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Ruth Meinzen-Dick is a Senior Research Fellow in the Natural Resources and Resilience Unit. She has extensive transdisciplinary research experience in using qualitative and quantitative research methods. Her work focuses on two broad (and sometimes interrelated) areas: how institutions affect how people manage natural resources, and the role of gender in development processes. 

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Abhijeet Mishra

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Abhijeet Mishra is an Associate Research Fellow in the Foresight and Policy Modeling Unit. His research interests include future sustainable pathways for the global land-use system and the trade-offs between land-based mitigation, food security, and other sustainable development goals. Before joining IFPRI, he worked in the land-use management group at the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (PIK), where he contributed to the development of a forestry sector in MAgPIE, an open-source partial equilibrium land-use model.

Abhijeet is an agricultural economist with a PhD from Humboldt University, Germany; a master’s degree in rural economics and management from Ghent University, Belgium; and a bachelor’s degree in agricultural marketing and cooperation from the University of Agricultural Sciences, Bangalore, India.

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Limiting deforestation involves complex tradeoffs: Results from a global land-use model

2024Mishra, Abhijeet; Jones, Eleanor
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Limiting deforestation involves complex tradeoffs: Results from a global land-use model

Forests are massive carbon sinks and biodiversity havens. The world’s forests store about 861 gigatons of carbon, 42% in live biomass and 44% in soil. Yet forest areas have been disappearing at an alarming rate: Globally, they have shrunk by 20% over the past 100 years, mostly due to expansion of agricultural lands. Given the urgency of reducing global CO2 emissions, world leaders at the 2021 COP26 Global Climate Conference in Glasgow made a non-binding declaration to halt and reverse forest loss and land degradation by 2030. This pledge, endorsed by 145 countries covering 91% of the world’s forests, was hailed as a significant step toward stopping global deforestation.

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2024

Authors

Mishra, Abhijeet; Jones, Eleanor

Citation

Mishra, Abhijeet; and Jones, Eleanor. 2024. Limiting deforestation involves complex tradeoffs: Results from a global land-use model. IFPRI Blog. First published online on September 13, 2024. https://www.ifpri.org/blog/limiting-deforestation-involves-complex-tradeoffs-results-from-a-global-land-use-model/

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Forests; Carbon Sinks; Land Degradation; Agricultural Production

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English

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Open AccessCC-BY-4.0

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Foresight

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The International Model for Policy Analysis of Agricultural Commodities and Trade (IMPACT): Model documentation for version 3.6

2024
Robinson, Sherman; Dunston, Shahnila; Mishra, Abhijeet; Sulser, Timothy B.; Mason-D’Croz, Daniel; Robertson, Richard D.; Cenacchi, Nicola; Thomas, Timothy S.; Zhu, Tingju; Gueneau, Arthur
…more Pitois, Gauthier; Wiebe, Keith D.; Rosegrant, Mark W.
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The International Model for Policy Analysis of Agricultural Commodities and Trade (IMPACT): Model documentation for version 3.6

The International Food Policy Research Institute’s IMPACT model is a robust tool for analyzing global and regional challenges in food, agriculture, and natural resources. Continuously updated and refined, IMPACT version 3.6 is the latest update to the model for continuously improving the treatment of complex issues, including climate change, food security, and economic development. IMPACT 3.6 multimarket model integrates climate, crop simulation, and water models into a comprehensive system, providing decision-makers with a flexible platform to assess the potential impacts of various scenarios on biophysical systems, socioeconomic trends, technologies, and policies.

Year published

2024

Authors

Robinson, Sherman; Dunston, Shahnila; Mishra, Abhijeet; Sulser, Timothy B.; Mason-D’Croz, Daniel; Robertson, Richard D.; Cenacchi, Nicola; Thomas, Timothy S.; Zhu, Tingju; Gueneau, Arthur; Pitois, Gauthier; Wiebe, Keith D.; Rosegrant, Mark W.

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Robinson, Sherman; Dunston, Shahnila; Mishra, Abhijeet; Sulser, Timothy B.; Mason-D’Croz, Daniel; Robertson, Richard D.; Cenacchi, Nicola; et al. 2024. The International Model for Policy Analysis of Agricultural Commodities and Trade (IMPACT): Model documentation for version 3.6. Modeling Systems Technical Paper 1. Washington, DC: International Food Policy Research Institute. https://hdl.handle.net/10568/148953

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Agriculture; Commodities; Policy Analysis; Policy Innovation; Models

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English

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Open AccessCC-BY-4.0

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Foresight

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Food and nutrition security under changing climate and socioeconomic conditions

2024Rosegrant, Mark W.; Sulser, Timothy B.; Dunston, Shahnila; Mishra, Abhijeet; Cenacchi, Nicola; Gebretsadik, Yohannes; Robertson, Richard D.; Thomas, Timothy S.; Wiebe, Keith D.
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Food and nutrition security under changing climate and socioeconomic conditions

Food and nutrition security have become increasingly critical concerns for policy makers given that the slow progress on eliminating these challenges has reversed in recent years, with an increase in the number of hungry people by 122 million (20 percent) between 2019 and 2022. In addition to rebuilding in the aftermath of the COVID-19 pandemic, the global food system faces inter-related challenges from climate change, trade disruptions, increasing scarcity of water and land, environmental degradation, and evolving food demand patterns, among other factors. This paper assesses prospects to 2050 for food and nutrition security with a focus on low- and middle-income countries around the world in the context of these broader food system changes. Measures of food security presented here include per capita food and kilocalorie availability, the number and prevalence of hungry people, and micronutrient availability. Projected outcomes are assessed using the latest version of the International Model for Policy Analysis of Agricultural Commodities and Trade (IMPACT) framework, a modeling system that combines information from climate models, crop simulation models, and river basin level hydrological and water supply and demand models linked to a global, partial equilibrium, multimarket agriculture sector model.

Year published

2024

Authors

Rosegrant, Mark W.; Sulser, Timothy B.; Dunston, Shahnila; Mishra, Abhijeet; Cenacchi, Nicola; Gebretsadik, Yohannes; Robertson, Richard D.; Thomas, Timothy S.; Wiebe, Keith D.

Citation

Rosegrant, Mark W.; Sulser, Timothy B.; Dunston, Shahnila; Mishra, Abhijeet; Cenacchi, Nicola; et al. 2024. Food and nutrition security under changing climate and socioeconomic conditions. Global Food Security 41: 100755. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.gfs.2024.100755

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Food Security; Nutrition Security; Climate Change; Socioeconomic Aspects; Modelling

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English

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Open AccessCC-BY-NC-ND-4.0

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https://doi.org/10.1016/j.gfs.2024.100755 Source record

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Limiting deforestation involves complex tradeoffs: Results from a global land-use model
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September 13, 2024

Limiting deforestation involves complex tradeoffs: Results from a global land-use model

By Abhijeet Mishra and Eleanor Jones

Many dimensions of combating climate change.

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32nd International Conference of Agricultural Economists

The triennial International Conference of Agricultural Economists (ICAE-2024), centred on the theme “Transformation Towards Sustainable Agri-Food Systems” is scheduled from August 2-7, 2024, in New Delhi, India. The conference offers a distinctive platform, providing a golden opportunity for the agricultural academic institutions and researchers to convene in person, exchange knowledge, and actively contribute to the […]