Matin Qaim

Matin Qaim earned his MSc from the University of Kiel in 1996 and his doctoral degree in agricultural economics from the University of Bonn in 2000. His doctoral supervisor was Joachim von Braun. Qaim did postdoctoral work at the University of California at Berkeley from 2001-2003.{{cite web |title=Prof. Dr. Matin Qaim |url=https://www.zef.de/header/staff/display-profile.html?tx_zefportal_staff_info%5Bref%5D=2252&tx_zefportal_staff_info%5Buid%5D=779&tx_zefportal_staff_profile%5Buid%5D=779&cHash=a265adcd71fdd654e83b0f442fe36d67 |website=Center for Development Research (ZEF) |access-date=9 November 2022}} In 2003, he received his habilitation from the University of Bonn with his venia legendi in agricultural and development economics.{{cite news |title=Matin Qaim succeeds Joachim von Braun as ZEF director |url=https://www.zef.de/media-center/news/news-single-view.html?contact=&tx_news_pi1[news]=4304&cHash=d58a2ae136fc98871ec8e41c703d3cf7 |access-date=9 November 2022 |work=Center for Development Research (ZEF) |date=September 23, 2021}}

Qaim served as Professor of International Agricultural Trade and Food Security at the University of Hohenheim from 2004-2007.

He was Professor of International Food Economics and Rural Development at the University of Goettingen from 2007-2021.

He joined the Center for Development Research (ZEF) at the University of Bonn, Germany in 2021.

Qaim specializes in food security and sustainable development. He is known for his meticulous analysis of the economics of agricultural biotechnology, connections of farmers to global value chains, and linkages between agriculture and nutrition.{{cite journal |title=Matin Qaim |journal=American Journal of Agricultural Economics |date=March 2020 |volume=102 |issue=2 |pages=382–383 |doi=10.1002/ajae.12022 |s2cid=242271887 |language=en |issn=0002-9092|doi-access=free }}

Qaim argues that higher-yield genetically modified crops can be used to reduce land usage and greenhouse gas emissions from agriculture.{{cite news |last1=Trambley |first1=Sean |title=RELEASE: New Research Shows Genetically Modified Crops Could… |url=https://thebreakthrough.org/press/new-research-shows-gmo-could-significantly-reduce-emissions |access-date=9 November 2022 |work=The Breakthrough Institute |date=February 9, 2022 |language=en}}{{cite journal |last1=Kovak |first1=Emma |last2=Blaustein-Rejto |first2=Dan |last3=Qaim |first3=Matin |title=Genetically modified crops support climate change mitigation |journal=Trends in Plant Science |date=1 July 2022 |volume=27 |issue=7 |pages=627–629 |doi=10.1016/j.tplants.2022.01.004 |pmid=35148945 |language=English |issn=1360-1385|doi-access=free }} He also supports the use of modified crops such as Golden Rice, which has a higher beta-carotene level than conventional rice, as a source of Vitamin A to combat disease.{{cite journal |last1=Kettenburg |first1=Annika J. |last2=Hanspach |first2=Jan |last3=Abson |first3=David J. |last4=Fischer |first4=Joern |title=From disagreements to dialogue: unpacking the Golden Rice debate |journal=Sustainability Science |date=2018 |volume=13 |issue=5 |pages=1469–1482 |doi=10.1007/s11625-018-0577-y |pmid=30220919 |pmc=6132390 |bibcode=2018SuSc...13.1469K |issn=1862-4065}} Qaim is a member of the Golden Rice Humanitarian Board.{{cite web |title=Humanitarian Board: Prof Matin Qaim |url=https://www.goldenrice.org/Content1-Who/who_Matin.php |website=www.goldenrice.org |access-date=9 November 2022}}

Qaim recommends a balanced approach to sustainable meat consumption. Pointing out that existing meat prices do not reflect their high environmental cost, Qaim calls for significant reductions in consumption in wealthy countries which have the highest consumption of meat per capita. He personally chooses to rarely eat meat.{{cite news |title=Meat consumption must fall by at least 75 percent |url=https://european-biotechnology.com/up-to-date/latest-news/news/meat-consumption-must-fall-by-at-least-75-percent.html |access-date=9 November 2022 |work=European Biotechnology |date=27 April 2022 |language=en}}{{cite journal |last1=Holmes |first1=Bob |title=How much meat can we eat — sustainably? |journal=Knowable Magazine |publisher= Annual Reviews |date=18 August 2022 |doi=10.1146/knowable-081722-1|doi-access=free |url=https://knowablemagazine.org/article/food-environment/2022/how-much-meat-can-we-eat-sustainably |access-date=9 November 2022 |language=en}}

