Paolo Brignoli joined our AECP group at ETH Zurich as a postdoctoral researcher this week. His research focuses on exploring how machine learning and artificial intelligence can support agricultural policy making and advance research in agricultural economics. We are excited to have you on board🥳
It's always exciting to see AI being applied to unique, real-world problems. I'm curious: what are your initial thoughts on the potential impact of this technology in the agricultural policy space?
Regarding digital technologies in general, this overview article, "Agricultural Policy in the Era of Digitalization" describes pathways doi.org/10.1016/j.fo.... Exemplary papers using AI for policy evaluation are: doi.org/10.1093/erae... or by @christianstetter.bsky.social doi.org/10.1093/erae...
Interesting, any early hypothesis?
Best to get an overview is this great paper by Hugo Storm et al. 'Machine learning in agricultural and applied economics' doi.org/10.1093/erae..., see also this earlier paper by Paolo doi.org/10.1093/erae...