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New Program Aims to Mitigate Climate Threats to Food Security

A new multimillion dollar research program by the Consultative Group on International Agricultural Research aims to alleviate climate-related threats to the food security, livelihoods and environment of people living in the developing world. One of the key intellectual forces behind this initiative has been IRI scientist Jim Hansen. He'll be leading efforts within the program to look at how managing current climate risks will help farming communities adapt to longer term climate change.

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Tomorrow: State of the Planet 2010!
On March 25, State of the Planet 2010 will bring together the world's most influential and innovative thinkers and leaders in a wide range of fields--from many academic disciplines to media, government, policy and business spheres--to tackle critical issues facing the world. The one-day conference will focus on four important challenges: climate change, poverty, economic recovery and international systems. Speakers will include President Felipe Calderón Hinojosa of Mexico; UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon; Jeffrey D. Sachs, director of the Earth Institute; Matthew Bishop, American business editor and New York bureau chief at The Economist; and Hans Vestberg, president and CEO of Ericsson. For more information, visit stateoftheplanet.org


Upcoming events and seminars...

April 20-21, 2010. IRI Workshop on Impact Evaluation of Projects Addressing Global Environmental Change. The workshop will discuss approaches to evaluating impacts of programs that address global environmental change. The objective of impact evaluation is to learn which approaches to a given problem work well, how the approach should be redesigned under different conditions, and who benefits. view


IRI in the News...

Cambios en el área climática (El Pais). view

Farm aid from space (The Christian Science Monitor). view

East India heats up even as north-west cools heels (The Hindu Business Line). view

Bududa disaster: There is need to invest in conservation practices (Daily Monitor). view

Climate change will impact infectious diseases worldwide, but questions remain as to how
(Scientific American). view

What's with these snowstorms? Natural patterns, plus randomness (Christian Science Monitor). view

El Niño Should Slowly Fade through the Spring, Plus Storm Update (Accuweather.com). view

El Niño and Haiti (Beamreach Blog). view


Recent scientific publications...

Baroang, K. M., M. Hellmuth, and P. Block, 2009: Identifying uncertainty and defining risk in the context of the WWDR-4. Discussion Paper prepared for the United Nations World Water Assessment Program, Perugia, Italy.

Teka, H., A. Woyessa, D. Jima, and G. Mantilla, 2010: Report on Training of Health Professionals on Climate and Health. IRI Technical Report 10-01.


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