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Doing Good by Choosing Well: Priorities for Agricultural Economics
Author(s) -
Ahearn Mary C.,
Bahn Henry M.,
Barry Peter J.,
Cordes Sam M.,
Hewitt Tracy Irwin,
Norton George W.,
Smith Katherine R.,
Thurow Amy Purvis
Publication year - 1998
Publication title -
applied economic perspectives and policy
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.4
H-Index - 49
eISSN - 2040-5804
pISSN - 2040-5790
DOI - 10.2307/1349993
Subject(s) - outreach , agriculture , set (abstract data type) , process (computing) , resource (disambiguation) , agricultural communication , public good , economics , public relations , business , public economics , political science , economic growth , computer science , microeconomics , ecology , computer network , biology , programming language , operating system
Public decision makers, administrators, and supporters of agricultural economics research, teaching, and outreach activities have communicated a need for a more coherent expression of priorities. In addition, they have recognized that priorities should be focused on addressing and solving problems of importance to the public good. The agricultural economics profession has responded to this call for a well‐defined set of priorities. A systematic set of priority‐setting activities has included soliciting the views of stakeholders (i.e., users and potential users of the goods and services provided by agricultural economists) and of agricultural economists about priorities for the profession. The Council on Food, Agricultural and Resource Economics (C‐FARE) led a process to integrate this information into a set of professional priorities. This paper describes the key considerations in establishing priorities, describes the C‐FARE process, and reports the results of the priority‐setting process for agricultural economics.