Agricultural modeling has become key to anticipating how climate variability and change will affect food production. In this Technical Dialogue, Dr. Cynthia Rosenzweig will present the current state and future of agricultural modeling and explain why it matters for global food systems and sustainability. She will pay particular attention to Latin America and the Caribbean and to AgMIP’s work in the region. AgMIP links climate, crop, and economic models to assess impacts at regional, national, and global scales. In the region, it has generated evidence for Nationally Determined Contributions (NDCs) and National Adaptation Plans (NAPs), and has worked with EUROCLIMA to adapt the BioMA modeling platform. The session will also explore specific areas of collaboration between AgMIP and FONTAGRO, such as integrating mitigation and adaptation, climate risk management, and nutrition.

• Cynthia Rosenzweig is a Senior Research Scientist at the NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies (GISS) and the Center for Climate Systems Research at the Columbia Climate School. At NASA GISS, she co-leads the Impacts Group, which studies how climate affects systems and sectors important to human well-being. She is co-founder and a member of the Executive Committee of AgMIP, a transdisciplinary network of more than 1,200 researchers from developed and developing countries. In 2019, she was a Coordinating Lead Author of the Food Security chapter of the IPCC Special Report on Climate Change and Land. In 2022, she received the World Food Prize, known as the “Nobel Prize for Food and Agriculture.”

Date and time: Friday, November 20, 2026, at 10:00 AM (Washington, D.C. time)

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