From Innovation to Impact in the Changing Realities of Agri-food Value Chains Worldwide

Agri-food value chains around the world continue to change at an historically unprecedented pace. These changes have significant research, development and innovation (RDI) implications, not only regarding primary production (i.e., farmers, farms, and farming) but also the for pre- and post-farm components of these value chains. Phil Pardey will draw on a forthcoming piece developed for the FAO’s Agrifood Systems Technologies and Innovations Outlook (ATIO) undertaking to describe the nature of these changing agri-food transformation realities through an RDI lens.  In so doing he will present new evidence on the profound changes in public and private spending on agri-food R&D worldwide, and the nature of the innovation and adoption lags that are consequential for realizing the economic (and other) impacts these RDI investments make possible.

Speaker Biography

Philip Pardey has been at the University of Minnesota since 2002. He is a Distinguished Global Professor of Science and Technology Policy in the Department of Applied Economics, and Director of the GEMS Informatics Center. GEMS brings together the University’s College of Food, Agricultural and Natural Resource Sciences (CFANS) and the Minnesota Supercomputing Institute to develop and deploy computational systems that address complex problems to unlock innovation in the agri-food sector and foster data-driven public-private partnerships. Previously he was a senior research fellow at IFPRI (International Food Policy Research Institute), Washington D.C. and ISNAR (International Service for National Agricultural Research), The Hague, Netherlands.

Philip hails from South Australia. His career has focused on informing agricultural R&D policies and practices and enabling data-driven innovation that promotes sustainable productivity growth in the food and agricultural sectors worldwide. He is a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) and of the Agricultural and Applied Economics Association, Distinguished Fellow and Past President of the Australasian Agricultural and Resource Economics Society, Distinguished Life Member of the International Association of Agricultural Economists, and winner of the Siehl Prize for Excellence in Agriculture. He has authored more than 430 books, articles, and papers (https://gems.umn.edu/gems-team/philip-pardey).

*Lecture 4:00–5:30 pm; reception 5:30–6:30 pm

Event contacts:

Xinzhen Zhang — Xinzhen.Zhang@anu.edu.au

Yating Deng — Yating.Deng@anu.edu.au