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Samuel Benin

Samuel Benin is the Acting Director for Africa in the Development Strategies and Governance Unit. He conducts research on national strategies and public investment for accelerating food systems transformation in Africa and provides analytical support to the African Union’s CAADP Biennial Review.

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Frank Place

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Frank Place is a Senior Advisor in the Director General’s Office. Until 2022, he was Director of the CGIAR Research Program on Policies, Institutions, and Markets (PIM). Before being appointed PIM Director, Frank served for four years as a Senior Research Fellow in the PIM Program Management Unit. His primary duties included coordination of impact assessment and leadership of the program’s cluster of work on technology adoption and impact. Before joining PIM, Dr. Place worked for the World Agroforestry Center (ICRAF) for 20 years, based in Nairobi, where his main research areas were adoption of agroforestry, land and tree tenure, and soil fertility management. Prior to ICRAF, Frank led a Land Tenure Center project based in Africa and worked at the World Bank headquarters in Washington, where he focused on property rights in agriculture. Frank Place received a PhD in Economics from the University of Wisconsin in 1988.

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Nurturing soil life through agroforestry: The roles of trees in the ecological intensification of agriculture

2023Barrios, Edmundo; Coe, Richard; Place, Frank; W. Sileshi, Gudeta; Sinclair, Fergus
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Nurturing soil life through agroforestry: The roles of trees in the ecological intensification of agriculture

Year published

2023

Authors

Barrios, Edmundo; Coe, Richard; Place, Frank; W. Sileshi, Gudeta; Sinclair, Fergus

Citation

Barrios, Edmundo; Coe, Richard; Place, Frank; W. Sileshi, Gudeta; and Sinclair, Fergus. 2023. Nurturing soil life through agroforestry: The roles of trees in the ecological intensification of agriculture. In Biological Approaches to Regenerative Soil Systems, eds. Norman Uphoff and Janice Thies. Part III: Strategies and Methods for Making Soil Systems More Regenerative and Resilient, Chapter 24.

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Plant Growth; Soil Resources; Agricultural Production; Trees; Agriculture; Soil Quality; Resilience

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English

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Limited Access

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https://doi.org/10.1201/9781003093718-27 Source record

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A decentralized approach to model national and global food and land use systems

2023
Mosnier, Aline; Javalera-Rincon, Valeria; Jones, Sarah K.; Andrew, Robbie; Bai, Zhaohai; Baker, Justin; Basnet, Shyam; Boer, Chavarro; Costa, Wanderson; Daloz, Anne Sophie
…more DeClerck, Fabrice A.J.; Díaz, Maria; Douzal, Clara; Howe Fan, Andrew Chiah; Fetzer, Ingo; Frank, Federico; González Abraham; Charlotte E.; Habiburrachman, A.H.F.; Immanuel, Gito; Harrison, Paula A.; Imanirareba, Dative; Jha, Chandan; Jin, Xinpeng; Ghosh, Ranjan Kumar; Leach, Nicholas; Lehtonen, Heikki; Lotze-Campen, Hermann; Sern Low, Wai; Marcos-Martinez, Raymundo; McCord, Gordon Carlos; Molla, Kiflu Gedefe; Monjeau, Adrian; Navarro Garcia, Javier; Neubauer, Rudolf; Obersteiner, Michael; Olguín, Marcela; Orduna Cabrera, Fernando; Pena, Andres; Pérez Guzmán, Katya; Potashnikov, Vladimir; Rämö, Janne; Ramos, Fernando M.; Rasche, Livia; Gallardo, René Reyes; Schmidt-Traub, Guido; Selomane, Odirilwe; Singh, Vartika; Smith, Alison; Soterroni, Aline C.; Sperling, Frank; Steinhauser, Jan; Stevanovic, Miodrag; Strokov, Anton; Thomson, Marcus; Oort, Bob van; Vittis, Yiorgos; Wade, Chris; Winarni, Nurul L.; Woldeyes, Firew Bekele; Wu, Grace C.; Zerriff, Hisham
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A decentralized approach to model national and global food and land use systems

