Nicostrato Perez is a Research Fellow in the Natural Resources and Resilience Unit. His research interests are water and food security, adaptation to climate change, sustainable intensification, and economy-environment policy modeling. He is part of the team that developed and currently maintains and applies IFPRI’s IMPACT model in policy research on global, regional, and national agriculture; climate change mitigation and adaptation; land-use planning; and investment in food security and agricultural development. His recent work includes the role of agricultural technologies in global food security; climate change adaptation strategies for the agricultural and fisheries sectors; scaling up climate-smart agriculture; impact assessment of climate shocks and extreme events; and investment requirements for achieving nutrition and food security objectives.

Nicos has more than 30 years of research experience, working in various capacities in national and international agricultural research centers including the International Rice Research Institute, WorldFish, the Philippine Rice Research Institute, and the Center for Development Research of Bonn University in Germany. Geographically, his work covers the regions and countries of Southeast Asia (Philippines, Malaysia, Cambodia, Indonesia, and Viet Nam); South Pacific (Fiji, Solomon Islands, and Vanuatu); Africa (Ghana and Burkina Faso); and Germany, India, and the United States. Nicos obtained his PhD in Agricultural and Applied Economics from Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University (Virginia Tech).