Ag Adaptation to Climate Change

International Food Policy Research Institute Seminar

Agricultural Adaptation to Climate Change in the Developing World: What will it Cost?

Monday, October 5, 2009

12:15 – 1:45 P.M.

A light lunch will begin at 11:45 a.m.

2033 K Street, NW 4th floor(entrance to IFPRI on 21st street between K and L streets)

Speaker: Gerald Nelson, Senior Research Fellow, IFPRI

Commentator: David Waskow, Director, Climate Change Program, Oxfam America

Chair: Mark Rosegrant, Division Director, IFPRI

Agriculture’s vulnerability to climate change will put millions of people in developing countries at greater risk of poverty, hunger, and malnutrition. A new report from the International Food Policy Research Institute, Quantifying the Costs of Agricultural Adaptation to Climate Change, 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. This seminar will present the results of the report, with commentators assessing its conclusions and the necessary steps to implement them.

Kindly RSVP to Simone Hill-Lee (Tel: 202.862.8107; s.hill-lee@cgiar.org).