This virtual policy seminar held April 21, 2020, featuring presentations from Will Martin, Senior Research Fellow, IFPRI and Valeria Piñeiro, Senior Research Coordinator, IFPRI, with Leonardo Garrido, Lead Senior Economist, The New Climate Economy, World Resources Institute; Madhur Gautam, Lead Economist, World Bank Group; and Ann Tutwiler, Senior Fellow, Meridian Institute & Coordinator of the Policy Action Coalition to Repurpose Food and Agriculture Support as discussants and moderated by Rajul Pandya-Lorch, Director, Communications and Public Affairs, IFPRI.

Governments spend over $US 700 billion dollars per year on agricultural support measures such as subsidies, border price distortions and investments in raising productivity. Agriculture and land use change contribute close to a quarter of global greenhouse gas emissions policy makers have little information on the implications of agricultural support for emissions.

This seminar examines the links between agricultural support and emissions from agriculture to help guide policy reforms that lower emissions, reduce poverty and improve nutrition.

The underlying research was funded by FOLU, CGIAR Research Program on Policies, Institutions, and Markets (PIM) and the World Bank Group.

Related publication: Reforming agricultural support for improved environmental outcomes ( https://www.ifpri.org/publication/reforming-agricultural-support-improved-environmental-outcomes)

More on the seminar: https://www.ifpri.org/event/virtual-event-agricultural-support-reform-and-ghg-emissions

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