Last updated on June 17, 2018
Last week, I had the honor of giving one of two keynote addresses in the closing plenary of the Northeastern Agricultural and Resource Economics Association.
Coming up through the ranks, one of the things I wished keynote presenters would do more often was to deliver proper keynote addresses rather than just showing up and presenting their paper du jour , my view being that a keynote is an occasion for one to gather one’s thoughts on a given topic.
Consequently, in my keynote, I gathered and presented my thoughts about where I think the research on contract farming and agricultural value chains should be going over the next few decades. If you are a graduate student looking for a research topic, it is my hope that those slides can provide some food for thought.
The other (proper!) keynote was given by Pol Antràs, from the Department of Economics at Harvard, who made a really interesting presentation about global value chains.