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The Resource and Rural Economics Division conducts research in three areas:
- The interactions among natural resources, environmental quality, and agricultural production and consumption
- The economics of agricultural research and development and technological change
- The structure and financial performance of the agricultural sector and the rural economy
Specific topics include:
- Conservation and environmental programs
- Global resources
- Agricultural research and productivity
- Technology and sustainability
- Trade and the environment
- Production practices and the environment
- Land use
- Water use and management
- Farm structure
- Farm finance and farm sector performance
- Demographic change in rural areas
- Rural labor and credit markets
Resource and Rural Economics Division staff work in the following specialty areas:
- Credit, finance, and risk
- Industrial organization
- Natural resource/environmental economics
- Production economics/farm management
- Labor and demographics
- Rural and regional economics
- Welfare and poverty economics
- Research and development/technological change
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