Description
David Laborde is the Director for Agrifood Economics division at the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) of the United Nations since 2023. He oversees a number of flagship publications, such as the State of Food Security and Nutrition (SOFI) or the State of Food and Agriculture (SOFA), and leads the division’s work on policy monitoring, policy reform, and realignment of incentives to support agrifood system transformation. He also provides leadership on resilience and bioeconomy. Before joining FAO, David Laborde worked at the International Food Policy Research Institute of the CGIAR for 16 years as part of the Markets, Trade, and Institution Division. He led the research theme on Macroeconomics and Trade and was also co-director of the Ceres2030 project. David Laborde’s research interests include food security and nutrition, especially in the context of globalisation and climate change. He has worked extensively on measuring and modelling domestic and border farm and food policies in a general equilibrium context, as well as on reforms of these policies facing environmental (climate change, biofuels, sustainability) and social (poverty) issues. Throughout his career, David Laborde has published extensively with more than 150 publications, and edited a number of books and high-level policy reports.
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