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Global Futures & Strategic Foresight Extended Team Meeting at IRRI, 15-19 May 2017

May 24, 2017 by mprasad

By Keith Wiebe —  IRRI recently hosted the Global Futures & Strategic Foresight (GFSF) Extended Team Meeting and Writeshop from May 15-19, 2017. GFSF is a CGIAR initiative to explore long-term trends, challenges, and policy options for food and agriculture through multidisciplinary foresight analysis. GFSF is led by IFPRI in collaboration with AfricaRice, Bioversity, CIAT, CIFOR, >> Read more

Filed Under: Events & News, Global Futures Homepage Feature, Uncategorized

2017 Global Food Policy Report

March 23, 2017 by mprasad

We are pleased to announce that we are now going to be making a regular contribution to IFPRI’s annual flagship publication, the Global Food Policy Report, in the form of a statistical annex presenting up-to-date projections for key indicators of production, consumption, trade, and hunger from the IMPACT system of models.  Click here for more >> Read more

Filed Under: Events & News, Global Food Policy, Global Futures Homepage Feature, IFPRI

Exploring impacts of climate and socioeconomic change in West Africa

March 17, 2017 by mprasad

By Daniel Mason-D'Croz and Shahnila Islam, IFPRI Climate change will likely have a negative effect on the agriculture sector in West Africa due to changing precipitation patterns and increasing temperatures. These changes can have negative impacts on food security in the region and, ultimately, the consequences of these changes will depend in part on society’s >> Read more

Filed Under: Climate Change, Events & News, Global Futures Homepage Feature, IFPRI, Uncategorized

Improved modeling of rice under environmental stresses

March 2, 2017 by mprasad

By Tao Li & Samarendu Mohanty, IRRI The worldwide usage of and increasing citations for ORYZA2000 has established it as a robust and reliable ecophysiological model for predicting the growth and yield of rice in an irrigated lowland ecosystem. Because of its focus on irrigated lowlands, its computation ability is limited in the representation of the effects >> Read more

Filed Under: Dr.Tao Li, Elsevier, Events & News, Global Futures Homepage Feature, IRRI, PIM, Sam Mohanty, ScienceDirect, Uncategorized

Fish to 2050 in the ASEAN region

February 10, 2017 by mprasad

By Chin Yee Chan, WorldFish The fisheries and aquaculture sectors in the countries of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN), provide income, employment opportunities, poverty alleviation, and improved food and nutrition security for the region. Extending the previous work from the Fish to 2030 report with the effort of updating parameters of the IMPACT >> Read more

Filed Under: Chin Yee Chan, Events & News, Fish, Global Futures Homepage Feature

Training workshop for the National Agricultural Investment Plans appraisal and design process for Sub-Saharan Africa: Introduction to Foresight Analysis

December 9, 2016 by mprasad

By Tim Sulser (IFPRI) With several members of AGRODEP and governmental/university researchers from Nigeria, Uganda, and the Ivory Coast, in September 2016 I led a successful training workshop focused on using strategic foresight analyses to inform the review and development process of country-level National Agricultural Investment Plans (NAIPs). We first worked to develop a common understanding >> Read more

Filed Under: Events & News, Global Futures Homepage Feature, News, SDG, Training

Global Futures and Strategic Foresight participating in the Global Action Plan for Agricultural Diversity (GAPAD)

December 8, 2016 by mprasad

Global Futures and Strategic Foresight was invited to share their foresight perspective at the Global Action Plan on Agricultural Diversification (GAPAD) SDG2 Roundtable Forum in Nairobi, Kenya at the end of October 2016.  GAPAD (gapad.org) is an initiative by the Association of International Research and Development Centers for Agriculture (www.airca.org) to promote agricultural diversification as >> Read more

Filed Under: Events & News, Forum, Global Futures Homepage Feature, SDG

CIMMYT gathers partners to discuss biotic stress and crop model integration

July 28, 2016 by Emil Caillaux

By Kindie Tesfaye (CIMMYT) and Evgeniya Anisimova (PIM) When crops are damaged by other living organisms such as bacteria, viruses, fungi, insects and other pests, weeds or even cultivated plants competing for space and nutrients, we talk of the biotic stress. Biotic stresses are a major constraint to agricultural productivity in low and middle income >> Read more

Filed Under: Climate Change, Events & News, Evgeniya Anisimova, Global Futures Homepage Feature

Policy dialogue on: “Comprehensive assessment of pressures on water resources and its effect on the agricultural sector and food security in Tunisia”

June 16, 2016 by GFSF admin

Policy dialogue on: “Comprehensive assessment of pressures on water resources and its effect on the agricultural sector and food security in Tunisia”

Filed Under: Global Futures Homepage Feature

GFSF Extended Team Meeting in Kenya, 17-19 May 2016

June 16, 2016 by GFSF admin

The Global Futures & Strategic Foresight (GFSF) Program held its semi-annual extended team meeting from 17 to 19 May 2016

Filed Under: Global Futures Homepage Feature

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