Edison Cabacungan

Title: Chair & Professor

Department: Food Marketing & Agribusiness Management/Agricultural Education

Room: 2-215

Phone: (909) 869-2074

E-Mail: eicabacungan@csupomona.edu

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Education:

BS Agricultural Economics and Agricultural Education
Central Luzon State University, Philippines

MS Agricultural Economics
Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University Blacksburg, Virginia

PhD Agricultural Economics
Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University

Biography:

Dr. Edison Cabacungan is the Chair of the Food Marketing and Agribusiness Management / Agricultural Education Department (FMAM/AG ED). While working for his graduate degrees, he worked as a research assistant in the Department of Agricultural Economics at Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University. After graduation, he worked for several years as an economist in the State Capitol in Denver, Colorado while at the same time teaching courses in economics at the University of Colorado, Denver Center. He joined the Department of Agricultural Business Management/International Agriculture (now the FMAM/AG ED Department) at Cal Poly Pomona in 1973 and has been teaching there since then.

Teaching Areas/Expertise:

Dr. Cabacungan teaches courses in International Marketing of Food and Fiber Products, Management of Agricultural Cooperatives, Applied Economics for Agriculture, Accounting for Agribusiness and Personnel Management. He is also an advisor to graduate and undergraduate students.

He organized international trade conferences between the U.S. and the ASEAN countries, the U.S. and West Africa and the U.S. and Saudi Arabia. He led an educational field trip with 12 Cal Poly Pomona students to Saudi Arabia under the sponsorship of the Saudi government. He also led a field trip with nine students to Thailand under the sponsorships of Operations California and the United Nations Development Programme.

Awards:

Recipient of the- 1998 International Business Partnership Award from the U.S. Department of Commerce and the Inland Empire Export Assistance Center; Meritorious Performance and Professional Promise Award, Cal Poly Pomona, 1985-86.

Professional Organizations:

Member of- International Agribusiness Management Association International Agricultural Economists Association American Agricultural Economics Association Gamma Sigma Delta Fresh Produce and Floral Council of Southern California Export Managers Association of California