In March 2004, ERS participated in the Southern
Regional Social Science Association (SRSA)
meetings in New Orleans, Louisiana. SRSA provides
intellectual leadership in the study of social,
economic, political, and behavioral phenomena
that have a spatial dimension. ERS researchers
presented findings on the economic impacts
of public infrastructure projects on rural
and urban communities; the impact of school
quality on migration in rural areas; the effects
of welfare caseload change on local labor markets;
the effects of landscape, climate, and settlement
on nonmetropolitan migration; and the economic
and fiscal conditions in rural recreation counties. Robert Gibbs
Southern
Agricultural Economics Association
Corbis
In February 2004, ERS participated in the 36th
annual meeting of the Southern Agricultural Economics
Association in Tulsa, Oklahoma. ERS presentations
covered such diverse topics as determinants of
farm size in the southeastern U.S., the pollution
risk from manure and commercial fertilizer nutrients
on livestock farms, domestic demand for imported
lamb, and demand for U.S. feed by Egypt’s
poultry sector. Keithly Jones
American
Association for the Advancement of Science
In February 2004, ERS participated in the
annual meeting of the American Association
for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) in Seattle,
Washington. AAAS is the world’s largest
general scientific society and publishes the
journal Science. The annual meetings bring
together scientists from around the world to
discuss new discoveries and applications. The
objective of this symposium was to examine
the array of new policy options, including
priority setting and pathogen performance standards,
for establishing foodborne pathogen controls
for domestic consumers and international trade.
In addition to presenting work on the economics
of pathogen performance standards, ERS researchers
organized a symposium on the science and economics
of food safety regulation and their impact
on international trade and the control of foodborne
pathogens. Elise
Golan
