Plenary Sessions at ICAE 2024
This is an overview of the Plenary Sessions that will be held at the conference. For session details and timing, please consult the conference program app (available from July 2024).
Plenary 1: Welcome and Opening
Ceremonial opening and welcome addresses by:
- Ramesh Chand (Chair, Local Organizing Committee)
- Matin Qaim (Program Chair)
- Uma Lele (President, IAAE)
Plenary 2: Presidential Address and Elmhirst Lecture
Chair: Nick Vink (Past President, IAAE)
Speaker |
Lecture topic |
Uma Lele (IAAE and University of Delhi, India) |
Presidential Address: Determinants of female labor force participation |
Thomas W. Hertel (Purdue University, USA) |
Elmhirst Memorial Lecture: Global and local policies for respecting planetary boundaries: Tradeoffs and synergies |
Plenary 3: Healthy and Sustainable Diets and Nutrition
Speaker |
Lecture topic |
Purnima Menon (CGIAR and IFPRI, India) |
Eating well: Insights on dietary patterns and drivers of healthy dietary choices in low- and middle-income countries |
Shenggen Fan (China Agricultural University, China) |
Healthy and sustainable diets in China and globally |
William Masters (Tufts University, USA) |
Measuring food access using the Cost of a Healthy Diet (CoHD): Insights from retail prices worldwide |
Marco Springmann (LSHTM, UK) |
Policies for healthy and sustainable food systems |
Plenary 4: Agri-Food Value Chains and Sustainability
Speaker |
Lecture topic |
Chris Barrett (Cornell University, USA) |
Fostering healthy, equitable, resilient, and sustainable agri-food value chains |
Meike Wollni (University of Goettingen, Germany) |
Sustainability standards in agri-food value chains: Impacts and trade-offs for smallholder farmers |
Rachael Garrett (Cambridge University, UK) |
The effectiveness and equity of existing approaches to end forest loss in tropical food systems and more promising alternatives |
Eva-Marie Meemken (ETH Zurich, Switzerland) |
Policy for decent work in food systems |
Plenary 5: Gender in Agri-Food Systems
Speaker |
Lecture topic |
Jemimah Njuki (UN Women, Kenya) |
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Sonia Akter (ANU, Australia) |
Gender inclusive and climate resilient agricultural development pathways for South and Southeast Asia |
Agnes Quisumbing (IFPRI, USA) |
From bargaining power to empowerment: Measuring the unmeasurable |
Cheryl Doss (Tufts University, USA) |
Changing patterns of gendered labor in agriculture |
Plenary 6: Agri-Food Systems, Climate, and the Environment
Speaker |
Lecture topic |
Soumya Balasubramanya (World Bank, USA) |
Water and agricultural development |
Ximena Rueda (Universidad de los Andes, Colombia) |
Markets, smallholders, and the global commons: Opportunities for transformative change in uncertain times |
Ariel Ortiz-Bobea (Cornell University, USA) |
Is global agriculture growing more resilient to climatic shocks? |
Elinor Benami (Virginia Tech, USA) |
Seeding change to manage climate change: Growing insights from four USDA programs to support climate-smart agriculture |
Plenary 7: Novel Approaches in Agri-Food Systems Research
Speaker |
Lecture topic |
Tom Reardon (Michigan State University, USA) |
How to come up with internationally relevant questions in agri-food systems research? |
Bhagyashree Katare (Purdue University, USA) |
Novel approaches to analyze consumer behavior and policies to promote healthy and sustainable consumption |
David Wuepper (University of Bonn, Germany) |
Using satellite data in agricultural and resource economics |
Hope Michelson (University of Illinois, USA) |
Navigating the measurement frontier: New insights into small farm realities |
Plenary 8: Prize Papers, Awards, and Closing
The winners of the following prizes will present their papers:
- T.W. Schultz Prize for Best Contributed Paper
- Uma Lele Prize for Best Contributed Paper on Gender
- Nils Westermarck Prize for Best Poster
- Carl K. Eicher Award for Best Doctoral Dissertation on African Development
Closing ceremony with remarks by:
- Uma Lele (Outgoing IAAE President)
- Matin Qaim (Incoming IAAE President)