Event Information

The Global Commission on Adaptation seeks to highlight the adaptation challenges confronting poor people, notably poor farmers whose livelihoods are fragile and dependent on the weather and launch a year of action to begin rising to meet this challenge. 

In this seminar, IFPRI researchers advance paths towards meeting the adaptation challenge by doing more, better, and new.

Introduction

• Neil Watkins, Deputy Director, Agricultural Development & Nutrition, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation

Speakers

• More R&D to increase agricultural productivity: Keith Wiebe, Senior Research Fellow, IFPRI
• Better risk management: Claudia Ringler, Senior Research Fellow, IFPRI
• Better at strengthening women’s and men's resilience: Elizabeth Bryan, Senior Scientist, IFPRI
• New innovations in agricultural extension and rural advisory services: Simrin Makhija, Senior Research Analyst, IFPRI
• New ideas on sustainable pest management: It takes a village: Wei Zhang, Senior Research Fellow, IFPRI
• Implications: Channing Arndt, Director, Environment and Production Technology Division, IFPRI 

Discussants

• Manish Bapna, Managing Director, World Resources Institute
• Simeon Ehui, Director, Sustainable Development, Africa, World Bank

Moderator

• Rajul Pandya-Lorch, Director, Communications and Public Affairs & Chief of Staff in the Director General's Office, IFPRI