[7] The International Association of Agricultural Economists was formed in 1929 as a result of meetings organized by Leonard Knight Elmhirst and Carl Edwin Ladd.
The meetings were hosted by Elmhirst and his wife, heiress Dorothy Payne Whitney, at their home Dartington Hall in Devon, England.
[8][13] Subsequent conferences were held at Bad Eilsen, Germany (1934), St. Andrews, Scotland (1936) and Macdonald College, Sainte-Anne-de-Bellevue, Quebec, Canada (1938).
[18] The organization supported publication of the multi-volume World Atlas of Agriculture (1969-1976), collecting together text, maps, charts, and statistics about hundreds of countries.
[25] IAAE recognizes outstanding contributions in the field of agricultural economics through a number of awards.