Edwin C. Price
Associate Vice Chancellor
Director
Associate Vice Chancellor for International Agriculture and Director, Norman Borlaug Institute for International Agriculture. Helps guide agricultural research, teaching and extension conducted within the nine universities and four agricultural state agencies of the Texas A&M University System. Directs staff on grants and contracts in 40 countries with a value of over $50 million. Serves as federal liaison for specially appropriated funds for Texas agricultural research.
Supervises 3 MA and Ph.D students, agricultural study abroad, exchange and internship programs serving over 675 agriculture students in the past five years as well as newly instituted Peace Corps Masters International program. Authored over 120 articles on the economics of farming systems, and a Methodology for Cropping Systems Research.
Drafted and gained passage of the US law “Famine Prevention and Freedom from Hunger Improvement Act of 2000,” to improve partnership between U.S. Land Grant Universities, the US Department of Agriculture, the U.S. Agency for International Development, and the International Agricultural Research Centers.
Served as economist for Federal Reserve System US Board of Governors for agricultural price, production and policy analysis. For 10 years, conducted cropping systems economics research at International Rice Research Institute. Has had numerous agricultural consultancies in other countries including El Salvador, Guatemala, Panama, Bolivia, Mexico, Iraq, Afghanistan, Armenia, Indonesia, and Turkmenistan. Member, US land grant universities’ International Committee on Organization and Policy; member, Advisory Board for the Texas–Israel Exchange; member, Board of Directors for the Sustainable Agricultural and Natural Resources Management Collaborative Research Support Program and the Future Harvest Committee for Rebuilding Afghanistan Agriculture. Supervises recent and continuing projects such as Texas A&M’s Fortalecimiento de la Competitividad de los Agronegocios, Phases I & II, a USDA Food for Progress program in Guatemala and oversees a masters of agribusiness program conducted jointly with universities in Guatemala and Nicaragua.
email. eprice@ag.tamu.edu
phone. +1.979.862.4551
BS. University of Florida (Agricultural Science)
MA. Yale University (Southeast Asia Studies - Economics and Indonesian Language)
PhD. University of Kentucky, 1973 (Agricultural Economics)
