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The New Economics of Food Security and Nutrition

Agenda

8:00 am – 5:00 pm          
Attendees Will Be Required to Bring Their Own Laptops

The workshops aim to unite AAEA panelists and participants to achieve three primary goals:

  1. Evaluate the current state of knowledge and its implications for policy, offering directions for future research, education, and outreach.
  2. Foster a greater understanding among applied economists of the opportunities and challenges arising from the application of proposed new nutritional measurements.
  3. Promote dialogue on food and nutritional security and obesity, while identifying potential opportunities to integrate this knowledge into joint research projects.

Relevance to AAEA Members/Meeting Attendees:
The workshop focuses on discussing and applying newly developed methods to measure and analyze the effects of agriculture and food systems on nutrition and health and the role of policy. A topic researched by many AAEA members.

Agenda

Agenda for the pre-conference workshop at the AAEA meetings

Saturday, July 26th, 2025

This one-day workshop aims to understand food security and nutrition better and its effect on health while engaging with economists and getting a new perspective.

8:30 to 8:40

 Introductory remarks

 

 C-FARE board chair

8:40 to 9:15

 The new economics of food security and nutrition: Past, present and future of measurement to guide action in the U.S. and worldwide
  William Masters
9:15 to 9:30       Coffee break
9:30 to 11:00  Panel Session: Food security and access to healthy diets
                         
  • Alisha Coleman-Jensen
  • Parke Wilde
  • Joel Cuffey
  • Rudy Nayga
11:00 to 12:30  Keynote speaker Lunch
  Spiro Stefanou
12:30 to 2:00  Panel Session: Drivers of diet quality, nutritional status, and obesity  
                           
  • Alessandro Bonanno
  • Katie Harris-Lagoudakis
  • Yanhong Jin
2:00 to 2:15       Coffee break
2:15 to 3:45 Panel Session: Obstacles and opportunities for policy response to improve food security and diet quality in the U.S. and globally  
                         
  • David Zilberman
  • Jill McCluskey
  • Norbert Wilson
  • Vincenzina Caputo
3:45 to 4:45 Breakout session: summary of key findings
4:45 to 5:00 Concluding remarks

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