IFPRI Policy Seminar: Agricultural and Food Systems Transformation - 11/13/2018 - JSwinnen

Keynote Speaker: Johan Swinnen, Professor of Economics and Director of the LICOS Centre for Institutions and Economic Performance at the Catholic University of Leuven; Senior Research Fellow at the Centre for European Policy Studies, Brussels, Belgium Significant changes in Eurasia’s agri-food systems and regional trade in the 2000s have had major impacts on food and nutrition security. This seminar will discuss recent developments in the political economy and food and nutrition security policies across six diverse countries in the region—Armenia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Russian Federation, Tajikistan, and Uzbekistan—and what the agri-food transformation means for future policy and research.