Grateful for the opportunity to connect with peers and present my academic poster on the Framed Field Experiment on Repayment in #Microfinance at #AAEA2025!

Now sitting in Union Station in Denver, waiting for a late evening train, pulling together travel clips for an episode of the mock travel and tourism show, Lifestyles of the NOT Jet Set. Episode 21: Unburdened. #AAEA2025 #flyingless youtu.be/Vvy0p3crSig

Honored to have attended the #AAEA2025 to accept the Quality of Communication Award alongside Loraine Ronchi and Thomas Reardon for our paper on “Harnessing Agrifood Value Chains to Help Farmers be Climate Smart.”

@aaea-economics.bsky.social @cgiar.org @ifpri.org #FoodPolicy #FoodSecurity

If your interested in the economic history of agriculture at this years #AAEA2025 there is a great session happing now in plaza room 6.

3.4 Price inflation of nutrient-dense foods relative to other foods: Are there differences? This report documents how high food price inflation is associated with increases in food insecurity and child malnutrition.

This year's #AAEA2025 coincides with launch of the UN system's #SOFI2025 report on The State of Food Security and Nutrition in the World.

Beyond diet costs and affordability, this year's report includes new work from @tuftsnutrition.bsky.social and @fao.org on relative cost of different foods:

Presidential Address | 2025 AAEA Annual Meeting

At #AAEA2025 minutes ago, Brian Roe gave a scholarly and witty Presidential Address on endogenous preferences (for example if GLP-1 drugs change tastes for food). In Q&A, folks saw this would force a profound broadening of the economic theory of social good. www.aaea.org/meetings/202...

Gordon Rausser Keynote Addess | 2025 AAEA Annual Meeting

At #AAEA2025 yesterday evening, @jo-swinnen.bsky.social from IFPRI gave the Gordon Rausser keynote address, describing bleak trends in democracy, economic freedom, agricultural productivity, and food security worldwide. Depressing? No. Hard truths can be inspiring. www.aaea.org/meetings/202...

View of the Colorado Rockies from the Flatirons near Boulder.

Middle aged man playing cards in the observation car of a train while crossing the Mississippi.

Luggage for both business travel and backpacking piled in the waiting room at Chicago Union Station.

Middle aged couple loaded with business luggage and backpacking gear leaving their home in Massachusetts.

Travel to #AAEA2025 in Denver this week, on foot and public transport from our front door, Chicago Union Station, playing cards while crossing the Mississippi, and hiking the Flatirons.

JMCs at #AAEA2025 - @wenjie-zhan.bsky.social @thjchen.bsky.social @rachelejones.bsky.social

and also future job candidates @ayeshahmed.bsky.social @mspitzerbrooks.bsky.social

@ucdavis.bsky.social Dept of #AgEcon is excited to announce our '25-26 #jobmarket candidates. These 16 #PhD students are doing great research in #agriculture, #development, #environment, #energy, #health, and #labor. Many presenting at #AAEA2025 in Denver July 27-29! are.ucdavis.edu/phd/job-cand...

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The Agricultural and Applied Economics Association @AAEA_Economics & Western Agricultural Economics Association joint meeting #AAEA2025 is fast approaching. In the meantime, check out the papers and posters here: ageconsearch.umn.edu/search?c=261...

Can't wait. In Denver for #AAEA2025 next month, stop by and say hi at my poster on the Thrifty Food Plan Calculator or at the pre-conference.on food security. Also ask me any time about #flyingless in academia (Amtrak from Boston). @aaea-economics.bsky.social