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Lopez Barrera, Emiliano

Emiliano Lopez Barrera

Assistant Professor
Office:  
AGLS 325
Email:  
Phone:  
(979) 326-9055

Education

Undergraduate Education
B.S. Economics, Universidad de La República-Uruguay
Graduate Education
M.S. Agribusiness and Applied Economics, North Dakota State University
Ph.D. Agricultural Economics, Purdue University

Areas of Expertise

  • Patterns of Global Food Consumption
  • Human Health
  • Global Nutrition
  • Environment

Professional Summary

Emiliano Lopez Barrera, Ph.D. is a visiting assistant professor in the Department of Agricultural Economics. His current research focuses on understanding how future patterns of global food consumption will affect human health, and how the agricultural changes needed to support the ongoing global nutrition transition will affect the environment. He combines econometric tools with economic and nutrition modeling to explore the trade-offs and linkages among diets, human health, and environmental sustainability. Prior to his grad studies, he worked as a consultant for the IDB at the Central Bank of Uruguay.

Selected Publications

Lopez Barrera and Hertel. Global food waste across the income spectrum: Implications for food prices, production and resource use. Food Policy 98 (2021): 101874.  https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0306919220300762

Lopez Barrera and Shively (Under review). Excess calorie availability and adult BMI: a cohort analysis of patterns and trends for 156 countries from 1890 to 2015.

Lopez Barrera and Miljkovic (Under review). Global Epidemics of Obesity and COVID-19 Require Global Strategies and Solutions.

Lopez Barrera and Hertel (Under review). Confronting the double burden of malnutrition yields health and environmental benefits.

Lopez Barrera, Lowenberg-DeBoer, Peña-Levano, Fontanilla, and Mosquera (Working paper). Sustainable Businesses Development in Post-Conflict Zones: Financial analysis of productive alliances in rural Colombia.