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Driven to Discover: Zizhuo Xu
Article by Beth Miller | August 26, 2019
Summer Scholar uses data analytics in study of Delaware water resources
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To scan or not to scan
Article by Lauren Bradford | June 03, 2019
Researchers examine the use of QR codes on food packaging
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The wrong kind of debt
Article by Dena Hillison | May 08, 2019
Former Treasury Secretary Lawrence Summers shares his views on U.S. economic policy
WELCOME TO APPLIED ECONOMICS AND STATISTICS
Applied Economics and Statistics is concerned with agribusiness management, food marketing, the economics of environmental and resource management, and statistics.
Applied Economics courses are designed to provide a thorough background in the principles of organization and management of agribusiness firms, and includes study of financing agricultural business firms, marketing and international trade of agricultural products, price analysis, environmental economics, economics of land use, and agricultural and environmental policies.
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New Connections’ speaker series
Article by Ann Manser | September 08, 2017
Starting Sept. 11, weekly talks highlight interdisciplinary knowledge, community engagement
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Name the Blue Hens game day mascots
Article by Adam Thomas | August 28, 2017
UD to feature live Blue Hens at home football games this fall.
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The wrong kind of debt
Article by Dena Hillison | May 08, 2019
Former Treasury Secretary Lawrence Summers shares his views on U.S. economic policy
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Faculty Spotlight
Leah H. Palm-Forster
Assistant Professor
Fields of interest: Environmental Economics, Experimental Economics, Land Use Economics, Natural Resource Economics, Ecological Economics, Production Economics
Spotlights
UD researchers ‘dig in’ to how seed fraud impacts Kenyan farmers
For farmers, a productive harvest can mean money in the bank. Poor yield due to drought, pests and other environmental factors, on the other hand, can threaten livelihoods.
Improved seed varieties have been developed to address these problems for many agricultural crops.
Yet while agricultural production in the United States continues to rise, in areas of Africa, such as Kenya, gains in agricultural production have been more limited.
Oyster efforts pay off
Delaware gourmets and environmentalists alike had something to cheer in 2018 when the first aquaculture oysters were planted and, thanks to fortuitously ideal conditions, harvested from Rehoboth Bay for the first time in more than 30 years. From helping create the laws and regulations allowing shellfish aquaculture in Delaware’s Inland Bays to helping growers raise and market their products, the Delaware Sea Grant College Program at UD has been integral throughout the process of bringing oysters, and eventually clams, back into commercial production.