By Nhuong Tran (WorldFish), Evgeniya Anisimova (PIM) Aquaculture is the fastest-growing food production sector globally, with production projected to double within the next 15–20 years. Future growth of aquaculture is essential to providing sustainable supplies of fish in national, regional and global fish food systems; creating jobs; and maintaining fish at affordable levels for resource-poor consumers. To ensure >> Read more
Events & News
IFPRI’s IMPACT model update: a core component of GFSF’s quantitative foresight modeling.
In this latest update, the IMPACT model was designed to incorporate not only better agricultural data but also best practices in model structure and coding.
IFPRI Discussion Paper on Promising Technologies
by Shahnila Islam (IFPRI) IFPRI, in collaboration with Global Futures and Strategic Foresight (GFSF) team members from CIAT, CIMMYT, CIP, ICRISAT, and IRRI has released a discussion paper titled “Climate Change Adaption in Agriculture: Ex Ante Analysis of Promising and Alternative Crop Technologies using DSSAT and IMPACT”. The paper reports results from Phase 1 of >> Read more
Post 2015 Consensus: Analysis on the benefits of infrastructure and technology investments on post-harvest loss reduction
By Daniel Mason-D'Croz (IFPRI) Achieving food security sustainably is a major challenge that will require continued efforts on increasing agricultural productivity. However, some of the gains in increased productivity may not be realized due to post-harvest losses (losses experienced between the field and the consumer). Estimates on the magnitude of post-harvest losses range greatly depending >> Read more
IAAE symposium explores linkages between global and regional economic models
By Sika Gbegbelegbe (IITA) The triennial conference of the International Association of Agricultural Economists (IAAE) provides a platform for the Global Futures and Strategic Foresight (GFSF) teams of the CGIAR centers to showcase their work. The first symposium organized by these teams was on ‘Bio-economic modeling to assess options for enhancing food security under climate >> Read more
WorldFish hosts Fish IMPACT model training workshop targeted at ASEAN countries, Penang, Malaysia, Aug 25-29, 2015
By Nhuong Tran (WorldFish) The Global Futures and Strategic Foresight Program (GSFS) held a training workshop on the IMPACT Fish model at WorldFish headquarters in Penang from Aug 25-29, 2015. Five participants attended, including staff from WorldFish and partner institutions in Vietnam, Indonesia, and Bangladesh. The purpose of the training workshop was to deliver the >> Read more
On-going OECD collaboration releases results in EuroChoices
In ongoing work with the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), IFPRI released a new publication in EuroChoices on August 16th aimed at reaching European policy makers.
CIAT convenes researchers and regional stakeholders to inform foresight research prioritization for rice in Latin America and the Caribbean
Rice is an important food around the world and, in the case of Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC), makes up approximately 11.5% of the diet. Yet, production of rice in Latin America only accounts for approximately 3.7% of the global total. What does this mean for rice producers and consumers in Latin America?
IFPRI and KREI plan collaborative research on climate change and food security
The International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) and the Korea Rural Economics Institute (KREI) recently signed a Memorandum of Understanding to support collaboration between the two institutions.
Lloyd’s study on “Food System Shock: The Insurance Impacts of Acute Disruption to Global Food Supply” draws on GFSF research
By Daniel Mason-D'Croz (IFPRI) The insurance group Lloyd’s recently commissioned the study “Food System Shock: The Insurance Impacts of Acute Disruption to Global Food Supply” to explore some of the potential risks of a series of extreme events on the global food system and the implications this might have on food security and the insurance industry. >> Read more
