Agricultural Model Intercomparison and Improvement Project
The AgMIP Mission is to significantly improve agricultural models, and scientific and technological capabilities, for assessing impacts of climate variability and change and other driving forces on agriculture, food security, and poverty at local to global scales.
News
CLIMATE WEEK 2020: FOOD AND CLIMATE CHANGE
Sep 16, 2020.
Cynthia Rosenzweig and colleagues will host Climate Week 2020 virtual event ‘Food and Climate Change’.
Register here.
COVID-19 IMPACT ON FOOD FARMERS
May 8, 2020.
Dr. S. Naresh Kumar (AgMIP Steering Council member) writes an article for the India International Times.
More here.
Blog
AgMIP8 VIRTUAL WEBSHOP RECAP
Nov 25, 2020.
The AgMIP8 Virtual Webshop took place from October 12 – 16th and showcased three themes central to AgMIP’s research and development – food systems, shocks, and actions. The free, virtual event had over 1000 registrants and encouraged involvement amongst those new to food systems as well as experts within agriculture and nutrition fields…
CLIMATE CHANGE RESPONSES BENEFIT FROM A GLOBAL FOOD SYSTEM APPROACH
Feb 18, 2020.
A paper released today by the journal Nature Food presents a new global food system approach to climate change research that brings together agricultural production, supply chains, and consumption. When these activities are considered together, they represent 21 to 37 percent of total human-caused greenhouse gas
emissions…
AgMIP BECOMES A GRA PARTNER
Oct 9, 2019.
The Global Research Alliance on Agricultural Greenhouse Gases (GRA) brings governments, research institutions, and other organizations together to find ways to grow more food (and more climate-resilient food systems) without increasing greenhouse gas emissions. It has 57 member countries from all regions of the world, and maintains partnerships with international and regional organizations…
FOOD SECURITY CHAPTER OF THE IPCC SPECIAL REPORT ON CLIMATE CHANGE AND LAND
Aug 20, 2019.
A new IPCC Special Report on climate change, desertification, land degradation, sustainable land management, food security, and greenhouse gas fluxes in terrestrial ecosystems, was released on August 8, 2019, in Geneva. Cynthia Rosenzweig, AgMIP Executive Committee Member, was a Coordinating Lead Author on the Food Security Chapter, together with Erik Mencos Contreras…
Research Approach
AgMIP research aims to substantially advance our understanding of model strengths, weaknesses, and uncertainty while also developing new approaches including data integration and transdisciplinary modeling frameworks…read more
Research Teams
Experts come together to advance crop studies, research methods, and other topics that are critical to understanding how agriculture and food systems will respond to climate and other factors now and in the future. Learn more about our 30+ teams.
Research Sites and Regions
Sites evaluated in AgMIP assessments, plotted with major agricultural area (gray shading). figure and description of AgMIP studies provided in Ruane et al. 2017.
