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Dr. Roger Sedjo - Senior Fellow at Resources for the Future, Inc. – to be ELE Scholar in Residence

Roger Sedjo, Ph.D., will be the first ELE (Economics, Law, and the Environment) Scholar in Residence this semester and teach a seminar course “ELE Seminar on Climate, Forestry and Land Use” available to graduate and law students.

Dr. Sedjo is a senior fellow and the director of Resources for the Future’s forest economics and policy program. Sedjo is also adjunct professor in Agricultural and Resource Economics and faculty affiliate of the Program on Economics, Law, and the Environment at the University of Arizona. His research interests include forests and global environmental problems; climate change and biodiversity; public lands issues; long-term sustainability of forests; industrial forestry and demand; timber supply modeling; international forestry; global forest trade; forest biotechnology; and land use change.

The Program on Economics, Law, and the Environment (ELE) is a research and education collaboration between the Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics and the James Rogers College of Law.

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Direct Farm Marketing Conference Set for Monday, March 3
This year's Direct Farm Marketing and Sustainable Agriculture Conference will be held on Monday, March 3, 2008, from 9 until 4, beginning at the Arizona Farm Bureau in Gilbert, AZ. Conference participants will also tour Agritopia and Mother Nature's Farm. Cost to attend is free. Please see the brochure for location, maps, agenda, and speaker biographies.

Positive Externalities—New Newsletter for Alumni and Friends
AREC is pleased to tell you about our brand new newsletter for all our alumni, departmental friends, faculty, and staff. Called Positive Externalities, the premiere issue is now available for onscreen reading or for downloading and printing out! Positive Externalities.

2007 Arizona Agribusiness Forum
This year's Agribusiness Forum will take place on November 15 at Harrah's Ak-Chin Casino Resort in Maricopa, Arizona. The overall topic for the forum is Labor, Energy, and Agriculture. Registration materials (including paying with a credit card), conference agenda, driving directions, and other information are available on the Arizona Agribusiness Forum webpage.

Bonnie Colby Named Distinguished Scholar
AREC's Professor Bonnie Colby has been named a Distinguished Scholar by the Western Agricultural Economics Association. Dr. Colby has developed a nationally recognized program of teaching, research, and outreach focusing on natural resource and environmental economics. Congratulations!

Rob Innes Receives AAEA Award
Dr. Rob Innes, professor in the Department, has received the American Agricultural Economics Association 2007 Award for Publication of Enduring Quality for his work “Limited Liability and Incentive Contracting with Ex-Ante Action Choices.” The article was published in the Journal of Economic Theory [52(1):45-67, 1990].

Russ Tronstad Honored by AAEA
Dr. Russell Tronstad, professor and extension specialist, is a recipient of the American Agricultural Economics Association's prestigious Distinguished Extension/Outreach Program Group Award for 2007 for his contributions to the extension project, “U. S. Livestock Identification Systems: Risk Management and Market Opportunities.”

New Book from Bruce R. Beattie
On Doing More with Less and Other Messages for University Administrators is a collection of papers penned by Dr. Bruce Beattie over a twenty-year span of his career. Copies of the book are available for purchase or may be downloaded and printed out for reading.

AREC 559 (Advanced Applied Econometrics) touted in the Arizona Daily Wildcat.
Read what columninst Lori Foley has to say about Prof. Gary Thompson's innovative econometrics class.

New Book on Certification and Labeling
The Western Extension Marketing Committee has published a book of interest to agricultural producers looking to differentiate their products to receive higher prices and better market access. Certifiction and Labeling Considerations for Agricultural Producers can be purchased in printed form or downloaded in pdf format. Please visit http://ag.arizona.edu/arec/wemc/certification.html for more information.