An official side event of the World Food Prize 2020 Borlaug Dialogue
Investment in agricultural research key to offsetting climate change impacts
Channing Arndt - Director of IFPRI's Environment and Production Technology Division
Shenggen Fan - Director General of IFPRI
Nick Austin - Director, Agricultural Development, within the Global Development Division at the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.
On Sept. 23, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, the World Bank, the United Kingdom, the Netherlands, the European Commission, Switzerland, Sweden, and Germany announced commitments of more than $790 million to address the impact [...]
The solution to water, energy, and food security challenges: Building Bridges!
Bassel Daher, PhD
Research Associate, Department of Biological and Agricultural Engineering; Texas A&M Energy Institute
Research Fellow, Institute for Science Technology & Public Policy, Bush School of Government & Public Service, Texas A&M University
The grand challenges our world faces today - including growing water, energy, and food insecurities - are complex and tightly interconnected. Addressing them requires working across disciplines to develop innovative and multifaceted solutions that respond to their social, economic, technological, and policy dimensions. [...]
IFPRI EGYPT Seminar: Climate-Smart Agriculture Solutions for Egypt
Kara Hoving - AUC
Last fall, the IPCC issued the latest in a series of increasingly dire reports on the threat of climate change on human society. The findings outlined in this report are particularly consequential for Egypt, even though this country contributes less than 0.7% of global greenhouse gas emissions.
Climate Change in Egypt: from adaptation to mitigation
Othman Al-Sheikh, Ministry of Agriculture and Land Reclamation, Egypt
Climate change has become a matter of major concern at various levels in Egypt. Attention is now being paid to a range of scenarios associated with the rising levels of the Mediterranean Sea and the correlation between the sea-level-rise and the potential inundation of some coastal areas across the Delta of Egypt, as well as the prospective impact on agricultural productivity in quantitative and qualitative terms.
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