IAAE’s Cowbell is a real bell from a cow that is used to formally open and close the
triennial conferences (ICAE). In addition, the newsletter prepared during the ICAE days to keep
conference delegates informed is also called “Cowbell”.
The Cowbell Newsletters will be available here during ICAE 2024.
Prior to the conference, we use this site to make occasional announcements related to ICAE 2024.
6 May 2024
Note from the Program Chair: Warming up for ICAE 2024
In about three months from now, IAAE’s cowbell will ring to mark the formal opening of the 32nd International Conference of Agricultural Economists (ICAE) to be held in New Delhi, India (2-7 August 2024). We are all very excited to meet again for this conference in-person for the first time after six years. As you know, ICAE is a triennial conference, but in 2021 it had to be held virtually due to the pandemic. It is really high time for an in-person international jamboree of agricultural economists.
The conference theme “Transformation Towards Sustainable Agri-Food Systems” could not be more topical. Ideas on how to achieve global food and nutrition security and improve people’s wellbeing and resilience within the planetary boundaries are urgently needed. Our profession has a key role to play in terms of coming up with such ideas and helping to implement them at various scales. ICAE 2024 will be a landmark event for taking stock of what our agricultural economics profession has to offer in this regard.
We are putting together a truly exciting program with an excellent and diverse lineup of speakers, including many renowned scholars and rising stars from all parts of the world. In addition to the names and topics of the plenary sessions, invited panels, and pre-conference workshops, which can already be found on the ICAE 2024 website, we have accepted around 500 contributed papers, 360 contributed posters, and 58 Organized Symposia after a competitive peer-review process.
Thanks to the generous support of various sponsors, we can also allocate around 120 travel grants to early-career researchers from low- and middle-income countries with accepted research contributions. Note that these travel grants go to researchers from over 30 different countries in Africa, Asia, and Latin America, around half of them female. On top, support will be provided to many Indian scholars to participate in ICAE 2024.
ICAE 2024 will be an exciting academic event. At the same time, thanks to the hard work of the Local Organizing Committee it will be a memorable social event with plenty of opportunities for informal networking with colleagues from all parts of the world. In addition to the daily lunches and coffee/tea breaks, there will be one opening reception, one conference dinner, organized cultural tours in Delhi and surroundings, and one additional off-site dinner – all included in the conference registration fee.
Do not forget to register for the conference soon. If you do so by 15 May 2024, you can benefit from the reduced early-bird registration fee.
We look forward to seeing you all in New Delhi soon.
Matin Qaim
IAAE President-Elect
ICAE 2024 Program Chair
6 May 2024
Winner of Carl K. Eicher Award 2024
Every three years, IAAE is awarding the Carl. K. Eicher Award for the best agricultural economics dissertation on topics related to African development. The winner of the Carl K. Eicher Award 2024 is Dr. Onasis Tharcisse Adetumi Guedegbe, who was nominated for his dissertation titled “Effects of Shocks on Economic Development and Roles of Resilience Factors”. A Benin national, Tharcisse Guedegbe completed his PhD in Agricultural Economics at Michigan State University in 2022/23. A number of dissertations had been nominated for the Eicher-Award; Dr. Guedegbe’s work was selected as the best by the international jury led by Dr. Tahirou Abdoulaye. IAAE thanks the jury for their work and congratulates Dr. Tharcisse Guedegbe for winning this prestigious Award.
Dr. Tharcisse Guedegbe will receive the Carl K. Eicher Award at ICAE 2024, where he will also present a summary of his dissertation research in the closing plenary session. In the same session, also the winners of three other IAAE Prizes will be recognized and present their work, namely the T.W. Schultz Prize for the Best Contributed Paper, the Uma Lele Prize for the Best Contributed Paper on Gender, and the Nils Westermarck Prize for the Best Conference Poster. The competitive selection process for these other prizes is ongoing. The closing plenary session at ICAE 2024 will be a wonderful opportunity to experience and celebrate the top young scholars of our profession.