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2 unusual facts about Agricultural economics


Agricultural economics

Another contributor, 1979 Nobel Economics Prize winner Theodore Schultz was among the first to examine development economics as a problem related directly to agriculture.

Italian traditional maize varieties

The eco-agronomic characteristics of Italian traditional varieties match the Mediterranean and semi-continental climate of the country, with mostly spring and some summer (post-wheat) sowings; and early (summer) to late (autumn) maturity.



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Charles H. Dyson School of Applied Economics and Management

The program was originally named the Department of Agricultural Economics, was renamed Applied Economics and Management in 2002, and was renamed most recently in 2010 in honor of Charles H. Dyson following a US$25 million donation by his family, including son John S. Dyson, '65.

Clifford M. Hardin

He taught Agricultural Economics at the Michigan State University of Lansing from 1944 to 1948, when he became the assistant director and then the director of the Agricultural Experiment Station.

Fred Gruen

Swan (of Solow-Swan growth model fame) and thence to Monash University in Melbourne to become Professor of Agricultural Economics in 1964.

Grant Devine

Born in Regina, Saskatchewan, he received a B.Sc. in Agriculture degree specializing in Agricultural Economics in 1967 from the University of Saskatchewan, an M.Sc. specializing in Agricultural Economics in 1969 from the University of Alberta, an M.B.A. from the University of Alberta in 1970, and a Ph.D. in Agricultural Economics from Ohio State University in 1976.

Hector Macpherson

Hector Macpherson, Sr. (1875-1970), Canadian-American agricultural economics professor and 3-term member of the Oregon Legislative Assembly

Karl Ohs

In 1969, Ohs left his studies in agricultural economics at Montana State University to help the family move to a new ranch in Pony, Montana in a Tobacco Root Mountain valley outside Harrison in Madison County.

Milton Moore Snodgrass

Currently Department of Agricultural Economics and Agricultural Business, New Mexico State University, Las Cruces, New Mexico.

Piet Van Waeyenberge

In 1962 he obtained a Master of Science in Agricultural Economics at the University of Illinois Champaign (Urbana, IL USA) and in 1963 a Master of Business Administration at INSEAD (Fontainebleau, France).

PlĂ­nio de Arruda Sampaio

In 1970, he moved to the United States, where he worked at the FAO and at the IDB in Washington, before beginning a master's degree in agricultural economics at Cornell University.

Rosebud Kurwijila

She holds a Bachelors degree in Agriculture from Sokoine University of Agriculture, Tanzania (1976), Master degree in Agricultural Economics from the University of London (1983) as well as a Master of Philosophy in Development Economics from the University of East Anglia (UK) (1994).

Toryalai Wesa

After securing his BS in Agricultural Economics and Extension from the Faculty of Agriculture at Kabul University in 1973, he pursued his MS at the Department of Agricultural Economics and Extension at the Faculty of Agricultural Sciences at American University of Beirut in Lebanon.