I work on economic and policy challenges in agriculture, energy, and the environment. Current topics include robotics and artificial intelligence in agriculture (a set of technologies with potential to increase productivity and improve environmental outcomes), climate policy challenges related to agriculture (including biofuels, soil carbon sequestration, and livestock emissions), and modeling the effects of climate policies. Click here for more.

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ENVECON 161: Advanced Topics in Environmental and Resource Economics 

ARESEC 242: Quantitative Policy Analysis 

Econometrics Textbook:  Essentials of Applied Econometrics

Volumes of agricultural data are available, but much of it is hard to find and hard to work with. Together with some excellent graduate students, I have created a set of data apps for users to easily view and download data from the comfort of your web browser. This is a living site that we are continually improving. Click here to try it out.

Aaron Smith is the Gordon Rausser Distinguished Chair and Professor of Agricultural and Resource Economics at the University of California, Berkeley. He joined Cal in Fall 2024 after 23 years as a professor at the University of California, Davis. Originally from New Zealand, he earned his PhD in Economics from the University of California, San Diego. His research addresses economic and policy challenges related to agriculture, energy, and the environment. He has over 50 publications in refereed journals, including outlets such as the Review of Economics and Statistics, the Journal of Econometrics, the American Journal of Agricultural Economics, and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. His research has won the Quality of Communication, Quality of Research Discovery, and Outstanding American Journal of Agricultural Economics Article Awards from the Agricultural and Applied Economics Association and the Quality of Research Discovery Award from the European Association of Agricultural Economists. He is the cluster lead for socioeconomics and ethics in the AI Institute for the Food System (AIFS). He writes regularly on the Ag Data News blog. 

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Email:  AaronSmith at berkeley.edu

LinkedIn: @AaronSmithAgEcon

Twitter: @ASmithUCB