Plenary Sessions at ICAE 2024
This is an overview of the Plenary Sessions that will be held at the conference.
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)
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Speaker |
Lecture topic |
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Uma Lele (IAAE and University of Delhi, India) |
Presidential Address: Determinants of female labor force participation |
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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
Chair: Wendy Umberger (ACIAR, Australia)
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Speaker |
Lecture topic |
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Purnima Menon (CGIAR and IFPRI, India) |
Eating well: Insights on dietary patterns and drivers of healthy dietary choices in low- and middle-income countries |
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Shenggen Fan (China Agricultural University, China) |
Healthy and sustainable diets in China and globally |
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William Masters (Tufts University, USA) |
Measuring food access using the Cost of a Healthy Diet (CoHD): Insights from retail prices worldwide |
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Marco Springmann (LSHTM, UK) |
Policies for healthy and sustainable food systems |
Plenary 4: Agri-Food Value Chains and Sustainability
Chair: Anna Lartey (University of Ghana, Ghana)
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Speaker |
Lecture topic |
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Chris Barrett (Cornell University, USA) |
Fostering healthy, equitable, resilient, and sustainable agri-food value chains |
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Meike Wollni (University of Goettingen, Germany) |
Sustainability standards in agri-food value chains: Impacts and trade-offs for smallholder farmers |
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Ximena Rueda (Universidad de los Andes, Colombia) |
Markets, smallholders, and the global commons: Opportunities for transformative change in uncertain times |
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Eva-Marie Meemken (ETH Zurich, Switzerland) |
Policy for decent work in food systems |
Plenary 5: Gender in Agri-Food Systems
Chair: Lenis Saweda O. Liverpool-Tasie (Michigan State University, USA)
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Speaker |
Lecture topic |
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Agnes Quisumbing (IFPRI, USA) |
From bargaining power to empowerment: Measuring the unmeasurable |
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Bina Agarwal (University of Manchester, UK; Institute of Economic Growth, India) |
Beyond the family: The transformative potential of women’s group farming |
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Sonia Akter (ANU, Australia) |
Gender inclusive and climate resilient agricultural development pathways for South and Southeast Asia |
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Cheryl Doss (Tufts University, USA) |
Changing patterns of gendered labor in agriculture |
Plenary 6: Agri-Food Systems, Climate, and the Environment
Chair: Joshua Ariga (Gates Foundation, USA)
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Speaker |
Lecture topic |
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Ramesh Chand (NITI Aayog, India) |
Reimagining agriculture for poverty alleviation and other development goals |
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Soumya Balasubramanya (World Bank, USA) |
Water and agricultural development |
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Ariel Ortiz-Bobea (Cornell University, USA) |
Is global agriculture growing more resilient to climatic shocks? |
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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
Chair: Travis J. Lybbert (University of California – Davis, USA)
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Speaker |
Lecture topic |
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Tom Reardon (Michigan State University, USA) |
Rocking the boat to change the debate: Identifying and testing “conventional wisdom” |
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Bhagyashree Katare (Purdue University, USA) |
Novel approaches to analyze consumer behavior and policies to promote healthy and sustainable consumption |
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David Wuepper (University of Bonn, Germany) |
Using satellite data in agricultural and resource economics |
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Hope Michelson (University of Illinois, USA) |
Navigating the measurement frontier: New insights into small farm realities |
Plenary 8: Prize Papers, Awards, and Closing
Chair: Meike Wollni (University of Goettingen, Germany)
The winners of the following prizes will present their papers:
- T.W. Schultz Prize for Best Contributed Paper: Phuong Dung Le
- Uma Lele Prize for Best Contributed Paper on Gender: Kajal Gulati, Travis Lybbert, Koustuv Saha
- Nils Westermarck Prize for Best Poster: Jeanne de Montalembert
- Carl K. Eicher Award for Best Doctoral Dissertation on African Development: Onasis Tharcisse Adetumi Guedegbe
Recognition of new IAAE Honorary Life Members
Closing ceremony with remarks by:
- Himanshu Pathak (LOC Co-Chair, ICAR)
- Uma Lele (Outgoing IAAE President)
- Matin Qaim (Incoming IAAE President)