George W. Norton Professor Growth and Development Ph.D. 1979, University of Minnesota Office: 205-B Hutcheson Hall Phone: (540)231-7731 FAX: (540) 231-7417 E-mail: gnorton@vt.edu

George Norton joined the faculty in 1980 and serves on the department's Graduate Advisory Committee. He teaches courses on international agricultural development and trade. His research program has an interdisciplinary orientation and focuses on international agricultural development, agricultural research evaluation, and integrated pest management. Current projects include development of methods for evaluating social and economic impacts of agricultural biotechnologies, for assessing the environmental benefits of integrated pest management programs, and for setting agricultural and energy research priorities. He has conducted research and extension in several countries in Latin America, Africa, and Asia.

Professor Norton served as a Peace Corps volunteer in Colombia, worked with an American Indian tribe in South Dakota on tribal farm planning, and has consulted for the United States Agency for International Agricultural Development, Winrock International, the United Nations Food and Agricultural Organization, The World Bank, the Bi-national Agricultural Research and Development Fund, the International Livestock Research Center, and other agencies. He currently serves as chair of the Technical Committee of the Integrated Pest Management Collaborative Research Support Program (IPM CRSP), a multi-institutional international IPM project. He is also a member of regional research project NC-1003, "Impact Analysis and Decision Strategies for Agricultural Research". He was a visiting professor at Cornell University in 1987-88, and at the Economic Research Service, U.S. Department of Agriculture from August 1999 to July 2000.

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Selected Publications:

Moyo, Sibusiso, George W. Norton, Jeffrey Alwang, Ingrid Rhinehart, and C. Michael Deom, “Peanut Research and Poverty Reduction: Impacts of Variety Improvement to Control Peanut Viruses in Uganda,” American Journal of Agricultural Economics, 89, 2(May 2007):448-460.

Heisey, Paul W. and George W. Norton, “Fertilizers and Other farm Chemicals,” Chapter 53, pp2741-2777  in R.E. Evenson, P.Pingali, and T.P. Schultz, (eds.) Handbook of Agricultural Economics Volume III: Agricultural Development: Farmers, Farm Production , and farm Markets, Amsterdam: Elsevier, 2007.

Norton, George W., Jeffrey Alwang, and William A. Masters, The Economics of Agricultural Development: World Food Systems and Resource Use, Oxon, UK, Routledge Press, 2006, 448 pp.

Huffman, Wallace, George W. Norton, Gregory Traxler, George Frisvold, and Jeremy Foltz, “Winners and Losers: Formula Versus Competitive Funding of Agricultural Research,” Choices, 21, 4 (2006): 269-274.

Kostandini, Genti, Bradford Mills, and George W. Norton, “Potential Impact of Tobacco Bio-Pharming: The Case of Human Serum Albumin, American Journal of Agricultural Economics, 88 3(2006): 671-679. 

Hareau, Guy G, Bradford Mills, and George W. Norton, “The Potential Benefits of Herbicide Resistant Transgenic Rice in Uruguay: Lessons for Small Developing Countries,” Food Policy, 31 (2006): 162-179.

Mamaril, Cezar B. and George W. Norton, “Economic Evaluation of Transgenic Pest-Resistant Rice in the Philippines and Vietnam,” Quarterly Journal of International Agriculture, 45, 2(2006): 127-144.

Schimmelpfennig, David E., Christopher J. O’Donnell, and George W. Norton, “Efficiency Effects of Agricultural Research in the United States,” Agricultural Economics, 34 3 (2006): 273-280.

Norton, George W., E.A. Heinrichs, Gregory Luther, and Michael Irwin, Globalizing IPM: A Participatory Research Process, Ames Iowa, Blackwell Publishing, 2005

Schimmelpfennig, David E. and George W. Norton, “Assessing the Value of Economics Research: The Case of the Bias in the Consumer Price Index,” Contemporary Economic Policy, 23,4 (2005): 625-635.

Hareau, Guy, George E. Norton, Bradford F. Mills, Everett Peterson, Potential Benefits of Transgenic Rice in Asia: a General Equilibrium Analysis, Quarterly Journal of International Agriculture, 44 (2005):229-246.

Guy Hareau, George W. Norton, Bradford F. Mills, and Everett Peterson, “Potential Benefits of Transgenic Rice in Asia: A General Equilibrium Analysis,” Quarterly Journal of International Agriculture, 44:3 (2005): (in press).

Norton, George, E.A. Heinrichs, Gregory C. Luther, and Michael E. Irwin, (eds.)Globalizing Integrated Pest Management: A Participatory Research Approach, Ames, IA, Blackwell Press, 2005.