Adjunct Professor
Dept. of Agricultural and Resource Economics, UC Davis
Stephen A. Vosti is Adjunct Professor in the Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics at the University of California, Davis. He received his PhD in economics from the University of Pennsylvania, and was a Postdoctoral Fellow with the Rockefeller Foundation in Brazil. He was a Research Fellow at the International Food Policy Research Institute, where he managed international research projects aimed at identifying and measuring the effects of changes in land use and land cover on poverty, economic growth and environmental sustainability, and on identifying the roles of public policy in managing these trade-offs/synergies. He was part of an international inter-disciplinary team that developed bioeconomic models to identify policy options for improving water use efficiency at several spatial scales. Vosti currently leads a team comprised of nutritionists, economists, and policy engagement specialists in developing tools to inform the design and management of more cost-effective micronutrient intervention programs and policies in developing countries, with particular focus on Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Ethiopia, Nigeria and Senegal. He is a founding member of the Nutrition Modeling Consortium, convened by the Nutrition Program of the New York Academy of Sciences. He is a technical advisor to the Food Aid Quality Review research team, with particular focus on measures of cost-effectiveness, and on the development and use of food aid supply chain economic optimization models. Vosti has substantial field-based research experience in Bangladesh, Brazil, Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Ecuador, Ethiopia, Ghana, Kenya, Malawi and Pakistan.
ON-DEMAND
ON-DEMAND
Thursday, November 12, 2020
10:00 AM – 11:30 AM EST
Thursday, November 12, 2020
10:00 AM – 11:30 AM EST
