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2024 Track Sessions

  • Geospatial Impact Evaluation in International Agriculture
  • Groundwater irrigation for sustainable development in South Asia
  • Frontiers in Structural Gravity Analysis: New Insights into Agricultural Trade and Policy
  • Model Validation and Recent Shocks to Global Food Systems: How Do Quantitative Trade Models Stack Up?
  • Building resilience and promoting productivity among farmers in Latin America (Joint with LAS)
  • Agri-Food Trade: Is There A Role for Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanisms (CBAMs)? (Joint with Senior Section)
  • Trade Issues Affecting the Mississippi Delta Region (Joint with COSBAE)
  • Examining Varied Sustainable Agricultural Practices Across Regions and Value Chain Phases (Joint with ENV)

2023 Track Sessions

  • The impact of climate change on global agriculture: recent evidence from three methodological approaches
  • Demand and Supply Distortions, Environmental Challenges & Adaptation of New Technologies in the Dairy Sector
  • Bridging U.S. and international research on food security, food prices and access to healthy, sustainable diets
  • New Research Directions on Agri-Food Value Chains
  • The U.S. “ EU collaborative platform on agriculture and addressing the challenges of achieving sustainable modern agri-food systems
  • Evidence of International Trade Impact on Food Consumption
  • Export Policies, Staple Commodity Prices, and Global Food Security

2022 Track Sessions

  • Cattle Prices, Transaction Efficiencies, Production Challenges, and Technologies in Latin America,  Joint with LAS
  • Ensuring Food Safety: Perspectives from the U.S. and Low- and Middle-Income Countries,  Joint with FSN
  • Impact of Agricultural Technologies on the SDGs: Evidence and Learning from the CGIAR Research Program on RICE , 
  • Innovations in Food Security Targeting and Assessment,  Joint with FSN, AFRICA
  • International comparisons of food consumption changes and strategies during the COVID-19 pandemic ,  Joint with FAMPS, SENIOR
  • International development research and the land grant mission, 
  • International Section Job Market Papers Lightning Session, 
  • Labor in Agri-food Systems,  Joint with LAS
  • Migration and Inequality in Low- and Middle-Income Countries,  Joint with CWAE
  • Pesticide fraud, residues, and regulation in African agri-food systems,  Joint with FSN, AFRICA

2021 Track Sessions

  • Neglected Crops in Food and Nutrition Security,  Joint with AFRICA
  • COVID-driven Food and Agriculture Policy Responses in SSA and South Asia
  • Global Agriculture in Flux: Pandemic, Trade Wars, Supply Chains, and Developing Country Markets,  Joint with Senior
  • Impacts of COVID-19 in Africa,  Joint with AFRICA
  • Implications of Government Policies in Food Security and Diets: Global Perspectives and Local Challenges,  Joint with FSN
  • International Section Job Market Papers Lightning Session
  • New Approaches to Estimating Gravity Models for Agricultural Trade,  Joint with Econometrics
  • The Impact of COVID-19 in the Agricultural Supply Chain in Latin America ,  Joint with LAS
  • The politics and economics of commodity trade restrictions,  Joint with LAS
  • Weather and Climate Shocks in Developing Countries,  Joint with AFRICA

2018 Track Sessions

  • Innovative approaches to measuring resilience and food security in sub-­-Saharan Africa (Joint with Africa)
  • Targeting and Evaluating Investments in Food Safety in Low- and Middle- Income Countries (Joint with FSN)
  • Competitiveness of Low-Income Agricultural Exporting Countries (Joint with COSBAE)
  • Food labeling to limit diet-related disease in Latin America (Joint with LAS)
  • Structural Change in Agricultural Production: A Micro Perspective (Joint with Senior)
  • Women’s Empowerment for Agriculture and Nutrition in South Asia (Joint with FSN)
  • Analyzing multidimensional change:  Rasch modeling and related indicators of international development (Joint with Africa)
  • The Double burden of malnutrition in Latin America (Joint with LAS)
  • Perspectives on domestic policy drivers and prospects with a stalemated WTO (Joint with Senior)
  • Can Africa’s Agricultural Sector Face the Future with Small Farms? (Joint with Africa)
  • From Global to Local: Linking Global Drivers to Local Sustainability Stresses (Joint with ENV)

