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The cost of everything is higher, but what is actually causing that? Ohio Farm Bureau's Ty Higgins talks inflation, supply chain, pandemics and Ukraine with Ohio State's Professor and Andersons Chair of Agricultural Marketing, Trade and Policy, Dr. Ian Sheldon. He also gets a long-term look at energy and the role carbon markets will play on the ag economy and in the competition for land from Ohio State professor, Brent Sohngen.
Finalists focus on bulked-up trees, wearable health monitors, COVID treatment
AEDE's first in-person Outlook and Policy Conference since 2019 was a huge success! The conference was held on November 15, 2022, at the 4H Center on Ohio State Campus. Below are links to the presentations by the AEDE faculty.
Brent Sohngen - Energy Market Outlook
Ani Katchova - Farm Income Outlook
The Department of Agricultural, Environmental, and Development Economics (AEDE), holds its first in-person Outlook and Policy Conference since 2019 on November 15, 2022, at the 4H Center on Ohio State Campus. Here are summaries of what each speaker will be presenting.
When it comes to solving Earth’s climate crisis, the agricultural and forestry sectors are some of the hardest areas to change, yet a new report suggests that these areas will play a key role in reducing greenhouse gas emissions.
As we enter into Outlook season here in the Department of Agricultural, Environmental, and Development Economics, it’s useful to provide a quick update on carbon markets. I recently wrote an outlook piece for the Ohio Soybean News, which hopefully provides some useful information to landowners and others looking at this emerging market (you can find the article in the November-December, 2021 version here: https://www.soyohio.org/association/ohio-soybean-news/ ).
Brent Sohngen and Ian Sheldon discuss carbon markets at the 2021 Farm Science Review.
Brent Sohngen lays out the reasons for higher electricity prices, and it isn't renewable energy.
Global greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions are 40 percent higher than 1990 and currently on track for their second-biggest increase in history. In order to reach the Paris Climate Agreement goal of limiting global temperature increases to 1.5 degrees Celsius, countries need help to ramp up their efforts to reduce GHG emissions that contribute to global warming. Assistance is coming in the form of a new study that analyzes 20 land-based measures to reduce or remove GHGs from the atmosphere.
There are many complexities to address in carbon markets, including the roles of government and the private sector.
High prices mostly due to short-term market phenomena related to the pandemic
Trees could absorb up to 16% of U.S. annual carbon dioxide emissions.
In the fight against climate change, expanding and better managing the nation’s forests are the cheapest and easiest steps to cutting carbon dioxide emissions, according to new research at The Ohio State University.
Across the United States, trees take up about 12% of the carbon dioxide that cars, planes, factories, and other sources generate every year, said Brent Sohngen, a professor of natural resources and environmental economics at Ohio State’s College of Food, Agricultural, and Environmental Sciences (CFAES).
Recording Timings:
Chris Dragisic: 1:50, Adam Daigneault/Brent Sohngen 12:00, Justin Baker 29:20, Greg Latta 44:30, Discussion 1:02:45, Panel: 1:12:00
One of the first official acts of President Joe Biden was to re-enter the Paris Agreement, that 2015 pact among most of the world’s countries to continue down the path of reducing carbon emissions. Although there is excitement across the U.S. and the world about this action, there also is plenty of concern.
Ohio lags behind much of the nation in its reliance on solar power, but a number of utility-scale solar projects are progressing in the state.
This "green" option is more expensive than originally thought, study shows COLUMBUS, Ohio -- Widespread forest management and protections against deforestation can help mitigate climate change – but will come with a steep cost if deployed as broadly as policymakers have discussed, new research suggests.
Widespread forest management and protections against deforestation can help mitigate climate change – but will come with a steep cost if deployed as broadly as policymakers have discussed, new research suggests.
COLUMBUS, Ohio – Organizers of the 2020 Agricultural Policy and Outlook Conference hosted by the Department of Agricultural, Environmental, and Development Economics (AEDE) at The Ohio State University, say the aim of this year’s conference is to offer much-needed insight to those involved in the agricultural industry during a time marked with so much global uncertainty.
The global pandemic has had a pretty drastic on international trade. In fact the impact is even greater than it was during the financial crisis back in 2008-2009.
Drs. Zoë Plakias and Brent Sohngen discuss the myriad distruptions and adaptations to state and national food systems due to COVID-19.