

Heitor S. Pellegrina
Assistant Professor of Economics, University of Notre Dame
Heitor S. Pellegrina is an Assistant Professor of Economics at University of Notre Dame. He is a trade and development economist, with a research focus on agriculture, natural resources, and environment. Most of his work combines theory with data to study how economic development shapes and is shaped by the location of economic activity.
Recent work by Heitor S. Pellegrina
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How did global trade drive the shift to modern farming?
By facilitating access to critical agricultural inputs such as chemical fertilisers and farm machinery, trade has spurred agricultural modernisation that has raised agricultural yields and increased food consumption worldwide.
Published 27.01.25