tuesday, May 26, 2015, in Guelph. The conference will feature speakers with expertise related to agricultural policy, land valuation and farm finance. More information on the conference can be found here - http://www.uoguelph.ca/fare/institute/advanced-study.html
Brady Deaton, an Associate Professor in the Department of Food, Agricultural and Resource Economics, will be part of a panel of experts speaking on hunger at the 10th Annual Hunger Summit, to be held at the University of Guelph from February 20 to 22, 2015. More information on the summit, and the panel in which Professor Deaton will speak, can be found at: http://www.uoguelph.ca/worldhunger/
A number of FARE faculty and graduate students attended the 5th Annual Canadian Agri-Food Policy Conference in Ottawa, Ontario. The theme of this year's conference, which was co-hosted by the Institute for the Advanced Study of Food and Agricultural Policy, was "Keeping up with consumers: Understanding policy implications in a changing landscape". Nisha Balasubramaniyam, a second year M.Sc.