Agricultural Economics—Without Apology
An entire day of being unable to load the WordPress dashboard — and months of page load times approaching what feels like infinity — got me upset enough with GoDaddy last Friday so as to want to change hosts. So I decided to overcome my fear of technical details and moved my blog to Hostgator, which was suggested by my colleague Don Taylor since it hosts The Incidental Economist.
From an op-ed in the New York Times last weekend:
“Almost since Iowa — our biggest corn-producing state — grabbed the lead position in the presidential sweepstakes four decades ago, support for the biofuel has been nearly a prerequisite for politicians seeking the presidency.
This was sent to me by my grad school colleague Andrew Mude:
POST-DOCTORAL SCIENTIST
REF: PD/PGI/IBLI/06/11
Base salary from USD 35,000 plus attractive international staff benefits package
The International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI) works at the crossroads of livestock and poverty, bringing high-quality livestock science, communications and capacity building to bear on poverty reduction and sustainable development. ILRI is one of 15 centres supported by the Consultative Group on International Agricultural Research (CGIAR). ILRI has campuses in Kenya (headquarters) and Ethiopia, with other offices located in other regions of Africa (Mali, Mozambique, Nigeria) as well as in South Asia (India, Sri Lanka), Southeast Asia (Laos, Thailand, Vietnam) and East Asia (China).