Seminar Series

Organized by Carola Grebitus   April 17, 2019: “The Impact of fuel price volatility on fruit and vegetable prices in the U.S.” Dr. Richard Volpe, Cal Poly. April 10, 2019: Morrison School of Agribusiness Graduate Student Presentations: Alwin Dsouza. March 27, 2019: “Eat your vegetables: Getting school children to eat carrots.” Dr. Punam Ohri-Vachaspati, Arizona State University. March 20, 2019: “WIC participation and relative quality of household food purchases: Evidence from FoodAPS.” Dr. Di Fang, University of Arkansas. March 13, 2019: Morrison School of Agribusiness Graduate Student Presentations: Kathy Ramirez Hernandez and Maria Luz Malabayabas. February 20, 2019: “Information, Technology, and Market Rewards: Incentivizing Aflatoxin Control in Ghana.” Dr. Nicholas Magnan, University of Georgia. February 13, 2019: “Labor allocation and unanticipated shocks in Zimbabwe.” Dr. Anna Josephson, University of Arizona. February 8, 2019: “Time-varying optimal hedges for Brazilian grain handlers.” Dr. Mindy Mallory, University of Illinois-Urbana Champaign. January 23, 2019: “Healthy corner store programs – can we do more?” Dr. Robin DeWeese, Arizona State University. April 11, 2018: Water when it counts: Reducing scarcity through irrigation monitoring in central Mozambique, Valerie Mueller, Arizona State University. March 21, 2018: The effects of temperature on recreation fishing demand and adaptation:  Implications for a changing climate. Roger van Haefen, North Carolina State University. March 14, 2018: Producer attitudes toward output price risk: Experimental evidence from the lab and from the field. Marc F. Bellemare, University of Minnesota. Feb. 14, 2018: The development of satellite based index insurance for pasture land. Milton Boyd, University of Manitoba, Canada. Feb. 7, 2018: Poised between the wild west of predictive analytics and an analytics of things Westworld frontier. Michael Goul, Arizona State University. Feb. 1, 2018: Cooperative management of invasive species: a dynamic Nash bargaining approach. Kelly Cobourn, Virginia Tech University. Nov. 22, 2017: Is there too much history in historical yield data? Alan Ker, University of Guelph, Canada Nov. 8, 2017: Lots for greening: Identification of metropolitan vacant land and its potential use for cooling and agriculture in Phoenix, AZ, USA. Jordan Smith, Arizona State University. Oct. 25, 2017: Simulating the effect of the nutrition fact label revision: Added sugar and the demand for ready-to-eat breakfast cereals. Alessandro Bonanno, Colorado State University. Oct. 18, 2017: Labor response to climate variation in eastern Africa. Glenn Sheriff, Arizona State University. Oct. 4, 2017: Consumption of processed food in an emerging economy: The case of India. Khondoker Mottaleb, International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center (CIMMYT), El Batan Texcoco, Mexico. Sept. 27, 2017: Water right seniority, economic efficiency, and land allocation decisions. Siân Mooney, Arizona State University. April 26, 2017: The benefits of escaping recreational ‘derbies’: Evidence from a Kuhn-Tucker model of for-hire fishing in the US Gulf of Mexico. Joshua K. Abbott, Arizona State University April 12, 2017: Consumer preferences for sustainability labeling: What can eye tracking add to our research? Ellen van Loo, Ghent University, Belgium April 3, 2017: Bargaining power and local heroes: The relevance of cross-category complementarities for bargaining power and loss leading, Gordon J. Klein, Universität Münster, Germany March 22, 2017: Sensitivity analysis of urban canopy and land surface models to input land cover data products: A multiscale data development for integrated agricultural and urban applications. Stephen Shaffer, Arizona State University Nov. 23, 2016: Understanding big data! Is agribusiness ready for it? Athanasios (Thanos) Gentimis, University of Florida Oct. 26, 2016: Deprivation or discrimination: What accounts for the poverty-obesity paradox in high-income countries? Daniel Hruschka, Arizona State University Oct. 5, 2016: Payment scheme self-selection in the credence goods market: An experimental study. Ellen Green, Arizona State University Sept. 7, 2016: Hazed and confused: Air pollution, cognitive functioning, and financial decision making among the elderly. Nick Kuminoff, Arizona State University. March 30, 2016: Re-examining our models of farm debt: Implications for monetary and agricultural policy. Charles Britt Moss, University of Florida March 23, 2016: Deliberate transformations in food systems. Jennifer