IFPRI Director General comments on Haiti earthquake
IFPRI’s Director General, Shenggen Fan, has issued a statement expressing sadness at the situation in Haiti, and promising to redouble the Institute’s research efforts in the area of recovery and rebuilding food security after crises.
Extend Doha's potential gains to world's poorest and most vulnerable
Recent analysis from IFPRI concludes that the expected gains from the December 2008 Doha proposal – while limited – are positive, and that concluding the Round in 2010 is important to secure trade and growth during the incoming global recovery period. However it can be improved by specific steps to address the needs of the world’s poorest and most vulnerable economies.
IFPRI Researchers among finalists in 2010 MIF competition
Congratulations to IFPRI researchers, Ruth Vargas Hill and Miguel Robles, whose proposal, “Using Simple Weather Securities to Insure Rain-Dependent Farmers in Ethiopia,” is among 20 finalists in the 2010 MIF competition.
The competition is intended to foster fresh ideas on how innovative financing mechanisms can be used to better solve development challenges at local, country, regional, or global levels, with the goal that successful innovations can be scaled up and replicated broadly.
Agriculture and Forestry Groups Release Joint Statement for Negotiators at COP-15
Stakeholders representing agricultural and forestry interests, including IFPRI, released a joint statement on December 14 at the UN climate change talks in Copenhagen. The statement emphasizes that forestry and agriculture are where poverty reduction, food security, and climate change come together and urges negotiators to address them in an integrated fashion to ensure that the livelihoods of poor farmers in developing countries are not devastated in the future.
USDA Secretary Vilsack Affirms US's Commitment to Agriculture and Food Security in Developing Countries
Climate Change a "Defining Issue" That Will Have "Real Consequences on Food Production"
U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Tom Vilsack underlined the importance of climate change in agricultural adaptation and mitigation at Agriculture and Rural Development Day in Copenhagen on December 12, 2009. He pledged the US’s commitment to support poor farmers in developing countries as they battle food insecurity and poverty. The full text of his remarks can be found on the USDA website.
Promoting Profitable Agricultural Mitigation and Adaptation to Climate Change – The Triple Challenge
IFPRI Side Event Sparks Lively Debate on the Viability of these Goals
Minimizing greenhouse gas emissions (GHGs) in the agricultural sector in Africa, while also helping smallholder farmers adapt to climate change as they increase their incomes, was the topic of IFPRI’s side event at the international climate change negotiations (COP-15) on Friday, December 11. IFPRI Senior Research Fellow Claudia Ringler gave an overview of climate change’s negative impacts on crop production, food prices, trade, and child malnutrition in Africa.
Agriculture: where poverty reduction, food security and climate change intersect
[cross-posted from the CGIAR Climate Change Blog]
Statement of Outcomes, Agriculture and Rural Development Day, 12 December 2009, Faculty of Life Sciences, University of Copenhagen
http://www.agricultureday.org/ARDD_Statement-of-Outcomes.pdf
A group of more than 300 policymakers, farmers and scientists meeting in Copenhagen today called on climate change negotiators and governments at the United Nations Climate Change Conference to recognize agriculture’s vital role in climate change adaptation and mitigation.
A Chorus of High-Level Support for Agriculture
[cross-posted from the CGIAR Climate Change Blog]
The significance of a side event held today at the United Nations Conference on Climate Change lay not just in what the high-level panelists said but in the fact that they had come together to deliver a single, coherent message about the vital relationship between food security and climate change. The meeting was organized by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations with several partners.
Strong Adaptation Policies Needed to Combat Climate Change-Induced Hunger
A new report from the World Food Programme (WFP) – co-published by IFPRI - Climate Change and Hunger: Responding to the Challenge details the profoundly negative future impacts of climate change on hunger and malnutrition rates in developing countries, particularly Sub-Saharan Africa.
Change in Leadership at IFPRI
IFPRI Welcomes Shenggen Fan as Incoming Director General
IFPRI’s director general, Joachim von Braun, will be leaving IFPRI to return to Germany, where he will serve as director of the Center for Development Research and professor of Economics and Technological Change at the University of Bonn.





