The adoption of labor-saving technologies in agriculture will shape employment, wages, job quality, and more. In a new review paper published in Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy, ARE extension professor Ali Hill and co-authors explain that automation can, in some cases, actually increase farm production and create higher-paid and more desirable jobs in complementary sectors.
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ARE Lecturer Anna Serra-Llobet Is Interviewed On Texas Flooding
Anna Serra-Llobet is a research scientist at the Center for Catastrophic Risk Management and a lecturer in ARE. She discussed the implications of FEMA regulatory flood maps on land use planning in a New York Times article titled "Camp Mystic Stood in an 'Extremely Hazardous' Floodway" and about the possibility of something similar happening in California in a KQED article titled "California Could Flood Like Texas. But Thunderstorms Likely Won’t Be to Blame."