UC Berkeley's Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics is the world's top-ranked program in agricultural and resource economics. Our faculty and graduate students produce cutting-edge research in the following areas:
- Global food production
- Nutrition and health
- Development economics
- Climate change
- Environmental economics
- Applied econometrics
- Policy evaluation
- Energy economics
- Natural resource economics
- International trade
Our faculty are active researchers and work closely with our graduate students, and other students from across the Berkeley campus. Many of our faculty have been elected as fellows of leading professional organizations including the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, American Economic Association, Econometric Society, American Statistical Association, American Agricultural Economics Association, and the Association of Environmental and Resource Economists. Several are affiliates of the National Bureau of Economic Research.
The graduate program in Agricultural and Resource Economics (ARE) is designed to equip students with the skills and knowledge necessary to undertake significant and innovative research to become leaders in the fields of agricultural economics, resource economics, development economics, and environmental economics.
Our recent graduates have gone on to teaching and research positions at many of the world's top universities, including Brown, California Institute of Technology, Columbia, Cornell, Duke, Harvard, Johns Hopkins, London School of Economics, MIT, Michigan, Ohio State, Oxford, Purdue, Stanford, Texas A&M, UC Berkeley, UC Davis, UCLA, UC San Diego, UC Santa Barbara, University of Chicago, University of Illinois, University of Maryland, University of Michigan, University of Minnesota, University of Virginia, University of Washington, University of Wisconsin, and many others.
ARE also offers the undergraduate major in Environmental Economics and Policy. Students in the major learn the fundamentals of microconomics applied to problems of the environment, natural resource and international development. Students completing the EEP major have gained admission to top graduate programs, and have gone on to pursue careers in investment, finance, government, academics, nonprofit organizations, law and public policy.