Conferences

IFAMA

The International Food and Agribusiness Management Association is an international management organization that brings together top executives, academics, policymakers, students and stakeholders to network and stimulate strategic thinking across the global, food, fiber, floral and forestry system. IFAMA puts together every year the “World Agribusiness Forum and Symposium”. Graduate students in our department participate in oral presentations and team case study competitions.

AAEA

The Agricultural and Applied Economics Association is a not-for-profit association serving the professional interests of members working in the agricultural and broadly related fields of applied economics. Members include Faculty, students, and researchers in private, government and not-for-profit industries. The AAEA annual meeting provides students with opportunities to present their research through oral presentations and poster presentations. Additionally, students can compete for cash prizes in the team case study and individual extension competitions.

WAEA

The Western Agricultural Economics Association is a non-profit corporation with members primarily from the western United States and Canada who are professional economists working in academic institutions, government, private industry, and non-governmental organizations. The primary goals of WAEA are: to foster the study and understanding of agricultural economics and its application to problems in the western United States and Canada; to promote unity and effectiveness of effort among all concerned with those problems; to promote improvement in the professional competence and standards of all members; to cooperate with other organizations and institutions engaged in similar or related activities; and to increase the contribution of agricultural economics to human welfare.

SAEA

The Southern Agricultural Economics Association is a regional association that seek to foster the study and understanding of agricultural economics and its applications to problems in the Southern United States; to promote unity and effectiveness of effort among all concerned with those problems; to promote improvement in the professional competence and standards of its members; to cooperate with other organizations and institutions engaged in similar or related activities; and to increase the contribution of agricultural economics to human welfare.