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Department of Agricultural and Applied Economics

OUR FACULTY AND GRADUATES CREATE GLOBAL IMPACT.

We create impact with our expertise in applied economics and agribusiness principles to help address the food, financial, health, development, policy, environmental, and social needs in Virginia and around the world.

What is Agricultural and applied economics?
Alumni impact story
“I'm in a profession of operations, technology, and analytics where many women are still not in executive positions. I want to change that.” Ewa Kleczyk Ph.D. ’08
Faculty impact story
Food production using controlled environment agriculture and agrivoltaics systems could become the new normal
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