Food and Nutrition Security in

2050: Some lessons from the

Foodsecure project

David Laborde Debucquet

IFPRI Policy Seminar, Jan 18 2017Visioning the future of Food SecurityCritical drivers to 2050, key vulnerabilities, and needed policy interventions

This project has received funding from the European Union’s Seventh Framework Programme for research, technological development and demonstration under grant agreement no. 290693

• Interactive process• Overcome the limits of the Shared Socioeconomic

Pathways (SSPs) scenarios from the Climate community• Quantifying Stakeholders vision

Analytical Framework

http://www3.lei.wur.nl/FoodSecurePublications/WP38_scenarios.pdf

Scenario building

(stakeholders)

Quantitative assessment

(economic models)

2050 FNS Analysis

Stakeholder Integrated Research

Features: Building scenarios

Storylines

Governance

Inequalities

Diets

Quantification

Population

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Yields

FOODSECURE stakeholder process

4 Foodsecure Scenarios

Illustrations

Population Yields

Modeling Framework

• The project toolbox used different simulation models from key institutions IFPRI, LEI-Wageningen Universtity, IIASA

• We use a specific version of the MIRAGRODEP Computable General Equilibrium for long term projections (from 2011 to 2050)

• Key features:– Endogenous behavior to match Stakeholders projections– Role of macroeconomic drivers e.g. Current account and

real exchange rate– Role of inequalities

• Drivers (education, factor productivity)• Implications (savings, food demand)

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Conclusions

• Confronting stakeholders to rigorous assessment

• Role of Demographics

• Role of inequalities

• Understanding the drivers

• Beyond Agriculture: Role of Macroeconomics– Trade dimension http://www.ifpri.org/publication/macro

economics-agriculture-and-food-security-guide-policy-analysis-developing-countries