Bob Baulch
Senior Research Fellow
Senior Research Fellow
Deputy Director of Environment and Production Technology Division
Undertaking institutional capacity training exercises on inclusive agricultural transformation, healthy diets, and resilience.
The Portal systematically captures policy responses through multiple channels, including population restrictions, social protection, trade, health, fiscal, and monetary measures.
Climate change is already affecting the livelihoods of small farmers around the globe, particularly in marginal environments where farmers lack resources to address the climate challenges they face. Climate-smart agriculture (CSA) is a set of guiding p…
The primary objective of the project is to simulate and analyze the impacts of lifting quantitative restrictions (QR) on rice imports on the Philippine agriculture sector and to the economy.
Understanding energy-irrigation linkages in Asia What is the challenge? Asia accounts for more than two thirds of irrigated area in the world, much of it still gravity-fed; about 85 percent of all water withdrawn in the region is used for irrigated agr…
Irrigation, mechanization or fertilizer?—tradeoffs and food security implications What is the challenge? Agricultural intensification through the use of high-yielding crop varieties, fertilizers, irrigation, and other agricultural chemicals (f. ex. pes…
As we move into the post-2015 era of the sustainable development goals (SDGs), the world faces many seemingly intractable problems. Malnutrition should not be one of them. Countries that are determined to make rapid advances in malnutrition reduction …
Nutrition is a powerful driver of sustainable development—it has the power to either propel the agenda forward or hold it back.