The employee will take a leading role in constructing an integrated social-economic-environmental impact modeling framework that will provide linkages and interactions within a regional food system involving fruit and vegetable producers, consumers, supply chain system, socio-economic models, and environmental impact (water, soil, climate) models using multi-agent simulation methods to estimate and project cost, benefit, and other effects triggered by system shocks.The employee will have already acquired a Ph.D. or equivalent acceptable degree and should be able to exercise scientific judgment on a day-to-day basis. The employee will evaluate incoming information in the form of experimental data and observations, written literature documentation, and oral communications, and will use this information to make judgments about what steps will next lead to progress in the project.

The Cooperative Extension at North Carolina A&T State University supports innovative programs to serve small producers to enhance productivity, profitability, and sustainability. The Small Farm Unit is a part of the Cherry Research Farm which has a partnership through the Center for Environmental Farming Systems including NCSU, NCA&T, and North Carolina Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services.

Post Doctoral Scholar

007545

Commensurate with education and experience

Exempt

Time Limited - Full-time

No

Cooperative Extension

College of Ag & Environ Sciences

CEFS Small Farms

EPA2108

03/12/2024

Yes

03/12/2024