Webinar
Contents
Chair
Prof. Yi Yang
College of Environment and Ecology, Chongqing University, Chongqing, China.
Selected for the National Youth Top-Notch Talents Plan.
Speaker(s)
Prof. Yi Yang
College of Environment and Ecology, Chongqing University, Chongqing, China.
Selected for the National Youth Top-Notch Talents Plan.
Research Interests:
Sustainable Agricultural Food Systems, Carbon Peak and Carbon Neutrality Analysis, Climate Change Mitigation and Adaptation
Topic:
Diet Change Is Difficult, So What Should We Do?
Prof. Jessica Fanzo
Member of the National Academy of Sciences (USA).
Jessica Fanzo has worked as an advisor for numerous international organizations, including the International Food Policy Research Institute, USAID, the World Bank, and the World Health Organization. She also collaborates with governments to regain food security in post-conflict regions through evidence-based food policy and governance.
She was the first laureate of the Carasso Foundation’s Sustainable Diets Prize in 2012 for her research on sustainable food and diets for long-term human health. She was also elected into the National Academy of Sciences in 2024.
She currently leads the development of the Food Systems Dashboard and the Food Systems Countdown to 2030 Initiative in collaboration with the Global Alliance of Improved Nutrition, the UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) and Cornell University. She currently serves on the Integrated Partnership Board of the CGIAR and the Executive Committee of the Scaling Up Nutrition Movement. She has participated in numerous other collective endeavors, including the Food Systems Economic Commission, the Global Panel of Agriculture and Food Systems for Nutrition Foresight 2.0 report, the Lancet Commission on Anaemia, and the EAT-Lancet Commissions 1 and now 2. She was also the Co-Chair of the Global Nutrition Report and Team Leader for the UN High-Level Panel of Experts on Food Systems and Nutrition.
Research Interests:
Climate Change, Food Systems, Diet, Nutrition, Environment
Topic:
Bringing Food System and Climate Change Data Together to Elicit Action on NutritionProf. William Masters
William Masters leads the Food Prices for Nutrition project that computes the cost and affordability of healthy diets, and the IMMANA Fellowships program among other initiatives. From 2011 to 2014 he served as chair of the Friedman School’s Department of Food and Nutrition Policy, and before coming to Tufts was a faculty member in Agricultural Economics at Purdue University (1991-2010), and also at the University of Zimbabwe (1989-90), Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government (2000) and Columbia University (2003-04). He is former editor-in-chief of the journal Agricultural Economics (2006-2011), and an elected Fellow of the Agricultural and Applied Economics Association (AAEA) from which he received the Bruce Gardner Memorial Prize for Applied Policy Analysis (2013), the Publication of Enduring Quality Award (2014), the Quality of Research Discovery Award (2019) and the Quality of Communications Award (2022). At Tufts his courses on economics of agriculture, food and nutrition were recognized with student-nominated, University-wide teaching awards in 2019 and 2022. He is coauthor of the new textbook Food Economics: Agriculture, Nutrition and Health (Palgrave Macmillan, 2024).
Research Interests:
Economics and Policy Analysis for Agriculture, Food and Nutrition
Topic:
Food Choice and Access to Healthy, Sustainable Diets: Evidence from Retail Prices, Diet Costs and Affordability Worldwide
Assistant Prof. Melissa Pflugh Prescott
Melissa Pflugh Prescott is currently an Assistant Professor at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. She completed her PhD in Public Health at the New York University and a postdoctoral fellowship at Colorado State University. Dr. Prescott is a registered dietitian nutritionist. Her past experiences include managing a school-based obesity prevention program across seven elementary schools located in Harlem and Washington Heights, NYC. Dr. Prescott's research focuses on food-related behaviors at the intersection of nutrition security and environmental sustainability. She investigates strategies to improve nutrition security while mitigating the negative impact of the food system on the environment (e.g. food waste). Dr. Prescott's research is funded by the United States Department of Agriculture and the National Science Foundation.
Research Interests:
Food-Related Behaviors, Nutrition Security, Environmental Sustainability
Topic:
Facilitating Behavior Change to Promote Planetary Health in School Nutrition ProgramsDr. Aslihan Arslan
Agrifood Economics and Policy Division, Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, Rome, Italy.
Aslihan Arslan currently works as an Economist at the Food and Agricultural Organization (FAO) of the UN in Rome. She contributes to and coordinates the production of FAO's flagship publication the State of Food and Agriculture (SOFA). She also contributes to policy relevant research at the Agrifood Economics and Policy division on agricultural development and rural transformation.
Research Interests:
Food Security, Sustainable Agriculture, Agricultural Development, Conservation Agriculture, Climate Change, Sustainability, Environment
Topic:
The State of Food and Agriculture 2024: Value-Driven Transformation of Agrifood Systems
Time | Chair / Speaker | Topic | ||
UTC-5 | UTC+1 | UTC+8 | ||
7:30-7:35 | 13:30-13:35 | 20:30-20:35 | Yi Yang | Welcoming Address |
7:35-7:50 | 13:35-13:50 | 20:35-20:50 | Yi Yang | Diet Change Is Difficult, So What Should We Do? |
7:50-8:05 | 13:50-14:05 | 20:50-21:05 | Jessica Fanzo | Bringing Food System and Climate Change Data Together to Elicit Action on Nutrition |
8:05-8:20 | 14:05-14:20 | 21:05-21:20 | William Masters | Food Choice and Access to Healthy, Sustainable Diets: Evidence from Retail Prices, Diet Costs and Affordability Worldwide |
8:20-8:35 | 14:20-14:35 | 21:20-21:35 | Melissa Pflugh Prescott | Facilitating Behavior Change to Promote Planetary Health in School Nutrition Programs |
8:35-8:50 | 14:35-14:50 | 21:35-21:50 | Aslihan Arslan | The State of Food and Agriculture 2024: Value-Driven Transformation of Agrifood Systems |
8:50-9:05 | 14:50-15:05 | 21:50-22:05 | Q&A session |
Presentation

Journal editorial office introduces the chair, Prof. Yi Yang

Chair: Prof. Yi Yang introduces the CF journal and the specific process of this webinar

Prof. Yi Yang——Diet Change Is Difficult, So What Should We Do?

Prof. Jessica Fanzo——Bringing Food System and Climate Change Data Together to Elicit Action on Nutrition

Prof. William Masters——Food Choice and Access to Healthy, Sustainable Diets: Evidence from Retail Prices, Diet Costs and Affordability Worldwide

Prof. Melissa Pflugh Prescott——Facilitating Behavior Change to Promote Planetary Health in School Nutrition Programs

Dr. Aslihan Arslan——The State of Food and Agriculture 2024: Value-Driven Transformation of Agrifood Systems
