William A. Masters
@wamasters
Prof. @tuftsnutrition, on economics of agriculture, food & nutrition. Photo is http://deepsprings.edu. Teaching blog: http://sites.tufts.edu/foodecon. Just like this IRL too.
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Career reset? Our MS programs allow students from any academic background to earn a STEM-designated degree @TuftsUniversity for impactful work in #agriculture, #nutrition & #health. Intro classes like my #FoodEconomics lead to high-value specializations nutrition.tufts.edu/academics/degr…
#NEUDC2025 is at @TuftsEconomics this Nov 8–9 🎓 Two days of cutting-edge work on development, climate, health & policy and more — with researchers from around the world 🌏 Registration closes Oct 17 → neudc2025.com #Economics #Research #Tufts #NEUDC #publicpolicy
Thanks to Pablo Rosado of @OurWorldInData for a clear, vivid explanation of what #FoodPricesForNutrition metrics reveal about healthy diet costs and affordability. The best visualizations of results through 2024: ourworldindata.org/diet-affordabi…
Just posted, a brief & clear memo from @EconoFactOrg by @dwschanz on why the @USDA food security questionnaire is needed. The government's statement about why they plan to stop data collection is even shorter: usda.gov/about-usda/new… but this is better: econofact.org/what-would-we-…
Big new paper in @AJCNutrition shows limits to the common belief that healthy & sustainable foods are more expensive than other options. Details: linkedin.com/posts/wamaster… Article: doi.org/10.1016/j.ajcn… Preprint: sites.tufts.edu/foodpricesforn… #econtwitter
For university courses about #FoodEconomics, a full set of class slides, exercises & exams is now available for use with our free online textbook, serving advanced undergrads and first-year grad students using diagrams, examples and global data. Info here: sites.tufts.edu/foodeconomics
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 data includes new work on relative cost of nutritional food groups openknowledge.fao.org/server/api/cor…
This week's launch of #SOFI2025 marks the 4th annual update of global diet cost and affordability data, used by UN agencies and national governments as a clear and actionable new metric of global food security. Direct link to the report is here: openknowledge.fao.org/server/api/cor…
I am speaking at 2025 AAEA & WAEA Joint Annual Meeting. Please check out my talk if you're attending the event! #AAEA2025
Will Masters (@WAMasters) of Tufts University shows how a well-crafted indicator (in this case, the lowest cost of a healthy diet) can actively inform civil society discussion. For more, read his paper sciencedirect.com/science/articl… #ABCDE2025
July 25, 9 AM ET ➡️ Join @CGDev & @wb_research for an #ABCDE2025 panel on agricultural markets and nutrition. 📆 With: @cbb2cornell, @wamasters, @KibromTafere, Kathy Baylis, and Eeshani Kandpal. Register: link.cgdev.org/l/683263/2025-…
Latest on #FoodPricesForNutrition, a review article for the 50th anniversary of @_Food_Policy on rapid adoption since 2020 of least-cost diets for monitoring food access, globally by @FAO & @WorldBank or in countries by @NBS_Nigeria, @EPHIEthiopia etc.: authors.elsevier.com/a/1lND015oGpOO…
Such a great resource for ag /nutrition /food educators and students of any age! Just wrapped a wonderful #sustainwhat conversation on food realities and futures with globe-spanning food photographer @georgesteinmetz , @wamasters and @ameliafinaret! Link in reply. Here's an intro…
The #FoodEconomics textbook is up! Free to read online, for an accessible intro to changes in #agriculture, #nutrition and #health. The 1st half uses #food to teach #EconomicPrinciples, and the 2nd is lots of #DataViz with links to online data sources. link.springer.com/book/10.1007/9…
What can we learn from food economics? Last month on VoxDev, @wamasters @tuftsnutrition & @ameliafinaret @alleghenycol spoke to @timsvengali about their new, open access textbook on Food Economics and what we can learn from the subject: voxdev.org/topic/agricult…
Our new #Fellowships from @ANH_Academy offer a year of funding to bring recent #research into #policy decisions in #SubSaharanAfrica or #SouthAsia, via placement in a policy-making organization. Aim is healthier diets, less loss & waste + climate & equity. anh-academy.org/science-policy…
🌍Join upcoming Webinar! 🥗Global #Sustainable #DietaryTransition: Advances and Challenges 🗓️November 11, 2024 🎙️Chair: @CQU1929's Yi Yang 👥Speakers: @ColumbiaClimate’s Jessica Fanzo @TuftsNutrition's William Masters @CWRUSOM's Melissa Pflugh Prescott 🆓🔗oaepublish.com/webinars/cf.292
What can we learn from food economics? Last week on VoxDev, @wamasters @tuftsnutrition & @ameliafinaret @alleghenycol spoke to @timsvengali about their new, open access textbook on Food Economics and what we can learn from the subject: voxdev.org/topic/agricult…
Today is World Food Day - here on VoxDev we have a range of articles & podcasts that discuss nutrition, hunger & poverty, school feeding programmes and more.. 1. Listen to today's episode of VoxDevTalks with @wamasters & @ameliafinaret on food economics⤵️ voxdev.org/topic/agricult…
Just in time for #WorldFoodDay, an #EconTwitter podcast from the wonderful @vox_dev
🆕What can we learn from food economics? Today on VoxDev, @wamasters @tuftsnutrition & @ameliafinaret @alleghenycol speak to @timsvengali about their new, open access textbook on Food Economics and what we can learn from the subject: voxdev.org/topic/agricult…
The power of #OpenAccess: in just 5 months there's been over 100k free online uses of the #FoodEconomics book. If each person used 5 chapters, that's >20k unique users. You can join them here: link.springer.com/book/10.1007/9… and check out our teaching blog: sites.tufts.edu/foodeconomics
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