By Daniel Mason-D’Croz (IFPRI) As a part of the CCAFS regional scenarios project, three new publications were recently released. All of this work was highly collaborative in nature and done using multiple models from different disciplines to allow for more holistic analysis of complex questions surrounding the potential trade-offs of economic and, in particular, agricultural development. >> Read more
Events & News
GFSF Extended Team Meeting in Kenya, 17-19 May 2016
By Timothy Sulser (IFPRI) The Global Futures & Strategic Foresight (GFSF) Program held its semi-annual extended team meeting from 17 to 19 May 2016, bringing team members from all 15 CGIAR Centers together in Naivasha, Kenya. In addition to reviewing work in progress, we discussed plans for future collaboration, joint publications, engagement with decision makers, >> Read more
Policy dialogue on: “Comprehensive assessment of pressures on water resources and its effect on the agricultural sector and food security in Tunisia”
by Aymen Frija (ICARDA) On 10 and 11 May 2016, the International Center for Agricultural Research in the Dry Areas (ICARDA) organized a policy dialogue in Tunis to share with Tunisian policy makers and other national partners the preliminary scenarios and results of ICARDA’s research on the impact of pressure on water resources and its effect >> Read more
Workshop: Crop Modelling and Biotic Stress
How can we take biotic stress into consideration with crop growth modelling in maize and wheat? As part of the Global Futures and Strategic Foresight (GFSF) project funded by the CGIAR Research Program on Policies, Institutions, and Markets (PIM) and the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, the International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center (CIMMYT) is organizing a three-day workshop >> Read more
LAC regional workshop on impact assessment for priority setting in agricultural research
By Athanasios Petsakos (CIP) A large number of public and private initiatives exist nowadays in Latin America which aim to promote innovation in the agricultural sector as a response to existing and future challenges on production systems and nutritional security. Some of these initiatives are financed by international credit institutions, like the World Bank, others by national >> Read more
Engaging national policymakers through scenario analysis and economic modeling in the Philippines
By Daniel Mason-D’Croz (IFPRI) and Shahnila Islam (IFPRI) In collaboration with the Philippine National Economic Development Agency (NEDA), the GFSF initiative of the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) directed a 5 day short-course on scenario analysis and economic modeling with IFPRI’s International Model for Policy Analysis of Agricultural Commodities and Trade (IMPACT, https://www.ifpri.org/program/impact-model). This short-course, held >> Read more
Building capacity and a forum for collaboration
International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center (CIMMYT) organized a five-day training workshop titled “Crop and Bioeconomic Modeling under Uncertain Climate” on 7-11 December 2015 in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. The workshop brought together representatives of Association for Strengthening Agricultural Research in Eastern and Central Africa (ASARECA) and West and Central Africa Council for Agricultural Research and Development (CORAF), as well as researchers from agricultural research institutes and universities from Ethiopia, Kenya, Uganda, Niger, Senegal, Nigeria, and Democratic Republic of the Congo.
Strategic foresight? What’s that?
"Strategic foresight? What’s that?"-- we often hear when introducing the Global Futures and Strategic Foresight project to our internal and external partners. Yes, let’s admit it: strategic foresight is still an unfamiliar concept to many, even among our colleagues. If you don’t understand something, you are often naturally biased against it. To change this undermining attitude towards our work, we at CIAT’s Global Futures and Strategic Foresight team decided to, so to speak, take this bias bull by the horns.
To Latin America for Global Connections
By Daniel Mason-D’Croz (IFPRI) Argentinian Counterparts In early December, Daniel Mason-D’Croz presented at the second annual International Conference on Agro-Industrial Projections hosted by INAI (www.inai.org.ar, www.inai.org.ar/notas.asp?id=193) in Buenos Aires, Argentina. This is the second year that Daniel has presented at the conference and is a part of building collaboration with the economic modeling team at INAI. >> Read more
IFPRI and partners share insights on climate change and food security in Paris
“Up and down the scales of time and place: Integrating global trends and local decisions to make the world more food-secure by 2050” at Global Landscapes Forum, December 5 2015.
