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We are very proud that our colleague Marijke Kuiper was inducted into the GTAP Research Fellow Hall of Fame at the 26th Annual Conference on Global Economic Analysis that took place in Bordeaux, from 14 to 16 June.

Saeed Moghayer was an invited speaker to ‘Global Shortages in a Changing Climate’ seminar at Oxford University to present and diescuss MAGNET foresight modelling foresight scenario results on food and nutrition security on May 12th.

Today our team member Elisa Bardazzi successfully defended her PhD in Science and Management of Climate Change at the Ca’ Foscari University in Venice. Congrats Elisa!

Today our team member Marcos Dominguez successfully defended his PhD, titled “Road to a Healthier Mexico: The influence of price signals, information, stress and consciousness on food choices” at Wageningen University in the Netherlands.

On March 6 the Dutch Minister of Agriculture, Piet Adema, visited Wageningen University & Research (WUR). MAGNET team leader Hans van Meijl was among the group of WUR researchers that was invited for the meeting.

Today, the European Commission published the yearly EU agricultural outlook report, which presents the outlook for major EU agricultural markets, income and environment from now until 2032. This time, the report includes also a short chapter analysing some dimensions of food security using a selected set of indicators, provided also by the MAGNET model (see section 5).

Jason Levin-Koopman from the MAGNET team presented the MAGNET model and operational philosophy to an audience of modelers and data stewards from Wageningen UR, during the Wageningen model and data steward workshop.

Last October 16th, our colleagues Willem-Jan and Marcos had a blast at Half Marathon Amsterdam. This event is the biggest half marathon of the Netherlands and leads participants through the center of Amsterdam and ends in the Olympic Stadium.

A new project entitled the BrightSpace Project funded under Horizon Europe is launched to design a roadmap for effective and sustainable strategies for assessing and addressing the challenges of EU agriculture to navigate within a Safe and Just Operating Space.

We are proud to share that Hans van Meijl, a “father”of our MAGNET CGE model, has been awarded a “Highly Cited Researcher”in 2022. Highly Cited Researchers have demonstrated significant and broad influence reflected in their publication of multiple highly cited papers over the last decade.