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The Council on Food, Agricultural, and Resource Economics (C-FARE) is a non-profit organization dedicated to strengthening the national presence of the agricultural economics profession. C-FARE's governing board includes prominent agricultural economists representing a wide range of public and private sector interests.

C-FARE will be a widely-recognized organization which helps agricultural economists contribute to private and public sector decision making on issues important to agricultural, rural, environmental, food safety and other related societal issues.

C-FARE has four primary goals:

1. To identify key economic issues, establish priorities, and seek support for research, extension, and academic instruction;
2. To help agricultural economists contribute more effectively to public and private sector decisions;
3. To work with other professional organizations to foster support for agricultural research; and
4. To publicize agricultural economics contributions to solving important societal issues.

C-FARE will undertake activities to: effectively communicate the research and analytic results of the profession to public and private sector decision makers; communicate the value of economic contributions to agricultural research to funding institutions and national policy leaders; clarify how society is better off allocating scarce funds to agricultural research; help define more cost-effective ways to solve rural problems; help measure and foster long-term competitiveness in U.S. agriculture; and evaluate how people from various income and social categories benefit from cost-saving, quality-enhancing agricultural research, education and policies.

C-FARE's activities encompass the broad interests of the profession such as the economics of food production, distribution, and consumption; international trade and development; natural and human resources; environmental quality; rural communities and economic development; rural financial markets; agribusiness management; and public policy.

• Follows the activities of key congressional committees to identify opportunities for input by agricultural economists.
• Provides input to congressional leaders (i.e., oral and written testimony) on the role and value of economics in agricultural research.
• Works closely with other professional organizations to promote funding for agricultural research, extension and academic programs.
• Organizes national conferences on important economic issues.
• Develops nonpartisan issue papers to enhance the policy dialogue.
• Provides input to government agencies related to agricultural economics research and education policy.
• Develops programs to enhance leadership within the profession.
• Establishes linkages with funding and priority setting organizations.

Current Issues
Dec 2009-Jan 2010