IFPRI is participating in the 2026 Agricultural & Applied Economics Association (AAEA) Annual Meeting on July 26– July 28, 2026. Taking place in Kansas City, Missouri at the Kansas City Marriott Downtown, the 2026 AAEA Annual Meeting is made up of Invited Paper Sessions, Invited Case Study Papers, Organized Symposia, Selected Presentations (Lightning Sessions, Paper Sessions, and a Poster Session) as well as Track Sessions sponsored by the AAEA Sections.
The Agricultural & Applied Economics Association (AAEA) is a not-for-profit association serving the professional interests of members working in agricultural and broadly related fields of applied economics. AAEA members are primarily employed by academic departments and government agencies in the field of agricultural and applied economics. Their work focuses on a combination of teaching, research, and cooperative extension programs. Their research covers a broad range of topics, including commercial agriculture, natural resource and environmental economics, and economic and rural development.
July 27, 2026
Invited Paper: Accelerating varietal turnover among smallholder farmers in the Global South: What can we learn through a meta-analysis of coordinated trials? | 2:45 pm – 4:15 pm (America/Chicago)
- Accelerating varietal turnover through production and consumption trial packs: Experimental evidence from Ethiopia: Berber Kramer, Senior Research Fellow, IFPRI
- Accelerating Varietal Turnover: Appealing to Smallholders as Both Producers and Consumers: Carly Trachtman, Research Fellow, IFPRI
Paper Session: Labor and Immigration | 2:45 pm – 4:15 pm (America/Chicago)
- When Border Enforcement Formalize Labor: Evidence from Texas’s Operation Lone Star: Manuel Hernandez, Senior Research Fellow, IFPRI
July 28, 2026
Track Session: Managing Risk and Uncertainty in African Agriculture: Information, Insurance, and Innovation | 10:00 am – 11:30 am (America/Chicago)
- Impacts of agricultural credit for landless borrowers and insurance on empowerment and intimate partner violence: Berber Kramer, Senior Research Fellow, IFPRI
Invited Paper: Women’s Downside Risk Exposure as a Barrier to Agricultural Investment and Technology Adoption | 1:00 pm – 2:30 pm (America/Chicago)
- See It Grow: A randomized evaluation of a digital innovation to improve crop insurance contract design: Berber Kramer, Senior Research Fellow, IFPRI
Structural Transformation in Africa: Youth, Gender, Climate, and Labor Reallocation | 2:45 pm- 4:15 pm (America/Chicago)
- Are the youth driving structural transformation in Africa?: Kibrom Abay, Senior Research Fellow, IFPRI
International Development: Trade, Markets, and Policy – Lightning Session 2: Agricultural Policy, Institutions, and Development Outcomes | 4:30 pm – 6:00 pm (America/Chicago)
- Targeting of Beneficiaries in Chemical Fertilizer Subsidy Programs: State of Knowledge and Evidence Gaps: Carly Trachtman, Research Fellow, IFPRI
Invited Paper: Agricultural Credit Markets: Access, Costs, and Financial Constraints | 4:30 pm – 6:00 pm (America/Chicago)
- Risk Aversion and Credit Access: Solving Financial Exclusion through Contract Innovation: Mehrab Bakhtiar, Research Fellow, IFPRI