The Australasian Agricultural and Resource Economics Society is an Australian

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. It describes itself as "independent association of persons and organisations interested in agricultural, resource and environmental economics". The Society, then called the Australian Agricultural Economics Society was founded at a conference convened in

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in February 1957, following a proposal by J.R. Currie, foundation secretary of the

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. In 1995 the Society determined to change its original name to that of the Australian Agricultural and Resource Economics Society. In February 2017 the Society changed its name again to the Australasian Agricultural and Resource Economics Society. The Society publishes an academic journal, the ''

Australian Journal of Agricultural and Resource Economics Australian(s) may refer to: Australia * Australia, a country * Australians, citizens of the Commonwealth of Australia ** European Australians ** Anglo-Celtic Australians, Australians descended principally from British colonists ** Aboriginal Aus ...

''. Until 1996, when it was combined with the ''

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'', the Journal was called the ''

Australian Journal of Agricultural Economics Australian(s) may refer to: Australia * Australia, a country * Australians, citizens of the Commonwealth of Australia ** European Australians ** Anglo-Celtic Australians, Australians descended principally from British colonists ** Aboriginal Aus ...

''.

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Australasian Agricultural and Resource Economics Society
Agricultural organisations based in Australia