Announcements

The Ontario Agricultural College and Department of Food, Agricultural and Resource Economics (FARE) will welcome high school students participating in Ontario's Specialist High Skills Major (SHSM) program to campus on March 3, 2011.

Prof. Alfons Weersink of the Department of Food, Agricultural and Resource Economics (FARE) has recently been selected to attend the 122^nd annual European Association of Agricultural Economists (EAAE) seminar in Ancona, Italy on February 17^th and 18^th.

The seminar program will be based on the theme "Evidence-Based Agricultural and Rural Policy Making: Methodological and Empirical Challenges of Policy Evaluation".

The Canadian Foundation for Innovation (CFI) recently announced that it will invest more than $61 million in research projects across 48 Canadian universities. Five research initiatives at the University of Guelph have received more than $815,000 since this announcement.

The Department of Food, Agricultural and Resource Economics (FARE) was well represented at the recent Future of Farms & Food in Canada conference held in Ottawa, Ontario. This conference marked the first of what is planned to be an annual conference for professionals working in the Canadian agricultural policy sector.

Session Three entitled "Agricultural Productivity" will be held on Wednesday, February 2, 2011 at 1 Stone Road, Conference Rooms 1 & 2 beginning at 12:45 pm. Invited speakers are:

Thirtle, Colin. "Returns to R&D by Function, Commodity and Country, With Spillovers: Comparing Apples and Oranges?"

Cahill, Sean. "Factors Affecting Agricultural Productivity Growth in Canada"

Cranfield, John. "Productivity and Research Along the Value Chain: Friend or Foe to the Producer?"

In December, the International Agricultural Trade Research Consortium (IATRC) celebrated its 30th anniversary at its annual meeting in Berkeley, California.  Faculty in FARE have contributed to the IATRC's success since its inception. Professor Karl Meilke, a former Chair of the IATRC, participated in a panel discussion of what remains to be done in agrifood trade liberalization. 

Presentations at a policy education program Alternative Energy, the Environment and Trade sponsored by the Department of Food, Agricultural and Resource Economics, University of Guelph on September 8, 2010.

Fox, G. 2010. "Green Energy: An Ontario Prespective."

Conklin, N. 2010. "Green Energy: An United States Perspective."