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.<\/p>\n
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<\/em>\u00a0, my view being that a keynote is an occasion for one to gather one’s thoughts on a given topic.<\/p>\n Consequently, in my keynote<\/a>, 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.<\/p>\n The other (proper!) keynote was given by Pol Antr\u00e0s<\/a>, from the Department of Economics at Harvard, who made a really interesting presentation about global value chains.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" 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.…<\/p>\n