Below ⬇️: the 10 countries with the highest food price inflation in the latest WorldBank assessment. wrld.bg/bbym50Lb10A

So excited that @KVaiknoras is being featured by CWAE - Women in Ag. Econ! She is an excellent agricultural economist and dear friend. It is hard to believe it's been 7 years since our first project together in Rwanda. How does time fly by so fast?!

"Introduced technological solutions should be context-sensitive to respond effectively to these challenges at various scales. One size does not fit all." Masa Iwanga at #SIF2022 FAO Chief Scientist Chris Barrett @jessfanzo Cornell Food Systems & Global Change Daniel Mason-D'Croz Magdalena Skipper

🌍 In Africa, women are responsible for almost half of all agricultural work. 🇮🇳 In India, >80% of livestock work is done by women. 👩‍🌾 But ag info systems continue to fail women farmers! Here's how we're trying to change that: ow.ly/i3Ep50LaPem #RuralWomen GROOTS Kenya

Yes, this is such a good, and needed reminder! 👇

Really nice to be out doing fieldwork again (after the COVID hiatus) and seeing MSU AFRE PhD Student Caitlin Herrington (Caitlin L. Herrington) in action pre-testing her survey instrument and WTP experiments on biofortified 🌽🫘

FAO’s #SOFA22 report on agricultural automation is out! No time to read it? Here are 4⃣ key areas for policy action to ensure that automation is inclusive (1/2)👇

From enumerator training, to survey pretesting, to sending teams off to the field, it's been a productive last week!😊Today started fieldwork on our nationally-representative Zn- & Fe-enriched 🫘 & vitamin A🌽adoption study which also includes willingness-to-pay seed experiments!

Join us tomorrow (December 6th) at 4pm EST for a panel on careers for Ag & Applied Econ grads. We have a great lineup of speakers from Bayer (Cami Ryan, PhD), Amazon (Edie Yao), and the Florida Fruit and Vegetable Association. Registration link below! (1/2)

MSU AFRE Ph.D. Student Caitlin L. Herrington is in the midst of data collection. She traveled to Zimbabwe for some incredible work with IFPRI. Learn more about her study by clicking the link below. bit.ly/herringtonrese…

Very grateful for EXECONSectionAAEA for highlighting my work!

For #ResearchWednesday, we are continuing our spotlight on Caitlin L. Herrington by highlighting this paper by Herrington et al. They examine Bangladeshi consumers' willingness to pay for two alternative low-cost rice products intended to improve zinc intake onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.11…

It was a great first day at the #TCIat10 conference! Looking forward to more excellent conversation and learning tomorrow!

Yes, it was a great event. Both Nahian Bin Khaled and Caitlin L. Herrington did an outstanding job presenting their research and interacting with the participants and growing their network. Thanks to MSU AFRE for supporting their travels for professional development experience.

📌In 15 min BICC (MVUU), Lilongwe & online Join our #ANH2023 Parallel Session 🅰️ on #FoodSystem Governance & #PoliticalEconomy 🏛️🌍 ➡️anh-academy.org/Academy-week/2… w/ Frances Knight Crispin Kaphaika, Alexandra Pounds, Dr Dori Patay @Cherrington24 & Tunsume Mwaibasa

Very excited to be presenting some of my dissertation work in a hybrid session this morning at the #ANH2023 meeting!

Between 691 and 783 million people faced hunger in 2022. And more than 3.1 billion people in the world were unable to afford a healthy diet in 2021. #SOFI2023 fao.org/documents/card…

So grateful to have had the opportunity to present and obtain feedback on 2 of my dissertation chapters at #AAEA2023 the last few days! And catching up with old friends and making news ones made for an amazing conference! 😃

Grateful to be surrounded by excellent mentors like Mywish K. Maredia & David L. Ortega, along with wonderful MSU AFRE grad colleagues that spur on my intellectual curiosity! The last 4 years have gone by quickly, cheers to entering my 5th (and final) year! 😊

#CWAENetwork Join us for the Panel Discussion and Networking Event on Building Professional Network Date: November 27, 2023 Time: 4:00 - 5:30 PM ET Format: Panel Discussion (4 pm Eastern) followed by informal networking (5 pm Eastern) Registration Link: go.osu.edu/cwae-profnetwo…