樊胜根被提名为国际农业经济学家协会主席候选人之一

国际农业经济学家协会（IAAE）网站消息，2021年6月8日IAAE提名委员会正式提名樊胜根、Matin Qaim为IAAE主席候选人。樊胜根目前是中国农业大学讲席教授、全球食物经济与政策研究院（AGFEP）院长；Matin Qaim目前是德国哥廷根大学教授。电子选举投票将在2021年6月28日-7月25日间进行，只有2020-22阶段正式注册会员和终生荣誉会员才有资格投票。

IAAE网站公开了两位主席候选人的简介及竞选声明。樊胜根教授在其竞选声明中强调要推动IAAE拥抱农业食物系统（agrifood system）概念、促进发展中国家在国际农业食物系统议程发声。

以下是樊胜根教授的简介及竞选声明全文：

Shenggen Fan

IAAE Board Position: President-Elect

STATEMENT ON IAAE: VISION, DIRECTION AND OPERATION

Dr. Shenggen Fan is currently Dean of the Academy of Global Food Economics and Policy (AGFEP) and Chair Professor at China Agricultural University (CAU). Prior to joining CAU, Dr. Fan served as the Director General of the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) from 2009 to 2019.

He was born in a poor village in rural China. His deep respect for farming as a source of livelihoods for rural populations led him to study agricultural economics. Since receiving bachelor’s and master’s degrees in agricultural economics from Nanjing Agricultural University and his PhD in applied economics from University of Minnesota, he has devoted his whole career to international agricultural economics and food policy, firstly as a researcher, and later as a manager and a leader. He published widely in international peer reviewed journals, books and reports. He has also successfully worked with multidisciplinary teams in producing high impact reports such as the EAT-Lancet Report on Healthy Diets from Sustainable Food Systems, and the Food and Land Use Coalition’s Report on Growing Better: Ten Critical Transitions to Transform Food and Land Use.

He was a member, vice chair and chair of the Food and Nutrition Council of the World Economic Forum and is a member of a number of journal editorial boards. He currently serves as a member of the United Nations’ Lead Group for Scaling Up Nutrition (SUN) Movement and a member of the CGIAR System Board. He is a Fellow of the Agricultural and Applied Economics Association (AAEA), and an Honorary Life Member of the International Association of Agricultural Economists (IAAE).

STATEMENT ON IAAE

I have been involved with IAAE for more than 3 decades. The association has grown in size, depth and diversity. I am proud of being a member and have committed myself to the association through fundraising, assisting organizing conferences, reviewing contributed papers and as an At-Large Member of the Board 2009-12. I was instrumental in organizing the ICAE2009 in Beijing and was also a member of the selected paper committee and the chair of the best poster selection committee for the same conference. For the 2021 ICAE, I am the chair of the selection committee for the Schultz and Westermarck Awards. As IFPRI DG, I always made sure that the institute provides financial support to researchers from developing countries to attend the ICAEs.

Despite important work the association has done in the past, our profession is facing new challenges and is at the crossroads. If I am elected, I will expand IAAE’s work in two important areas.

First, the association must embrace the agrifood system concept as agriculture and food are both a victim of and a contributor to many of today’s crises, such as climate change and health emergencies like COVID-19. This requires agricultural economics to expand scope to economics of agrifood systems. IAAE can make unique contributions to the agrifood system analysis. Agricultural economists can develop methods and metrics to account for the true cost of agrifood systems. The costs need to be internalized through taxation and regulations, so food prices reflect true costs to the environment, climate change and health. Economists can identify synergies among efficiency, sustainability, health and social inclusion goals and help design polices and strategies to minimize trade-offs among these goals. Agricultural economists can also help analyze the solution to policy failures and improve understanding of political decision-making process. Economists can provide a diverse and rigorous toolkit for understanding choice under scarcity and the tradeoffs, including microeconomic analyses of consumer and producer behaviors, meso-level analyses of markets and value chains, and macro level modelling of entire economies and the global food system as a whole.

Second, despite rapid ascension in global agrifood production, consumption, trade and investment, the voices of emerging and developing economies are largely absent in setting the global agrifood systems agenda. This will hinder the transformation of their own as well as the global system. In this context, IAAE, and particularly members from developing countries, can break traditional disciplinary boundaries to study food, nutrition, health, environmental resources, climate mitigation, and adaptation holistically by using the system approach in emerging and developing countries. With the assistance of IAAE, developing countries can provide high quality data and research, as well as evidence-based policy advocacy and capacity strengthening at all levels. It is my vision that IAAE will serve as a two-way bridge between international food systems research and national food system transformations.

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