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Overview
The AERS Department
faculty are active in producing and disseminating research pertinent to
important societal problems and relevant to their disciplinary peers.
They collaborate with other faculty within the College and across the
University.
Major research program
emphases include
 Community
Development
Environmental
and Natural Resources
Food
Systems
Department faculty
also provide research-based extension education programs in several areas:
- agricultural marketing
economics and policy
- farm- and firm-level
economics and management
- environmental natural
resource economics and policy
- economic and community
development
- rural social change
- family development
These programs are
designed to support public and private decision making. They are based
on contemporary scholarship, pertain to current and emerging issues, and
are responsive to changing informational and educational needs of Pennsylvania
citizens.
Quick Facts About
Our Faculty:
- provide leadership
for 35 Agricultural Experiment Station projects
- principal investigators
for 18 externally funded research grants
- provide leadership
for 14 externally-funded extension education projects
- 15 are devoted
to research, 10.5 in agricultural economics and 4.5 in rural sociology
- 11 are devoted
to extension education, 8 in agricultural economics and 3 in community
and rural development
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