The achievement of several sustainable development goals and the Paris Climate Agreement depends on rapid progress towards sustainable food and land systems in all countries. We have built a flexible, collaborative modeling framework to foster the development of national pathways by local research teams and their integration up to global scale. Local researchers independently customize national models to explore mid-century pathways of the food and land use system transformation in collaboration with stakeholders. An online platform connects the national models, iteratively balances global exports and imports, and aggregates results to the global level. Our results show that actions toward greater sustainability in countries could sum up to 1 Mha net forest gain per year, 950 Mha net gain in the land where natural processes predominate, and an increased CO2 sink of 3.7 GtCO2e yr−1 over the period 2020–2050 compared to current trends, while average food consumption per capita remains above the adequate food requirements in all countries. We show examples of how the global linkage impacts national results and how different assumptions in national pathways impact global results. This modeling setup acknowledges the broad heterogeneity of socio-ecological contexts and the fact that people who live in these different contexts should be empowered to design the future they want. But it also demonstrates to local decision-makers the interconnectedness of our food and land use system and the urgent need for more collaboration to converge local and global priorities.

Year published

2023

Authors

Mosnier, Aline; Javalera-Rincon, Valeria; Jones, Sarah K.; Andrew, Robbie; Bai, Zhaohai; Baker, Justin; Basnet, Shyam; Boer, Chavarro; Costa, Wanderson; Daloz, Anne Sophie; DeClerck, Fabrice A.J.; Díaz, Maria; Douzal, Clara; Howe Fan, Andrew Chiah; Fetzer, Ingo; Frank, Federico; González Abraham; Charlotte E.; Habiburrachman, A.H.F.; Immanuel, Gito; Harrison, Paula A.; Imanirareba, Dative; Jha, Chandan; Jin, Xinpeng; Ghosh, Ranjan Kumar; Leach, Nicholas; Lehtonen, Heikki; Lotze-Campen, Hermann; Sern Low, Wai; Marcos-Martinez, Raymundo; McCord, Gordon Carlos; Molla, Kiflu Gedefe; Monjeau, Adrian; Navarro Garcia, Javier; Neubauer, Rudolf; Obersteiner, Michael; Olguín, Marcela; Orduna Cabrera, Fernando; Pena, Andres; Pérez Guzmán, Katya; Potashnikov, Vladimir; Rämö, Janne; Ramos, Fernando M.; Rasche, Livia; Gallardo, René Reyes; Schmidt-Traub, Guido; Selomane, Odirilwe; Singh, Vartika; Smith, Alison; Soterroni, Aline C.; Sperling, Frank; Steinhauser, Jan; Stevanovic, Miodrag; Strokov, Anton; Thomson, Marcus; Oort, Bob van; Vittis, Yiorgos; Wade, Chris; Winarni, Nurul L.; Woldeyes, Firew Bekele; Wu, Grace C.; Zerriff, Hisham

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Mosnier, A.; Javalera-Rincon, V.; Jones, S.K.; Andrew, R.; Bai, Z.; Baker, J.; Basnet, S.; Boer, C.; Costa, W.; Daloz, A.S.; DeClerck, F.A.; Diaz, M.; Douzal, C.; Howe Fan, A.C.; Fetzer, I.; Frank, F.; Gonzalez-Abraham, C.E.; Habiburrachman, A.H.F.; Immanuel, G.; Harrison, P.A.; Imanirareba, D.; Jha, C.; Jin, X.; Ghosh, R.K.; Leach, N.; Lehtonen, H.; Lotze-Campen, H.; Sern Low, W.; Marcos-Martinez, R.; McCord, G.C.; Molla, K.G.; Monjeau, A.; Navarro-Garcia, J.; Neubauer, R.; Obersteiner, M.; Olguín, M.; Orduna-Cabrera, F.; Pena, A.; Pérez-Guzmán, K.; Potashnikov, V.; Rämö, J.; Ramos, F.M.; Rasche, L.; Gallardo, R.R.; Schmidt-Traub, G.; Selomane, O.; Singh, V.; Smith, A.l.; Soterroni, A.C.; Sperling, F.; Steinhauser, J.; Stevanovic, M.; Strokov, A.; Thomson, M.; van Oort, B.; Vittis, Y.; Wade, C.; Winarni, N.L.; Woldeyes, F.B.; Wu, G.C.; Zerriff, H. (2023) A decentralized approach to model national and global food and land use systems. Environmental Research Letters 18: 045001. 14 p. ISSN: 1748-9326

