JUL 21, 2022 - 6:30 TO 9:15AM EDT

IFPRI’s South Asia Regional Office (IFPRI-SAR) is organizing a hybrid launch event for this year’s Global Food Policy Report in New Delhi, India in collaboration with the Indian Council for Agricultural Research (ICAR) on July 21, 2022.

The 2022 Global Food Policy Report, IFPRI’s flagship report, highlights the urgency of accelerating innovation, reforming policies, resetting market incentives, and increasing financing for sustainable food systems transformation.

With climate change posing increasingly complex existential challenges to the South Asian region, there is an imperative for urgent action on climate change — both to achieve the major emissions reductions needed to limit global warming and to increase adaptive capacity and resilience.

Join India's discussion of IFPRI's 2022 GFPR to learn more about possible opportunities for accelerated action that could be considered in policy and investment decision-making for climate change adaptation, mitigation, and resilience.

Welcome Address

• Shahidur Rashid, Director for South Asia, IFPRI

Release of Global Food Policy Report 2022

Keynote: Global Food Policy Report 2022

• Channing Arndt, Director, Environment and Production Technology Division, IFPRI

GFPR 2022: Climate change and transforming food systems in South Asia

• Aditi Mukherji, Principal Researcher, International Water Management Institute (IWMI) and Coordinating Lead Author, IPCC AR6

Panel Discussion: Perspectives on Climate Change and Food Systems in India

• Bornali Bhandari, Senior Fellow, National Council of Applied Economic Research (NCAER)
• Sachin Chaturvedi, Director General, Research and Information System for Developing Countries (RIS)
• Ulac Demirag, Country Director – India & Head of South Asia Hub
  International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD)
• Purvi Mehta, Global Growth and Opportunities, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation
• Pramod Kumar Joshi, Secretary, National Academy of Agricultural Sciences (NAAS)

Remarks by Chairperson

• Trilochan Mohapatra, Secretary, DARE and Director General, ICAR

Remarks by Guest of Honor

• Jamal Uddin Ahmed, Director, Agriculture, Rural Development and SAARC Development Fund

Remarks by Chief Guest

• Ramesh Chand, Member, NITI Aayog, Government of India

Concluding Remarks

• Shahidur Rashid, Director for South Asia, IFPRI