Expertise

Rural poverty and food insecurity; rural development; small-scale agriculture; inclusive and sustainable food systems; agricultural data; impact evaluation; migration and social protection programs

At the Keough School

Paul Winters is associate dean for academic affairs and the Keough-Hesburgh Professor of Global Affairs in the Keough School of Global Affairs at the University of Notre Dame.

Courses

• Foundations of Sustainable Development (master of global affairs course for sustainable development concentration)
• Directed Readings (for master of global affairs students)

Biography

Prior to joining the Keough School, Winters was the associate vice-president, Strategy and Knowledge Department and director of the Research and Impact Assessment Division at the International Fund for Agricultural Development in Rome. From 2004-2015, he was a professor in the Department of Economics at American University in Washington, DC where he taught courses on impact evaluation, development economics and environmental economics. Before American University, he worked at the International Potato Center in Lima, Peru, the University of New England in Australia, and the Inter-American Development Bank in Washington, DC.

Professional Roles/Positions

Winters is a member of the Food System Economics Commission, an independent academic commission that aims to equip political and economic decision makers with the tools and support metrics needed to transition towards healthy, inclusive and sustainable food systems.

Research and Publications

Winters’s research and teaching focus on rural poverty and food insecurity and the evaluation of policies and programs designed to address these issues.Winters has published numerous journal articles and working papers in the areas of rural poverty and food insecurity, rural development, small-scale agriculture, inclusive and sustainable food systems, agricultural data, impact evaluation, migration and social protection programs. He holds a PhD in agricultural and resource economics from the University of California at Berkeley, an MA in economics from the University of California at San Diego and a BA in non-Western studies from the University of San Diego.

Recent Work

• “Almost half the world’s population lives in households linked to agrifood systems” (Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations)
• “Global food systems transitions have enabled affordable diets but had less favourable outcomes for nutrition, environmental health, inclusion and equity” (Nature Food)