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Date and Location
Showing 2 of 2 dates for this event. Dates available from 18 Feb 2025 until 18 Feb 2025
Please join us for a special economics symposium, hosted by CSIRO’s Ag2050 initiative, about the future of agricultural labour in modern food systems. This seminar will discuss current research around the actual and anticipated challenges for productivity, profitability, and job quality in our era of climate change, sociopolitical stress, and human migration. The special session will be chaired by Katie Ricketts, Principal Research Scientist and Agri-Labour Futures work package lead for Ag2050.
Presenters will include:
- Dr. Margaret Jodlowski, Ohio State University, "What underlies agricultural visa workers’ job satisfaction? Evidence from qualitative and survey data"
- Bio: Dr. Jodlowski is an Assistant Professor of Agricultural Economics and Policy in the Department of Agricultural, Environmental, and Development Economics at The Ohio State University. Her research focuses on agricultural issues in both developed and developing country contexts, with a specific emphasis on farm labour, risk management, and farm household dynamics.
- Bio: Dr. Jodlowski is an Assistant Professor of Agricultural Economics and Policy in the Department of Agricultural, Environmental, and Development Economics at The Ohio State University. Her research focuses on agricultural issues in both developed and developing country contexts, with a specific emphasis on farm labour, risk management, and farm household dynamics.
- Dr. Alexandra Hill, University of California, Berkeley, "On the Effects of Regulated Overtime Standards"
- Bio: Dr. Hill is an Assistant Professor of Cooperative Extension in the Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics at the University of California, Berkeley. Her research centres around the US agricultural workforce and seeks to demonstrate how a variety of factors impact both workers and employers, highlighting avenues for simultaneously improving worker well-being and increasing business profitability and sustainability.
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Dates and Times
Showing 2 of 2 dates for this event.
Dates available from 18 Feb 2025 until 18 Feb 2025
Event date: Feb 2025
Tuesday 18 Feb 2025
Attend in person at Discovery Theatre, CSIRO Black Mountain
10.00am to 11.45am
Clunies Ross St, Black Mountain ACT
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Event date: Feb 2025
Tuesday 18 Feb 2025
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10.00am to 11.45am
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Who should attend?
Interested attendees include researchers and practitioners interested in in agriculture, economics, labour studies, globalisation and migration, technological innovation and automation, and sustainable farming policy and practice.
Online registration: Online attendance will be available.
RSVP by – 13 Feb 2025 (for in person)