Timothy S. Thomas

Research Fellow, IFPRI, Washington. Agricultural Economist focusing on climate change, land use, and agricultural productivity.

[Ismahane Elouafi @CGIAR_EMD]

🚀 How can agricultural innovations scale up to transform our #agrifood system? @CGIAR researchers take a systematic approach to ensure our research turns into #CGIARImpact. Learn more on how our #UkamaUstawi Initiative works with partners in Africa.

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[Pope Francis – ARCHIVE @Pontifex266Arch]

God does not love you because you behave well. He loves you, plain and simple. His love is unconditional; it does not depend on you.

[Timothy S. Thomas @DrTimThomas]

I don't know how my colleagues at IFPRI pulled this off so fast, but they just published a book on the effects of COVID19 on global food security. Best insights available right now. Amazing! https://t.co/fE0YrX3fkK

[Timothy S. Thomas @DrTimThomas]

Interesting idea! Use the moment to invest rightly, and not only is employment helped, but clean growth that will be faster than business as usual growth.
Sustainable Recovery – Analysis - IEA https://t.co/CZwb8hGhmK

[IFPRI Malawi @IFPRIMalawi]

#SavetheDate next 📆Wed Jun 10 ⏰@ 3:00pm-4:30pm CAT: #IFPRIMalawiLIVE virtual event: Economic Impacts of #COVID19 on #Growth, #Poverty & #Foodsystems in #Malawi: Initial Results. Details & Registration: https://t.co/9TTi5LGksO @USAIDMalawi @DFID_UK @IFPRI @CGIAR

[IFPRI @IFPRI]

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[Timothy S. Thomas @DrTimThomas]

I thought this was an excellent talk designed to help white people understand some of the issues facing black people/

[Chip Gaines @chipgaines]

Thank you Emmanuel. The gaines family is listening..

[Timothy S. Thomas @DrTimThomas]

It's amazing how taxes have risen for the poor and fallen for the rich since the good old days. Maybe it's time to make America great again and go back to the old ways? Probably not the crazy 80% rate on the high margins, but certainly more than today.

[David Leonhardt @DLeonhardt]

Watch how radically taxes on the wealthy have fallen over the past 70 years:

(Full column: https://t.co/XP0a4Iljti)

[Johan Swinnen @Jo_Swinnen]

Wonderful discussion today on building resilient, inclusive #FoodSystems to #FightFoodCrises. Looking forward to our continued collaboration and partnership!
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[Andrew Yang🧢⬆️🇺🇸 @AndrewYang]

Americans are constantly worried about the power of government. The bigger danger is that we can’t get even basic things done - roads, bridges, masks, cotton swabs, voting, processing unemployment benefits, sending citizens money during a crisis.

[Channing Arndt @channingarndt]

In case you missed it! @SherwinGab live on #KayaBizz @kayafm95dot9 discussing the economic implications of the #SouthAfricaLockdown due to the #COVID_19 #pandemic

@IFPRI @UNUWIDER

https://t.co/Kt8Z6EqYCV

[Timothy S. Thomas @DrTimThomas]

Congratulations @PMenonIFPRI !!!

[IFPRI @IFPRI]

🥁Congrats to @IFPRI's @PMenonIFPRI on receiving @nutritionorg's Nevin Scrimshaw Mid-Career Award in #Global Nutrition 🏆 for outstanding contribution, mentorship & dedication to advancing #nutrition research.🏅

We're proud of you! 👏

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[Channing Arndt @channingarndt]

.@SherwinGab on @eNCA with @devan_murugan earlier today discussing the profound economic impacts of the #SouthAfricaLockdown due to the #COVID_19 #pandemic #SATIED @IFPRI @UNUWIDER @TreasuryRSA

https://t.co/ZFwotaWbZW

[Timothy S. Thomas @DrTimThomas]

@WhiteHouseCEA Second, the cubic fit doesn't actually fit the data! I'm not sure what it is fitted to, unless it was forced to be 0 at some left endpoint, which would be totally wrong to do. NYTimes does a much better job using a 7-day moving average, which shows how much slower the decline is.

[Timothy S. Thomas @DrTimThomas]

@WhiteHouseCEA There are a few problems with this. First, the actual data is somewhat deceptive visually in that the big spike comes every 7 days, and if you graphed it with May 5 data, it would become more visually obvious that the number of deaths is trending downward very slowly.

[Channing Arndt @channingarndt]

.@SherwinGab and I are going #live at 7:00 am EST/1:00 pm SA time on @OnpointSABC to discuss our recent working paper on the economic implications of the #SouthAfricaLockdown on the services sector due to the #COVID_19 #pandemic #SATIED

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[Timothy S. Thomas @DrTimThomas]

@EvaEggerPhD @channingarndt Thanks! I don't want to make promises, but possibly in July.

[CGIAR Policy Innovations @CGIARPolicy]

@DrTimThomas @IFPRI @deissymb @cgiarclimate_LA @the_IDB @CGIAR Recording of our Jan 29 #webinar on #ClimateChange and #Agriculture in Central America and the Andean region w/ @DrTimThomas @IFPRI, @deissymb @cgiarclimate_LA & Ana Rios @the_IDB available ▶️https://t.co/9P23cdIAjY
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[Channing Arndt @channingarndt]

Preview of #unofficial results: Growing season precipitation and temperature outcomes for #Mozambique when weather and #ClimateChange are knitted together. More heat extremes and elevated probability of both well below and well above average rainfall in the 2020s.
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[Timothy S. Thomas @DrTimThomas]

Coverage of IFPRI Cornell CCAFS side session at COP 24 see "Science and Policy" | IISD Reporting Services https://t.co/1Tc6cEHR3X