2017 Track Sessions

  • Agricultural Input Quality in Sub-Saharan Africa
  • Rapid agri-food system transformation in sub-Saharan Africa: Evidence from processed food inventories in Ghana, Mali, Nigeria, Mozambique, and Tanzania (Joint with Africa)
  • Food prices, market access and malnutrition in rural Africa (Joint with FSN)
  • rends in preferential trade agreements in Latin America (Joint with LAS)
  • 25 Years of Transition in Europe and Central Asia: A Diversity of Experience and Prospects (Joint with Senior)
  • Using Climate Shocks to Estimate Early Human Capital Formation in Developing Countries (Joint with Econometrics)
  • Does size matter? Revisiting the inverse farm size-productivity hypothesis in sub-Saharan Africa (Joint with Africa)
  • Value Chain Organization and Implications for Agricultural Producers in Developing Countries (Joint with IBES)
  • Plants, patents, and politics: Changing global landscapes in the crop sciences industry and genetic resources policy (Joint with Senior)
  • Leveraging big data for studying resilience to weather variability, sub-national poverty and nutritional deprivation in sub-Saharan Africa (Joint with Africa)
  • Agricultural Extension in SSA: An overview of new approaches (Joint with Africa)

2016 Track Sessions

  • Frontiers of Agricultural Transformation: What has changed? (Joint with Africa)
  • The Russian Food Import Ban and the Eurasian Economic Union: Analysis of Trade Impacts
  • Under the influence of others: Jealousy, risk-sharing, and learning (Joint with IBES)
  • Food and Nutrition Issues in Sub-Saharan Africa (Joint with COSBAE)
  • Malthus vs. Ricardo Redux: How Much Food and Farmland in 2050? (Joint with IATRC)
  • U.S.-Cuba Agricultural Trade: Past, Present and Future
  • Gender and Generation: Intrahousehold Perspectives on Technology Adoption in the West Africa Sahel
  • Are poor soils a blessing or a curse? Estimating the relationships among soil quality, agricultural productivity, and poverty in sub-Saharan Africa (Joint with Africa)
  • Strengthening Impact Assessment in the CGIAR: Lessons Learned (Joint with Senior)

2015 Track Sessions

  • Agriculture in Africa: Telling Facts from Myths (Joint with China)
  • Emerging Development Issues in Rural China: Land titling, agricultural subsidy, non-farm employment and food safety (Joint with China)
  • Economics of Food Losses and Waste: What are the right questions? (Joint with AEM)
  • Reexamining Agricultural Commercialization in the Developing World: The Cash versus Food Production Tradeoff (Joint with IAAE)
  • Guiding Investments in Sustainable Agricultural Intensification in Africa:  New Research Evidence and Implications for Policy (Invited Paper Session - Joint with COSBAE)
  • Soil Tests & Smallholder Farmers: How potent a productive input is soil fertility information?
  • Making Agricultural Research Matter to Women Farmers (Joint with CWAE)
  • Food Security in an Imperfect World: Method, Causes and Remedies (Joint with ARA)
  • Ebola: Predicting it, Addressing it, and Food Security Impacts
  • The Role of the Developing and Emerging Countries in Shaping the Future of the Global Trade System (Joint with Senior Section)

2015 International Section & IATRC Speaker Series and Banquet
David Lobell, Stanford University
"Rethinking Climate Adaptation"

David Lobell is an Associate Professor at Stanford University in the Department of Earth System Science, Senior Fellow at the Woods and Freeman Spogli Institutes, and Deputy Director of Stanford’s Center on Food Security and the Environment. His research focuses on identifying opportunities to raise crop yields in major agricultural regions, and uses a combination of big datasets, statistics, and model simulations. He has been recognized with a Macarthur Fellowship in 2013, a McMaster Fellowship from CSIRO in 2014, and the Macelwane Medal from the American Geophysical Union in 2010. He also served as lead author for the food chapter and core writing team member for the Summary for Policymakers in the recent Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) Fifth Assessment Report. Dr. Lobell received a PhD in Geological and Environmental Sciences from Stanford in 2005, and a Sc.B. in Applied Mathematics from Brown University in 2000.

2014 Track Sessions

  • Hunger and Hope: Progress in Reducing Poverty and Fostering Food Security in the Developing World (Joint with Senior)
  • Applications of Hierarchical Regression Models in Development Economics (Joint with Econometrics)
  • Food Quality and Trade (Joint with FAMPS)
  • Frontier Topics in International Agricultural Development
  • Developments in China's Agriculture (Joint with IAAE)
  • Raising Productivity in African Agriculture: Issues and Implications for Development Strategy (Joint with COSBAE)
  • Towards a more Effective Global Architecture for Food and Agriculture
  • International trade and the global land use and environmental consequences of agricultural productivity changes (Joint with IAAE)
  • A New Transdisciplinary Approach to Regional Integrated Assessment of Climate Impact and Adaptation in Africa and South Asia

Past Track Sessions