About FARE

Welcome to the Department of Food, Agricultural and Resource Economics website. Here you can find all the information you need about FARE and it's programs. You can find information on upcoming events and important news about what's happening in the Department.

If you are a current or prospective student looking for information click here.
If you are looking for information on publications made by members of the Department of FARE visit our publications page.

FARE Institute

The Institute for the Advanced Study of Food and Agricultural Policy is housed within the Department of Food, Agricultural, and Resource Economics, OAC, University of Guelph. The Institute is also part of the larger Food Institute at the University of Guelph.

The mission of the institute is to provide independent, credible, and timely policy analysis with respect to socially significant food and agricultural issues.

Find a collection of working papers, white papers and a series of podcasts that have been made public to help educate individuals on important food and agricultural issues. More

FARE Talk

Assessing agricultural policy in the 21st century.

Barrett Kirwan discusses his research with Dr. Brady Deaton on two issues crucial to understanding agricultural policy and rural economic development in the twenty-first century. More

First Nations Lands and Economies

In this podcast Chief Robert Louie and I discuss the management and control of First Nations Land. Chief Louie is the Chief of the Westbank First Nation. More

Applications

The Department of Food, Agricultural and Resource Economics (FARE) is the most research-intensive department of its kind in Canada, and one of the most intensive in North America.