Keywords

Food Systems; Modelling; Biodiversity; Climate Change; Food Security; Participatory Approaches; Sistemas Alimentarios; Modelización; Biodiversidad; Fable

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English

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Open AccessCC-BY-4.0

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https://doi.org/10.1088/1748-9326/acc044 Source record

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Agroecology

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Journal Article

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Book Chapter

Sustaining natural resources in African agriculture: What have we learned in the past two decades?

2022Place, Frank M.
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Sustaining natural resources in African agriculture: What have we learned in the past two decades?

Calls for increased attention to natural resource management (NRM) in African agriculture have been around for many decades. They became more vocal around the turn of the century following decades of poor yield growth and emerging data showing concerns about land quality and productivity. In recent years, these intensified further with the specter of climate change and continuing rural population growth challenging agricultural systems on the continent. Researchers have responded to these challenges, advancing research frameworks and hypotheses, deploying more research tools, and conducting more studies. However, it is unclear that all this response has significantly advanced our state of knowledge on the extent and nature of land degradation in agricultural land, the particular practices that work in different socioeconomic contexts, and how best to induce their uptake by households facing different priorities and constraints. This chapter will motivate this conclusion and offer options for moving forward in some of these topical areas.

Year published

2022

Authors

Place, Frank M.

Citation

Place, Frank. 2022. Sustaining natural resources in African agriculture: What have we learned in the past two decades?. In Agricultural Development in Asia and Africa, eds. Jonna P. Estudillo, Yoko Kijima, Tetsushi Sonobe. Pp. 139-150. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-19-5542-6_11

Keywords

Africa; Resource Management; Rural Population; Natural Resources; Data; Households; Quality; Population Growth; Agriculture; Natural Resources Management; Land Quality; Productivity; Yields; Agricultural Systems; Land Degradation; Land; Climate Change

Language

English

Access/Licence

Open AccessCC-BY-4.0

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https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-19-5542-6_11 Source record

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Policies, Institutions, and Markets

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Book Chapter

Blogs

Lessons from IFPRI country programs on influencing policy decisions and strengthening capacity
Impact Assessment
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January 30, 2019

Lessons from IFPRI country programs on influencing policy decisions and strengthening capacity

By Frank Place and Peter Hazell

IFPRI's practice of establishing country offices helps to embed its researchers in national policymaking processes and has other important impacts, research shows.

World Environment Day 2016: The case for regenerating forests
IFPRI Blog
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June 03, 2016

World Environment Day 2016: The case for regenerating forests

By Frank Place

Challenges and opportunities for preserving and promoting the world's endangered forests

Events

Advancing Gender Equality through Agricultural and Environmental Research: Past, Present, and Future
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November 23, 2021, 9:00 – 10:15 am

Advancing Gender Equality through Agricultural and Environmental Research: Past, Present, and Future

Discussion of the history and wealth of gender knowledge that has been generated to date by CGIAR agricultural & environmental research. 

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Innovations in agricultural insurance: Lessons learnt about managing smallholder farmer risks
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October 26, 2021, 11:00 – 12:00 pm

Innovations in agricultural insurance: Lessons learnt about managing smallholder farmer risks

Virtual Event: OCT 26, 2021 – 11:00 AM to 12:00 PM EDT. This webinar will present an evaluation of how action oriented research on tools for improving smallholder farmers have spawned further interest by different sector actors. 

31st International Conference of Agricultural Economists (ICAE)
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August 17 to 31, 2021

31st International Conference of Agricultural Economists (ICAE)

Virtual Event: AUG 17, 2021 – 08:00 AM to AUG 31, 2021 08:00 PM EDT. IFPRI is participating in the 31st Conference of Agriculture Economists organized by the International Association of Agricultural Economists (IAAE).