Brady Deaton, Jr.

Professor Deaton is Professor and McCain Family Chair in Food Security in the Department of Food, Agricultural and Resource Economics at the University of Guelph. His research focuses on the allocation of resources, within society, and the subsequent consequences for food security, economic development and environmental quality. Property rights and ownership of natural resources figure prominently in his research and teaching efforts.

He has examined these issues in a number of different settings including: Canada, First Nations, the United States, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, and Haiti. In 2017 he gave testimony before sub-committees of both the Canadian Senate and the House of Commons on issues related to farmland and farmland ownership.

In 2010, he founded a podcast series called FARE Talk. The podcasts address important contemporary issues in food, agricultural, and resource economics. It is available here: . He has served as an editor of the Canadian Journal of Agricultural Economics and is currently the acting past-president of the Canadian Agricultural Economics Society.