Hodbod, Arizona State University Jan. 20, 2016: High resolution agricultural and urban models at decadal and regional scales: Seeking sustainable solutions for rapidly expanding urban areas. Alex Mahalov, Arizona State University Nov. 18, 2015: Quality standards versus nutritional taxes: Health and welfare impacts with strategic firms. Vincent Réquillart, Toulouse University, TSE-INRA, France Oct. 30, 2015: Outdoor recreation research and case studies in the Czech Republic. Katerina Kaprova, Charles University Environment Center, Prague Oct. 21, 2015: Using takings to undo givings. Karen Bradshaw Schulz, Arizona State University Oct. 7, 2015: Rod Roscoe, Arizona State University. Joint seminar with HSE brown bag. Sept. 23, 2015: The fragility of cooperation in a world of change. Marco A. Janssen, Arizona State University April 22, 2015: The value of ethical attributes - Willingness to pay for animal welfare, local origin and organic production. Jutta Roosen, University of Munich, Germany March 04, 2015: The robustness of small scale agricultural systems: food security in the face of global change. J. Marty Anderies, Arizona State University Jan. 21, 2015: Distinguishing non-stationarity from inconsistency in intertemporal choice. Daniel Silverman, Arizona State University Nov. 7, 2014: Creating connections and exchanges that are good for consumers and good for businesses. Fernando Arriola, VP Media & Integration ConAgra Foods Oct. 29, 2014: A state of hunger: Risk and resiliency factors related. Meg Bruening, Arizona State University Sept. 24, 2014: Profitability of firms in the US food industry. Stefan Hirsch, Bonn University, Germany April 02, 2014: Hurricanes and avoidance behavior: Evidence from bottled water sales. Timothy K.M. Beatty, University of Minnesota March 19, 2014: The impact of Wal-Mart Supercenter conversion on consumer shopping behaviors. Sungho Park, Arizona State University Feb. 25, 2014: Food retail environment and childhood obesity. Rodolfo M. Nayga, University of Arkansas Dec. 11, 2013: Oligopoly intermediation, relative rivalry, and the mode of competition. Stephen Hamilton, Cal Poly San Luis Obispo Nov. 14, 2013: “I’ll have what he’s having”: Group ordering behavior in food choice decisions. Brenna Ellison, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Oct. 23, 2013: On the career and technical education-career planning and courses; secondary education and CTE student organizations the example of FFA. Dennis Fiscus, CTE Director of Operations, Programs of Study Director Oct. 9, 2013: Arizona Medical Marijuana Act. Juli Boles, Arizona Department of Health Services, Medical Marijuana Program Manager Sept. 25, 2013: Ethanol – no free lunch. Andrew Schmitz, University of Florida Aug. 28, 2013: Forced sales and farmland prices. Silke Huettel, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Germany April 18, 2013: Superstition Vistas – A bold vision for a sustainable 21st century community. Mike Hutchinson – Director, Superstition Vistas Comprehensive Planning Project, Jim Holway – Director, Western Land and Communities, Sonoran Institute, Michelle Green – Project Manager, Arizona State Land Department. Joint Seminar with Science & Mathematics April 10, 2013: Arizona agribusiness innovations: Aquaculture, algae – an emerging industry in Arizona. Tony Porti, Chairman of Global Aquatics April 5, 2013: Sierra Martinez, Legal Director from Natural Resources Defense Council March 21, 2013: Are tribes the new ‘laboratories of innovation’ in environmental and natural resources management? Patricia Mariella, Arizona State University--American Indian Policy Institute   March 8, 2013: The impact of product information & trials on demand for smokeless tobacco & cigarettes: Evidence from experimental auctions. Matthew Rousu, Susquehanna University Feb. 15, 2013: Green expectations: Current effects of anticipated carbon pricing. Derek Lemoine, University of Arizona Jan. 28, 2013: Extreme biogeochemistry: The influence of water-pulse events in polar desert soils of Antarctica. Becky Ball, Arizona State University (joint seminar with Letters and Sciences) Nov. 16, 2012: Reduce food waste to eliminate hunger and poverty. Craig Rominger, CEO of nanoICE; Founder/Chairman of Post Harvest Project  Nov. 15, 2012: Spatial effects of bioenergy production on land allocation and net revenue. Jerome Dumortier, Indiana University – Purdue University Indianapolis Nov. 8, 2012: Comments on the Danish and US organic labels – an empirical investigation using eye tracking. Anne Peschel, Bonn University, Germany