Annual Meeting 2004
The 40th Annual Meeting of
The Association for International Agriculture 
and Rural Development

"Progress in International Agriculture and Rural Development"
Speakers and Panelists

Nicholas W. Minot
Research Fellow, Markets, Trade and Institutions Division
International Food Policy Research Institute

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Nicholas W. Minot is a research fellow in the Markets, Trade and Institutions Division. Since joining IFPRI in 1997, he has carried out research on the agricultural market reform, fertilizer policy, fruit and vegetable markets, and the spatial patterns in poverty, working in Vietnam, Benin, Malawi, Tanzania, and Egypt.

 He is the leader of a research program on strategies for promoting the participation of small farmers in high-value agricultural commodity supply chains. Before joining IFPRI he taught at the University of Illinois in Urbana-Champaign and worked as a policy adviser in Zimbabwe and as a survey analyst in Rwanda. He also carried out research on agricultural marketing in Bolivia, Cameroon, and Peru, on small enterprises in Laos, and on household budgets in Paraguay. A U.S. citizen, he received his Ph.D. and M.S. in agricultural economics from Michigan State University and his B.A. in international development from Brown University.