LEADING BRICS+SCIENTISTS

RECOMMEND A UNFCCCWORK PROGRAMME ON AGRICULTURE

BACKGROUND• International research conference on food

security and climate change

– Beijing, 7-8 November 2011 (http://icccfs.ifpri.info)

• Research reports by leading national scientists from the BRICS countries + Indonesia/US on food security and climate change challenges

• Research needed identified as part of the reports and conference exchanges

RECOMMENDATIONS• 2 Categories

– Strengthen agricultural research in 12 areas

– Improve availability/accessibility of spatial data

• Request UNFCCC delegates in Durban to create an agricultural work program to

– Catalyze needed research

– Provide central venue for research findings

STRENGTHENAGRICULUTRE RESEARCH

1. PEST & DISEASES PRESSURE

2. SOIL ECOSYSTEMS

3. RUMINANT AGRICULTURE

4. IRRIGATION

STRUCTURE & EFFICIENCY

5. PERENNIAL CROPS

6. GRAIN QUALITY

7. STORAGE TO

REDUCE LOSES

8. BIOTECHNOLOGY

9. LAND USE

10. INTERNATIONAL TRADE

11. INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY

12. HUMAN CAPITAL

DEVELOPMENT

INCREASEAVAILABILITY OF

SPATIAL DATA

ENDORSMENTSScientists from the following countries:• BRAZIL: Elisio Contini and Geraldo Martha, (EMBRAPA)

• RUSSIAN FEDERATION: Sergey Kiselev & Roman Romashkin, LomonosovMoscow State University

• INDIA: PK Joshi, IFPRI New Delhi, and Deepak Shah, Gokhle Institute of Political Economy

• CHINA: Huajun Tang & Liming Ye, CAAS, and Kevin Chen, IFPRI Beijing

• SOUTH AFRICA: Bob Scholes, Council for Scientific and Industrial ResearchandSikhalazo Dube, Agricultural Research Council

• INDONESIA: Endah Murniningtyas, Nono Rusono, Setyawati, & Jarot Indarto, National Development Planning Agency (BAPPENAS),

• USA: Eugene Takle, Iowa State University, Roger Beachy, Donald Danforth Plant Science Center, David Gustafson, Monsanto, and Gerald Nelson, IFPRI