Global climate change poses great risks to poor people whose livelihoods depend directly on agriculture, forestry, and other natural resource uses. IFPRI's climate change research focuses on the assessment of, adaptation to, and mitigation of these risks. Strategic, cost-effective, and pro-poor policy reforms that enhance human welfare in equitable and sustainable ways form the core of IFPRI's Global Change Program. The Program analyzes the complex interrelations between climate change and agricultural growth, food security, and natural resource sustainability.

• Agriculture and climate change: an agenda for negotiation in Copenhagen
  Side event at the UNFCC meeting in Bonn. June 4, 2009.
  
  Webcast
• Agriculture and Climate Change: An Agenda for Negotiation in Copenhagen
  May 2009. Gerald C. Nelson (ed). 2020 Focus 16 (13 briefs).
• Food security under stress from price volatility, agricultural neglect, climate change and recession
  May 11, 2009. Joachim von Braun. IPC Spring Seminar Salzburg, May 11, 2009.
  (PDF 521K)
• Climate Change, Agriculture and Trade: Promoting Policy Coherence
  International Centre for Trade and Sustainable Development (ICTSD). Bonn, April 6, 2009.
  Download presentation by Gerald Nelson (PDF 1.4M)
• Securing a Place for Agriculture at the International Climate Change Negotiations
  March 27, 2009. 2020 Panel Discussion
  
  Watch video on YouTube
• Understanding Farmers' Perceptions and Adaptations to Climate Change and Variability: The Case of the Limpopo Basin, South Africa
  February 2009. Glwadys Aymone Gbetibouo. IFPRI Discussion Paper.
• Climate Variability and Maize Yield in South Africa: Results from GME and MELE Methods
  December 2008. Wisdom Akpalu, Rashid M. Hassan, and Claudia Ringler. IFPRI Discussion Paper.
• Global Carbon Markets: Are There Opportunities for Sub-Saharan Africa?
  December 2008. Elizabeth Bryan, Wisdom Akpalu, Mahmud Yesuf, and Claudia Ringler. IFPRI Discussion Paper.
• How can African Agriculture Adapt to Climate Change? Insights from Ethiopia and South Africa
  October 2008. IFPRI Research Brief.
• Impact of Climate Change and Bioenergy on Nutrition
  May 2008. Marc J. Cohen, Cristina Tirado, Noora-Lisa Aberman, and Brian Thompson. IFPRI and FAO.
  (PDF 744K)
• Agriculture, Development, and the Poor: Challenges, Stakes, Opportunities
  May 14, 2008. International Policy Dialogue, Tervuren, Belgium.
  Video of Mark Rosegrant on YouTube
• Climate Change in the Context of Asia: Pro-Poor Adaptation, Risk Management, and Mitigation Strategies
  March 2008. IFPRI 2020 Focus 15, Brief 11.
  (PDF 186K)
• Food Prices, Biofuels, and Climate Change
  February 2008. Joachim von Braun.
  (PDF 512K)
• The World Food Situation: New Driving Forces and Required Actions
  December 2007. Joachim von Braun. IFPRI Food Policy Report.
• Micro-level analysis of farmers' adaptation to climate change in Southern Africa
  August 2007. Charles Nhemachena and Rashid Hassan. IFPRI Discussion Paper.
• How can African agriculture adapt to climate change?
  October 4, 2007. Comments by Claudia Ringler (MP3 - 2 min.)
  
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• Climate Change Threatens World's Farmers
  April 20, 2007. Comments by Mark Rosegrant (MP3 - 1.5 min.)
  
  Download: (MP3 1.0M)
• Climate Change Brochure
  
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See also, IFPRI work on bioenergy.