Climate Change

2020 Focus 16 Brief 12 Climate change will bring with it increased frequency of two types of natural disasters that affect agriculture and rural households: droughts and floods. It will also alter rainfall patterns, thereby changing farming ...

Si se espera alcanzar las metas fundamentales de mitigación y adaptación del cambio climático, la agricultura debe ser parte integral de las negociaciones internacionales sobre clima. El cambio climático y la agricultura están conectados en ...

The International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) was established in 1975. IFPRI is one of 15 agricultural research centersthat receives its funding from governments, private foundations, and international and regional organizations, most ...

2020 Focus 16 Brief 2 Higher temperatures, more variable precipitation, and changes in the frequency and severity of extreme climate events will have significant consequences for food production and food security. However, the frequency of ...

Agriculture and climate change are inextricably linked. Agriculture is part of the climate change problem, contributing about 13.5 percent of annual greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions (with forestry contributing an additional 19 percent), compared ...

Recent efforts by IFPRI, the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), the International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD), and others have helped give agriculture a prominent place in the ongoing international climate ...

Dr. Alessandro (Alex) De Pinto received his Ph.D. in Agricultural and Consumer Economics from the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign where he specialized in Environmental and Natural Resource Economics. Prior to joining IFPRI he was ...

We investigate the impacts of sustainable land management practices on soil carbon stocks and also impacts of soil carbon on the mean and variance of crop production using econometric tools. Using a cross-sectional plot-level dataset collected ...

Save the date for Agriculture and Rural Development Day 2010: Finding sustainable agriculture solutions to meet food security and climate challenges. WHEN: 4 December 2010 WHERE: Gran Melia Resort in Cancun, Mexico WHAT: A one-day ...

E thiopia remains one of the least-developed countries in the world: 50 percent of the population lives in abject poverty, and average life expectancy is only 43 years. Agriculture—the main sector of the Ethiopian economy—employs about 80 percent ...

Bingxin Yu joined the Development Strategy and Governance Division of IFPRI in 2004 to work on development strategy issues. She has a B.S. in Management Science from University of Science and Technology of China, M.S. in Biometry/Statistics and ...

Bajar El texto completo El reto El aumento irrestricto de las emisiones de gases está subiendo la temperatura del planeta. Las consecuencias incluyen el derretimiento de glaciares, el aumento de las precipitaciones y de la frecuencia ...

Catherine Aragon, a citizen from the Philippines, joined IFPRI in May 2009 as a Research Analyst at the Director General’s Office. She received her undergraduate and master’s degree in Agricultural Economics from the University of the Philippines ...

Claudia Ringler, a citizen of Germany, joined IFPRI in 1996. Her research interests are water resources management--in particular, river basin management--and agricultural and natural resource policies for developing countries. Moreover, she is ...

Global climate change poses great risks to poor people whose livelihoods depend directly on agriculture, forestry, and other natural resource uses. IFPRI’s climate change research focuses on the assessment of, adaptation to, and mitigation of ...

Abstract Climate change threatens poor people, especially farmers, in developing countries. They will need help to adapt to climate change, a daunting task as droughts and floods stress agricultural systems, water sources become more variable and ...

Recommendations of CAAS-IFPRI conference in Beijing for UNFCCC negotiators The CAAS-IFPRI conference, International Conference on Climate Change and Food Security was held November 6-8, 2011 in Beijing. In this video, IFPRI Senior Research Fellow ...

This report reviews current knowledge of the effects of climate change on hunger. It summarizes knowledge from global studies completed and provides an overview of actions that can be taken to address the challenge. We believe that unless ...

According to the Fourth Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, warming in Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) is expected to be greater than the global average, and rainfall will decline in certain areas. Global circulation ...

This paper analyzes the effects of climate change on hydrology and water resources in the Limpopo River Basin of Southern Africa, using a semidistributed hydrological model and the Water Simulation Module of the International Model for Policy ...

Sub-Saharan Africa Different climate change scenarios are analyzed using IFPRI’s International Model for Policy Analysis of Agricultural Commodities and Trade (IMPACT), combined with other models. IMPACT projects alternative future ...

The “Enhancing Women’s Assets to Manage Risk under Climate Change: Potential for Group-Based Approaches” project explores ways to contribute to poverty reduction in Sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia (especially Bangladesh, ...

