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Agricultural economics is an applied field of economics concerned with the application of economic theory in optimizing the production and distribution of food and fiber products. Agricultural economics began as a branch of economics that specifically dealt with land usage. It focused on maximizing the crop yield while maintaining a good soil ...
Agreement on Agriculture; Agribusiness; Agricultural Act of 2014; Agricultural & Applied Economics Association; Agricultural and Rural Convention 2020; Agricultural attaché; Agricultural policy; Agricultural production; Agricultural value chain; AgroEurasia; Alimenta; American Journal of Agricultural Economics; Applied Economic Perspectives ...
Agricultural science – broad multidisciplinary field that encompasses the parts of exact, natural, economic and social sciences that are used in the practice and understanding of agriculture. Agricultural economics – originally applied the principles of economics to the production of crops and livestock – a discipline known as agronomics ...
Sustainable agriculture – applied science that integrates three main goals, environmental health, economic profitability, and social and economic equity. These goals have been defined by various philosophies, policies, and practices, from the vision of farmers and consumers.
The first issue of Agricultural Economics was published in 1986 by Blackwell Publishing in Oxford. [24] The first woman to become president of the International Association of Agricultural Economists was Uma Lele. Lele became president-elect in July 2018, and president in August 2021.
AERE sponsors annual summer meetings jointly with the AAEA (Agricultural & Applied Economics Association) and annual winter meetings with the ASSA (Allied Social Sciences Association). The AERE Workshop takes place each June, and is traditionally organized around a single theme with the generous sponsorship of a consortium of government agencies.
Modern agriculture: a center pivot irrigation system on a field. Agriculture encompasses crop and livestock production, aquaculture, and forestry for food and non-food products. Agriculture was a key factor in the rise of sedentary human civilization, whereby farming of domesticated species created food surpluses that enabled people to live in ...
In 1922, the Bureau of Agricultural Economics (BAE), the ERS's immediate predecessor, was established by the merger of the Office of Farm Management and Farm Economics and the Bureau of Markets and Crop Estimates, bringing together responsibility for data collection and economic research/analysis in a single agency. [1]