By Roberto Telleria (ICARDA) The Global Futures and Strategic Foresight Program held a workshop on “Groundwater and bio-economic simulations of relevant wheat technologies for Tunisia and Jordan” in Amman, Jordan from 16 to 17 June, 2015, hosted by the International Center for Agricultural Research in the Dry Areas (ICARDA). The purpose of the workshop was to define >> Read more
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IFPRI’s IMPACT team attends the 24th World Outlook Conference, June 8-9, 2015, Washington D.C.
By Tim Sulser (IFPRI) Every year the GFSF team reconnects with colleagues from a variety of global institutions working in the quantitative foresight modelling arena at the World Outlook Conference. The (24th annual!) meeting this year was held in Washington DC at the offices of the Economic Research Service of the USDA in early June. Please see >> Read more
Bioversity International hosts workshop on integrating ecosystem services into GFSF foresight research, Rome, May 7-8, 2015
By Anita Regmi (Bioversity) As part of theCGIAR Research Program on Policies, Institutions, and Markets (PIM) and the Global Futures and Strategic Foresight Program, Bioversity International convened a workshop at its Headquarters near Rome, Italy, on May 7 and 8, 2015, on integrating biodiversity and ecosystem services into foresight models. The workshop was attended by 45 >> Read more
ICRISAT hosts Global Futures and Strategic Foresight (GFSF) Crop Model Training (Part II), Patancheru, India, April 20-24, 2015
By Ricky Robertson (IFPRI) During the week of April 20 to 24, many of the crop modelers and social scientists for the Global Futures and Strategic Foresight program gathered at ICRISAT for a continuation of the previous training conducted in January. The participants reviewed the basics of running the Mink gridded crop modeling system, then learned >> Read more
Crop System Models training program at ICRISAT, Patancheru, India, March 23-27, 2015
By Ricky Robertson (IFPRI) As part of its activities in the CGIAR Research Program on Policies, Institutions, and Markets (PIM) and the Global Futures & Strategic Foresight (GFSF) program, ICRISAT recently organized a five-day training program, titled “Cropping System Models: Application in Land Resource Management”. The training took place from the 23rd to 27th March at >> Read more
Moscow State University hosts IFPRI IMPACT training workshop targeted at Central Asia research partners, Moscow, January 26-31, 2015
As part of new climate change work focusing on Central Asia, the International Food Policy Research Institute led a week-long training workshop on the International Model for Policy Analysis of Agricultural Commodities and Trade (IMPACT) at Lomonosov Moscow State University from January 26-31, 2015. The training was provided in collaboration with the Eurasian Center for >> Read more
ICRISAT hosts Crop Model Training, Hyderabad, India, January 19-23, 2015
During the week of January 19-23, 2015, the Global Futures and Strategic Foresight initiative convened a gathering and training session concerning gridded-style crop modeling hosted by ICRISAT in Patencheru, Hyderabad, India.The nine participants represented four CGIAR centers (CIMMYT, ICARDA, ICRISAT, and IFPRI) along with two Indian universities (Tamil Nadu Agricultural University and Professor Jayashankar Telangana >> Read more
LEDS Modelling Workshop – Adapting IFPRI tools and methodologies to the Colombian policy context
A workshop dedicated to presenting tools developed at IFPRI and their potential for use in Colombia was given with the participation and collaboration of the Colombian Ministry of Agriculture and Rural development (MADR), the CGIAR Program for Climate Change and Food Security (CCAFS), and the Inter-American Institute for Cooperation on Agriculture (IICA). During this workshop, >> Read more
Strategic Foresight Conference 7 November 2014
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, >> Read more
Mapping the Crop of the Future – IRRI featured in Rice Today
By 2035, the world will require more than 100 million tons of additional rice when the population surpasses 8.5 billion. To meet this global demand, the International Rice Research Institute (IRRI), through the International C4 Rice Consortium and as part of the Global Futures and Strategic Foresight program, is developing C4 rice, a new kind >> Read more
