IFPRI’s 2020 Annual Report presents highlights from our research work around the world. Cutting-edge research on the impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic and related policies, and on our strategic research areas—climate resilience and sustainability, healthy diets and nutrition, inclusive and [...]
NEW PUBLICATION: Climate change and Egypt’s agriculture
By Nicostrato Perez, Yumna Kassim, Claudia Ringler, Timothy S. Thomas, and Hagar ElDidi
With climate change, Egypt’s already arid climate will face even higher temperatures and lower rainfall over key agricultural areas, requiring further urgent adaptation investments. Data from three general circulation models of climate were used to better understand the likely effects of climate changes [...]
NEW PUBLICATION: Climate change adaptation strategies for Egypt’s agricultural sector: A ‘suite of technologies’ approach
By Nicostrato Perez, Yumna Kassim, Claudia Ringler, Timothy S. Thomas, and Hagar ElDidi
Climate change negatively affects Egypt’s agriculture sector. This brief summarizes the results of a modeling exercise to examine a range of climate change adaptation approaches to counteract agricultural productivity declines. Rather than simulating a single technology, a ‘suite of technologies’ approach was used. For several food crops, none of the technology suites, individually or in [...]
CGIAR’s 50 Years of Innovation that Changed the World
IFPRI’s Climate-Smart Modeling Methods for surveillance, scenarios work, and modeling inform crucial policy on agriculture, development, & climate adaptation, and improve resilience. Read More © Keith Wiebe/IFPRI
COVID-19 and the promise of food system innovation
Corinna Hawkes - Director of the Centre for Food Policy at City, University of London.
The COVID-19 pandemic and the lockdowns that followed have disrupted private food supply chains and the public support systems the poor rely on for food and good nutrition. But these problems have also triggered many creative and entrepreneurial responses [...]
