46th Annual Conference and
2010 Future Leaders Forum

June 6-9, 2010

"Linking Agriculture, Nutrition and Health: Opportunities and Challenges for Sustainable Development"

Speakers and Panelists

Reed Hertford, EAM Company

Reed Hertford has a B.S. degree in business from the University of California/Berkeley, an M.S. from the same institution in agricultural economics, and a Ph.D. in economics from the University of Chicago. He has devoted over 40 years to international agriculture and rural development as a researcher, teacher, and administrator, living in Latin American for almost 15 years. He was a staffer in the U.S. Department of Agriculture, a program officer for a major U.S. foundation (Ford), a professor and director of international agricultural programs in a Land Grant University (Rutgers), the head of the largest U.S. university consortium working overseas in agriculture (SECID), the #2 person in a large multilateral organization (IICA), Board Chair of an international agricultural research center (CIAT), President and Director of my professional association (AIARD), and a consultant for the past dozen years, working chiefly in Latin America and the Caribbean, but also in Africa and Asia.

Most of his professional work has dealt with developing countries and involved the formulation of rural national strategies and investment projects; impact assessments of agricultural research; evaluations of institutions, policies, and national systems of agricultural research; and studies and short courses dealing with the competitiveness of agriculture in developing nations. Recently, with a Colombian colleague, a comprehensive study of rural poverty in Central America was conducted, utilizing all the household surveys available from all sources at two points in time in the 1990s; and a monograph was published with Phil Pardey and Stanley Wood entitled Research Futures which includes an analysis of post-1960 agricultural and related policy developments in Latin America and the Caribbean.