The first decade of the 21st century has seen several harbingers of a troubled future for global food security. The food price spike of 2008, with its consequent food riots and resulting political changes in several countries, awoke the world’s leaders to the re-emergence of this threat to human ...
Nelson, Gerald C.
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Rosegrant, Mark W.
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Palazzo, Amanda
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Gray I
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Ingersoll C
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Robertson, Richard D.
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Tokgoz S
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Zhu, T.
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Sulser TB
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Ringler, Claudia
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Msangi S
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You, Liangzhi
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[Food security, farming, and climate change to 2050: Scenarios, results, policy options]
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Food security, farming, and climate change to 2050: Scenarios, results, policy options
Climate change has many facets, including changes in long-term trends in temperature and rainfall regimes with increasing year-to-year variability and a greater prevalence of extreme events. The effects of these changing conditions on agriculture are already being seen, yet there are still consid...
Wassmann, Reiner
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Nelson, Gerald C.
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Peng SB
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Sumfleth K
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Jagadish, Krishna S.V.
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Hosen Y
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Rosegrant, Mark W.
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[Rice and global climate change]
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Rice and global climate change
Fraiture, Charlotte de
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Cai, X
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Amarasinghe, Upali A.
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Rosegrant, Mark W.
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David, S.
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[Does international cereal trade save water?: the impact of virtual water trade on global water use]
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Does international cereal trade save water?: the impact of virtual water trade on global water use
This study assesses the economywide impact of promoting renewable power generation by targeting a 50 percent share of renewables in energy production by 2040. Using a novel approach by linking a bottom-up energy model with a top-down economywide model, we found that increasing the share of renewa...
Pradesha, Angga
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Robinson, Sherman
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Mondal, Md. Hossain Alam
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Valmonte-Santos, Rowena A.
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Rosegrant, Mark W.
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[Green growth strategy: The economywide impact of promoting renewable power generation in the Philippines]
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Green growth strategy: The economywide impact of promoting renewable power generation in the Philippines
Achieving and maintaining global food security is challenged by changes in population, income, and climate, among other drivers. Assessing these challenges and possible solutions over the coming decades requires a rigorous multidisciplinary approach. To answer this challenge, the International Fo...
Robinson, S.
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Mason-D'Croz, Daniel
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Islan, S.
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Cenacchi, N.
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Creamer, Bernardo
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Gueneau, A.
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Hareau, G.
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Kleinwechter, U.
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Mottaleb, K.
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Nedumaran, S.
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Robertson, R.
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Rosegrant, Mark W.
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Sika, G.
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Sulser, T.B.
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Wiebe, K.
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[Climate change adaptation in agriculture: Ex ante analysis of promising and alternative crop technologies using DSSAT and IMPACT]
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Climate change adaptation in agriculture: Ex ante analysis of promising and alternative crop technologies using DSSAT and IMPACT
For most countries, high productivity growth in the agricultural sector has been a key driver of structural transformation promoting long-term economic growth. Historically, low agricultural productivity growth has hindered economic growth and employment creation in the Philippines, where agricul...
Rosegrant, Mark W.
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Pérez, Nicostrato D.
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Pradesha, Angga
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Thomas, Timothy S.
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[The economywide impacts of climate change on Philippine agriculture]
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The economywide impacts of climate change on Philippine agriculture
Paper by IFPRI Director General Per Pinstrup-Andersen, Rajul Pandya-Lorch, and Mark Rosegrant presenting IFPRI's assessment of prospects for global food security to the year 2020, its analysis of trends and developments relating to food supply and demand, and their likely consequences and implica...
International Food Policy Research Institute
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Pinstrup-Andersen, Per
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Pandya-Lorch, Rajul
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Rosegrant, Mark W.
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[The World Food Situation: Recent Developments, Emerging Issues, and Long-Term Prospects]
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The World Food Situation: Recent Developments, Emerging Issues, and Long-Term Prospects
Little empirical evidence on economic value of biological control of pests at farm level is available to improve economic decision-making by farmers and policy makers. Using insect sampling and household survey in an integrated bio-economic analysis framework, this paper studies farmers' crop man...
Huang, Jikun
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Zhou, Ke
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Zhang, Wei
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Deng, Xiangzheng
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Werf, Wopke van der
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Lu, Yanhui
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Wu, Kongming
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Rosegrant, Mark W.
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[Uncovering the economic value of natural enemies and true costs of chemical insecticides to cotton farmers in China]
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Uncovering the economic value of natural enemies and true costs of chemical insecticides to cotton farmers in China
Scott, Gregory J.
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Best, R.
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Rosegrant, Mark W.
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Bokanga, M.
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[Roots and tubers in the global food system: a vision statement to the year 2020]
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Roots and tubers in the global food system: a vision statement to the year 2020
Overview by IFPRI provided to CGIAR International Centers Week every two years. This document, which fit the context of the IFPRI 2020 Vision, was published by IFPRI as a Food Policy Report, and was the basis of a presentation by Per Pinstrup-Andersen to the CGIAR meeting in October 1999. The IFP...
Pinstrup-Andersen, Per
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Pandya-Lorch, Rajul
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Rosegrant, Mark W.
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[World Food Prospects: Critical Issues for the Early Twenty-First Century]
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World Food Prospects: Critical Issues for the Early Twenty-First Century