Everyone is now stuck at home (with varying degrees of household responsibilities, to be sure, but stuck at home nevertheless), so my PhD student Jeff Bloem and I thought it would be a good idea to launch the Online Agricultural and Resource Economics Seminar (OARES).
The seminar will be held on Wednesdays at 11 am Central US time. Though this makes it difficult for our colleagues in Asia and Oceania to join in, that time slot allows colleagues from the West Coast to join in a little after breakfast, and colleagues in Europe to join in just before dinner time.
Our first seminar will be held on May 6, 2020. Leah Bevis, from Ohio State, will be presenting her paper with Digvijay Singh Negi titled “Long-Term Nutrition Impacts of the Green Revolution in India.” Here is their abstract:
We examine the impact of the Green Revolution on nutritional status for the first time, as far as we know, in India — the poster-child for the Green Revolution. We additionally piece together multiple nationally representative datasets to examine the impacts of the Green Revolution on cropping patterns, crop prices, and consumption patterns. We find that the Green Revolution improved women’s height, though the benefit accrued largely to urban women. In rural areas, the Green Revolution increased acreage to rice and wheat, usurping acreage to coarse cereals and pulses. It also (marginally) increased rural prices of coarse cereals and pulses relative to rice and wheat, and (marginally) decreased rural consumption of coarse cereals and pulses relative to rice and wheat. While the Green Revolution positively impacted women’s health, a Green Revolution that had included high-yielding pulse varieties would have likely been even more beneficial, particularly in rural areas.
If you would like to register, see the OARES website here, and make sure to sign up with your institutional address. The OARES website includes a schedule of forthcoming talks as well.