Annual Meeting 2006
The 42nd Annual Meeting of
The Association for International Agriculture 
and Rural Development

June 4-6, 2006

Speakers and Panelists

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Ed Price is the Associate Vice Chancellor for International Agriculture and Federal Relations for the Texas A&M University System. He is also Head of the Office of International Agriculture at Texas A&M University. Helps guide agricultural research, teaching and extension conducted within the nine universities and five state agencies of the Texas A&M University System, directing staff on grants and contracts in 40 countries with a value of over $50 million. Ed also serves as federal liaison for specially appropriated funds for Texas agricultural research. Ed supervises 3 MA and Ph.Ds, agricultural study abroad, and exchange and internship programs serving 350 agriculture students in the past five years. He has authored over 120 articles on the economics of farming systems, and a Methodology for Cropping Systems Research. Ed drafted and gained passage of the US law "Famine Prevention and Freedom from Hunger Improvement Act of 2000," to improve partnership between U.S. Land Grant Universities, the US Department of Agriculture, the U.S. Agency for International Development, and the International Agricultural Research Centers. 
He was an economist at US Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System for agricultural price, production and policy analysis. Ed conducted 10 years of cropping systems economics research at International Rice Research Institute. He has had numerous agricultural consultancies in other countries including Iraq, Kuwait, Syria, Jordan, Yemen, Tunisia, Oman, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan and Afghanistan. Ed is a member, Board of Trustees for the West African Rice Development Association; Chair, US land grant universities' International Committee on Organization and Policy; member, Advisory Board for the Texas-Israel Exchange; member, Board of Directors for the Armenian Agribusiness Education Fund; and member, Future Harvest Committee for Rebuilding Afghanistan Agriculture. He directs Texas A&M's USAID-funded program of crop demonstrations in rain-fed and irrigated Iraqi farms. Ed earned a BS. degree in Agricultural Science at the University of Florida in 1966; a M.A. in Southeast Asia Studies (Economics/Indonesian Language) at Yale University in 1968; and Ph.D. in Agricultural Economics, University of Kentucky in 1973.