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ARE Ph.D. and Masters Students Celebrate 2025 Graduation Ceremony
On Thursday, June 12, 2025, ARE celebrated the accomplishments of its new Ph.D. and Masters graduates. Congratulations to the graduating class of 2025!
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Managerial Economics Student Melissa Vinding Receives the CA&ES Dean’s Circle Award
The Dean's Circle Award at UC Davis is an award given to outstanding senior undergraduate students in the College of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences (CA&ES). It recognizes students who have …
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ARE Welcomes Sylvia Klosin to the Department
The Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics is pleased to welcome Dr. Sylvia Klosin to our department as an assistant professor. Professor Klosin earned her Ph.D. in economics from MIT, …
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Distinguished Professor Richard Sexton Retires
After a career at UC Davis ARE that began as an assistant professor in 1984 and included a position as department chair twice from 1994–1998 and from 2011–2016, as well …
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ARE Distinguished Professor Richard J. Sexton Explores How to Feed the World in New Book, Food Fight: Misguided Policies, Supply Challenges, and the Impending Struggle to Feed a Hungry World
On Tuesday, June 3rd the ARE community came together to celebrate the launch of Distinguished Professor Richard J. Sexton’s new book: “Food Fight: Misguided Policies, Supply Challenges, and the Impending …
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Laura Alcocer: 2025 Scott McNiven Community Service Award
The graduate students in ARE selected Laura Alcocer to receive the 2025 Scott McNiven Community Service Award. The award is given each year to the ARE graduate student whose actions—through …
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Ellie Price Named the Outstanding Senior in Managerial Economics
The Outstanding Senior Award recognizes an exceptional undergraduate senior in the major who has achieved academic excellence, outstanding leadership activities, and upholds the Principles of Community at UC Davis. Price …
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Open Position: Lecturer - Agricultural & Resource Economics
The Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics at the University of California, Davis invites applications for lecturer positions to teach courses in its undergraduate Managerial Economics major during the 2025-2026 …
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ARE Ph.D. Alum Tina Kotsaku Awarded Richardson-Applebaum Outstanding Graduate Research Award for Best Ph.D. Dissertation from the Food Distribution Research Society
ARE Alum Tina Kotsaku (Ph.D. 2024) was awarded the 2025 Richardson-Applebaum Outstanding Graduate Research Award for Best Ph.D. Dissertation from the Food Distribution Research Society for her thesis "Demand For …
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Man Econ Senior Research Theses Students Present at the Undergraduate Research and Creative Activities Conference
On Friday, April 25, eleven Senior Research Theses participants presented at the Undergraduate Research and Creative Activities Conference. Each year, UC Davis undergraduates in all academic fields are invited to …
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Our faculty participate actively in the Giannini Foundation of Agricultural Economics. The broad mission of the Foundation is to promote and support research and outreach activities in agricultural economics and rural development relevant to California.
Continuing in celebration of the Ph.D. program's 50th anniversary, The UC Davis Agricultural and Resource Economics PhD Program: The First 50 Years by Alex F. McCalla, Julian M. Alston, and K. Aleks Schaefer is available to read.
Selected Publications
C.S. Alexander, M. Yarborough, and A. Smith. Precision Agriculture (2023) 25: 146-185.
S.R. Boucher, M.R. Carter, J.E. Flatnes, T.J. Lybbert, J.G. Malacarne, P.P Mareyna, et al. The Economic Journal (2024) 134 (662): 2321-2350.
L. Thompson, E. Becher, K.P. Adams, D. Haile, N. Walker, ... S.A. Vosti, et al. Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences (2024) 1537 (1): 82-97.
Market structure and resilience of food supply chains under extreme events
J. Hadachek, M. Ma, and R.J. Sexton. American Journal of Agricultural Economics (2024) 106 (1): 21-44.
Latest ARE Update
ARE Update Vol. 28, No. 6, Jul/Aug, 2025
- Sexton, Richard J. "Are We on Track to Adequately Feed the World in the 21st Century?"
- O'Brien, Peter and James E. Sayre. "Do California’s Cattle Emit Less Carbon Than We Think?"
- Win, Myat Thida, Zachariah Rutledge and Philip Martin. "How California Farmers Are Adapting to a Shrinking Labor Force."
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We consistently rank at the top of the agricultural and applied economics profession and are part of the best university in the world for agriculture and forestry. The depth, breadth and rigor of our teaching, research and outreach enable us to make major contributions to society in the areas of agriculture, environment and natural resources, and international development. We offer a popular Managerial Economics undergraduate major and top rated Ph.D. and Masters programs.
Our Diversity and Inclusion in Research, Education, and Career Training (DIRECT) program exposes, encourages, prepares and involves students from diverse backgrounds in agricultural economics. It is closely aligned with a campus-wide commitment to recognize and nurture talent and achievement by supporting diversity and equal opportunity in education. For more information, see: UCD Principles of Community , UCD Office of Diversity, Equity and Inclusion , and UCD Diversity and Inclusion Strategic Vision .
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