Amanda Palazzo joined IFPRI in 2009 to work on the International Model for Policy Analysis of Agricultural Commodities and Trade (IMPACT). As a member of IFPRI’s Global Change, her work includes incorporating the biophysical effects from climate change on agriculture into the IMPACT model. She also provides training to various IFPRI collaborators, from other CG centers and beyond, in using the IMPACT model. She earned a M.S in Agricultural and Consumer Economics with a concentration in Natural Resource, Production, and Environmental Economics from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Her research was part of a multi-disciplinary project including a team of economists, hydrologists, and sociologists that analyzed the surface water-groundwater interactions of the Nebraska portion of the Republican River Basin in order to model the welfare impacts of alternative spatial water management policies on individual farmers.

In 2010, Amanda was part of the team that launched the interactive tool, Climate, Agricultural and Socio-Economic (CASE) maps allowing users to view the detailed results of scenarios analysis of the Food Security, Farming and Climate Change to 2050 research monograph over time and across the globe.