Less than 2 weeks left for the 32nd triennial ICAE to be held in New Delhi, India! Have you secured your spot? If not, do so soon at lnkd.in/g3jzbYTx 📅August 2-7 #AgEcon #ICAE2024 Int. Association of Agricultural Economists Indian Council of Agricultural Research. AERA India IFPRI South Asia IFPRI IGIDR National Academy of Agricultural Sciences-NAAS #ISAE

🌾✨Exciting announcement! Join us for a Plenary session on 'Healthy and Sustainable Diets and Nutrition.🌍🌱 📅August 4, 2024 | 8:30 AM. #ICAE2024 #MeetinDelhi Wendy Umberger #MarcoSpringmann Int. Association of Agricultural Economists Indian Council of Agricultural Research. @aeraindia IFPRI South Asia IFPRI IGIDR National Academy of Agricultural Sciences-NAAS #ISAE

✨Join us for a plenary session on 'Agri-Food Value Chains and Sustainability'. Gain valuable insights from leading experts on creating more sustainable food systems. 📅August 4, 2024 | 5:00 PM #ICAE2024 #MeetinDelhi Anna Lartey Chris Barrett Meike Wollni #XimenaRueda Eva-Marie Meemken

Within the past 25 years 479 doctoral students graduated from our ZEF Doctoral Program 🎓 and are working globally in research, politics and other institutions. Learn more about our Doctoral Program here: zef.de/doctoralprogra… #zef25years #zefalumni

The lack of improvement in #foodsecurity and the uneven progress in the economic access to healthy #diets cast a shadow over the possibility of achieving #SDG2 in the world, six years away from the 2030 deadline. Maximo Torero Food and Agriculture Organization #Agenda2030 #FoodSystems

✨Don't miss out on this exciting plenary session on the role of Gender in Agri-Food Systems! Hear from the leading experts in this field. 📅August 6, 2024 | 8:30 AM. #AgEcon #ICAE2024 #MeetinDelhi Saweda Liverpool-Tasie #BinaAgarwal #SoniaAkter Agnes Quisumbing Cheryl Doss

✨🌱Join us for a plenary session at #ICAE2024: 'Novel Approaches in Agri-Food Systems Research'. Hear from the leading experts in this field! 📅August 7| 8:30 AM | #AgEcon #MeetinDelhi #AgriFood Travis Lybbert #TomReardon #BhagyashreeKatare 𝙳𝚊𝚟𝚒𝚍 𝚆𝚞𝚎𝚙𝚙𝚎𝚛 Hope Michelson #ISAE

In a recently published OA paper with long-term data from Indonesia, we show that the oil palm boom has increased demand for land & male labor, but reduced demand for female labor. Interesting implications for the economy, the environment, & gender equity. doi.org/10.3368/le.100…

Inauguration of International Conference of Agricultural Economics by Honorable Prime Minster of India Shri Narendra Modi, followed by address by Union Minister of Agriculture Shri Shivraj Singh Chouhan welcome address by Prof. Ramesh Chand 🇮🇳 Prof. Matin Qaim icae2024 ZEF

Int. Association of Agricultural Economists AERA India Indian Council of Agricultural Research. ICAR-NIAP IFPRI IFPRI South Asia IGIDR National Academy of Agricultural Sciences-NAAS #ISAE

DAY 1: An exciting start to #ICAE2024 as PM Narendra Modi inaugurates the conference at NASC, highlighting India’s advancements in sustainable agri-food systems and global agricultural #foodsecurity challenges #NewDelhi2024 #MeetInIndia Matin Qaim Video: pmindiawebcast.nic.in

Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi inaugurated icae2024 in New Delhi. The conference with the theme "Transformation Towards Sustainable Agri-Food Systems" is organized by ZEF director and incoming president of Int. Association of Agricultural Economists Matin Qaim and his team. ➡️ bit.ly/ZEF_ICAE2024

Enjoying icae2024 Int. Association of Agricultural Economists with great science but also a wonderful social program

We develop new geocoded metrics of food environments & link these to child diet & nutrition data in Malawi. Food market variety is positively associated with child dietary diversity & negatively associated with stunting. Congrats Vivien Hülsen. OA paper: doi.org/10.1016/j.food…

Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn at icae2024

Congratulations to Matin Qaim and the whole icae2024 team from Int. Association of Agricultural Economists for an amazing week. Here's my photo of Prime Minister Modi looking pensive during Matin's introduction. Now on to #ICAE2027 in Kigali organized by Jill McCluskey - will that be opened by President Kagame?

Our new paper: environmental effects of #GMO are positive in some, negative in other cases. They depend on the modified trait, not the GM breeding process. Efficient regulation could facilitate new traits with unambiguously positive environmental effects. science.org/doi/10.1126/sc…

Review by Noack et al. Matin Qaim Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn ZEF University of British Columbia Science Magazine #Environmental impacts of #genetically #modified crops science.org/doi/10.1126/sc… #PlantScience Channa Prakash Alexander J. Stein Stuart Smyth Center for Food Safety and Agricultural Research 한눈에 보는 생명공학작물 Global Sustainable Agriculture & Environment AllahBakhsh William A. Masters Plant Science

Using data from Ethiopia, we show that drought shocks reduce agr. yields & lead to off-farm labor reallocation. Yet, off-farm employment opportunities are rare. Strengthening the non-farm economy is important to enhance climate resilience in rural Africa. doi.org/10.1093/erae/j…

"More efficient regulation and broader acceptance could lead to many new GMO and gene-edited traits with unambiguously positive environmental effects", argue ZEF director Matin Qaim and Noack et al. in a new review article in Science Magazine. ➡️ doi.org/10.1126/scienc…