When graduate students enter our class on International Agricultural Development in the fall, they have no idea of the enormous role that their two instructors play in U.S. policy making around this subject. Rutgers Distinguished Professor Carl Pray and Associate Research Professor Anwar Naseem, both of DAFRE, are responsible for evaluating the global food security […]
With about 10% of the world’s population considered to be undernourished, international agricultural development remains a top priority for economists and policy makers. Obviously, policies that target agricultural development should be effective. But why is it important that they be balanced? One answer to this question relates to the ends of agricultural development. An approach to […]
Most Americans are probably unaware that more than a year ago, farmers in India built a tent city on the outskirts of New Delhi. Their purpose was to protest an agricultural reform proposal introduced by Prime Minister Narendra Modi. The proposal was framed as an attempt to eliminate “middlemen” and increase the number and type […]
DAFRE faculty may want to assign this article to students to illustrate what happens when the supply curve in an agricultural market shifts upward, driven by an increase in the cost of a variable input. The article identifies three causes for the recent increase in fertilizer prices: (1) the global shortage of natural gas, a […]
“International Floricultural Expert Teaches Women to Manage Business Risks.”
by Paul D. Gottlieb, March 10, 2020 Opinions expressed in this piece are those of the author alone, and are not meant to reflect the opinions of DAFRE faculty or Rutgers University. The online media site Slate.com recently ran a headline that read, “You Should be Absolutely Terrified about the Economy.” VoxEU.org took a very different tone: […]
We would like to welcome Dr. Nazia Arbab, who on January 1st was appointed Assistant Research Professor in the Department of Agricultural, Food, and Resource Economics. Dr. Arbab comes to us from the SEBS Department of Ecology, Evolution, and Natural Resources, where she worked for nearly five years as a Post-Doctoral Associate. Her research for […]
Derek Noah, Class of 2016 – Environmental and Business Economics Major SEBS’16 alum, Derek Noah, talks about his connection with nature and the importance of eliminating wastefulness at Teracycle.
Ramu Govindasamy, professor in the Department of Agricultural, Food, and Resource Economics, is principal investigator of the USDA-funded project, “Local Food, Direct Marketing, and Agritourism Activities as Value‐Added Opportunities for Small Farmers in the Mid‐ Atlantic United States.”
There exists a short list of scientific breakthroughs that have transformed life on earth, but which almost nobody knows about. High on this list of revolutionary technologies is the Haber-Bosch process, which was developed by German chemists Fritz Haber and Carl Bosch a little over 100 years ago. Haber and Bosch figured out how to […]
