IFPRI Senior Research fellow Neha Kumar will participate in the seminar “Agricultural Innovation for Food Security in the Context of Climate Change in Latin America and the Caribbean” at the 2024 Annual Meetings of the Board of Governors of the IDB.

The seminar will examine the main challenges and opportunities faced by food systems in LAC, in the context of increasing food insecurity and climate change. The discussion will focus on the importance of agricultural research and innovation to tackle food insecurity while improving climate change adaptation and mitigation. The role of the private and public sectors in encouraging investments in innovations to support climate-smart agriculture will also be discussed. In LAC, highly vulnerable countries to climate change also face high levels of food insecurity. Hence, increasing the adoption of improved agricultural technologies and practices focusing on climate change adaptation is of utmost importance. Supporting farmers to adapt to climate change is also an opportunity to generate mitigation co-benefits.

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