thomas hertel

Thomas Hertel, PhD

  • Cargill Visiting Fellow

Center on Food Security and the Environment
473 Via Ortega, room 365
Stanford, CA 94305-4205

(650) 721-2203 (voice)

Biography

Hertel is a Distinguished Professor of Agricultural Economics at Purdue University. His research focuses on the economy-wide impacts of global trade and environmental policies with a particular interest in the impacts of energy and climate policies on global land use and poverty. He is also Executive Director, and founder of the Center for Global Trade Analysis, and Past-President of the Agricultural and Applied Economics Association (AAEA).

During his stay at Stanford he undertook research into the impacts of climate change and climate policy on agriculture, food security and poverty. In the winter quarter he co-taught an FSE seminar (with David Lobell) on the long run determinants of global agricultural land use.

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publications

Journal Articles
February 2016

Agricultural adaptation to climate change in rich and poor countries: Current modeling practice and potential for empirical contributions

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February 2013

Climate adaptation as mitigation: the case of agricultural investments

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Journal Articles
February 2011

Climate volatility and poverty vulnerability in Tanzania

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