Projects
Foundation Analysis for Agricultural Trade Reform
Hewlett Foundation (through IFPRI)
July 2007-February 2008
Assessment of the Doha Outcome: A Development Perspective on the Global Agricultural Trade Regime
Hewlett Foundation (through IFPRI)
July 2006-June 2007
Economic Analysis of Technical Barriers Limiting Agricultural Trade of China
Australian Centre for International Agricultural Research (through IFPRI)
July 2005-December 2007
A New Generation of Farm Policies
Economic Research Service, U.S. Department of Agriculture (ERS/USDA)
September 2005-September 2007
Cotton Trade Policy and Poverty in Pakistan and India
World Bank (through IFPRI)
November 2005-June 2007
Design of Systems Approaches to Invasive Species Pest Risk Management
Economic Research Service, U.S. Department of Agriculture (ERS/USDA)
August 2003-September 2007
Publications
Journal Articles
Peterson, Everett and David Orden. ”Avocado Pests and Avocado Trade.” American Journal of Agricultural Economics, forthcoming 2008. <pdf>
Peterson, Everett and David Orden. “Risk and Economic Assessments for U.S. Imports of Mexican Avocados.” Proceedings version of an invited paper presented at the IATRC symposium Food Regulation and Trade: Institutional Framework, Concepts of Analysis and Empirical Evidence, Bonn, Germany, May 28-30, 2006. Journal of International Agricultural Trade and Development 4:1, forthcoming 2008.
Pinstrup-Andersen, Per and Fuzhi Cheng. “Still Hungry.” Scientific American September, 2007: 96-103. <pdf>
Bouët, Antoine, Simon Mevel, and David Orden. “More or less ambition in the Doha Round: Winners and losers from trade liberalization with a development perspective.” The World Economy 30:8 (2007): 1253-1280. <pdf>
Cheng, Fuzhi and David Orden. “Exchange Rate Alignment and Producer Support Estimates (PSEs) of India.” Agricultural Economics 36 (2007): 231-41. <pdf>
Books and Research Bulletins
Pinstrup-Andersen, Per and Fuzhi Cheng. Food Policy for Developing Countries: Case Studies. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press. Forthcoming 2008.
Orden, David, Fuzhi Cheng, Hoa Nguyen, Ulrike Grote, Marcelle Thomas, Kathleen Mullen and Dongsheng Sun. Agricultural Producer Support Estimates for Developing Countries: Measurement Issues and Evidence from India, Indonesia, China, and Vietnam. Research Report No. 152. Washington D.C.: International Food Policy Research Institute, 2007. <pdf>
Minot, Nicholas, Mohamed Chemingui, Marcelle Thomas, Reno Dewina and David Orden. Impact of Agricultural Trade Liberalization in the Near East and North Africa. International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD), Rome, and International Food Policy Research Institute, Washington D.C., 2007. <pdf>
Book Chapters
Orden, David and Donna Roberts. “Food Regulation and Trade under the WTO: Ten Years in Perspective.” Plenary session paper in Contributions of Agricultural Economics to Critical Policy Issues: Proceedings of the Twenty-Sixth Conference of the International Association of Agricultural Economists (Keijiro Otsuka and Kaliappa Kalirajan, editors). Wiley-Blackwell, 2007.
Orden, David. “Feasibility of U.S. Farm Program Buyouts: Is it a Possibility for U.S. Sugar” in Achieving NAFTA Plus (K.M. Huff, K.D. Meilke, R.D. Knutson, R.F. Ochoa, and J. Rude, editors). Texas A&M University, University of Guelph, and Inter-American Institute for Cooperation on Agriculture-Mexico, 2007.
Orden, David and Eugenio Diaz-Bonilla. “Holograms and Ghosts: New and Old Ideas for Agricultural Policy” in Agricultural Trade Reform and the Doha Development Agenda (Kym Anderson and Will Martin, editors). Washington D.C.: World Bank and Palgrave Macmillan 2006, pp. 295-332.
Orden, David and Everett Peterson. “Science, Opportunity, Traceability, Persistence and Political Will: Necessary Elements of Opening the U.S. Market to Avocados from Mexico” in New Frontiers in Environmental and Social Labeling (Ulrike Grote, Arnab K. Basu and Nancy H.Chau, editors). New York: Springer 2006, pp. 133-50.
Orden, David. “U.S. Agricultural Policy: The 2002 Farm Bill and WTO Doha Round Proposal” in WTO Negotiations and Agricultural Trade Liberalization: The Effect of Developed Countries' Policies on Developing Economies (Eugenio Diaz-Bonilla, Soren E. Frandsen and Sherman Robinson, editors). Cambridge, MA: CABI 2006, pp. 80-102.
Presentations
2008
Orden, David. Will Convene an international workshop on “Improving WTO Transparency: Shadow Domestic Support Notifications” at the International Food Policy Research Institute, Washington D.C., March 14.
