IFPRI research on the impact of climate change will be part of the CGIAR Mega Program 7 (MP7), which focuses on four themes -- Theme 1: Adaptation to Progressive Climate Change; Theme 2: Adaptation Pathways for Current Climate Risk; Theme 3: Pro-poor Climate Change Mitigation; and Theme 4: Integration for Decision Making. The MP7 research activities will aim to identify pro-poor adaptation and mitigation practices, technologies and policies for food systems, adaptive capacity and rural livelihoods, and to provide diagnosis and analysis that will ensure the inclusion of agriculture in climate change policies, from the sub-national to the global level in a way that brings to the rural poor. IFPRI research activities in relation to MP7 will include evaluation of socioeconomic impacts of improved crops adopted in Sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia, and developing sets of tools, methods, and guidelines in climate change mitigation and adaptation. These tools and guidelines will impact land use management practices on poverty and sustainability by enhancing the role of genetic resource management in building the resilience of producers to abiotic and biotic constraints.

Alignment to CGIAR Priorities: Priority 5A—Science and technology policies and institutions.

Colombia, India, Peru

Applied research is being carried out in Asia, Africa, and Latin America with the aim of strengthening the capacity of country-program partners to analyze and address policy issues related to improving access to markets for agricultural commodities, climate mitigation, and other environmental services for poverty alleviation. IFPRI and its partners will identify, test, and evaluate innovative policy, institutional and program solutions for improved access to market opportunities. Stronger capacity of country programs in addressing policy issues on markets of high-value commodities, climate mitigation, and other environmental services will improve the livelihood of rural populations. Governance factors from the perspective of different value-chain actors will be assessed to come up with promising interventions.

Alignment to CGIAR Priorities: Priority 5B—Making international and domestic markets work for the poor; and Priority 5C—Rural institutions and their governance.

Ghana, Morocco, Mozambique, Vietnam

Improved policies and strategies on adaptation to climate change, with better targeted food system will help rural households become less vulnerable to climate change. This will be made possible through the BMZ/GTZ-funded project on Strategies for Adapting to Climate Change in Rural Sub-Saharan Africa. This project provides regional organizations, policymakers, and farmers in Sub-Saharan Africa with tools to identify and implement appropriate adaptation strategies. It sets alternative global change scenarios, based on projected changes in climate, land use, socioeconomic factors, and alternative policies. The research will also include typology of production systems that integrates biophysical and socioeconomic factors, including intensity of production, land use, cropping/livestock systems, and household-level impact and response matrix by production system under the alternative global change scenario.

Alignment to CGIAR Priorities: Priority 5D—Improving research and development options to reduce rural poverty and vulnerability.

Germany, Uganda, South Africa