AGRICULTURAL & RESOURCE ECONOMICS UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA AT BERKELEY

Part of the Department's mission is to extend research-based information that helps solve practical problems.  While all faculty are engaged with communities beyond the University, Cooperative Extension Specialists are particularly responsible for identifying and addressing issues critical to outside clientele. They conduct applied research and related educational programs in collaboration with a wide variety of rural and urban groups. Their work both serves and draws upon community organizations, agricultural producers and their trade associations, other resource users and managers, and public agency officials at the state, federal and local levels.

Specialists are part of the statewide U.C. Cooperative Extension network of some 400 academic staff, including county-based Farm Advisors, Home Advisors and Youth Advisors, and Specialists at other campuses and research stations. These extension colleagues and their local clientele are important sources of critical questions that stimulate research and extension activities. 

One channel through which faculty and graduate students share research findings broadly is the ARE Update, a quarterly publication for technical and non-technical audiences.  Research results from work performed by ARE faculty also receive frequent coverage in the press.  See Links and News for a sampling.  Several  faculty members contributed to the recent publication and conference presentation of California Agriculture: Dimensions and Issues.  

Cooperative Extension Specialists:

   Howard R. Rosenberg, Ph.D., U.C. Berkeley, 1980. Human resource management in agriculture and related policy issues, particularly in context of federal and state laws, production technology, and labor market conditions.

   David L. Sunding, Ph.D.,  U.C. Berkeley, 1989. Resource and environmental economics, water quality and quantity issues, law and economics, and agricultural chemical use.

   David Zilberman, Ph.D., U.C. Berkeley, 1979. Economics of technical change, agricultural policy, biotechnology, natural resources, and environmental policy.