Valeria Piñeiro

Acting Head of the Latin American region & Senior Research Coordinator

Valeria Piñeiro is the acting head of the Latin America and Caribbean (LAC) Region and Senior Research Coordinator in the Markets, Trade, and Institutions Unit. Her recent work includes modeling the impacts of agricultural support policies on emissions from agriculture and reviewing the evidence on incentives for the adoption of sustainable agricultural practices and their outcomes. Her work in the LAC region includes development strategies and economic growth, trade policies, effects of economic downturn, migration, and tax policies to reduce obesity. She has significant experience working in the areas of economic development and growth using computable general equilibrium (CGE) models as an analytical tool and has led courses in many countries teaching the theory and application of CGE models for the last several years. Dr. Piñeiro received her PhD in Agricultural Economics from the University of Maryland.

Her recent work includes:

Featured Publications

Martin, Will; Vos, Rob; Glauber, Joseph W.; Laborde Debucquet, David; Piñeiro, Valeria et al. 2022. G20 framework for repurposing agricultural policy support to meet global climate and food security goals. Food Security and Sustainable Agriculture Task Force Brief
Glauber, Joseph W.; Laborde Debucquet, David; Piñeiro, Valeria; Elverdin, Pablo; Illescas, Nelson et al. 2022. Environmental sustainability of food systems, global food security and trade. Food Security and Sustainable Agriculture Task Force Brief
Gautam, Madhur; Laborde Debucquet, David; Mamun, Abdullah; Martin, Will; Piñeiro, Valeria; and Vos, Rob. 2022. Repurposing agricultural policies and support: Options to transform agriculture and food systems to better serve the health of people, economies, and the planet. Washington, DC: World Bank; and International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI)
Piñeiro, Valeria, ed.; Campos, Adriana, ed.; and Piñeiro, Martín, ed. 2021. The road to the WTO twelfth Ministerial Conference: A Latin American and Caribbean perspective. San Jose, Costa Rica: Instituto Interamericano de Cooperación para la Agricultura (IICA); and International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI)
Laborde Debucquet, David; Mamun, Abdullah; Martin, Will; Piñeiro, Valeria; and Vos, Rob. 2021. Agricultural subsidies and global greenhouse gas emissions. Nature Communications 12: 2601. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-021-22703-1
Piñeiro, Valeria; Thomas, Timothy S.; Laborde Debucquet, David; and Diaz-Bonilla, Eugenio. 2020. Drivers and disruptors shaping the future of agriculture and the food system in LAC: Climate change and trade tensions. IFPRI Discussion Paper 1967. Washington, DC: International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI).