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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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What does climate change mean for the future of agriculture? Insights from the IMPACT modeling system

Co-organized by IFPRI and the CGIAR Initiative on Foresight
Webinar Series – IFPRI Modeling Systems: Informing Future Pathways and Priorities for Agrifood Systems

Webinar

May 15, 2024

  • 10:00 – 11:00 am (America/New_York)
  • 4:00 – 5:00 pm (Europe/Amsterdam)
  • 7:30 – 8:30 pm (Asia/Kolkata)

Climate change is one of the biggest and most complex challenges facing agrifood systems. Understanding its potential impacts and identifying possible solutions requires understanding how biophysical and socioeconomic processes interact in multiple locations over time. The global IMPACT modeling system links climate, crop, water, and economic models to explore alternative futures for food and agriculture, is a widely used tool that can help with the challenge of assessing the global agrifood system. IMPACT helps us explore these interactions and identify hotspots of particular concern, how market interactions across regions and commodity sectors may reduce or amplify these effects, and how changes in policy, investment and behavior can help address these challenges. This webinar, the first in our series, will focus on how IMPACT can be used to analyze how climate impacts on agrifood systems (and particularly crop productivity) may vary both across locations and over time in the coming decades, and how that can inform decisions about policies and investment today.

Opening Remarks

  • Aditi Mukherji, Director, Climate Change Adaptation and Mitigation Impact Action Platform, CGIAR

Presentation “Exploring climate change and its impacts on agriculture, with examples from Eastern and Southern Africa.”

  • Timothy Thomas, Senior Research Fellow, Foresight and Policy Modeling Unit, IFPRI
  • Faaiqa Hartley, Scientist, Foresight and Policy Modeling Unit, IFPRI

User Perspective

  • Inga Jacobs-Mata,  Director of Water, Growth and Inclusion, International Water Management Institute (IWMI); Lead of the CGIAR Regional Integrated Initiative for East and Southern Africa, Ukama Ustawi

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