Warsaw 2023

Jayson Lusk

Prof. Jayson Lusk is the Vice President and Dean of the Division of Agricultural Sciences and Natural Resources at Oklahoma State University (previously Distinguished Professor and Department Head in the Department of Agricultural Economics at Purdue University).

He is a food and agricultural economist who studies what we eat and why we eat it. Since 2000, he has published more than 260 peer-reviewed scientific articles related to contemporary agricultural and food policy issues. His books and articles relate to a wide assortment of topics ranging from the economics of animal welfare to consumer preferences for genetically modified food to the impacts of new technologies and policies on livestock and meat markets to analyzing the merits of new survey and experimental approaches eliciting consumer preferences.

He has been listed as one of the most prolific and cited food and agricultural economists of the past two decades in a variety of outlets and won numerous research awards, including the Borlaug Communication Award from the Council for Agricultural Science and Technology and the Lou Ann Aday award, Purdue University’s most prestigious research award in the humanities and social sciences. He has served on the editorial councils of eight academic journals including the American Journal of Agricultural Economics, the Journal of Environmental Economics and Management, and Food Policy and consulted for various nonprofits, government agencies, and agribusinesses.

He has authored, co-authored, and contributed as editor of six notable books:

1. Lusk, J.L. Unnaturally Delicious: How Science and Technology are Serving Up Super Foods to Save the World. New York: St. Martin’s Press, 2016.

2. Lusk, J.L. The Food Police: A Well-Fed Manifesto about the Politics of Your Plate. New York: Crown Forum, 2013.

3. Lusk, J.L., J. Roosen, and J. Shogren. (editors) Oxford Handbook of the Economics of Food Consumption and Policy. Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press, 2011.

4. Norwood, F.B. and J.L. Lusk. Compassion by the Pound: The Economics of Farm Animal Welfare. Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press, 2011.

5. Norwood, F.B. and J.L. Lusk. Agricultural Marketing and Price Analysis. Upper Saddle River, NJ: Prentice-Hall, 2007.

6. Lusk, J.L. and J.F. Shogren. Experimental Auctions: Methods and Applications in Economic and Marketing Research. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2007.

Professor Jayson Lusk undoubtedly one of the most recognized specialist in the domains of experimental and agricultural economics. For more information on his research, please visit his website.

Leah Palm-Forster 

Leah H. Palm-Forster is an agricultural and environmental economist and an associate professor in the Department of Applied Economics & Statistics at the University of Delaware. Her research examines farmer decision making and the design of agri-environmental programs and policies to enhance ecosystem service provision in agricultural landscapes.  Palm-Forster is interim director of UD’s Center for Experimental & Applied Economics and graduate director for the M.S. in Agricultural and Resource Economics program. Palm-Forster is a research fellow with the Center for Behavioral and Experimental Agri-environmental Research (CBEAR), and she serves on the Executive Board of the Scientific and Technical Advisory Committee (STAC) for the Chesapeake Bay Program.  She is also an associate editor for the American Journal of Agricultural Economics and chair of the Northeast Agricultural and Resource Economics Association’s Career Advancement and Mentorship Program. Palm-Forster holds a Ph.D. in Agricultural, Food, and Resource Economics from Michigan State University, and she earned M.S. and B.S. degrees at Virginia Tech.

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Due to technical problems, the keynote was postponed to October 20th, 2023, 15:30 - 17:00  CET.

Investigating Spatiotemporal Complexities of Climate-Smart Commodity Programs Using Economic Experiments

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