Agricultural economics

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Agricultural Economics applies the principles of economics to the production of crops and livestock. Specific areas of study in agricultural economics include:

• Community and rural development
• Food safety and nutrition
• International trade
• Natural resource and environmental economics
• Production economics
• Risk and uncertainty
• Consumer behavior and household economics
• Health Economics
• Labor economics
• Forestry Economics
• Analysis of markets and competition
• Agribusiness
• Intervention storage

Education in Agricultural Economics in the new century has not been limited to applications to crops and livestock, the trend is toward an applied and quantitative science that incorporates other disciplines.

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Agricultural economics tends to be more microeconomic oriented. Many undergraduate Agricultural Economics degrees given by US land-grant universities tend to be more like a traditional business degree rather than a traditional economics degree. At the graduate level, many agricultural economics programs focus on a wide variety of applied microeconomic topics.

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Universities

• Cornell's Applied Economics and Management
• Louisiana State University
• Ohio State University, Department of Agricultural, Environmental, and Development Economics
• Oklahoma State University Agricultural Economics Department
• University of California, Davis's Agricultural and Resource Economics Department
• University of Maryland's Agricultural and Resource Economics Department
• Virginia Tech, Department of Agricultural and Applied Economics
• Texas A&M University, Department of Agricultural Economics

Research Institutions

• International Food Policy Research Institute
• Center for Agricultural and Food Industrial Organization

Journals

• American Journal of Agricultural Economics
• Journal of Agricultural and Food Industrial Organization
• Review of Undergraduate Research in Agricultural and Life Sciences

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