by admin | Feb 5, 2015 | Climate Modeling, Economics Modeling, February 2015, Food Security
By Niina Heikkinen, E&E reporter With a global population on track to exceed 9 billion by the middle of the century and climate change altering growing conditions across the planet, the need to figure out if agricultural production will keep pace is becoming more...
by admin | Sep 9, 2014 | Food Security, Press Release, September 2014
Photo: IFPRI/Ian Masias The International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) has launched a new website dedicated to climate change and food policy research and impacts. The website covers news, event updates, project profiles, and shares related materials from...
by admin | Jul 28, 2014 | Economics Modeling, Food Security, July 2014
By Mina Coutsoucos Can current farm household models accurately simulate food security driven by climate change? There has been considerable effort in the last 44 years by researchers to model climate change impacts on farm households, but relatively little attention...
by admin | Jul 9, 2014 | Food Security, July 2014, Regional Workshop, Sub-Saharan Africa Integrated Assessments
A joint CGIAR Research Program on Climate Change, Agriculture and Food Security (CCAFS) and Agricultural Model Intercomparison and Improvement Project (AgMIP) meeting was held June 3-4 to kick off a USAID-CIAT (International Center for Tropical Agriculture) funded...
by admin | Jun 25, 2014 | Crop Modeling, Food Security, June 2014, Press Release, Uncategorized
By Andrea Calderon Irazoque According to a recent commentary “Food Security: Fertilizing hidden hunger” by Müller C. and others published in Nature Climate Change, CO2 fertilization and climate change will likely exacerbate macro and micro-nutrients deficiency in...
