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With research staff from more than 60 countries, and offices across the globe, IFPRI provides research-based policy solutions to sustainably reduce poverty and end hunger and malnutrition in developing countries.

Liangzhi You

Liangzhi You is a Senior Research Fellow and theme leader in the Foresight and Policy Modeling Unit, based in Washington, DC. His research focuses on climate resilience, spatial data and analytics, agroecosystems, and agricultural science policy. Gridded crop production data of the world (SPAM) and the agricultural technology evaluation model (DREAM) are among his research contributions. 

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IFPRI currently has more than 600 employees working in over 80 countries with a wide range of local, national, and international partners.

2018 Agricultural & Applied Economics Association (AAEA) Annual Meeting

DC

Washington Marriott Wardman Park

2660 Woodley Road, NW

Washington, United States

August 5 to 7, 2018

  • 7:30 – 7:30 pm (America/New_York)
  • 1:30 – 1:30 am (Europe/Amsterdam)
  • 5:00 – 5:00 am (Asia/Kolkata)

IFPRI is participating extensively in the 2018 AAEA annual meeting.

The AAEA is a not-for-profit association serving the professional interests of members working in agricultural and broadly related fields of applied economics.

Members of the AAEA are employed by academic or government institutions, as well as in industry and not-for-profit organizations, and engage in a variety of teaching, research, and extension/outreach activities. Their work addresses a broad range of topics such as the economics of agriculture, international and rural development, resources and the environment, food and consumer issues, and agribusiness.

IFPRI Participants:

Presenter (Selected Presentation)

Presentation Title

Date

Start Time

Tewodaj Mogues 

Cost-Effectiveness of Community-Based Gendered Advisory Services to Farmers: Analysis in Mozambique and Tanzania

8/6/2018

10:00 AM

Robert Baulch 

Impacts of the 2016/17 Food Insecurity Response Program on Maize Prices in Malawi

8/6/2018

10:00 AM

 

Berber Kramer 

Liquid Milk: Cash Constraints and Recurring Savings Among Dairy Farmers in Kenya

8/6/2018

10:00 AM

Xin Geng 

Jose Funes 

The Role of Social Interaction in the Adoption and Geographic Diffusion of Agricultural Technology: The Case of High- Iron Bean (Phaseolus vulgaris) in Rwanda

8/6/2018

1:00 PM

Derek Headey 

Animal Sourced Foods and Child Stunting

8/6/2018

1:00 PM

Kalle Hirvonen 

Alan de Brauw 

Improving Farmer Trust and Seller Reciprocity in Agricultural Input Markets: A Lab-in-the-Field Experiment in Bangladesh

8/6/2018

2:45 PM 

Berber Kramer 

Kwaw Andam 

N/A (Moderator of Tech Adoption)

8/6/2018

2:45 PM

Wei Zhang 

Do Disabilities Promote Migration in Bangladesh? Evidence from Panel Household Survey

8/7/2018

10:00 AM

Man Li 

Wei Zhang 

Farm Size, Risk Aversion, and Labor Migration Under Natural Disaster Risk

8/7/2018

10:00 AM

Man Li 

Jennifer Smart 

Pesticide Use in Sub-Saharan Africa: Estimates, Projections, and Implications in the Context of Food Transformation

8/7/2018

2:45 PM

Luciana Delgado 

The Reality of Food Losses: A New Measurement Methodology

8/7/2018

2:45 PM

Presenter (Invited Paper Session)

Session Title

Date

Start Time

Vivian Hoffman 

Market Incentives and Subsidies for Technology Adoption: Experimental Evidence from Kenyan Maize Farmers

8/6/2018

10:00 AM

 

Patrick Hatzenbuehler 

Policies to Facilitate Shea Industry Modernization in Rural Nigeria

8/6/2018

1:00 PM

Joseph Glauber 

Perspectives on Domestic Policy Drivers and Prospects with a Stalemated WTO

8/7/2018

1:00 PM

Valeria Pineiro 

David Laborde 

From Global to Local: Linking Global to Local Sustainability Stresses

8/7/2018

4:45 PM

Danielle Resnick 

Recent Developments in Using Choice Experiments to Elicit Producer and Consumer Preference in Africa

8/7/2018

4:45 PM

Author (Poster)

Poster Title

Date

Start Time

Jennifer Smart 

Food System Transformation and Diet Quality Among a Rising Middle Class in Mozambique

8/6/2018

4:15 PM

Seth Asante 

Do Food Processing Firms benefit from food safety guidelines? Evidence from Ghana

8/6/2018

4:15 PM

Catherine Ragasa 

Jennifer Smart 

Information, Pesticide Safety Behaviors, and Perceived Pesticide Health Risks in Maputo and Lusaka

8/6/2018

4:15 PM

Kalyani Raghunathan 

Women’s Self-Help Groups, Decision-Making, and Improved Agricultural Practices in India

8/7/2018

11:30 AM

Agnes Quisumbing 

Adam Komarek 

Livelihood Strategies in Rural African Villages

8/7/2018

11:30 AM

Dawit Mekonnen 

Better Technology or Better Farmers: Exploring Frontiers

8/7/2018

11:30 AM

David Spielman 

Presenter (Symposium)

Symposium Title

Date

Start Time

Derek Headey 

International Nutrition Security Priority Setting for the 21st Century

8/7/2018

10:00 AM

Keith Lividini 

William Martin 

International Association of Agricultural Economists (IAAE)—Contributions of CGIAR R&D to Global Poverty Reduction

8/7/2018

4:45 PM

David Laborde 

Simla Tokgoz 

Rob Vos