Agricultural Economics

In 1910, the American Farm Management Association was founded at Iowa State University.

"Howdy" Bouis (born October 10, 1950), is an American economist whose work has focused on agriculture, nutrition outcomes, and reducing micronutrient malnutrition, also known as hidden hunger.

Lawrence James Haddad (born 17 June 1959), is a British economist whose main research focuses on how to make food systems work better to advance the nutrition status of people globally.

Per Pinstrup-Andersen (born 7 April 1939) is a Danish economist and a Professor Emeritus at Cornell University.

Sharecropping is the legal arrangement in which a landowner allows a tenant (sharecropper) to use the land in return for a share of the crops produced on that land.

Tenant farming is an agricultural production system in which landowners contribute their land and often a measure of operating capital and management, while tenant farmers contribute their labor along with at times varying amounts of capital and management.

Russian agriculturist and economist

Igbekele Amos Ajibefun (born 28 July 1964) is a Nigerian professor of agricultural economics who has served as the commissioner for education, science and technology in Ondo State since July 2025.

He was a professor of agricultural economics at the University of Ibadan prior to his appointment at Obafemi Awolowo University as vice chancellor.

Henry Charles Taylor (April 16, 1873, April 28, 1969) was an American agricultural economist.

Jahangir Alam Khan (born 31 December 1952) is a Bangladeshi agricultural economist and researcher.

T. D. J. Nagabhushanam (1928 - 2016) was an Agricultural Economist associated initially with the Andhra University in the 1950s followed by the Andhra Pradesh Agricultural University (APAU) since the 1960s in Bapatla and Hyderabad respectively.

Charles M. "Chuck" Benbrook is an American agricultural economist, pesticide litigation consultant and former adjunct professor with the Center for Sustaining Agriculture and Natural Resources at Washington State University.

Guido Gryseels is a Belgian academic and agricultural economist who was Director-General of the Royal Museum for Central Africa in Tervuren, Belgium from 2001 to 2022.

John Francis Timmons (29 October 1912-13 April 1999) was an American agricultural economist.

Lewis Cecil Gray (December 2, 1881, November 18, 1952) was an American agricultural economist.

Peng Tso-kwei (Chinese: 彭作奎; pinyin: Péng Zuòkuí; born 8 February 1947) is a Taiwanese agricultural economist who served as head of the Council of Agriculture from 1997 to 1999.

He is considered one of the most significant writers on agricultural economics of his time in Denmark.

Esendugue Greg Fonsah (born September 15, 1958, in Tiko, Cameroon) is a Cameroonian-born agricultural economist, educator, and international development specialist whose work focuses on agribusiness, agricultural marketing, trade, and policy within the global fresh food industry.

Gail Cramer is an American agricultural economist and academic.

Peter E. Hildebrand earned his PhD from Michigan State University in 1959 in Agricultural Economics.

Harold Daniel Guither (June 16, 1927, September 13, 2024) was an American agricultural economist and writer.

Mahmoud Solh (born Beirut, Lebanon) is a Lebanese agricultural economist and genetic scientist who was formerly the Director General of the International Center for Agricultural Research in the Dry Areas, ICARDA based in Beirut, Lebanon.

An agricultural value chain is the integrated range of goods and services (value chain) necessary for an agricultural product to move from the producer to the final consumer.

An agricultural subsidy (also called an agricultural incentive) is a government incentive paid to agribusinesses, agricultural organizations and farms to supplement their income, manage the supply of agricultural products, and influence the cost and supply of such commodities.

Contract farming involves agricultural production being carried out on the basis of an agreement between the buyer and farm producers.

Agricultural productivity is measured as the ratio of agricultural outputs to inputs.

He was also a fellow of the American Agricultural Economics Association and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.

He worked briefly as an agricultural economist before joining the Division of Experimental Biology at the National Institute for Medical Research at Mill Hill, London, and later the Animal Research Station at Cambridge, where he worked under Sir John Hammond.

David Zilberman (Hebrew: דוד זילברמן; born May 9, 1947) is an Israeli-American agricultural economist, professor and Robinson Chair in the Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics at the University of California, Berkeley.

Young is considered a major English writer on agriculture and an early contributor to agricultural economics, although he is best known as a social and political observer.

Educated at Eton and Brasenose College, Oxford, he was prominent in local government and agricultural policy in Radnorshire and Shropshire from the 1870s until his death.