Subscribe

Back

Who we are

With research staff from more than 70 countries, and offices across the globe, IFPRI provides research-based policy solutions to sustainably reduce poverty and end hunger and malnutrition in developing countries.

researcher spotlight

Lilia Bliznashka

Lily Bliznashka is a Research Fellow in the Nutrition, Diets, and Health Unit. Her research focuses on assessing the effectiveness of multi-input nutrition-sensitive and nutrition-specific interventions and the mechanisms through which they work to improve maternal and child health and nutrition globally. She has worked in Burkina Faso, Burundi, Tanzania, and Uganda.

Back

What we do

Since 1975, IFPRI’s research has been informing policies and development programs to improve food security, nutrition, and livelihoods around the world.

Research topics

Projects and impact

Food Security Portal

Modeling tools

What’s new

Where we work

Back

Where we work

IFPRI currently has more than 480 employees working in over 70 countries with a wide range of local, national, and international partners.

IFPRI Regional Programs

IFPRI Country and Regional Offices

Research by country and region

Subscribe

experts

Markets, Trade, and Institutions

Juan Pablo Gianatiempo

Research Analyst

Follow

Juan Pablo

at:

ORCiD
Juan Pablo Gianatiempo

Bio

Juan Pablo Gianatiempo is a Research Analyst with the Markets, Trade, and Institutions Unit, and is based at IFPRI-Washington, DC.

Markets, Trade, and Institutions

Publications

Resource thumbnail

Book Chapter

Moving the technology frontiers in African agrifood systems: Lessons from Latin America

2026Piñeiro, Valeria; Rueda, Jorge Armando; Gianatiempo, Juan Pablo; McNamara, Brian
Details

Moving the technology frontiers in African agrifood systems: Lessons from Latin America

Africa’s agrifood systems face a complex set of structural challenges. Low productivity, high vulnerability to climate shocks, fragmented markets, and weak integration into global value chains continue to constrain development. Yet these challenges coexist with significant opportunities. The region’s demographic profile—with more than 50 percent of the population under the age of 25 years—and a projected population growth rate of 2.3 percent in 2025 offer the potential for a demographic dividend that could help drive transformation in agri-food systems.

Year published

2026

Authors

Piñeiro, Valeria; Rueda, Jorge Armando; Gianatiempo, Juan Pablo; McNamara, Brian

Citation

Piñeiro, Valeria; Rueda, Jorge Armando; Gianatiempo, Juan Pablo; and McNamara, Brian. 2026. Moving the technology frontiers in African agrifood systems: Lessons from Latin America. In Moving the Technology Frontiers in African Agrifood Systems, eds. Christian Henning, Menale Kassie, and Racine Ly. Chapter 17, Pp. 275-293. Kigali, Rwanda: AKADEMIYA2063. https://doi.org/10.54067/9798991636940

Keywords

Africa; Latin America; Technology; Agrifood Systems; Production; Trade; Food Security; Investment

Language

English

Access/Licence

Open AccessCC-BY-NC-ND-4.0

Links

https://doi.org/10.54067/9798991636940 Source record

Record type

Book Chapter

Resource thumbnail

Working Paper

The future of ABPU agriculture: The 2nd MERCUSUR outlook

2025Jorge, Nicolás; Kanadani Campos, Silvia; Fonseca da Pereira, Vanessa; Vicentin Masaro, Jimena; Gianatiempo, Juan Pablo; Piñeiro, Valeria; Rava, Catalina; Costa, Ramiro
Details

The future of ABPU agriculture: The 2nd MERCUSUR outlook

In today’s complex and uncertain global environment, region-specific agricultural and trade outlooks are more essential than ever. While global projections from institutions such as the OECD-FAO and USDA provide valuable baselines, incorporating local perspectives is essential to capture the specific dynamics of emerging economies that are deeply integrated into international agrifood markets. Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC) is the world’s largest net food-exporting region, playing a central role in stabilizing supplies and reducing price volatility (IFPRI, 2025). Within LAC, Mercosur—Argentina, Brazil, Paraguay, and Uruguay (ABPU)—accounts for more than half of the region’s agrifood trade, concentrated in oilseeds, cereals, and animal proteins. Over the past two decades, agricultural exports from LAC have more than doubled, consolidating the region’s role as a net contributor to global food availability (Piñeiro et al, 2025a, 2025b). This performance highlights Mercosur’s structural weight in global markets, while also underscoring the climatic, institutional, and infrastructural challenges that call for tailored foresight tools.

