Over the dates 20-22 Nov 2014, an international workshop on the interactions of biofuels and food security was held at IFPRI headquarters, in Washington DC.

Policies that are successful in fostering sustainable intensification are critical to current development efforts to alleviate poverty and hunger and foster food security and resilience (The Montpellier Panel, 2013).

This paper reviews land use modeling approaches for assessing the economic and environmental impacts of agri-cultural intensification.

Current international debates increasingly highlight the need to move countries towards more sustainable paths of development.

The United Nations declared 2014 the International Year of Family Farming. Although many forms of production were once family-based, agriculture is now one of the few that are still dominated by families.