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Abhijeet Mishra

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Abhijeet Mishra is an Associate Research Fellow in the Foresight and Policy Modeling Unit. His research interests include future sustainable pathways for the global land-use system and the trade-offs between land-based mitigation, food security, and other sustainable development goals. Before joining IFPRI, he worked in the land-use management group at the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (PIK), where he contributed to the development of a forestry sector in MAgPIE, an open-source partial equilibrium land-use model.

Abhijeet is an agricultural economist with a PhD from Humboldt University, Germany; a master’s degree in rural economics and management from Ghent University, Belgium; and a bachelor’s degree in agricultural marketing and cooperation from the University of Agricultural Sciences, Bangalore, India.

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Limiting deforestation involves complex tradeoffs: Results from a global land-use model

2024Mishra, Abhijeet; Jones, Eleanor
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Limiting deforestation involves complex tradeoffs: Results from a global land-use model

Forests are massive carbon sinks and biodiversity havens. The world’s forests store about 861 gigatons of carbon, 42% in live biomass and 44% in soil. Yet forest areas have been disappearing at an alarming rate: Globally, they have shrunk by 20% over the past 100 years, mostly due to expansion of agricultural lands. Given the urgency of reducing global CO2 emissions, world leaders at the 2021 COP26 Global Climate Conference in Glasgow made a non-binding declaration to halt and reverse forest loss and land degradation by 2030. This pledge, endorsed by 145 countries covering 91% of the world’s forests, was hailed as a significant step toward stopping global deforestation.

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2024

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Mishra, Abhijeet; Jones, Eleanor

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Mishra, Abhijeet; and Jones, Eleanor. 2024. Limiting deforestation involves complex tradeoffs: Results from a global land-use model. IFPRI Blog. First published online on September 13, 2024. https://www.ifpri.org/blog/limiting-deforestation-involves-complex-tradeoffs-results-from-a-global-land-use-model/. https://www.ifpri.org/blog/limiting-deforestation-involves-complex-tradeoffs-results-from-a-global-land-use-model/

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Forests; Carbon Sinks; Land Degradation; Agricultural Production

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English

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Open AccessCC-BY-4.0

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Foresight

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The International Model for Policy Analysis of Agricultural Commodities and Trade (IMPACT): Model documentation for version 3.6

2024
Robinson, Sherman; Dunston, Shahnila; Mishra, Abhijeet; Sulser, Timothy B.; Mason-D’Croz, Daniel; Robertson, Richard D.; Cenacchi, Nicola; Thomas, Timothy S.; Zhu, Tingju; Gueneau, Arthur
…more Pitois, Gauthier; Wiebe, Keith D.; Rosegrant, Mark W.
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The International Model for Policy Analysis of Agricultural Commodities and Trade (IMPACT): Model documentation for version 3.6

The International Food Policy Research Institute’s IMPACT model is a robust tool for analyzing global and regional challenges in food, agriculture, and natural resources. Continuously updated and refined, IMPACT version 3.6 is the latest update to the model for continuously improving the treatment of complex issues, including climate change, food security, and economic development. IMPACT 3.6 multimarket model integrates climate, crop simulation, and water models into a comprehensive system, providing decision-makers with a flexible platform to assess the potential impacts of various scenarios on biophysical systems, socioeconomic trends, technologies, and policies.

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2024

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Robinson, Sherman; Dunston, Shahnila; Mishra, Abhijeet; Sulser, Timothy B.; Mason-D’Croz, Daniel; Robertson, Richard D.; Cenacchi, Nicola; Thomas, Timothy S.; Zhu, Tingju; Gueneau, Arthur; Pitois, Gauthier; Wiebe, Keith D.; Rosegrant, Mark W.

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Robinson, Sherman; Dunston, Shahnila; Mishra, Abhijeet; Sulser, Timothy B.; Mason-D’Croz, Daniel; Robertson, Richard D.; Cenacchi, Nicola; et al. 2024. The International Model for Policy Analysis of Agricultural Commodities and Trade (IMPACT): Model documentation for version 3.6. Modeling Systems Technical Paper 1. Washington, DC: International Food Policy Research Institute. https://hdl.handle.net/10568/148953

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Agriculture; Commodities; Policy Analysis; Policy Innovation; Models

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English

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Open AccessCC-BY-4.0

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Foresight

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Assessing the individual and cumulative impacts of drivers in food systems transformation through a multi-model ensemble paradigm

