Collins, Julia

Cenacchi, Nicola

Rosegrant, Mark W.

Joshi, Pramod Kumar

Hoddinott, John F.

Breisinger, Clemens

Kishore, Avinash

Makombe, Tsitsi

Torero, Maximo

Ecker, Olivier

Al-Riffai, Perrihan

Stads, Gert-Jan

Koo, Jawoo

Robertson, Richard

Ringler, Claudia

Fan, Shenggen

Polman, Paul

Fisher, Myles

Cox, Cindy

Perez, Nicostrato

Garrett, Karen

Beintema, Nienke

Gillespie, Stuart

Badiane, Ousmane

Saade, Maurice

Akramov, Kamiljon

Cohen-Cline, Noah

Chen, Kevin

Timmer, Peter

Díaz-Bonilla, Eugenio

This 2013 Global Food Policy Report is the third in an annual series that provides an in-depth look at major food policy developments and events. Initiated in response to resurgent interest in food and nutrition security, the series offers a yearly overview of the food policy developments that have contributed to or hindered progress in achieving food and nutrition security. It reviews what happened in food policy and why, examines key challenges and opportunities, shares new evidence and knowledge, and highlights emerging issues.

2013 Global Food Policy Report

Sulser, Timothy

Nelson, Gerald C.

Zhu, Tingju

Msangi, Siwa

Palazzo, Amanda

Batka, Miroslav

Magalhaes, Marilia

Valmonte-Santos, Rowena

Ewing, Mandy

Lee, David

This Food Policy Report presents research results that quantify the climate-change impacts mentioned above, assesses the consequences for food security, and estimates the investments that would offset the negative consequences for human well-being.

Impact on Agriculture and Costs of Adaptation

Climate Change

Christopher L. Delgado

Steinfeld, Henning

Ehui, Simeon K.

Courbois, Claude

The livestock revolution; Recent transformation of livestock food demand; Accompanying transformation of livestock supply; Projections of future demand and supply to 2020; Implications of the livestock revolution for world trade and food prices; Nutrition, food security, and poverty alleviation; Environmental sustainability; Public health; Technology needs and prospects; Taking stock and moving forward.

The Next Food Revolution

Livestock to 2020

Wiebe, Keith D.

Dunston, Shahnila

Nin-Pratt, Alejandro

Mason-D’Croz, Daniel

Robertson, Richard D.

Willenbockel, Dirk

This report assesses the cost of adaptation to climate change across a range of future climate scenarios and investment options. We focus on offsetting climate change impacts on hunger through investment in agricultural research, water management, and rural infrastructure in developing countries. We link climate, crop, water, and economic models to (1) analyze scenarios of future change in the agriculture sector to 2050 and (2) assess trade-offs for these investments across key Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) for poverty, hunger, and water. Our reference projections show that climate change slows progress toward eliminating hunger, with an additional 78 million people facing chronic hunger in 2050 relative to a no-climate-change future, over half of them in Africa south of the Sahara. Increased investments can offset these impacts. Achieving this would require that annual investment in international agricultural research increase from US$1.62 billion to US$2.77 billion per year between 2015 and 2050. Additional water and infrastructure investments are estimated to be more expensive than agricultural R&D at about US$12.7 billion and US$10.8 billion per year, respectively, but these address key gaps to support transformation toward food system resiliency. Findings on ranges of costs and trade-offs and complementarities across SDGs will help policymakers make better-informed choices between alternative investment strategies.

Climate change and hunger: Estimating costs of adaptation in the agrifood system

Rosegrant, Mark W.

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