Transforming Food Systems after COVID-19: Implications of the 2021 Global Food Policy Report for Eurasia

Co-Organized by the Eurasian Center for Food Security at Lomonosov Moscow State University, Westminster International University in Tashkent, Armenian National Agrarian University, the World Bank, & IFPRI

MAY 27, 2021 - 07:30 AM TO 09:00 AM EDT

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IFPRI's 2021 Global Food Policy Report focuses on Transforming Food Systems after COVID-19 and examines how we can apply lessons from the pandemic to help us improve the resilience, sustainability, inclusivity, and quality of food systems at global, regional, and national levels.

The pandemic has immensely impacted food systems globally, including in the Eurasia region, by disrupting agri-food value chains, reducing household incomes and consumption of high-value nutritious food, and blocking access to education and health services, thus increasing poverty. COVID-19 has illuminated both strengths and weaknesses of food systems and sparked promising policy and technology innovations. As Eurasian countries design long-term policy responses and tools for building resilience to future shocks, 2021 is an opportune time to rethink and renew efforts to transform food systems so that they are resilient, inclusive, and healthy in the long term.

The Eurasian Center for Food Security at Lomonosov Moscow State University, Westminster International University in Tashkent, Armenian National Agrarian University, together with the World Bank and IFPRI, invite policymakers, researchers, food and nutrition security professionals, and media to participate in this virtual event on May 27 to learn about the results of the report and to discuss the impact of COVID-19 on transforming food systems in the Eurasia region.

Welcome Remarks 

• Frauke Jungbluth, PracticeManager, Agriculture and Food, Europe and Central Asia, the World Bank
• Sergey Shoba, Director, Eurasian Center for Food Security at Lomonosov Moscow State University
• Representative of the Ministry of Agriculture

Speakers   

• Kamiljon Akramov, Senior Research Fellow, Development Strategy and Governance Division, IFPRI
• Roman Romashkin, Deputy Director, Eurasian Center for Food Security at Lomonosov Moscow State University
• Johan Swinnen, Director General, IFPRI

Discussants

• Armen Harutyunyan, Director of the Agricultural Policy Department, Eurasian Economic Commission
• Gulmira Isayeva, Chairman of the Board, National Agrarian Science and Education Centre of the Republic of Kazakhstan
• Bakhrom Mirkasimov, Rector, Westminster International University in Tashkent
• Vardan Urutyan, Rector, Armenian National Agrarian University

Moderator

• Frauke Jungbluth, PracticeManager, Agriculture and Food, Europe and Central Asia, the World Bank

Kateryna Schroeder is an Agriculture Economist in the Food and Agriculture Global Practice in the Europe and Central Asia unit. In her work she focuses on agricultural and trade policy, and food security. She is also exploring how digital technologies can address market failures, and what is the role of public policy in facilitating this process.

Prior to joining the World Bank, Kateryna worked as a research scientist at the Food and Agricultural Policy Institute, and a frequent consultant with the UN FAO on the issues related to food security, nutrition and trade. She holds a PhD in Agricultural and Applied Economics from the University of Missouri.

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Webinar Presentation by Kateryna Schroeder

Recorded webinar is available on our YouTube channel: https://youtu.be/v934OLgtE28

Patrick Gaule is an applied microeconomist who works at the intersection of labor economics and the economics of science and innovation. He is currently a senior lecturer at the University of Bath. He holds a PhD from the Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne in Switzerland and was a postdoctoral research fellow at the MIT Sloan School of Management, the National Bureau of Economic Research, and Harvard University.

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Webinar Presentation by Patrick Gaule

Recorded webinar is available on our YouTube channel: https://youtu.be/wjWRqrHSfmg

Alisher Aldashev is an economist with main research interests in development economics and labor economics. He has more than 10 years of teaching experience. Alisher Aldashev received his PhD at University of Regensburg (Germany) in 2007. He authored or co-authored 7 publications in renowned peer-reviewed journals. Previously worked at the Center of European Economic Research (Mannheim, Germany) and University of Regensburg. He worked on projects for the German Federal Ministry of Labor and Social Protection, German Ministry of Finance, Volkswagen Foundation, Kazakh Telecom etc.

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Webinar Presentation by Alisher Aldashev

Margaret McMillan is a professor of economics at Tufts University. She has published widely in the areas of international trade, investment, structural change and economic growth focusing primarily on developing countries. Understanding the distributional consequences of international economic integration is a key focus of her work. She is a Faculty Research Associate of the National Bureau of Economic Research, a Senior Research Fellow at the International Food Policy Research Institute and a recipient of numerous research grants. In 2005, she was named the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation Fellow at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study. Professor McMillan's research has been featured in the New York Times and the NBER Digest and has been published in leading economics journals such as the Review of Economics and Statistics, the Journal of Economic Growth, the American Journal of Agricultural Economics, the Journal of Development Economics, and the Journal of International Economics. Professor McMillan has worked in several African countries including Ethiopia, Gabon, Kenya, Mali, Tanzania, Uganda and South Africa. Before coming to academia, she worked for a variety of organizations including the Peace Corps, Lehman Brothers, USAID, UNDP and the World Bank. Professor McMillan holds a Ph.D. in economics (with distinction) from Columbia University an MPA from Princeton University and a B.S. (summa cum laude) from Boston University.

Oleksandr Shepotylo is an applied economist focusing on International Trade and Productivity. The central question of his research is how do firms, industries, and countries grow by integrating into the global markets? He advances research on the effect of trade policy and globalization on economic performance on three levels: looking at firms within a partial equilibrium model of an industry, analyzing bilateral trade flows within a general equilibrium model, and studying global spatial spillovers. Oleksandr received his PhD at University of Maryland in 2006.

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Webinar Presentation by Oleksandr Shepotylo

Recorded webinar is available on our YouTube channel: https://youtu.be/VWKbh669Wh4

Olga Shemyakina is an Associate Professor at the School of Economics at Georgia Institute of Technology. Her research examines the effects of violent conflict and subsequent instances of protracted economic and political instability on the behavior of households in various geographical and institutional settings. Dr. Olga Shemyakina received her Ph.D. in Economics from the University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA in 2007 and joined the School of Economics in August 2007. Her research interests include applied microeconomics, development economics, labor economics, armed conflict, health, education, and gender.

Join the webinar, link for registration:
https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_SoKGVcFBQ_G7us-rFnsa_A

Recorded webinar is available on our YouTube channel: https://youtu.be/aTdsDqIDMfA