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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. 

Where we work

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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.

2022 Agricultural & Applied Economics Association (AAEA) Annual Meeting

July 31 to August 2, 2022

  • 10:00 – 6:15 pm (America/Los_Angeles)
  • 1:00 – 9:15 pm (US/Eastern)
  • 10:30 – 6:45 am (Asia/Kolkata)

IFPRI is participating in the 2022 Agricultural & Applied Economics Association (AAEA) Annual Meeting on July 31 – August 2, 2022.

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

Name

Title

Date

Derek Headey

Quality of communication Award

August 1, 2022

Kibrom A. Abay

Best Paper Award

“Measurement error mechanisms matter: Agricultural intensification with farmer misperception and misreporting”

August 1, 2022

 

Lightning Sessions and Paper Presentations

NameSession 

Presentation 

Date

Time (PDT)

Johan Swinnen (organizer, moderator, speaker)

The 2021 United Nations Food Systems Summit (UNFSS):  Achievements, Failures, and Impact

Invited Paper

The UN Food Systems Summit 2021: Lessons of the Gender and Finance Levers

August 1, 2022

1:00 – 2:30 PM

Kibrom Abay (speaker)

Experimental Methodology in Ag Econ

Paper

Nonclassical Measurement Error and Farmers’ Response to Information  Reveal Behavioral Anomalies 

August 1, 202210:00 – 11:30 AM

Berber Kramer (moderator, speaker)

Household and Labor Economics – Paper Session 1

Paper

Valuing control over income and workload: A field experiment in Rwanda

August 1, 202210:00 – 11:30 AM

Carlo Azzarri (speaker)

Health and the Environment

Paper

Weather variability and extreme shocks in Africa: are female or male farmers more affected?

August 2, 202210:00 – 11:30 AM

David Laborde Debucquet (speaker)

World Food Consequences of the War on Ukraine

Invited Paper

The Impact of the Ukraine Crisis on Global Food Security

August 2, 202210:00 – 11:30 AM

Manuel A. Hernandez (speaker), Martin Paul Jr Tabe-Ojong (speaker)

Behavioral and Institutional Economics – Lightning Session 1

Lightning Session

Can survey design reduce anchoring bias in recall data? Evidence from Malawi

The unintended consequences of confinement due to COVID-19: Evidence from the rural area in Guatemala

Aspirations and Investments in Livestock:  Evidence of an aspiration failure in Kenya

August 2, 20221:00 – 2:30 PM
Martin Paul Jr Tabe-Ojong (speaker)

Global Perspectives on Rural Development

Lightning Session

Are Agro-clusters Pro-Poor? Evidence from Ethiopia

August 2, 20222:45 – 4:15 PM

Bart Minten (speaker)

Symbiotic transformations of “input value chains and output value chains

Invited Paper

Mobile outsource A-Z services supply chains facilitating farmers’ adaptation to transforming horticulture value chains

August 2, 20224:45 – 6:15 PM