Agrifood systems today are far more interconnected and their future less certain than ever before. Decision-makers — both public and private — need advance information to understand agrifood systems’ growing complexity, to navigate climate uncertainty and frequent crises, and to manage trade-offs between competing interests and development goals. The Foresight and Policy Modeling Unit’s research situates agrifood systems within global and local economies, environments, and development processes. It uses innovative analytical tools to anticipate trends at global, national, and local scales, and develops metrics to track socioeconomic and environmental outcomes at system and household levels. The Unit’s partnerships with national research institutes around the world ensure that local knowledge, modeling capabilities, and research are collectively shared, and that decision-makers have access to improved data and analytics to help them identify technologies, policies, and investments that can drive inclusive and sustainable agricultural transformation.
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James Thurlow
Director, Foresight and Policy Modeling (FPM)
Emerta Aragie
Research FellowBarun Deb Pal
Research CoordinatorOlivier Ecker
Senior Research FellowLuis Escalante
Associate Research FellowYohannes Gebretsadik
Associate Research FellowZhe Guo
Senior GIS CoordinatorHenry Kankwamba
Associate Research FellowAbhijeet Mishra
Associate Research FellowAskar Mukashov
Associate Research FellowKarl Pauw
Senior Research FellowAngga Pradesha
Senior ScientistRicky Robertson
Research FellowKenneth Strzepek
Senior Research FellowTimothy Sulser
Senior ScientistTimothy Thomas
Senior Research FellowAnne Timu
Associate Research FellowKeith Wiebe
Senior Research FellowLiangzhi You
Senior Research Fellow
Eleanor Jones
Program Coordinator
Manmeet Ajmani
Senior Research AnalystTamunotonye Braide
Senior Research OfficerNicola Cenacchi
Senior Research AnalystXuan Chen
Research AnalystAndrew Comstock
Senior Research AnalystShahnila Dunston
Senior Research AnalystPeixun Fang
Senior Research AnalystSherwin Gabriel
ScientistFaaiqa Hartley
ScientistStephanie Levy
Nonresident FellowJosee Randriamamonjy
Senior ScientistJunyan Tian
Research AnalystRowena Valmonte-Santos
Senior Research AnalystYumei Zhang
Nonresident FellowShuang Zhou
Research Analyst
Project Food Security Simulator (FSS)
Emission savings through the COP26 declaration of deforestation could come at the expense of non forest land conversion
Climate change effects on agriculture in Tajikistan
Rural household vulnerability and COVID 19: Evidence from India
Determinants of changes in harvested area and yields of major crops in China
“Fruit basket upset”: Spatially explicit crop mixture responses to climatic and economic pressures
Ethiopia country climate and development report, February 2024
Climate change and agriculture in eastern and southern Africa: An updated assessment based on the latest global climate models
From promises to action: Analyzing global commitments on food security and diets since 2015
Production vulnerability to wheat blast disease under climate change
Dairy consumption and household diet quality in East Africa: Evidence from survey-based simulation models
- IFPRI Program/Country EventMay, 15 2024
What does climate change mean for the future of agriculture? Insights from the IMPACT modeling system
- IFPRI Policy SeminarMay, 2 2024
Sudan at a Crossroads: Food Systems, Hunger, and Humanitarian Aid During Civil Conflict
- IFPRI at External EventApr, 29 2024
The Latest Innovations in Global Crop Mapping
- IFPRI at External EventApr, 9 - 12 2024
5th Global Food Security Conference
- IFPRI at External EventFeb, 28 2024
Drivers of Agrifood System Transformation: Lessons from Feed-the-Future Country Studies
- IFPRI Policy SeminarDec, 7 2023
The E-FooD Dataset and Food Security Simulators for Kenya and Nigeria: Innovative Tools to Support National Policies and Strategies