Agenda

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

               
 

 

Time

Speaker

Title

8:40

Introduction and Welcome (Steve Hanson, Chairperson)

9:00

Adam Lovegren

Supply Constraints in Organic Chicken Egg Industry

9:20

Adrew Kizito

The Role of Institutional Change in Governance on the Performance of Agricultural Advisory Services in Uganda

9:40

Jacob Ricker-Gilbert

Do Fertilizer subsidies hurt the private sector? An Example from Malawi

10:00

Domenico Dentoni

Firms’ organizational choices to signal credence quality attributes: a case study approach

10:20

Break

 

10:40

Athur Mabiso

The effects of Ethanol Expansion on Food Consumption Patterns in the U.S.

11:00

Ramziath Adjao

The Impact of the Biofuel Boom on the Supply of Malian Cotton

11:20

Shan Ma

Hedonic land value study of agricultural ecosystem services

11:40

Subbu Kumarappan

Risk premiums for energy crop production – A stochastic dominance analysis

noon

Lunch

 

1:00

Nicky Mason

Are there threshold effects in the impacts of HIV/AIDS on smallholder agricultural production? Panel data evidence from Zambia

1:20

Byron Reyes

Assessing the socieconomic impact of participatory plant breeding (PPB) of beans in two areas of Honduras

1:40

Fang Xie

A joint model of multi-host disease dynamics and evolution of behavior strategies

2:00

Lee Schulz

Cow-calf producer valuations of beef traceability system attributes

2:20

Malika Chaudhuri

 Optimal Hedging by Ethanol Producers

2:40

Bill Burke

Determinants and Impacts of Participation in High Potential Markets in Rural Kenya: Winners and Losers in the Dairy Sector

3:00

Break

3:20

Dave Gebben

MSU Choice Experiment on Recycling

3:40

Alexandra Peralta

 Dynamics and Definitions of Poverty in the Colombian Andes: Participatory Approaches vs. Objective Approaches

4:00

Feng Song

Economic welfare of control of soybean aphids in North America

4:20

Nicole Olynk

A Stochastic Economic Analysis of Dairy Cattle Artificial Insemination Reproductive Management Programs

4:45

Awards (Scott Loveridge)

4:50

End