2degrees network

4:00 p.m. (BST) / 11:00 a.m. (EDT)
28th Sept. 2010

Agriculture and Climate Change working group

Gerald Nelson, Senior Research Fellow, International Food Policy Research Institute

Agriculture’s vulnerability to climate change will put millions of people in developing countries at greater risk of poverty, hunger, and malnutrition.

The report, Climate change: Impact on agriculture and costs of adaptation, provides projections for decreased crop yields, higher food prices, and increased child malnutrition by 2050, as compared to a scenario without climate change. It estimates that an additional US $7-8 billion per year must be invested to increase agricultural productivity to prevent these adverse effects and lays out a series of policy and program recommendations that will enable poor farmers to adapt to climate change. 

Gerald Nelson, Senior Research Fellow at the International Food Policy Research Institute will present findings from IFPRI's research into the impact of climate change on agriculture and quantifying costs of adaptation.  He will assess conclusions from the research and the necessary steps to implement them. 

For more information, please contact Izabela Stacewicz