This blog is cross-posted from by the IFPRI website and was written by Channing Arndt and Claudia Ringler. Cyclone Idai struck Beira, the fourth largest city in Mozambique, in mid-March with torrential rains and winds of more than 190 km per hour. It took days for the sheer size of the resulting disaster to be understood. >> Read more Source: Malawi Strategy Support Program
Climate Change in Egypt: from adaptation to mitigation of the causes of climate change
Othman Al-Sheikh, Ministry of Agriculture and Land Reclamation, Egypt
Climate change has become a matter of major concern at various levels in Egypt. Attention is now being paid to a range of scenarios associated with the rising levels of the Mediterranean Sea and the correlation between the sea-level-rise and the potential inundation of some coastal areas across the Delta of Egypt, as well as the prospective impact on agricultural productivity in quantitative and qualitative terms. Source: IFPRI Egypt Country Office
Climate Change Impacts on Crop Yields in Ethiopia
ESSP Working Paper 130, by Timothy Thomas, Paul Dorosh, and Richard Robertson. Abstract: We present results of model simulations of maize, wheat, and sorghum yields in Ethiopia through 2085. The analysis draws on climate outcomes from 32 global climate models and an agronomic crop model to estimate effects on the yields of these cereals of >> Read more Source: Ethiopia Strategy Support Program
Making Egypt’s power sector more diverse and sustainable
Alam Hossain Mondal and Claudia Ringler
In Egypt, like everywhere, growing energy demand is increasingly at odds with the urgent need to control carbon emissions.
Nationally, energy use is rising approximately 6.5 percent a year. To keep up, the government has promoted growth in production of natural gas and other conventional energy sources. As gas production has risen, the share of renewable energy sources in power generation has shrunk. This strategy raises concerns about the country’s finite gas reserves, and also throws Egypt off track in meeting the goals laid out in its sustainable development plan... Source: IFPRI Egypt Country Office
Healthy Diets to Combat Malnutrition and Climate Change: Shenggen Fan
Shenggen Fan The global food system faces major challenges and trends related to rapid urbanisation, changing diets, climate change, political uncertainties, and anti-globalization sentiments. At the same time, there has been growing recognition that, in addition to addressing multiple burdens of malnutrition, there is an increasing need to seek an environmentally sustainable food system in […] Source: IFPRI Bangladesh Country Office