For smallholder farms in poor countries, animals are a smaller and more sustainable part of the food cycle. Increasing the variety of livestock raised and access to markets are both important steps for addressing malnutrition. Increasing the variety of crops grown is not effective if the extra food can't be sold or fed to animals as an alternative to throwing it away.{{cite journal |last1=Khonje |first1=Makaiko G. |last2=Ricker-Gilbert |first2=Jacob |last3=Muyanga |first3=Milu |last4=Qaim |first4=Matin |title=Farm-level production diversity and child and adolescent nutrition in rural sub-Saharan Africa: a multicountry, longitudinal study |journal=The Lancet Planetary Health |date=1 May 2022 |volume=6 |issue=5 |pages=e391–e399 |doi=10.1016/S2542-5196(22)00071-7 |pmid=35550078 |s2cid=248678182 |language=English |issn=2542-5196|doi-access=free }} "Keeping goats or a cow, perhaps, in addition to chickens and other animals, can therefore improve nutritional status."{{cite news |last1=University of Bonn |title=What benefits nutrition in Africa the most? More variety in the fields is not necessarily the best strategy, a recent study shows |url=https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2022/05/220510102904.htm |access-date=9 November 2022 |work=ScienceDaily |date=May 10, 2022 |language=en}}

• 2019, Fellow, Agricultural & Applied Economics Association (AAEA){{cite web |title=Award for Göttingen agricultural scientist, Matin Qaim |url=https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/540981 |website=EurekAlert! |access-date=9 November 2022 |language=en}}{{cite web |title=Previous AAEA Fellows |url=https://www.aaea.org/about-aaea/awards-and-honors/aaea-fellows/previous-aaea-fellows |website=Agricultural & Applied Economics Association |access-date=9 November 2022}}
• 2018, Member, German National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina{{cite news |title=People |url=https://www.leopoldina.org/uploads/tx_leopublication/Leo_Newsletter_5_2018_ENG.pdf |access-date=9 November 2022 |work=Leopoldina|page=12 |issue=May |date=2018}}

• {{cite book |last1=Qaim |first1=Matin |title=Potential impacts of crop biotechnology in developing countries |date=2000 |publisher=Peter Lang |location=Frankfurt am Main |isbn=0820448303}}
• {{cite book |editor-last1=Qaim |editor-first1=Matin |editor-last2=Krattiger |editor-first2=Anatole F. |editor-last3=von Braun |editor-first3=Joachim |title=Agricultural biotechnology in developing countries : towards optimizing the benefits for the poor |date=2000 |publisher=Kluwer Academic Publishers |location=Boston |isbn=0792372301}}
• {{cite book |last1=Qaim |first1=Matin |title=Genetically modified crops and agricultural development |date=2016 |publisher=Palgrave Studies in Agricultural Economics and Food Policy (AEFP) |location= |doi=10.1057/9781137405722 |isbn=978-1-349-95844-3 |url=https://link.springer.com/book/10.1057/9781137405722}}