Download Report (updated November 6, 2009) Appendix 1: Methodology (updated October 7, 2009) Appendix 2: Results by World Bank Regional Grouping of Countries The Challenge Related Event Agricultural Adaptation to Climate Change in the ...

Maize is the primary food staple in southern Africa, and 50 percent of the total maize output in the area is produced in South Africa, where maize constitutes approximately 70 percent of grain production and covers 60 percent of the ...

Recomendações para os Delegados do UNFCCC in Durban de cientistas líderes dos BRICS, Indonésia e Estados Unidos da América Mudança climática é a maior ameaça para segurança alimentar sustentável. Temperaturas estão aumentando, os padrões de ...

Maintaining momentum to ensure that specific agricultural adaptation and mitigation measures remain on the agenda at the UNFCCC meetings in Copenhagen in December is the focus of an article by IFPRI Senior Research Fellow Gerald Nelson in the ...

Dr. David Laborde Debucquet joined IFPRI, Washington DC, in 2007. He is a Senior Research Fellow and leader of the “Globalization and Markets” research program in the Markets, Trade and Institutions Division. More about Dr David Laborde ...

Climate change negotiators are gathered in Bonn, Germany this week to re-launch the latest round of United Nations Framework for Climate Change treaty talks. Their goal is to advance negotiations on a document for discussion during the UN Climate ...

Ethiopia’s agricultural sector, which is dominated by smallscale, mixed-crop, and livestock farming, is the mainstay of the country’s economy. It constitutes more than half of the country’s gross domestic product, generates more ...

This fall, the United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification (UNCCD) launched the Decade for Deserts and the Fight against Desertification, an effort to protect and preserve drylands, currently under threat from desertification, land ...

Two possible adaptation options to climate change for Sub-Saharan Africa are analyzed under the SRES B2 scenario. The first scenario doubles the irrigated area in Sub-Saharan Africa by 2050, compared to the baseline, but keeps total crop area ...

Research in the Environment and Production Technology Division focuses on meeting food production needs in developing countries in ways that are beneficial to the poor and do not degrade the natural resource base. This involves identifying the ...

Threats that climate change—a phenomenon marked by global warming and an increase in extreme weather events—pose to the world’s one billion food-insecure are well documented. Desertification, rising sea levels, depleted freshwater sources, ...

Recommendations for the UNFCCC Delegates in Durban from Leading Scientists in the BRICS Countries, Indonesia, and the United States Climate change is a major threat to sustainable food security. Temperatures are rising, precipitation patterns are ...

To address the adverse effects of climate change on poor people, who will be hit the hardest by a warming world, IFPRI maintains a strong research program that strives to find ways to ameliorate the consequences for the most vulnerable groups. ...

As the global population grows and incomes in poor countries rise, so too, will the demand for food, placing additional pressure on sustainable food production. Climate change adds a further challenge, as changes in temperature and precipitation ...

Garima Taneja joined IFPRI on 2nd November 2011. She is working on the project titled “Prioritizing interventions for reducing the impact of climate change and increasing incomes of smallholders in Indo-Gangetic Plain”. She has completed her ...

There is broad consensus among scientists that climate change is altering weather patterns around the world. However, economists are only beginning to develop tools that allow for the quantification of such weather changes on countries’ economies ...

Global climate change poses great risks to poor people whose livelihoods depend directly on the use of natural resources. Mitigation of the adverse effects of climate change is a high priority on the international agenda. Carbon trading, under ...

Water scarcity is an increasingly critical issue for food production around the world. This is particularly true for the world’s poorest region, Sub-Saharan Africa, due to its growing malnutrition and almost complete dependence on rainfed ...

By some estimates, agricultural practices account for 20 percent of India’s total greenhouse gas (GSG) emissions; thus, cost-effective reductions in agricultural emissions could significantly lower India’s overall emissions. We explore mitigation ...

In March 2009, the International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD) and the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) teamed up to advance innovative policies designed to help the poor benefit from climate change mitigation and ...

Senior climate change researcher Gerald Nelson recently appeared on two radio spots to discuss IFPRI’s climate change research findings. While attending the annual FANRPAN Regional Food Policy Dialogue in Windhoek, Namibia in late ...

Climate change and its impacts on Asian countries was the focus of a high-level dialogue, hosted by the Asian Development Bank in Manila, on June 16-17. The event convened climate change policy leaders to discuss the path forward for the region ...

