EPYDAM

This multidisciplinary group specializes in different areas of agro-environmental economics, policy, and development. Its members work on marketing and consumer behavior toward agro-food products, agricultural and environmental assessment, management and direction of agro-environmental business, rural development, and economics, policy, and management of natural and environmental resources. Group objectives include researching and disseminating results concerning its lines of work, namely: - Provide knowledge to agro-environmental and food companies to improve their efficiency, management, and direction. - Analyze consumers of agro-food products and propose marketing strategies that promote the production of foods that are healthy, local, organic, etc. - Advise professionals and businesses on the valuation of agricultural and environmental activities. - Contribute to agricultural and rural development through research of the causes of depopulation in rural areas and propose policy and programs that favor the sustainability of rural areas. - Provide a scientific basis for appropriate economic and policy management and decision making concerning natural and environmental resources.