Wednesday, June 27, 2018 9:30 am to 11:00 am (EDT) IFPRI | 1201 Eye St. NW | 12th Floor Washington, D.C. 20005 *Light breakfast beginning at 9:00am* The concept of resilience is catching on among humanitarian and development actors seeking to help individuals, households, and communities prepare for, adapt to, and recover from severe shocks and stresses. Many organizations […]
Consultation Meeting on Knowledge Lab on Climate Resilient Food Systems: An analytical support facility to achieve the SDGs
Date: May 18, 2018 Location: IFPRI Headquarters, 1201 Eye St, NW, Washington DC. Background: This Initiative focuses on designing climate-resilient food systems (i.e. from farm to fork) for countries, agencies and investors. The program’s research will investigate climate resilience in food systems and evaluate potential outcomes of policies, practices and institutions. The overall objective of […]
Implications of wide-scale cropland restoration: A crucial element of the forest landscape restoration approach
The results of this study reveal that the full inclusion of crop production in the forest landscape restoration approach could produce largescale, worldwide benefits for food security and therefore facilitate a wide uptake of restoration practices and the implementation of large restoration projects. The positive impacts are multifaceted and significant in size: a reduction in […]
Getting Ready for COP23
The United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change will convene the 23rd annual Conference of the Parties (COP) meetings to advance the implementation of the Paris Climate Accord. IFPRI researchers will join global discussions to provide cutting-edge research on the threats that climate change poses to food systems as well as some promising strategies for mitigating […]
2016 Annual Trends and Outlook Report
Given its heavy reliance on rainfed agriculture and projected climatic and weather changes, SSA faces multidimensional challenges in ensuring food and nutrition security as well as preserving its ecosystems. In this regard, climate-smart agriculture (CSA) can play an important role in addressing the interlinked challenges of food security and climate change. CSA practices aim to […]
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