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Colin A. Carter is Professor of Agricultural and Resource Economics at the University of California Davis.

Colin is an Albertan. He was born and raised on a grain farm in northwest Alberta, Canada. He obtained a BA in Economics and an MSc in Agricultural Economics from the University of Alberta. He then studied at UC Berkeley where he completed a MA in Economics and a Ph.D. in Agricultural Economics in 1980.

Colin has published more than 130 refereed research papers, authored or edited 15 monographs and books, and contributed dozens of chapters to books. He has published in the areas of international trade, grain markets, agricultural policy, futures and commodity markets, the economics of China’s agriculture, and the economics of biotechnology adoption in agriculture. Colin has received a number of professional awards for Outstanding Research; for Quality of Communication, and for Distinguished Policy Contribution. For example in 2001, he won the American Agricultural Economics Association award for “Outstanding Essay for the 21st Century" for Will China Become a Major Force in World Food Markets?, co-authored with Scott Rozelle.^{[citation needed]} Colin Carter was named Fellow of the American Agricultural Economics Association in 2000 in recognition of his many contributions to the field of agricultural economics.

Colin has written a textbook on Futures and Options Markets and teaches an undergraduate class on futures markets and a graduate class on international commodity trade. Since 1985 he has travelled extensively to China, studying China’s domestic commodity markets and China's participation in the international agricultural market. In 1988, with Professor Funing Zhong from Nanjing Agricultural University, he published one of the first books to explain the economic effects of China’s economic reform of the agricultural sector.

Colin has taken an active role in national and international professional societies. From 1986-89, he held a 3-year fellowship in international food systems from the Kellogg Foundation. Colin served as chair of the UC Davis Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics from 1998 to 2001. During that time he was also Chair of the Giannini Foundation of Agricultural Economics.

Colin Carter has extensive litigation experience as an economics expert witness, dealing with the following commodities: wheat, corn, barley, rice, orange juice, hogs, cattle, onions, strawberries, tomatoes, and potatoes. He has worked on a number of legal cases involving the economics of commodity markets and he has testified in court and in front of domestic and international trade tribunals. Colin has worked on a number of international antidumping cases as an expert witness. He has written a number of economic reports for litigation purposes and has been deposed numerous times as an economics expert. Often times, his analysis involves estimating economic damages or measuring the market impacts of international commodity trade.

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 [http://ccarter.ucdavis.edu/ Colin A. Carter] is Professor of [http://www.agecon.ucdavis.edu/ Agricultural and Resource Economics] at the University of California Davis.
 Colin is an Albertan. He was born and raised on a grain farm in northwest Alberta, Canada. He obtained a BA in Economics and an MSc in Agricultural Economics from the University of Alberta. He then studied at UC Berkeley where he completed a MA in Economics and a Ph.D. in Agricultural Economics in 1980.
-Colin has published more than 130 refereed research papers, authored or edited 15 monographs and books, and contributed dozens of chapters to books. He has published in the areas of international trade, grain markets, agricultural policy, futures and commodity markets, the economics of China’s agriculture, and the economics of biotechnology adoption in agriculture. Colin has received a number of professional awards for Outstanding Research; for Quality of Communication, and for Distinguished Policy Contribution.{{cn}} For example in 2001, he won the American Agricultural Economics Association award for “Outstanding Essay for the 21st Century" for Will China Become a Major Force in World Food Markets?, co-authored with Scott Rozelle.{{cn}} [[Colin Carter]] was named Fellow of the American Agricultural Economics Association in 2000 in recognition of his many contributions to the field of agricultural economics.{{cn}}
+Colin has published more than 130 refereed research papers, authored or edited 15 monographs and books, and contributed dozens of chapters to books. He has published in the areas of international trade, grain markets, agricultural policy, futures and commodity markets, the economics of China’s agriculture, and the economics of biotechnology adoption in agriculture. Colin has received a number of professional awards for Outstanding Research; for Quality of Communication, and for Distinguished Policy Contribution. For example in 2001, he won the American Agricultural Economics Association award for “Outstanding Essay for the 21st Century" for Will China Become a Major Force in World Food Markets?, co-authored with Scott Rozelle.{{cn}} [[Colin Carter]] was named [http://www.aaea.org/fellows/f00carter.cfm/ Fellow] of the American Agricultural Economics Association in 2000 in recognition of his many contributions to the field of agricultural economics.
 Colin has written a textbook on Futures and Options Markets and teaches an undergraduate class on futures markets and a graduate class on international commodity trade. Since 1985 he has travelled extensively to China, studying China’s domestic commodity markets and China's participation in the international agricultural market. In 1988, with Professor Funing Zhong from Nanjing Agricultural University, he published one of the first books to explain the economic effects of China’s economic reform of the agricultural sector.