Channing Arndt heads the Environment and Production Technology Division (EPTD) at IFPRI. He has taken several leadership roles in major policy documents such as the Economics of Adaptation to Climate Change for the World Bank and the design of a carbon tax for the National Treasury of South Africa. His program of research has focused on agricultural development, poverty measurement, poverty alleviation and growth, market integration, nutrition, gender and discrimination, HIV/AIDS, technological change, trade policy, aid effectiveness, energy, bioenergy, climate variability, and the implications of climate change.