POLICY SEMINAR
The future of food and agriculture – Drivers and triggers for transformation
Co-organized by Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), IFPRI, and the CGIAR Research Initiative on Foresight
FEB 1, 2023 - 10:00 TO 11:15AM EST

A new report by the UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) on “The Future of Food and Agriculture: Drivers and Triggers for Transformation” aims to inspire strategic thinking and actions to transform agrifood systems toward a sustainable, resilient, and inclusive future.

The report analyses current and emerging drivers of agrifood systems and their possible future trends, including the issues at stake and the threats and problems facing future food production and consumption.

This policy seminar, co-organized by FAO, IFPRI, and the CGIAR Research Initiative on Foresight, offers an opportunity to hear from the report’s authors and engage with a group of panel discussants on challenges facing food and agriculture, foresight approaches to exploring alternative future pathways, and opportunities for food system transformation, with particular focus on the Americas.

Introductory Remarks
Maximo Torero, Chief Economist, Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO)

Presentation of the report
Lorenzo Giovanni Bellù, Senior Economist and Lead of the Policy Intelligence Branch – Global Perspectives, Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO)

Panel Discussion
Valeria Piñeiro, Acting Head of the Latin American region & Senior Research Coordinator, IFPRI
Joseph Glauber, Senior Research Fellow, IFPRI
Elisabetta Gotor, Principal Scientist and Program Leader, Performance, Innovation and Strategic Analysis for Impact, Alliance of Bioversity and CIAT
Keith Wiebe, Senior Research Fellow, IFPRI; Lead of the CGIAR Research Initiative on Foresight

Closing Remarks
Jocelyn Brown Hall, Director, FAO Liaison Office for North America
Charlotte Hebebrand, Director, Communications and Public Affairs, IFPRI

Moderator
Evgeniya Anisimova, Manager of Media and Digital Engagement, IFPRI

Links:
Food And Agriculture Organization (FAO): https://www.fao.org/home/en
CGIAR Research Initiative On Foresight: https://www.cgiar.org/initiative/foresight/
The Future Of Food And Agriculture – Drivers And Triggers For Transformation: https://www.fao.org/documents/card/en/c/cc0959en/

More about this seminar:  https://www.ifpri.org/event/future-food-and-agriculture-%E2%80%93-drivers-and-triggers-transformation

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The future of food and agriculture – Drivers and triggers for transformation

Introductory Remarks by Geraldo B. Martha Jr., Coordinator, Embrapa, Labex-USA
 
Successful agricultural transformations around the world provide critical lessons and offer insights into opportunities for other countries seeking to take this step forward.

 
At this special event, we will learn about Brazil’s agricultural transformation from Embrapa’s President, Maurício Lopes. IFPRI Director General Shenggen Fan will share insights from Asian countries, ERS Administrator Mary Bohman will review the experience of the United States, and Asia-Brazil Agro Alliance President Marcos Jank will discuss the role of the food industry in agricultural transformation.

IFPRI Special Event:  Transforming Agriculture - 5/15/2018 - GMartha

Speaker: Marcos Sawaya Jank, President, Asia-Brazil Agro Alliance and IFPRI Board member
 
Successful agricultural transformations around the world provide critical lessons and offer insights into opportunities for other countries seeking to take this step forward.
 
At this special event, we will learn about Brazil’s agricultural transformation from Embrapa’s President, Maurício Lopes. IFPRI Director General Shenggen Fan will share insights from Asian countries, ERS Administrator Mary Bohman will review the experience of the United States, and Asia-Brazil Agro Alliance President Marcos Jank will discuss the role of the food industry in agricultural transformation.

IFPRI Special Event:  Transforming Agriculture - 5/15/2018  - M.Jank

What happens when a child is malnourished? Can such a child ever “catch up” later in life? Why does urbanization and obesity seem to go hand in hand—and what does this mean for food production? We’ll explore big picture food system questions today on the Leading Voices in Food with our guest Dr. Shenggen Fan.

The Leading Voices in Food

Shenggen Fan on Hunger, Climate Change and the Hope of Innovation

Speaker: William A. Masters, Professor, Tufts University

Interventions and innovation can lower the price of individual foods, but healthy eating depends on access to a mix of foods from diverse sources. How has the overall cost of meeting dietary needs changed over time worldwide, and in Africa and South Asia specifically? What determines the cost of a healthy diet? And how does affordability affect dietary intake and health status in different locales?

To answer these questions, Changing Access to Nutritious Diets in Africa and South Asia (CANDASA) (https://sites.tufts.edu/candasa) has been using new food price indexes that account for food substitutions to meet nutritional needs to evaluate food systems all over the world, including in Ethiopia, Ghana, India, Malawi, and Tanzania.

This seminar will present the outcomes of CANDASA’s work to date, with a panel discussion featuring field researchers from each country to discuss the local and global implications of their results.

Research by Tufts and IFPRI on this topic is supported by UKAid and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.

IFPRI Policy Seminar:  What is the Cost of a Healthy Diet? - 5/29/2019 - WMasters

The International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) provides research-based policy solutions to sustainably reduce poverty and end hunger and malnutrition in developing countries. Established in 1975, IFPRI currently has more than 600 employees working in over 50 countries. It is a research center of CGIAR, a worldwide partnership engaged in agricultural research for development.

The future of food and agriculture – Drivers and triggers for transformation

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