Bio
Jonathan Brooks is Adjunct Professor at SAIS Europe
Editor-in-Chief,
Journal of Agricultural Economics
Honorary Senior Research Fellow, University of Exeter
Jonathan Brooks is an Honorary Senior Research Fellow at the University of Exeter and Adjunct Professor at SAIS Europe. He is also Editor-in-Chief of the
Journal of Agricultural Economics. Previously he was Head of the Agricultural and Resources Policies Division in the Trade and Agriculture Directorate at OECD and prior to that Head of the Agri-food Trade and Markets Division. He was Adjunct Professor at SAIS in 2013-14. Before joining OECD in 1999, was a Lecturer at the University of Reading. Dr Brooks has a PhD in Agricultural Economics from the University of California, Davis; an MS in Economics from Purdue University; and a BSc in Economics from the London School of Economics. He was President of the Agricultural Economics Society in 2022-2023.
Courses
- Challenges for Food and Agricultural Policies
This course will examine the current and future challenges facing food and agricultural systems and their implications for policymaking at national and international levels. Population and income growth are expected to raise the global demand for food, increasing pressures on natural resources. While globally agriculture produces ample calories, nearly a billion people remain undernourished, while an even greater number are overweight or obese. There is a pressing need to improve consumer’s food security and nutrition, while ensuring sustainable production on the supply side. At the same time, climate changes will add to stresses facing the agricultural sector, which will itself need to make a much greater contribution to mitigation efforts. These long-term challenges need to be reconciled with immediate priorities in terms of rebuilding and strengthening resilience in the wake of the Covid pandemic and responding to the destabilizing impacts of the war in Ukraine. The course will examine how these challenges can be addressed in a coherent way, and the policy and institutional reforms that are required.
