Xudong Rao

Program Focus

Climate Risk

Appointments

PhD Student
Department of Applied Economics, University of Minnesota (UMN)
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Expertise

Topics:
Weather and Climate, Risk, Input Use, Production

Biography

Primary interests include agricultural production and environmental management in the developing world and public policies that aim to improve farmers’ well-being. Currently working on his PhD thesis which investigates the influence of climatic risk on Sub-African agriculture and farmers’ attitude toward risk as embodied in their input use and other farm management decisions. Also working on an improved evaluation of the efficiency of agricultural R&D investments and the implications for policies related to science and technologies on agricultural productivity.
Prior to his arrival in the University of Minnesota, he obtained his bachelor and master degrees in agricultural economics and management from Renmin University of China.

Content from Xudong Rao

Recalibrating the Reported Rates of Return to Food and Agricultural R&D

Author's Events

Annual Meeting of the American Agricultural Economics Association (AAEA)

Aug 12, 2012 - Aug 14, 2012
Convened by: American Agricultural Economics Association (AAEA)
Location: Washington State Convention Center, Seattle, WA
Participants:
Xudong Rao, Terry Hurley, Philip Pardey, Julian Alston

Conference web site

Xudong Rao presents the poster "Re-examining the Reported Rates of Return to Agricultural R&D", co-authored by Terrace Hurley and Philip Pardey.

Terry Hurley co-authored the paper "Quantifying Farmer Adoption Intensity for Weed Resistance Management Practices and Its Determinants", presented in the session The Economics of Agricultural Technology Adoption.

Terry Hurley organizes and is a discussant in the session Herbicide Resistant Weeds and Sustainable Weed Management.

Philip Pardey and Kym Anderson organize concurrent sessions: Global Food Security I: Food Supply and Price Trends in the Long Run and Global Food Security II: Food Price Fluctuations and Their Food Security Implications.

Philip Pardey presents "Agricultural R&D Investments, Farm Productivity Slowdowns, and Their Long Run Food Supply Implications", co-authored with Julian Alston.

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University of Minnesota Department of Applied Economics and the Faculty to Explore Co-operation in Scientific Research Intension

February, 2012
Source: China Agricultural University, College of Economics & Management web site
Participants:
Xudong Rao

Xudong Rao introduces faculty and students to the HarvestChoice project during a symposium in the College of Economics & Management, China Agricultural University, Beijing, China.

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