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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.
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Emily Schmidt is a Senior Research Fellow in the Development Strategies and Governance Unit. Her most recent research explores household livelihood strategies in Papua New Guinea, including linkages between agriculture, poverty, and nutrition outcomes among rural smallholder farmers.
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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.
Climate change poses unprecedented challenges to the world’s agrifood systems. Rising temperatures, changing rainfall patterns, and more frequent extreme weather events threaten agricultural production, as well as the biodiversity and ecosystem services that underpin agriculture. Climate change also affects all aspects of food value chains, including food processing, storage, transport, and retailing. At the same time, food systems generate one-third of the world’s greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, primarily in developing countries.
These growing climate risks impact food security, nutrition, and human health, as well as livelihoods. Because these impacts are not evenly distributed, climate change also contributes to growing inequalities by gender, socioeconomic status, and other characteristics. For farmers, climate change makes agriculture a riskier source of income, disrupts livelihoods, and contributes to hunger and malnutrition.
Current research
To help farmers adapt to climate change, increase or stabilize crop yields, increase carbon sinks and lower GHG emissions, IFPRI develops and uses research tools to support our partners in developing adaptation and mitigation strategies. Our global and country-level general and partial equilibrium models provide economywide outlooks or agrifood sector analysis on climate change scenarios and reveal how alternative policies, institutions, and investments to address climate change can benefit agriculture, food and nutrition security, and poor people. Our integrated land use and ecosystem services modeling analysis can explore ways to balance the economic and environmental performance of production across seasons and space, including crop area reallocation, increased fertilizer use efficiency, and others.
IFPRI researchers test a range of innovations for adaptation and mitigation, including through agricultural extension, social protection, clean energy use in irrigation and food value chains, and new tools for farmers to manage risk. This work is complemented by the Living Labs for People approach to low-emission food system development, building on the principles of co-production of knowledge, gender equality and social inclusion, and governance and institutional sustainability to advance existing and novel innovation processes.
IFPRI also works at the local, national, and global levels to help create an enabling environment for public and private investments in adaptation, resilience-building, and equitable low-emissions development. This includes work with communities on locally appropriate adaptations, with governments on strategic planning and investment, and with international organizations setting goals for climate change responses.
Crisis response will become even more important as climate change intensifies. Our work in this area addresses the need for better early warning systems and long-term responses that improve resilience. IFPRI’s work considers the importance of gender in responses to climate change and the need for women’s voices to be included in developing solutions. IFPRI also participates in the CGIAR Research Initiatives on Low-Emission Food Systems (Mitigate+), Gender Equality (HER+), and NEXUS Gains, which examine the linkages between water, energy, food, and ecosystems.
IFPRI’s climate change research is closely aligned with the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), including SDG 1, SDG 2, and SDG 13, and with the CGIAR Impact Areas on Climate Adaptation and Mitigation; Poverty Reduction, Livelihoods, and Jobs; and Gender Equality, Youth, and Social Inclusion.
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Director, Natural Resources and Resilience (NRR), Natural
Resources and Resilience
Director, Foresight and Policy Modeling (FPM), Foresight
and Policy Modeling
Senior Research Analyst, Foresight
and Policy Modeling
Associate Research Fellow, Foresight
and Policy Modeling, Latin America and the Caribbean
Senior Research Analyst, Markets,
Trade, and Institutions
Research Analyst, Development
Strategies and Governance
Research Analyst, Foresight
and Policy Modeling
Program Manager, Development
Strategies and Governance
Program Manager, Markets,
Trade, and Institutions
Nonresident Fellow, Development
Strategies and Governance
Nonresident Fellow, Development
Strategies and Governance
Senior Administrative Coordinator, Director
General's Office (DGO)