CONTENTS: •How Will Agriculture Adapt to a Shifting Climate? •Reflections from the Development Community •Global Hunger Index: A Focus on Conflict and AIDS •Using Household Expenditure Surveys to Measure Food Insecurity •Income Diversification, ...

The International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) recently released two new data sets—the Ethiopia Nile Basin Climate Change Adaptation dataset and the South Africa Limpopo Basin Climate Change Adaptation dataset. Both sets are based ...

Food security has deteriorated since 1995 and reductions in child malnutrition are proceeding too slowly to meet the Millennium Development Goal (MDG) target for halving hunger by 2015. Three major challenges threaten to drastically complicate ...

Vietnam is likely to be among the countries hardest hit by climate change, mainly through rising sea levels and changes in rainfall and temperatures. Agriculture can be extensively affected by climate change, and designing effective adaptation ...

Ethiopia possesses abundant water resources and hydropower potential, yet less than 5 percent of irrigable land in the Blue Nile basin has been developed for food production, and more than 80 percent of Ethiopians lack access to electricity. ...

The recent food crisis, combined with the energy crisis and emerging climate-change issues, threatens the livelihoods of millions of poor people as well as the economic, ecological, and political situation in many developing countries. Progress ...

Abstract Although great advances have been made towards global food security production and consumption goals over the past half-century, many people remain food-insecure. The Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) estimates that approximately 1 ...

La reciente crisis alimentaria, junto con la crisis energética y los problemas emergentes causados por el cambio climático, amenazan los medios de vida de millones de personas de escasos recursos, así como la situación económica, ecológica y ...

Le changement climatique et la dégradation des terres constituent de très fortes menaces pour la survie de millions de personnes en Afrique sub-saharienne. Pourtant, il est d’ores et déjà réellement possible de contribuer à améliorer les ...

Man Li is a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Environment and Production Technology Division (EPTD), International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI). Man has a solid research background in the area of natural resource and environmental economics ...

In southern Africa, by the middle of the 21st century climate change is expected to cause temperature increases of 1–3°C, broad summer rainfall reductions of 5–10 percent, and an increase in the incidence of both droughts and floods. ...

Mark W. Rosegrant is the Director of the Environment and Production Technology Division at the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) in Washington, DC. With a Ph.D. in Public Policy from the University of Michigan, he has 30 years ...

This study analyzes the vulnerability of Ethiopian farmers to climate change based on the integrated vulnerability assessment approach using vulnerability indicators. The vulnerability indicators consist of the different socioeconomic and ...

Agricultural production remains the main source of livelihood for rural communities in Sub-Saharan Africa, providing employment to more than 60 percent of the population and contributing about 30 percent of gross domestic product. With likely ...

This paper discusses micro-level practices for adapting to climate change that are available to small-scale farmers in Africa. The analysis is based on a review of 17 studies about practices that boost small-scale farmers’ resilience or reduce ...

2020 Focus 16 Brief 6 Livestock—poultry, small ruminants (such as goats and sheep), cattle, and pigs—provide many benefits for human well-being. Livestock production systems, especially in developing countries, are changing rapidly in ...

IFPRI’s lead climate change researcher Gerald Nelson took part in a two-part “food fight” launched on January 10 by New York Times columnist Andrew C. Revkin. “Almost every time global prices surge and the media and ...

Nicholas joined IFPRI in 2010 as a postdoctoral fellow. His current and previous research spans the areas of technology adoption, climate change adaptation, sustainable agriculture and natural resource use, drought and pest risk, imperfect ...

The risk of food insecurity due to climate change in developing countries has encouraged development partners to seek new approaches to improve the resilience of subsistence agriculture to covariate shocks. Such innovative approaches include ...

The potential adverse effects of climate change on Ethiopia’s agricultural sector are a major concern, particularly given the country’s dependence on agricultural production. Securing Ethiopia’s economic and social well-being in ...

While agriculture accounts for an estimated 10 to 14 percent of total greenhouse gas emissions, its role as a mitigating force is receiving increasing attention. This discussion paper provides a quick overview of the literature on the climate ...

2020 Focus 16 Brief 3 Rice is grown on more than 140 million hectares worldwide and is the most heavily consumed staple food on earth. Ninety percent of the world’s rice is produced and consumed in Asia, and 90 percent of rice land is—at ...

Ricky Robertson joined IFPRI in 2008. Prior to that he completed environmental and water related post-docs at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in the Civil and Environmental Engineering as well as Agricultural and Consumer Economics ...

