IFPRI Oxfam America Policy Roundtable: Food Security & the G2O -- presentation by Joseph Glauber on May 1, 2012

1. Food Security and the G20
Joseph W. Glauber, USDA
IFPRI-OXFAM America Policy Series
May 1, 2012

2. Declining real maize, wheat and
2005$/bu
soybean prices
Deflated by GDP implicit price deflator, 2005 = 100 (BEA 2011)

3. Historical Price Volatility
Percent
Source: Chicago Mercantile Exchange

4. G20 Action Plan of Food Price Volatility
Ag Market Information System
(AMIS)/Rapid Response Forum
Global Ag Geo-monitoring Initiative
(GEOGLAM)
Wheat Initiative
Tropical Ag Platform
Platform for Ag Risk Management

5. Sources of Growth in Crop Production to
Meet Global Food Needs by 2050 (percent)
Arable land Increases in Yield increases
expansion cropping intensity
All developing 21 8 71
countries
sub-Saharan Africa 25 6 69
Near East/N. Africa -7 17 90
Latin America/Carib 30 18 52
South Asia 5 8 87
East Asia 2 12 86
World 9 14 77
Source: Bruinsma (2009)

6. US agricultural output, input, and total factor
productivity (TFP) indexes
1948 = 100
Source: USDA, Economic Research Service

7. Trends in public and private food and agricultural
research spending in the United States
Billion 2006 US $
Source: Fuglie et al. 2011

8. From Heisey, Wang and Fuglie 2011

9. Enhancing Global Ag Research
Collaboration
Convene regular Meetings of Ag Chief
Scientists (MACS)
Goals:
– Identify global research priorities and targets
– Facilitate research collaboration by public and
private sector research organizations
– Track progress on established research goals
Work within appropriate existing
mechanisms (eg, GCARD, CGIAR, TAP,
GRA)

10. Potential Research Platforms
Open access to scholarly publications and
other technical documentation
Open access to germplasm collections
Open access to genomic and genetic data
Improving agricultural innovation systems
Improving agricultural statistics