Farmers in low-income countries are one of the groups most at risk from the effects of climate change. This event focuses on the vital role that agricultural adaptation will play in response to climate change, and as an integral part of sustainable economic development in a post-COVID world. Panellists discuss the challenges that farmers face in adapting to grow more diverse and climate-resilient crops, and some of the solutions that can help overcome them.
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Meet our speakers
Kyle Emerick received his Ph.D. in Agricultural and Resource Economics from UC Berkeley in 2014. His research is in development economics – with a particular focus on the economics of agricultural development. His work has included studies on the effects of risk-reducing technologies on the decisions of poor farmers in rural India, the efficiency of informal seed exchanges between Indian farmers, and the effects of more secure property rights on labor reallocation in Mexico. His studies rely on both field experiments and observational data.
Vijaya Gupta has been working as Professor of Economics at the National Institute of Industrial Engineering (NITIE), Mumbai, India. Her general research interests are in the fields of environmental economics, development economics and agricultural economics and in particular social entrepreneurship, valuation of intangibles, growth and environment, vulnerability assessment of climate change and climate change adaptation in agriculture. She has extensively published papers in journals, book chapters and conference proceedings of International Economic Association, International Association of Environmental and Resource Economists, International Society of Ecological Economics to name a few. She is also a reviewer of many journals of repute.
Assan Ng'ombe is the Resilience Officer for the Alliance for a Green Revolution in Africa (AGRA). He is an international development expert with specialization in climate change, poverty reduction, livelihoods development and protection, and environmental management. In AGRA he is the technical lead on the integration of resilience in agriculture development in Africa. His key result areas are focused on the development and management of programmes on regenerative agriculture, sustainable land management in agriculture landscapes, agriculture and water nexus projects, strategy and policy development and advice. He further serves as the resident expert on environmental and social risk management in AGRA. Prior to joining AGRA, he worked with national and international development stakeholders in capacity building, programme and project development and implementation, policy development and advice. Assan holds a multi-disciplinary Master’s Degree in International Development from the University of Bradford in the UK.
Meet our moderator
Jonathan Leape is an Associate Professor of Economics at LSE. He was the founding director of the Centre for Research into Economics and Finance in Southern Africa, which was established at LSE in 1990 as an initiative of the Commonwealth Heads of Government to support the democratic transition in South Africa. He has advised a number of African governments, with a focus on tax and regulatory issues, and he served as Chief Academic Advisor on Taxation to the UK Government Economic Service. His research interests centre on public economics, with a particular focus on taxation and regulation, including congestion charging. He has a PhD in Economics from Harvard University, where he was a National Science Foundation Fellow, and degrees from Oxford University and Harvard University.
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