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NOMINATIONS FOR A NAME FOR THE DISTINGUISHED AFRICAN AGRICULTURAL ECONOMIST MEMORIAL LECTURE SERIES

Background and Purpose

The African Association of Agricultural Economists (AAAE) wishes to establish a Memorial Lecture Series to be delivered   at the bi-annual meetings of the Association.  The Memorial Lecture shall be named after a distinguished African Agricultural Economist   who during his/her lifetime made outstanding and significant contributions to the profession and the economic development of Africa.  Achievements of the individual may be in research, teaching, policy advisory work, administration or business. The individual’s accomplishments and contribution to the economic development of the African continent must be widely recognized. An international nominations committee, appointed by Executive Committee of the AAAE, comprising of AAAE fellows and members will review nominations and propose a candidate.

Call for Nominations    

The Nominations Committee is inviting nominations for a Distinguished African Economist after whom a Memorial Lecture Series shall be named. Any AAAE member may nominate a deceased African agricultural economist who during his/her lifetime made exceptional contributions to the profession and economic development on the African continent. Nominations should be submitted in English or French.  Guidelines for submitting a nomination are provided below. The deadline for submission of nominations, including biographical profile and achievements of the nominee is JULY 30, 2010 . The nominations committee will evaluate all nominations and make a recommendation to the Executive Committee of the AAAE.

Nominations must clearly state and describe the nominee’s main achievements and emphasize their practical development impacts

The submission should be limited to a maximum of ten typed pages using 12-point font and with margins of 2.54 cm on all four sides. The submission must be typed double-spaced. The nomination can be submitted either in Word or PDF format.

PLEASE SEND YOUR NOMINATIONS TO DR DUNSTAN SPENCER AT dscspencer@gmail.com

Distinguished African Agricultural Economist Memorial Lecture Series

The African Association of Agricultural Economists (AAAE) is seeking to institute a Memorial Distinguished Lecture series in honour of a distinguished African agricultural economist that has made major contributions and left a lasting legacy on the development of the field. This will be a Memorial Lecture to be delivered by leading agricultural economists from Africa and internationally at the Conference of the AAAE. The Lecture will be delivered just before the conferment of the AAAE Fellows Award to recognize outstanding agricultural economists that have helped to advance the agricultural economics profession in Africa.

AAAE will like to receive nominations for who to name the series after. The inaugural Distinguished lecture will be in September 2010 at the AAAE 2010 conference. To move this forward, the AAAE will be putting in place an independent Nominations Committee.

The members of the Nominations Committee are:

1. Dr. Dunstan Spencer (Chairperson), AAAE Fellow

2. Dr. Simeon Ehui, AAAE Fellow

3. Dr. Anthony Ikpi, AAAE Fellow

4. Dr. (Mrs.) Rose Nyikal

5. Dr. Bernard Bashaasha

6. Dr. Timothy O. Williams

 The following are the terms of reference for the Nominations Committee:

1. Develop a profile for candidates for the Distinguished Agricultural Economist Lecture Series

2. Receive and review nominations of names that the Distinguished Lecture series can be named after, in furtherance of the agricultural economics profession in Africa. The Nominations Committee should review candidates from all regions of the AAAE.

3. Recommend to the Executive Committee the name of the Distinguished Agricultural Economist that would be honoured with the Distinguished Agricultural Economist Memorial Lecture Series

4. Recommend how to brand the Memorial lecture to have maximum impacts on the advancement of the agricultural economics profession in Africa.

5. The Committee will conduct its work via email and teleconferences

6. The Nominations Committee will submit its recommendation to the Executive Committee of the AAAE no later than July 25, 2010.

Prof Adebiyi Daramola has been appointed the new Chief Editor of AfJARE, the scientific journal of AAAE.  Prof Daramola is a Professor of Agricultural Economics at the Department of Farm Management and Agricultural Extension in the Federal University of Technology, Akure, Nigeria. Full announcement

Prof Rashid M Hassan elected Fellow of TWAS. Prof Rashid M Hassan Chief Editor of AfJARE and Director Centre for Environmental Economics and Policy in Africa (CEEPA) at the University of Pretoria, South Africa has been elected a Fellow of the Academy of Sciences for the Developing World (TWAS). This election was recognition of Prof Hassan’s outstanding contribution to science and its promotion in the developing world. The Executive Committee and members of AAAE send Prof Hassan our congratulations. View Prof Rashid Hassan Profile.

This is an update on the dissemination of scientific papers from AAAE conferences through AgEcon Search. The papers are now available on the internet at AgEcon Search, http://ageconsearch.umn.edu/handle/35921.

Papers downloaded from AAAE 2007 Conference Proceedings, May - October 2009

Papers downloaded from AAAE 2004 Conference Proceedings, May 2008 - October 2009

Recognition of AfJARE within the education system in South Africa

The African Journal of Agricultural and Resource Economics (AfJARE) has received approval by the South African Department of Higher Education and Training and is now in the accredited list of journals. Here is the full story, Read more about AfJARE at http://aaae-africa.org/afjare/index.html

Dr Simeon Ehui Elected to the Executive Committee of IAAE. Dr Ehui is a Fellow of African Association of Agricultural Economists (AAAE) and Sector Manager for Agriculture and Rural Development (ARD) with the World in South Asia Region