Abstract The International Food Policy Research Institute's International Model for Policy
Analysis of Agricultural Commodities and Trade (IMPACT) supports analysis of long-term …

The International Model for Policy Analysis of Agricultural Commodities and Trade (IMPACT)
was developed at IFPRI at the beginning of the 1990s to address a lack of long-term vision …

The challenge of agriculture in the 21st century requires a systemic integration of the
environmental, social and economic pillars of development to meet the needs of present …

The tight food markets and rising prices of 2005-2008 and today have been caused by vari
ous factors, such as rapid growth in demand for biofuels, bad weather, and increased …

The Agricultural Model Intercomparison and Improvement Project (AgMIP) is a major
international effort linking the climate, crop, and economic modeling communities with …

Recent studies assessing plausible futures for agricultural markets and global food security
have had contradictory outcomes. To advance our understanding of the sources of the …

Abstract Since 1990, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) has produced
five Assessment Reports (ARs), in which agriculture as the production of food for humans via …

Climate change is expected to significantly impact global food production, and it is important
to understand the potential geographic distribution of yield losses and the means to alleviate …

Crop modelling has the potential to contribute to global food and nutrition security. This
paper briefly examines the history of crop modelling by international crop research centres …

The Challenge The unimpeded growth of greenhouse gas emissions is raising the earth's
temperature. The consequences include melting glaciers, more precipitation, more and …