IFPRI is participating in Science Forum 2018 (SF18), which takes place October 10-12, 2018 in Stellenbosch, South Africa.

The objective of SF18 is to identify substantial interactions between the Sustainable Development Goals (both positive and negative), the role of agricultural research in augmenting synergies and managing trade-offs, and the ensuing implications for the science policy interface. SF18 will explore three key topics, in addition to a cross-cutting topic on strengthening the science-policy interface, and background papers have been commissioned to set the scene and guide forum discussions.

IFPRI Participants:

PLENARY – TOPIC 1: Interactions Between Increasing Staple Crop Productivity, Resilience to Climate Change, Improving Nutrition and Sustaining Agro-Biodiversity (October 10, 2018 — 11:30am – 1:00pm)

• John McDermott, Director, CGIAR Research Program on Agriculture for Nutrition and Health (A4NH), IFPRI

PLENARY – Foresight and SDG Interactions (October 10, 2018 — 2:00pm – 3:00pm)

• Keith Wiebe, Senior Research Fellow, IFPRI

BREAKOUT SESSION – Nexus, Systems, Landscapes: Does Your Sector Still Matter? Rethinking the Agricultural Research Agenda to Help us Tackle Tradeoffs (October 11, 2018 — 2:00pm – 5:00pm)

• Claudia Ringler, Deputy Director of Environment and Production Technology Division, IFPRI

CASE STUDIES

• Trade-offs related to agricultural use of antimicrobials and synergies emanating from efforts to mitigate antimicrobial resistance    
• Energy checklist for Asia’s irrigation projects: increasing crop water productivity without increasing energy use in agriculture   
• Food versus fuel: examining tradeoffs in the allocation of biomass energy sources to domestic and productive uses in Ethiopia