CARD: Center for Agricultural and Rural Development

Jacinto Fabiosa serves as co-director and international livestock and poultry analyst with the Food and Agricultural Policy Research Institute (FAPRI) at Iowa State University. His FAPRI work centers on developing and maintaining the international livestock and poultry model--including updating estimates, and keeping track of the macroeconomic, domestic, and trade policy environments, and phytosanitary status and regulations that affect world livestock and poultry markets. Fabiosa's research is in the areas of modeling methodology, food aid, food safety, and international trade. Fabiosa received a B.S. in agribusiness from the University of the Philippines at Los Banos and an M.S. in agricultural economics from Michigan State University. He first came to Iowa State as a Fulbright Academic Enrichment Scholar from the Philippines and finished his Ph.D. in economics at ISU with CARD in 1993. Prior to joining FAPRI-CARD, Fabiosa worked at the International Rice Research Institute (IRRI) in the Philippines and the World Bank in Washington, D.C. He has also worked on various projects with the USAID and National Pork Producers Council. Fabiosa is married to Flor, and they have two children, Maria and Joseph.