The IMPACT Team has been working on several modeling, publication, and engagement activities: 1) They have completed IMPACT 3.2 modeling and are working on IMPACT 3.3 and a new web tool. 2) Publications include papers on new crop varieties and climate change adaptation, IMPACT documentation updates, and collaborations with organizations on topics like efficient irrigation and biodiversity impacts. 3) Other engagement activities include policy work in several countries to inform climate adaptation, presentations in Central Asia, pest and disease modeling, and trainings on IMPACT modeling in various locations.

1. IMPACT Team Activities
Shahnila Islam

2. The IMPACT Team
Keith Wiebe
Sherman Robinson
Daniel Mason-D’Croz
Timothy Sulser
Shahnila Islam
Nicola Cenacchi
Gauthier Pitois
Tingju Zhu
Tim Thomas
Kimberlee Chang
Nicostrato Perez
Angga Pradesha
Ricky Robertson

3. Quick Review of Modeling Updates
• IMPACT 3.2 - Completed
• IMPACT 3.3 – Work in progress
• IMPACT Web Tool – Interface completed and handed over,
needs to be populated and finalized

4. Publications
• “New Crop Varieties and Climate Change Adaptation”
– IFPRI discussion paper
– Global Food Security journal article submission
• IMPACT Technical Documentation update
– Update of the 2012 documentation
– Paper on Cross Entropy for data cleaning process
• Contributing a chapter to the ReSAKKS Annual Trends and Outlook
Report (ATOR) – Used to inform the CAADP process
• Latin America Research Monograph
• Collaboration with the OECD
– “Modelling Adaptation to Climate Change in Agriculture” report
– “Better Drip than Flood: Reaping the Benefits of Efficient Irrigation” Euro
Choices Paper
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5. Publications continued…
• Collaboration with UNEP WCMC and University of Kassel
– “Impacts of future agricultural development on biodiversity at
regional scales: a spatially explicit assessment of trade-offs in
Uganda, Rwanda and Burundi” submitted to Regional Environmental
Change
– “Tradeoffs Between Food Security, Species Richness, and Nitrogen
Depletion”
• “Climate Change Impacts on Agriculture in 2050 under a Range
of Plausible Socioeconomic and Emissions Scenarios” AgMIP
Phase 2 Paper
• CCAFS Regional Scenarios
– Working Paper for most regions
– SEA paper on scenario building process

6. Publications continued…
• “The global and regional health impacts of future food
production under climate change” Lancet paper submission on
diet and health
• “Returns to investment in reducing Postharvest food losses and
increasing Ag productivity growth” Copenhagen Consensus
Assessment Report
• CSISA South Asia Paper – 11 technologies implemented
worldwide vs. in South Asia, using GFDL and HadGEM
• Lloyd’s scenarios on climate shocks: Multicrop shock(Wheat,
Maize, Soybeans), Individual Maize, Rice, and Wheat Shocks
• “Agriculture, Incomes, and Gender in Latin America by 2050”
IFPRI Discussion paper in collaboration with DSG Division

7. Other Engagement
• CCAFS Policy engagement in different countries
– Cambodia: Climate Change Priorities Action Plan of the Ministry of
Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries, which was finalized and signed in 2014
– Bangladesh: Down-scaled South Asia scenarios used by Bangladeshi
Planning Commission for 7th 5 Year Plan
– Honduras: Secretariat of Agriculture and Livestock to guide their Climate
Change adaption policy
• Policy engagement in Colombia resulting from interest in LEDS
project
• Argentina work to develop and compare scenarios using PE
modeling
• Central Asia work – IMPACT presentations in Almaty and Tashkent
• Pest and Disease work with University of Florida and AgMIP
• The importance of the IPR review to the AgMIP process
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8. • IMPACT 3 Trainings
– Washington DC
– Cali, Columbia
– Penang, Malaysia
– Moscow, Russia
• Crop Modeling
– Mink training in Hyderabad, India
Trainings