Research to Action for Resilient Agriculture Webinar Series
Partners:
We’re incredibly excited to invite you to join ATAI & DAISI for an upcoming webinar series, Research to Action for Resilient Agriculture, exploring evidence-based agricultural technologies and practices that promote climate resilience while supporting sustainable resource use. Small-scale farmers in low- and middle-income countries are critical to ensuring global food security, yet their welfare and livelihoods are extremely vulnerable to climate change impacts. Over three sessions, we will highlight innovative research, strategies, and programming that strengthen small-scale farmers’ climate resilience.
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Session 1: Leveraging Digital Technology to Address Weather-Based Risk
October 1: 9-10am PT | 12-1pm ET | 4-5pm GMT | 7-8pm EAT
Small-scale farmers are among the most vulnerable to climate change. Unpredictable climate events like droughts and floods threaten livelihoods where agriculture serves as the primary source of both food security and economic opportunity. The growth of digital technologies offers new opportunities to provide timely, tailored, and low-cost digital services to farmers. This session will explore how digital interventions can deliver genuine improvements in farmers’ lives, while advocating for rigorous measurement and evaluation strategies to understand what works, why it works, and who benefits from digital solutions.
Speakers:
Fiona Burlig
Assistant Professor, Harris School of Public Policy, University of Chicago
Berber Kramer
Senior Research Fellow, IFPRI
Tetyana Zelenska
Director of Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning, Digital Green
Session 2: Biofertilizers and Cold Storage: Climate-Resilient Technologies for Farmers
October 9: 9-10am PT | 12-1pm ET | 4-5pm GMT | 7-8pm EAT
Food supply chain activities produce nearly one-third of human-made greenhouse gas emissions, according to the Food and Agriculture Organization. Strategic investments in innovations and infrastructure can enable agrifood systems to transition from a major contributor of environmental harm to a pillar of climate-resilient, inclusive growth. Rigorous evidence is crucial to understand pathways and social impacts of these investments. This session will explore two climate-resilient investments that address, respectively, production and post-harvest stages: biofertilizers and cold storage.
Speakers:
Tavneet Suri
Professor of Applied Economics, MIT Sloan School of Management
Shweta Bhogale
Postdoc, J-PAL
Session 3: Balancing Small-Scale Irrigation Solutions with Sustainable Groundwater Use
October 23: 9-10am PT | 12-1pm ET | 4-5pm GMT | 7-8pm EAT
With freshwater supplies under increasing pressures, agrifood systems must adapt if they are to continue to support productive food systems. Despite this need for adaptation, small-scale farmers are often under-resourced and lack access to water-efficient technologies and, without proper pricing mechanisms, have little economic incentive to conserve groundwater. Drawing on rigorous research from Gujarat, India, where extensive groundwater extraction threatens water security, this webinar will explore one technological and one policy-oriented approach to balance small-scale irrigation with sustainable groundwater use.
Speakers:
Ram Fishman
Senior Lecturer, Tel Aviv University
Nick Hagerty
Assistant Professor, Department of Agricultural Economics and Economics, Montana State