All Events

On October 5, 2011, Spencer Henson is speaking about "Food Safety, Trade and International Markets" at McGill Institute for Global Food Security. 
Former PhD Grad Student, Danny Le Roy becomes Chair of Economics Department at Univ. of Lethbridge.  Danny Le Roy was supervised by Glenn Fox and graduated in 2002.  Congratulations Danny!

The final oral examination for the Degree of Doctor of Philosophy for Claudia Schmidt took place on Thursday, August 25th, 2011 at 9:00 a.m. in Room 106, Rozanski Hall. 

The title of Claudia's presentation is:  "Assessing the Cost-effectiveness of Alternative Measures aimed at Reducing the Prevalence of Food-borne Microbiological Hazards". 

The final oral examination for the Degree of Doctor of Philosophy for Tomas Rosada took place on Wednesday, August 24th, 2011 at 9:00 a.m. in Room 106, Rozanski Hall. 

The title of Tomas' presentation is:  "Structure and Dynamics of Economic Inequality in Guatemala". 

Student Award

FARE M.Sc. student, Robin Smart, won this years CAES Outstanding M.Sc. Thesis award for her thesis entitled "Measuring the impact of food safety recalls on firms: An event study if the 2008 Listeria Monocytogenes recall in Canada".  Congratulations to Robin!

May 10 - 11 - Enabling Research for Competitive Agriculture Planning Workshop

May 19 - OMAFRA Spring Executive Forum in Guelph, Ontario
"Productivity in the Agri-food Complex: Where we stand, how we compare and impact on competitiveness?"

Researchers in the College of Management and Economics and the Ontario Agricultural College have received $200,000 from OMAFRA’s New Directions Research Program to study the competitiveness of Ontario’s food industry.

“Understanding competitiveness requires a mix of economics, management and public policy expertise that our team is uniquely qualified to provide for this important project,” says principal investigator Erna van Duren, a professor in the Department of Business.