• {{cite journal |last1=Qaim |first1=Matin |last2=Zilberman |first2=David |title=Yield Effects of Genetically Modified Crops in Developing Countries |journal=Science |date=7 February 2003 |volume=299 |issue=5608 |pages=900–902 |doi=10.1126/science.1080609 |pmid=12574633 |bibcode=2003Sci...299..900Q |s2cid=10732036 |url=https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.1080609 |language=en |issn=0036-8075|url-access=subscription }}
• {{cite journal |last1=Qaim |first1=Matin |title=The Economics of Genetically Modified Crops |journal=Annual Review of Resource Economics |date=October 2009 |volume=1 |issue=1 |pages=665–694 |doi=10.1146/annurev.resource.050708.144203 |url=https://doi.org/10.1146/annurev.resource.050708.144203 |language=en |issn=1941-1340|url-access=subscription }}
• {{cite journal |last1=Sibhatu |first1=Kibrom T. |last2=Krishna |first2=Vijesh V. |last3=Qaim |first3=Matin |title=Production diversity and dietary diversity in smallholder farm households |journal=Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences |date=25 August 2015 |volume=112 |issue=34 |pages=10657–10662 |doi=10.1073/pnas.1510982112 |pmid=26261342 |pmc=4553771 |bibcode=2015PNAS..11210657S |language=en |issn=0027-8424|doi-access=free }}
• {{cite journal |last1=Klümper |first1=Wilhelm |last2=Qaim |first2=Matin |title=A Meta-Analysis of the Impacts of Genetically Modified Crops |journal=PLOS ONE |date=3 November 2014 |volume=9 |issue=11 |pages=e111629 |doi=10.1371/journal.pone.0111629 |pmid=25365303 |pmc=4218791 |bibcode=2014PLoSO...9k1629K |issn=1932-6203|doi-access=free }}
• {{cite journal |last1=Krishna |first1=Vijesh |last2=Qaim |first2=Matin |last3=Zilberman |first3=David |title=Transgenic crops, production risk and agrobiodiversity |journal=European Review of Agricultural Economics |date=February 2016 |volume=43 |issue=1 |pages=137–164 |doi=10.1093/erae/jbv012 |url=https://doi.org/10.1093/erae/jbv012|hdl=20.500.11811/12195 |hdl-access=free }}
• {{cite journal |last1=Qaim |first1=Matin |title=Globalisation of agrifood systems and sustainable nutrition |journal=Proceedings of the Nutrition Society |date=February 2017 |volume=76 |issue=1 |pages=12–21 |doi=10.1017/S0029665116000598 |pmid=27301655 |s2cid=25352043 |language=en |issn=0029-6651|doi-access=free }}
• {{cite journal |last1=Fischer |first1=Elisabeth |last2=Qaim |first2=Matin |title=Linking Smallholders to Markets: Determinants and Impacts of Farmer Collective Action in Kenya |journal=World Development |date=1 June 2012 |volume=40 |issue=6 |pages=1255–1268 |doi=10.1016/j.worlddev.2011.11.018 |hdl=10419/90498 |url=http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.worlddev.2011.11.018 |language=en |issn=0305-750X|hdl-access=free }}
• {{cite journal |last1=Meemken |first1=Eva-Marie |last2=Qaim |first2=Matin |title=Organic Agriculture, Food Security, and the Environment |journal=Annual Review of Resource Economics |date=5 October 2018 |volume=10 |issue=1 |pages=39–63 |doi=10.1146/annurev-resource-100517-023252 |s2cid=158703015 |language=en |issn=1941-1340|doi-access=free }}
• {{cite journal |last1=Zaidi |first1=Syed Shan-e-Ali |last2=Vanderschuren |first2=Hervé |last3=Qaim |first3=Matin |last4=Mahfouz |first4=Magdy M. |last5=Kohli |first5=Ajay |last6=Mansoor |first6=Shahid |last7=Tester |first7=Mark |title=New plant breeding technologies for food security |journal=Science |date=29 March 2019 |volume=363 |issue=6434 |pages=1390–1391 |doi=10.1126/science.aav6316 |pmid=30923209 |bibcode=2019Sci...363.1390Z |hdl=10754/653050 |s2cid=85566092 |url=https://www.science.org/doi/abs/10.1126/science.aav6316?%%7BidParamMap%7D%|hdl-access=free }}
• {{cite journal |last1=Qaim |first1=Matin |last2=Sibhatu |first2=Kibrom T. |last3=Siregar |first3=Hermanto |last4=Grass |first4=Ingo |title=Environmental, Economic, and Social Consequences of the Oil Palm Boom |journal=Annual Review of Resource Economics |date=6 October 2020 |volume=12 |issue=1 |pages=321–344 |doi=10.1146/annurev-resource-110119-024922 |s2cid=219480602 |language=en |issn=1941-1340|doi-access=free }}
• {{cite journal |last1=Parlasca |first1=Martin C. |last2=Qaim |first2=Matin |title=Meat Consumption and Sustainability |journal=Annual Review of Resource Economics |date=5 October 2022 |volume=14 |issue=1 |pages=17–41 |doi=10.1146/annurev-resource-111820-032340 |language=en |issn=1941-1340|doi-access=free }}

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