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Who we are

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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Where we work

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

2021 Agricultural & Applied Economics Association (AAEA) & Western Agricultural Economics Association (WAEA) Joint Annual Meeting

August 1 to 3, 2021

  • 8:00 – 8:00 pm (America/New_York)
  • 2:00 – 2:00 am (Europe/Amsterdam)
  • 5:30 – 5:30 am (Asia/Kolkata)

IFPRI is participating in the hybrid 2021 Agricultural & Applied Economics Association (AAEA) & Western Agricultural Economics Association (WAEA) Joint Annual Meeting from August 1-3, 2021.

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.

Awards

NameTitleDateTime (EDT)
Will MartinAAEA Fellow August 2, 20217:00 PM
Johan SwinnenQuality of CommunicationAugust 2, 20217:00 PM

Papers, Posters, & Organized Symposiums

NameTitleDateTime (EDT)
Berber Kramer

 Track Session

Grants in Applied Economics: Funding sources and the recipe for success

August 2, 202111:00 – 12:30 PM
Will Martin

Paper

Global Agriculture in Flux: Pandemic, Trade Wars, Supply Chains and Developing Country Markets

August 2, 2021

2:00  – 3:30 PM

Nicholas Minot

Paper

Prioritizing yield-increasing crop research for poverty impact: An application of microsimulation in the Philippines

August 2, 20212:00  – 3:30 PM
Will Martin

Paper

Gravity models of trade

August 2, 20213:45  – 5:15 PM
Will Martin (Presenter), David LabordeAbdullah MamunValeria Piñeiro, Rob Vos

Virtual Poster

Repurposing Agricultural Support for GHG Emission Reduction & Food Security

August 2, 2021

 

August 3, 2021

5:15  – 6:15 PM

 

12:30  – 1:45 PM

Muzna Alvi and Shweta Gupta

Virtual Poster

Hello, can you hear me?  Impact of speaker phones on response bias in COVID-19 phone surveys

August 2, 20215:15  – 6:30 PM
Berber Kramer

Session

Gender and Preferences for Non-Farm Income Diversification:  A Framed Field Experiment in Ghana

August 3, 202111:00 – 12:30 PM
Ruben Echeverria

Organized Symposium

The Economic, Poverty and Environmental Impacts of CGIAR Crop Improvement Research

August 3, 20211:00 PM
Will Martin

Paper

The Poverty impacts of CGIAR research

August 3, 20212:00  – 3:30 PM
Dawit Mekonnen

Paper

The Impact of Ethiopia’s Direct Seed Marketing Approach on Smallholders’ Access to Seeds, Productivity, and Commercialization

August 3, 20213:45  – 5:15 PM