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Cities and the future of agriculture and food security: a policy and programmatic roundtable

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  1. Participants included David Atwood (USAID), Ed Barbier (University of Wyoming), Karen Brooks (IFPRI), Cheryl Christensen USDA/ERS), Paul Christian (World Bank), Marc Cohen (OXFAM), Klaus Deininger (World Bank), Beth Dunford (USAID), Margot Ellis (USAID), Steve Haggblade (Michigan State University), Peter Hazell (IFPRI), Rachael Garrett (Boston University) , Peter Goldsmith (University of Illinois), Thom Jayne (Michigan State University), Saweda Liverpool-Tasie (Michigan State University), Will Masters (Tufts University), Charles North (USAID), James Oehmke (USAID), Per Pinstrup-Andersen (Cornell University), Tom Reardon (Michigan State University), Danielle Resnick (IFPRI), Peter Richards (USAID), Mark Rosegrant (IFPRI), Kimsey Savadogo (IFPRI), Karen Seto (Yale University), Forhad Shilpi (World Bank), Gloria Steele (USAID), Nancy Stetson (US Dept. of State), Adam Storeygard (Tufts Univerisity), David Tschirley (Michigan State University), Caitlin Welsh (US Dept. of State) and Michael White (Brown University).

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  1. Bureau for Food Security, United States Agency for International Development, Washigton, DC, USA

    Peter Richards, Jim Oehmke & David Atwood

  2. Department of Agriculture, Food, and Resource Economics, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI, USA

    Tom Reardon, David Tschirley & Thom Jayne

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Richards, P., Reardon, T., Tschirley, D. et al. Cities and the future of agriculture and food security: a policy and programmatic roundtable. Food Sec. 8, 871–877 (2016). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12571-016-0597-3

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