2024
Sundiang, Marina; Oliveira, Thais Diniz; Mason-D’Croz, Daniel; Gibson, Matthew; Beier, Felicitas; Benavidez, Lauren; Chepeliev, Maksym; Doelman, Jonathan; Dunston, Shahnila; Fujimori, Shinichiro
…more Hasegawa, Tomoko; Havlik, Petr; Hristov, Jordan; Jägermeyr, Jonas; Kozicka, Marta; Kuiper, Marijke; de Lange, Thijs; Bodirsky, Benjamin Leon; Lotze-Campen, Hermann; Chen, David Meng-Chuen; Mishra, Abhijeet; Nelson, Gerald C.; Perez Dominguez, Ignacio; Popp, Alexander; Sands, Ronald; Springmann, Marco; Stehfest, Elke; Sulser, Timothy B.; Takahashi, Kiyoshi; Tassinari, Gianmaria; Thom, Ferike; Thornton, Philip K.; Tommey, Jake; Tsuchiya, Kazuaki; van Zeist, Willem-Jan; van Meijl, Hans; van der Mensbrugghe, Dominique; Van Vuuren, Detlef; Weindl, Isabelle; Wiebe, Keith D.; Herrero, Mario
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Assessing the individual and cumulative impacts of drivers in food systems transformation through a multi-model ensemble paradigm

The global food system faces a triple challenge: ensuring accessible healthy diets for all while promoting fair production, processing, and distribution, within safe planetary boundaries. Unfortunately, it significantly contributes to transgressing these boundaries. Intensified production driven by population growth depletes resources, exacerbates biodiversity loss, and worsens the climate crisis. Despite producing enough for 10 billion people, distribution remains uneven, leaving one in ten food insecure. Existing consumption patterns reinforce this imbalance. Failure to act risks exacerbating food inequality, malnutrition, and crossing irreversible tipping points. Leveraging global economic models, we find that a comprehensive approach combining productivity gains and diet shifts maximizes environmental benefits. Implementing these interventions together can meet agricultural demands without further land conversion or increased emissions. Combining this with climate change mitigation and land-use regulations maximizes environmental benefits and offsets food affordability challenges associated with ambitious mitigation efforts.

Year published

2024

Authors

Sundiang, Marina; Oliveira, Thais Diniz; Mason-D’Croz, Daniel; Gibson, Matthew; Beier, Felicitas; Benavidez, Lauren; Chepeliev, Maksym; Doelman, Jonathan; Dunston, Shahnila; Fujimori, Shinichiro; Hasegawa, Tomoko; Havlik, Petr; Hristov, Jordan; Jägermeyr, Jonas; Kozicka, Marta; Kuiper, Marijke; de Lange, Thijs; Bodirsky, Benjamin Leon; Lotze-Campen, Hermann; Chen, David Meng-Chuen; Mishra, Abhijeet; Nelson, Gerald C.; Perez Dominguez, Ignacio; Popp, Alexander; Sands, Ronald; Springmann, Marco; Stehfest, Elke; Sulser, Timothy B.; Takahashi, Kiyoshi; Tassinari, Gianmaria; Thom, Ferike; Thornton, Philip K.; Tommey, Jake; Tsuchiya, Kazuaki; van Zeist, Willem-Jan; van Meijl, Hans; van der Mensbrugghe, Dominique; Van Vuuren, Detlef; Weindl, Isabelle; Wiebe, Keith D.; Herrero, Mario

Citation

Sundiang, Marina; Oliveira, Thais Diniz; Mason-D’Croz, Daniel; Gibson, Matthew; Beier, Felicitas; et al. 2024. Assessing the individual and cumulative impacts of drivers in food systems transformation through a multi-model ensemble paradigm. Presented during the 27th Annual Conference on Global Economic Analysis at Fort Collins in Colorado, USA. https://www.gtap.agecon.purdue.edu/resources/res_display.asp?RecordID=7330

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Food Systems; Models; Globalization; Climate Change

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English

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Limiting deforestation involves complex tradeoffs: Results from a global land-use model
IFPRI Blog
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September 13, 2024

Limiting deforestation involves complex tradeoffs: Results from a global land-use model

By Abhijeet Mishra and Eleanor Jones

Many dimensions of combating climate change.

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32nd International Conference of Agricultural Economists
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August 2 to 7, 2024

32nd International Conference of Agricultural Economists

The triennial International Conference of Agricultural Economists (ICAE-2024), centred on the theme “Transformation Towards Sustainable Agri-Food Systems” is scheduled from August 2-7, 2024, in New Delhi, India. The conference offers a distinctive platform, providing a golden opportunity for the agricultural academic institutions and researchers to convene in person, exchange knowledge, and actively contribute to the […]