Agricultural production remains the main source of livelihood for rural communities in Sub-Saharan Africa, providing employment to more than 60 percent of the population and contributing about 30 percent of gross domestic product. With likely ...

Rowena Andrea Valmonte-Santos joined IFPRI as a Program Analyst in December 2003 under a joint appointment with the Communications Division and the Environment and Production Technology Division. She became a full time staff member as a Research ...

Sherman Robinson is a Senior Research Fellow at the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI), a Visiting Research Fellow at the Institute of Development Studies (IDS), and Professor of Economics (emeritus) at the University of Sussex. ...

Siwa Msangi is a Senior Research Fellow in the Environment and Production Technology Division, and co-leads IFPRI's research theme 1, which focuses on the major socio-economic and bio-physical drivers affecting agricultural production and trade, ...

Climate change and agriculture are vitally linked, as each has profound implications for the other. This year’s Blog Action Day, with its focus on climate change, is the perfect opportunity to remind everyone in the development and environmental ...

The ten ASARECA member countries (Burundi, Democratic Republic of Congo, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Kenya, Madagascar, Rwanda, Sudan, Tanzania, and Uganda) have adopted, or are planning to adopt, a range of climate change adaptation strategies in ...

Dr. Babu was educated at Agricultural Universities in Tamil Nadu, India (B.S. Agriculture; M.S. Agriculture) and at Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa (M.S. Economics and PhD Economics). Before joining IFPRI in 1992 as a Research Fellow, Dr. Babu ...

COP-15 Side Event Adaptive capacity for African farmers is low due to dependence on rainfed agriculture and poverty. Policymakers and researchers from Ethiopia and Kenya will discuss adaptation strategies sought and the potential for ...

Making climate model information accessible with animated maps IFPRI climate-change researcher Gerald Nelson has come up with what the Scientific American calls “a graphical accounting of the limits to what one planet can provide.” Nelson’s ...

Growing consensus in the scientific community indicates that higher temperatures and changing precipitation levels resulting from climate change will depress crop yields in many countries over the coming decades. This is particularly true in ...

Over the coming decades, global change will have an impact on food and water security in significant and highly uncertain ways, and there are strong indications that developing countries will bear the brunt of the adverse consequences, ...

2020 Focus 16 Brief 10 Even with abundant evidence of the urgent need for action on climate change mitigation, there are still those who consider mitigation strategies a burden. In the agricultural sector, climate change mitigation calls for ...

A successful example of achieving food security while adapting to climate change, catalyzed by farmers and scaled-up by effective aid. Abstract After the devastating droughts of the 1970s and 1980s, African farmers in the Sahel region ...

2020 Focus 16 Brief 5 Of the five principal global carbon pools, the ocean pool is the largest at 38.4 trillion metric tons (mt) in the surface layer, followed by the fossil fuels (4.13 trillion mt), soils (2.5 trillion mt to a depth of one ...

2020 Focus 16 Brief 7 Nitrous oxide (N2O) emissions from soils are responsible for about 3 percent of greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, which cause climate change, and contribute approximately one-third of non-CO2 agricultural GHG emissions. ...

The world food situation is currently being rapidly redefined by new driving forces. Income growth, climate change, high energy prices, globalization, and urbanization are transforming food consumption, production, and markets. The influence of ...

Timothy Thomas worked as an economist / consultant for 10 years at the World Bank before joining IFPRI (International Food Policy Research Institute) in March 2010. His primary research at the World Bank was with land use and land use change, ...

Climate change is expected to have serious environmental, economic, and social impacts on South Africa. In particular, rural farmers, whose livelihoods depend on the use of natural resources, are likely to bear the brunt of adverse impacts. The ...

With likely long-term changes in rainfall patterns and shifting temperature zones, climate change is expected to increase the frequency of climate-related shocks, such as floods and droughts in Sub-Saharan Africa. For farm households, an increase ...

Wei Zhang is a Postdoctoral Fellow in the Environment and Production Technology Division. While a great deal of her current research activity focuses on the economic and environmental impacts of biofuels, Wei has a broader research background in ...

In which regions will agriculture and food security be most affected by climate change? That depends on how you define “affected”. Climate change can affect agricultural outcomes on many levels. Climate change can decrease (or in some cases ...

Yan Sun, a citizen of China, joined IFPRI in 2002 as a senior research assistant. She has a Master’s degree in Economics from Georgetown University. Her current work focuses on property rights and collective action in natural ...

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