Welcome

I am a Professor and Chair of the Food and Nutrition Policy Department in the Friedman School of Nutrition at Tufts University. Detailed contact info is at the top of my CV.  I look forward to hearing from you!

For publications and presentations please scroll down the chronological non-blog below, or use google to see where I work and what I do.

Recent publications, presentations and events

• Nov 2013 presentation slides for BUILD @ Tufts on agriculture, nutrition and health
• Nov 2013 presentation slides for Tufts Medical School seminar on infant food quality
• Oct 2013 revised paper on agriculture and the location of urbanization (+ slides for NEUDC)
• Oct 2013 revised paper on theory vs. experimental results in prize contests
• Sept 2013 report for GAIN on improving nutritional value chain for peanut products in Ghana
• Sept 2013 presentation + panel at the CGIAR science forum in Bonn
• Sept 2013 launch of SDSN report on sustainable agriculture and food systems
• Sept 2013 article on farm size in Global Food Security (preprint here)
• Aug 2013 opening of new online class, for registered students here and an associated public blog
• Aug 2013 AAEA Bruce Gardner Memorial Prize for Applied Policy Analysis (prize fund goes here)
• Aug 2013 AAEA presentations on global malnutrition and agriculture-nutrition linkages
• July 2013 new NBERworking paper on disease control, demography and development in Burkina Faso
• June 2013 poster describing new project on marketed complementary foods (+high-res version)
• June 2013 slides (or PDF) on nutritional quality of marketed complementary food for A4NH workshop
• May 2013 synthesis paper on urbanization, farm size and agricultural research for the CGIAR (+ slides)
• Apr 2013 slides on agriculture, nutrition and health for lecture at HSPH in ID 217
• Apr 2013 comments in CHE article on a controversial nutrition assistance  proposal
• Mar 2013 changing face of malnutrition talk at MIT Knight science journalism food boot camp
• Mar 2013 hyperinflation vacation with Graeme Wood in The Atlantic, with my Zimbabwe wall of shame (vs. other  African money)
• Jan 2013 Japanese edition of our Econ of Ag Development textbook
• Jan 2013 new book chapter on child nutrition in economic development
• Oct 2012 new article in J. of Dev. Studies on child nutrition and poverty reduction
• Oct 2012 slides for APHA on infant feeding in developing countries
• Oct 2012 paper and slides for NEUDC on disease, demography and development
• Sep. 2012 slides for Maggie McMillan’s Econ 136 on disease, demography and development
• Aug. 2012 presentations at the AAEA meetings on infant feeding, African development and foreign assistance
• May 2012 chapter on Transformational Incentives in USAID’s Frontiers in Development book and conference; with related CGD paper by Kim Elliott
• May 2012 why carbon taxes would be better than counting food miles, on the Freakonomics blog
• Apr 2012 workshop on Food Wars in Africa? at the Harvard International Development Conference
• Mar 2012 discussion of Africa’s turnaround at MIT Knight Fellows’ Food Boot Camp [+ book chapter]
• Mar 2012 talk on Proportional Prizes at NC-1034 meeting, Washington DC [+ new paper]
• Feb 2012 talk on Africa’s Last Famine? at the Radcliffe Gym (event site) [Video]
• Jan 2012 NBER working paper on rural demography in Burkina Faso
• Jan 2012 talk on food security at the Northwestern University human rights conference
• Jan 2012 symposium on malnutrition at the NCSE conference in Washington, DC.
• Oct 2011 talk on Africa’s turnaround (+book chapter) at the African Economic Conference in Addis
• Oct 2011 talk on food prices and nutrition at McGill conference on food security (program here)
• Sep 2011 Seminar on infant foods at Harvard School of Public Health  (streaming video,  slides with photos (huge file, 48MB !)
• Aug 2011 Call for papers for the May 2012 AAEA-EAAE Conference on the Food Environment
• Aug 2011 NBER African Successes conference paper, slides and presentation on Africa’s turnaround
• July 2011  Nutrition CRSP implementation workshop in Kampala (photos)
• June 2011 Nutrition CRSP launch workshop in Kampala (see photos)
• May 2011 Chicago Council Progress Report on U.S. Leadership in Global Ag Development (see press release and some commentary)
• May 2011 Tufts research day on sustainability (see new slides and book chapter)
• Apr 2011 Radio Australia interview on world food crisis (with Crawford Fund director Denis Blight)
• Apr 2011 Stanford symposium on poverty in Africa — discussant for Chris Barrett seminar (my bit starts around 70 minutes into the streaming video)
• Mar 2011 paper + slides on Africa’s turnaround, for the Harambe Entrepreneur Alliance and Harvard African Development Conference
• Feb 2011  webcast + slides on world food crises, for Friedman School online seminar
• Feb 2011  streaming video of presentations at the IFPRI 2020 conference in New Delhi on the Nutrition CRSP (5 min.) and on the economics of infant feeding (10 min.)
• Feb 2011 working paper and policy brief on quality certification of infant foods in Ghana for the IGC
• Jan 2011 piece in the Tufts Journal (and earlier in Tufts Nutrition magazine) about asymmetric information in child nutrition
• Dec 2010 talk on Africa’s turnaround, in French as Le moment africain (ppt slides and mp3 audio, from SFER)
• Dec 2010 talk on asymmetric information in agriculture at NSF-ICG-AERC workshop in Mombasa
• Nov 2010 talk on remedies for asymmetric information in food and agriculture at Tufts economics department
• Nov 2010 guest lectures on agricultural productivity (NUTR 304) and agricultural policy (NUTR 215)
• Nov 2010 talks on undernutrition for the Friedman Symposium and the Board of Overseers
• Oct 2010 Nutrition CRSP launch, nicely described in the Tufts Daily
• Oct 2010 photos from Zimbabwe & Zambia trip for US State Dept., with news coverage here and there
• Oct 2010 new version of paper on agriculture  and urbanization
• Sept 2010 draft report on quality certification of infant foods, with slides in PDF form, a one-page concept note and seminar presentation in streaming video.
• Aug 2010 photos from Ethiopia site visits for interviews on R&D policy
• July 2010 chapter on development, policy and food consumption for Lusk, Roosen and Shogren’s forthcoming Oxford Handbook on the Economics of Food Consumption and Policy
• July 2010 notes from talks in Nigeria on Rethinking Food (+some news coverage)
• June 2010 paper on prizes and other innovation incentives by Kim Elliott of CGD
• June 2010 article in Journal of Public Economics on proportional vs. winner-take-all contests
• June 2010 article in Economics and Human Biology on underweight children in developing countries
• May 2010 farewell talk for the graduate students at Purdue (with commentary at Freakonomics blog)
• Apr. 2010 op-ed for Project Syndicate entitled “Planting the Seeds of Africa’s Growth”
• Mar. 2010 second edition of the Economics of Agricultural Development textbook is now out
• Nov. 2009 talk at the AfDB African Economic Conference on incentives for innovation
• Oct. 2009 talk at the ADA Food and Nutrition Conference on world food markets
• Jun. 2009 fun with economics on the Freakonomics NYT blog
• Mar. 2009 World Bank book on Distortions to Agricultural Incentives in Africa
• Sep. 2008 food crisis talk at Columbia: a short (8-minute) video