A one-day Strategic Foresight Conference took place at IFPRI Headquarters in Washington DC on November 7, 2014. Participants from leading global modeling groups, collaborating CGIAR centers and research programs, and other partners reviewed new long-term projections for global agriculture from IFPRI and other leading institutions, examined the potential impacts of climate change and other key challenges, and discussed the role of foresight work in identifying and supporting promising solutions.
Topics included:
- Long-term outlook and challenges for food & agriculture
- Addressing the challenges
- Foresight in the CGIAR
Watch the morning sessions here:
Presentations:
- IMPACT Model, Baseline, and Scenarios: New Developments (Mark Rosegrant, IFPRI)
- Insights from global model intercomparisons (Dominique van der Mensbrugghe, GTAP & Purdue University)
- Modelling Adaptation to Climate Change in Agriculture - The Process (Ada Ignaciuk, OECD)
- Agriculture and Forest Sector Long-Term Outlook from GLOBIOM (Ulrich Kleinwechter, IIASA)
- Regional scenario development and analysis: linking qualitative and quantitative approaches (Ioannis Vasileiou, CCAFS & IFPRI, Daniel Mason-d’Croz, IFPRI)
- Investing in data for improved modeling (Sika Gbegbelegbe, CIMMYT)
- Foresight Analysis and Exante Assessment of Promising Technologies: To Inform Decision Making (S Nedumaran, ICRISAT)
- Global Futures and Strategic Foresight Goals, Progress and Plans for 2015 –2016 (Keith Wiebe, IFPRI)