Year published

2025

Authors

Jorge, Nicolás; Kanadani Campos, Silvia; Fonseca da Pereira, Vanessa; Vicentin Masaro, Jimena; Gianatiempo, Juan Pablo; Piñeiro, Valeria; Rava, Catalina; Costa, Ramiro

Citation

Jorge, Nicolás; Kanadani Campos, Silvia; Fonseca da Pereira, Vanessa; Vicentin Masaro, Jimena; Gianatiempo, Juan Pablo; et al. 2025. The future of ABPU agriculture: The 2nd MERCUSUR outlook. LAC Working Paper 41. Washington, DC: International Food Policy Research Institute. https://hdl.handle.net/10568/178953

Country/Region

Argentina; Brazil; Paraguay; Uruguay

Keywords

Latin America and the Caribbean; International Trade; International Agreements; International Organizations; Macroeconomics; Capacity Building; Agrifood Systems

Language

English

Access/Licence

Open Access

Source

Source record

Record type

Working Paper

Resource thumbnail

Brief

Harvesting change: The impact of climate change on Africa’s agriFood systems

2025Piñeiro, Valeria; Gianatiempo, Juan Pablo; McNamara, Brian; Thomas, Timothy S.; Traoré, Fousseini
Details

Harvesting change: The impact of climate change on Africa’s agriFood systems

Africa is one of the most exposed continents to climate change. While global temperature has risen by 0.2°C per decade since 1991, in Africa the rate is faster, reaching 0.3°C (WMO 2022). Yet Africa contributes only modestly to climate change. Indeed, the continent emits 7 times less greenhouse gas compared to Europe and 15 times compared to North America (IPCC, 2023). In addition to rising temperatures, climate change affects Africa through several channels, including an increase in ocean levels, variations in precipitations (droughts and heavy rains), plant pests and animal diseases. Climate change is also expected to contribute to a significant reduction in arable land in the continent (IPCC, 2023). The new CAADP strategy and action plan for 2026-2035 recognizes that Africa is the hardest hit by climate change and that the phenomenon is one of the major threats to Africa’s agricultural systems and food security in the coming years. All of these changes will affect agricultural production, a major challenge for Africa, as African economies and livelihoods remain heavily dependent on agriculture. Agriculture still represents 16% of Africa GDP with contributions ranging from 3% in Southern Africa to 25% in the eastern part of the continent. Due to the low level of labor productivity in agriculture, the sector’s contributions to total employment are higher than those of other sectors. By inducing structural changes in agricultural production, climate change will also affect trade flows by shifting comparative advantages between and within continents. Prices will also be affected. This Policy Brief i shows how Africa’s agricultural production and trade patterns are altered by climate change. It highlights the large impacts of climate change on agricultural production, reinforcing results from other work. It shows that the impacts on prices compound the production impacts on African economies and people given many countries in the region are net importers. However, the work also shows that there are substantial differences across the region in the size of the impacts.

Year published

2025

Authors

Piñeiro, Valeria; Gianatiempo, Juan Pablo; McNamara, Brian; Thomas, Timothy S.; Traoré, Fousseini

Citation

Piñeiro, Valeria; Gianatiempo, Juan Pablo; McNamara, Brian; Thomas, Timothy S.; and Traoré, Fousseini. 2025. Harvesting change: The impact of climate change on Africa’s agriFood systems. Washington, DC: International Food Policy Research Institute. https://hdl.handle.net/10568/178415

Keywords

Africa; Climate Change; Impact Assessment; Agrifood Systems; Computable General Equilibrium Models; Modelling

Language

English

Access/Licence

Open AccessCC-BY-4.0

Source

Source record

Record type

Brief

Blogs

The Iran war: Farmers in Brazil and Argentina face rising fertilizer and energy prices
Issue Post
 | 
May 04, 2026

The Iran war: Farmers in Brazil and Argentina face rising fertilizer and energy prices

By Joseph Glauber, Valeria Piñeiro, and Juan Pablo Gianatiempo

The Strait of Hormuz closure reverberates through the food system.

How the Iran crisis affects fertilizer-dependent countries: The case of Mexico
Issue Post
 | 
April 20, 2026

How the Iran crisis affects fertilizer-dependent countries: The case of Mexico

By Valeria Piñeiro, Juan Pablo Gianatiempo, Jorge Amado Rueda, and Joseph Glauber

A challenging dynamic for Latin America and the Caribbean.

Celebrating 50 years of IFPRI: Transforming agrifood systems in Latin America and the Caribbean
Event Post
 | 
October 29, 2025

Celebrating 50 years of IFPRI: Transforming agrifood systems in Latin America and the Caribbean

By Juan Pablo Gianatiempo, Jorge Armando Rueda Gallardo, and Valeria Piñeiro

Regional insights from the 2025 Global Food Policy Report.

View all Blogs

Events

Agricultural trade at a crossroads with Latin American, Caribbean, and African Perspectives for Post-MC14
IFPRI Policy Seminar

 | 

June 30, 2026, 9:00 – 11:00 am

Agricultural trade at a crossroads with Latin American, Caribbean, and African Perspectives for Post-MC14

This event will be livestreamed in English on this page. Live interpretation in Spanish and French will be available via Zoom. Additional details will be provided closer to the event. Please type your questions into the chat box with name, affiliation, and country. The event video, presenter slides, and podcast will be available in the […]