1 Week Training (29 January to 2 February 2023)
Presented by IFPRI-Egypt
Hosted by The Climate Change Information Center (CCIC), MALR
Overview
The Climate Change Information Center (CCIC) in the Ministry of Agriculture and Land Reclamation (MALR) in collaboration with the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) conducted a one-week training course on the International Model for the Policy Analysis of Agricultural Commodities and Trade (IMPACT). The training took place at the Climate Change Information Center (CCIC) between 29 January and 2 February 2023 and more than 2o of MALR'S researchers received the training on the IMPACT model.
Objective
This training harnesses the combined mandate, analytical capabilities, network of agriculturists, economists and policy researchers, and analytical tools of MALR and IFPRI in institutionalizing a suite of biophysical and economic models into the agricultural policy platform to support the agricultural development, environmental sustainability and food security and nutrition objectives of Egypt.
Rationale
The Ministry of Agriculture and Land Reclamation (MoALR) is country’s governmental body working to advance agricultural policies along the comprehensive goals of national development. Its vision encompasses the broader economic growth and social development while achieving sustainable and inclusive agricultural growth within integrated framework of rural development, providing support for the neediest groups, and reducing rural poverty. MoALR targets to achieve food security by strengthening the agricultural sector and by improving nutrition and the standard of living of the rural population, through more efficient allocation and use of resource and prioritization of investment in the different agricultural regions.
The International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) is a research center of CGIAR, a worldwide partnership engaged in agricultural research for development. IFPRI provides research-based policy solutions to sustainably reduce poverty and end hunger and malnutrition in developing countries. Its regional and country programs play a critical role in responding to demand for food policy research and in delivering holistic support for country-led development. IFPRI has strong regional and country presence in MENA and Egypt and strives at enhancing partnerships, strengthening partners’ capacity, and leveraging data and analytical tools in implementing and achieving impact in the MENA countries and the region.
Through the years, IFPRI has developed and continue to maintain several models and tools for agriculture and food policy research. One of the most widely used model and very relevant for MALR’s mandate is the International Model for the Policy Analysis of Agricultural Commodities and Trade (IMPACT), a suite of biophysical and economic models (Figure 1). It is designed to examine alternative futures of food supply, demand, trade, prices, and food security to 20501. The scale of its economic modules is from global to regional, national and sub-national, while its biophysical modules have finer scale at pixel levels.
Besides being applied to a large number of studies on food supply, demand, and trade over the past two decades, more recently, the IMPACT model system has been used to assess the impact of climate-change and climate-resilient technologies; investment in agricultural R&D, irrigation, and post-harvest facilities and infrastructure
Outcome
The model (See Publication) assess the impact of climate change on Egypt’s agriculture and allows the exploration of the robustness of different investments in climate change adaptation by comparing the outcomes of these investments to a reference climate change scenario in which no specific adaptation effort is undertaken.
Photo Album from the training
Acknowledgment
This training is part the CGIAR INIT 24 Foresight Initiative and was funded by the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) and hosted by The Climate Change Information Center (CCIC) in the Ministry of Agriculture and Land Reclamation (MoLR) and was conducted with the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI).
For more information please contact Fatma Abdelaziz: f.abdelaziz@cgiar.org
