On November 18, Dr. S. Kwaku Afesorgbor delivered a keynote address titled “Globalization and Its Effects on Trade in Agri-Food” at the High-Level Industry Stakeholders and Policymakers Roundtable Meeting. The event was hosted by the Simpson Centre for Food and Agricultural Policy at the School of Public Policy, University of Calgary.
Technological changes in agriculture tend to alter the mass associated with a segment or subpopulation of the yield distribution as opposed to shifting the entire distribution upwards. We propose modeling crop yields using mixtures with embedded trend functions to account for potentially different rates of technological change in different sub-populations of the yield distribution. By doing so we can test some interesting and previously untested hypotheses about the data generating process of yields.
Jacobus Kerkhoff's Master of Science defence took place on Monday, April 5th, 2010 at 3:00 p.m. in Room 118, MacNaughton Building. The title of his thesis is "The Spatial Market Integration of Fresh Asparagus in Select U.S. and Canadian Terminal Markets".
Prof. Brady Deaton recently was a participant in The 16th Annual Environmental Sciences Symposium hosted by the University of Guelph on January 16, 2010. The title of his presentation was “Economics and Environmental Policy”. For symposium details please visit http://www.uoguelph.ca/~envsymp/.