Orden, David. “The Challenge of Increasing Global Trade—How to Address Linkages and Barriers.” Invited for presentation in the session on “Regulating Effectively in a Globalized World,” USDA Agricultural Outlook Conference, February 21-22. <pdf>
Orden, David. “The U.S. Farm Bill: Implications for Trade and Trade Policy.” Invited for presentation at a Trade Policy Roundtable hosted by the International Agricultural Trade Research Consortium (IATRC), Washington D.C., January 8. <pdf>
Orden, David. Will participate as a panelist in a session on “Analytic Contributions to the Doha Round and Further Policy Reform” at the annual meeting of the International Agricultural Trade Research Consortium (IATRC), Washington D.C., January 8.
Orden, David. Will co-convene, with Ann Tutwiler of the Hewlett Foundation, a small workshop of agricultural economists and international trade lawyers on the effects of domestic support program for agriculture, Washington D.C., January 6. <pdf>
2007
Cororaton, Caesar and David Orden. Presented the paper “Poverty Implications of Agricultural and Non-Agricultural Price Distortions in Pakistan” at the conference Agricultural Price Distortions, Inequality and Poverty, World Bank, Washington D.C., November 16-17.
Orden, David. Served as a panelist for the session “Agricultural Negotiations under the DDA: Role of and Prospects for Latin America and the Caribbean” at the workshop The Doha Development Agenda: Current Issues and Prospects for Latin America and the Caribbean, Inter-American Development Bank Washington D.C., November 1.
Orden, David. Presented the paper “Farm Policy Reform in the United States: Past Progress and Future Evolution” at the Cordell Hull Institute Trade Policy Roundtable U.S. Agriculture, the Doha Round and the U.S. Farm Bill, Washington D.C., October 26. <pdf>
Orden, David. Served as closing session rapporteur for the 2007 Workshop of the Program of Research on the Economics of Invasive Species, Economic Research Service, USDA, Washington D.C., Oct 18-19.
Cororaton, Caesar and David Orden. Gave the seminar “Challenges Facing the Cotton and Textile Sectors in Pakistan: An Analysis of Intersectoral Linkages and Their Poverty Implications” at the World Bank, Washington D.C., September 25.
Thomas, Marcelle. Presented the paper “Agricultural Trade Liberalization in West Asia and North Africa” by Nicholas Minot, Mohamed Chemingui, Marcelle Thomas, Reno Dewina, and David Orden at the American Agricultural Economics Association annual meeting, Portland, July 28-August 1.
Orden, David and Fuzhi Cheng. Gave a seminar on modeling phytosanitary barriers to trade at the Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences (CAAS), Beijing, July 12.
Cheng, Fuzhi and David Orden. Presented the paper “Exchange Rate Undervaluation and the Impact of Potential Revaluation on Chinese Agriculture.” International Agricultural Trade Research Consortium (IATRC), Beijing, July 9.
Orden, David. Lead a discussion on US farm policy at a roundtable with Zhang Xiangchen, China's chief World Trade Organization negotiator, hosted by Geoff Raby, Australian Ambassador to China, Beijing, July 8.
Orden, David. Participated in capacity-strengthening fellows program of the International Agricultural Trade Research Consortium (IATRC), Beijing, July 8-11.
Orden, David. Convened a public conference on Global Sugar Markets, Policies and Reform Options attended by representatives from embassies, the private sector, international institutions, and the U.S. government at the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI), Washington D.C., June 1. http://www.ifpri.org/events/conferences/2007/20070601Sugar.asp
Wagner, Owen. Presented the paper “The U.S. Sugar Program: Reform Pressures and Options” at the public conference Global Sugar Markets, Policies and Reform Options, International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI), Washington D.C., June 1. http://www.ifpri.org/events/conferences/2007/20070601Sugar.asp#papers
Orden, David. Gave the presentation “Industrial Agriculture Policy and Its Affects on Developing Countries” at the Mercatus Center policy course for congressional staff, Rayburn House Office Building, Washington D.C., May 17.
Orden, David and Fuzhi Cheng. Presented the paper “Currency Policy and Agriculture” at the symposium Toward a Global Food and Agricultural Policy for an Open International Economy at the Humphrey Institute of Public Affairs, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, May 3-4. The symposium was held in honor of Regents Professor Emeritus G. Edward Schuh.
Orden, David. Served with Clayton Yeutter, former U.S. Secretary of Agriculture and Trade Representative, as discussant at the policy forum Freeing the Farm: A Farm Bill for All Americans, CATO Institute, Washington D.C., April 26.
Orden, David. Presented the paper “Review of the U.S. Farm Bill” at the conference Agricultural Subsidies in the WTO Green Box: An Overview of Upcoming Issues from a Sustainable Development Viewpoint, hosted by the International Centre for Trade and Sustainable Development, Geneva, April 15-18.
Orden, David. Gave a seminar “What is the Farm Policy Future?” at the Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, February 6.
Orden, David. Gave the keynote address, “What Is the Agricultural Policy Future?,” at the Agricultural Outlook Conference, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, January 23.
Orden, David. Gave the seminar “Avocado Pests and Avocado Trade” at the Department of Agricultural Economics and Agribusiness, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, January 22.