Nigeria's Discussion of IFPRI’s 2022 Global Food Policy Report: Climate Change and Food Systems

The 2022 Global Food Policy Report, IFPRI’s flagship report, highlights the urgency of accelerating innovation, reforming policies, resetting, market incentives, and increasing financing for sustainable food systems transformation. It sets forth a broad range of policy options for accelerated action by policymakers as well as international forums for policy and investment decision-making.

This event will feature a high-level panel discussion on IFPRI's 2022 Global Food Policy Report on a range of choices to be made by policymakers, policy practitioners, farmers, small and large businesses, and society as a whole to move our climate and food systems in the right direction. The event will also highlight the policy components of the CGIAR initiatives in Nigeria.

Report Overview

• Charlotte Hebebrand, Director of Communications and Public Affairs, IFPRI 

Policy Messages

• Channing Arndt, Director of Environment and Production Technology Division, IFPRI

Messages for Africa

• John Ulimwengu, Senior Research Fellow, Africa Regional Office, IFPRI

Discussants

• Anthonia Achike, Professor of Agricultural Economics, University of Nigeria, Nsukka
• Ibrahim Bello, Director, Planning and Policy Coordination, Federal Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development (FMARD)
• Andrew Kwasari, Senior Special Assistant to the President on Agriculture, Office of the Vice-President
• Dawn Thomas, Acting Director, Office of Economic Growth and Environment, United States Agency for International Development (USAID)/Nigeria

Moderator

• Charlotte Hebebrand, Director of Communications and Public Affairs, IFPRI