Climate change & food security: challenges and options at global and national scales (seminar report)

On 10 November 2015, IRPRI held a Policy Seminar  on Climate change & food security: challenges and options at global and national scales which considered the impacts of climate change on agricultural production, food security, and resource use, raising important timescale and planning horizon issues not normally at the forefront of the more traditional economic development research agenda. The introduction was provided by Rajul Pandya-Lorch, Moderator, and Head of the 2020 Vision Initiative:

As scientists, advocates, researchers, and political leaders were preparing to head to Paris for Conference of Parties (COP21), the panel of experts considered some of the most urgent aspects of climate change and agriculture. New results on the impact of climate change on agriculture and food security from the International Model for Policy Analysis of Agricultural Commodities and Trade (IMPACT) were presented, along with a modeling framework and results designed to assist national decision- and policy-makers address climate change and mitigation goals in a politically and economically sustainable way. Following presentations by senior IFPRI researchers Alex de Pinto on From global to local: modeling low emissions development strategies and Keith Wiebe on Global and regional challenges facing COP21, a panel of experts shared their views and recommendations.

Alex de Pinto: From global to local: modeling low emissions development strategies

Keith Weibe: Global and regional challenges facing COP21