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With research staff from more than 60 countries, and offices across the globe, IFPRI provides research-based policy solutions to sustainably reduce poverty and end hunger and malnutrition in developing countries.

Carlo Azzarri

Carlo Azzarri is a Senior Research Fellow in the Innovation Policy and Scaling Unit. His work focuses on the relationships among poverty, nutrition, food security, agriculture, the environment, production, and migration—analyzed at both micro and macroeconomic levels, primarily using quantitative methods.

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Since 1975, IFPRI’s research has been informing policies and development programs to improve food security, nutrition, and livelihoods around the world.

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IFPRI currently has more than 600 employees working in over 80 countries with a wide range of local, national, and international partners.

Visioning the future of Food Security

Critical drivers to 2050, key vulnerabilities, and needed policy interventions

DC

2033 K St. NW

4th floor conference center

Washington, United States

January 18, 2017

  • 12:15 – 1:45 pm (America/New_York)
  • 6:15 – 7:45 pm (Europe/Amsterdam)
  • 10:45 – 12:15 am (Asia/Kolkata)

IFPRI Policy Seminar

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Food and nutrition security policies should be made with future eventualities in mind so that proper planning and investments can be made today. There are several approaches to generating “plausible futures.” Using both quantitative and qualitative methods, analysts perform “foresight” exercises to see how various paths to economic growth and development will affect poverty, hunger, climate change, and human welfare.

This seminar brings together representatives from different research initiatives to identify the most likely drivers of change in the environment and food security between now and 2050. Panelists will discuss large foresight initiatives—such as Agrimonde-Terra, co-led by two French agencies, and the EU-funded FoodSecure project—as well as the SIMPLE model developed by Purdue University, which provides insights into the key forces that determine both past and future trends in agricultural productivity, land use, and food security.

A Q&A and discussion will follow.