Faculty Member Information
Eluned Jones |
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About Dr. Jones:
Eluned Jones is a Professor of Food and Agribusiness Management and Marketing in the Department of Agricultural Economics, is the Director of the Master of Agribusiness (MAB) program, an intercollegiate degree program with the Mays Business School, and is Chair of the Intercollegiate Faculty of Agribusiness.
Jones holds Honors BS (Univ. of Bath, UK) and MS (N.C. State Univ.) degrees in horticultural crop production and a PhD in Agricultural Economics (Texas A&M Univ.). Jones has management experience in the textile, integrated circuits, and brokerage/investment banking industries. She was a faculty member and extension specialist at Virginia Tech for 14 years before joining the Texas A&M faculty in August 2002.
Jones is a co-recipient of awards for excellence from the Southern Agricultural Economics Association and the American Society of Agronomy, and is a Fellow of the Kellogg-funded Leadership Development Program at the National Center for Food and Agricultural Policy in Washington, DC. She has chaired numerous regional and national academic committees relating to food and agribusiness marketing and policy, including Chairing the Food and Agricultural Marketing Policy Section of the American Agricultural Economics Association. She has also served on the Grain Inspection and Packers and Stockyards Administration Industry Advisory Committee, the Soybean Subcommittee of the Grain Quality Workshops, and Chaired the Wheat Industry Resource Committee of the National Association of Wheat Growers.
Jones research analyzes the influence of economic and legislative global changes on the public (government) versus private (industry) role in facilitating US food and agribusiness markets. Key issues addressed include how upstream supply chain participants (producers) can capture value-added revenues and how managers in the food supply chain can develop systems to maintain quality and biosecurity. Recent presentations on traceability and assurance in the US food system have been to audiences including the Food Update Foundation, National Public Policy Education Conference, Congressional Research Service (DC), Food Distribution Research Society, Plant International Conference (Angers, France), FMC FoodTech/Food Manufacturing Webcast, and the American Association of Cereal Chemists.
Jones provided support to transition economy institutional infrastructure building in Eastern Europe in the 1990's. She taught a series of seminars to bankers and grain industry participants in Bulgaria in the 1990's on the role of public institutions and regulations, such as the Warehouse Receipt Act or equivalent legislation, in facilitating markets. She has taught and given presentations in Argentina, Ecuador, El Salvador, Mexico, Nicaragua, France, and India in the past few years on the intersection between public and private oversight of the food and agribusiness supply chain
Selected Publications:
Goel, A, C. Zobel, and E. Jones. "A Multi-Agent System for Supporting the Electronic Contracting of Food Grains." Journal of Computers and Electronics in Agriculture, 49 (2005):123-137.
Bailey, DeeVon and Eluned Jones (co-authors). "Food Traceability and Assurance in the Global Food System." Farm Foundation Panel Report, July 2004. www.farmfoundation.org
Jones, Eluned and Stephanie Mercier (co-authors). "The Power of Biotechnology to Impel Change in the Grain and Oilseeds Markets." Willamette Journal of International Law & Dispute Resolution, Volume 12: 101-142, 2004.
Jones, Eluned. "Entity Preservation and Passport Agriculture: EU vs. USA." Drake Journal of Agricultural Law, Vol. 7, No. 2, pp. 381-406, 2002.
Bailey, DeeVon, Eluned Jones and David L. Dickinson. "Knowledge Management and Comparative International Strategies on Vertical Information Flow in the Global Food System." American Journal of Agricultural Economics, 84(number 5, 2002): 1337-1344.