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. 

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The Three AgMIP Pillars

Next-Generation Knowledge, Data, and Tools

Coordinated Global and Regional Assessments

Modeling Sustainable Farming Systems

Next-Gen Knowledge, Data, and Tools

Agricultural data stewardship and advanced tools are needed to enable sustainable production that can meet future national and international food, fiber, and bioenergy needs

Coordinated Global and Regional Assessments

CGRA uses a multi-model, multi-scale, multi-disciplinary, and multi-method framework to explore adaptation, mitigation, food policy, and food security in the face of an uncertain future

Modeling Sustainable Farming Systems

Sustainable farming systems is about assessing water; land; climate extremes and carbon-smart economically viable agricultural practices in a changing world

News

DR. JONAS JÄGERMEYR FEATURED IN THE NEW YORK TIMES

Jul 29, 2024

A New York Times Opinion piece interviewed Dr. Jonas Jägermeyr and featured AgMIP crop modeling results. Dr. Jägermeyr discusses the “challenge of our generation” that our food system currently faces, including productivity and hunger, risks to ecosystems, nutritional deficiency, and climate change…

AgMIP-WHEAT WORKSHOP 2024 IN CHINA

July 17, 2024

The 2024 AgMIP-Wheat Workshop was held at China Agricultural University and included participants from 25 countries and 45 institutions. Key topics included strengthening future model simulation capabilities, organically integrating with artificial intelligence, and reducing uncertainties…

SYNERGOS-AgMIP INTRODUCTORY MEETING

June 3, 2024

AgMIP community members, including representatives from AgMIP’s Executive Committee, Leaders Forum, and Coordination Unit, participated in a hybrid meeting with staff members from Synergos, a global organization that empowers leaders to solve present and future issues in poverty…

RELEASE OF TWO VISION FOR ADAPTED CROPS AND SOILS (VACS) REPORTS

March 14, 2024

The Rockefeller Foundation released two reports that build the evidence base for investing in underutilized indigenous and traditional crops as a means of strengthening food and nutrition security and climate resilience in Africa. In collaboration with AgMIP…

Blog

NEW AgMIP PAPER SHOWS HOW FARMERS MAY BE MISLED BY THEIR EARLY CLIMATE CHANGE EXPERIENCE

April 15, 2024

A new paper looks at the experience of farmers as their yields change in a warming world, finding distinctive patterns of change for each regional system. Published by AgMIP Climate Team leader Alex Ruane and colleagues from AgMIP GGCMI this study utilizes the projections of climate change impacts…

ADDRESSING CLIMATE CHALLENGES IN THE NYC WATERSHED: WORKSHOP RECAP

March 11, 2024

A workshop for the launch of the project Addressing Climate Challenges to Agriculture and Water Quality in the NYC Watershed took place November 15-16, 2023 at the Catskill Watershed Corporation in Arkville, New York. A full workshop report will be available in the coming months

INTERNATIONAL COMMUNITY ON AI FOR AGRICULTURAL MODELING LAUNCHED IN WAGENINGEN

Feb 14, 2024

In a groundbreaking gathering in late January in Wageningen, experts and researchers from around the world celebrated the launch of the first-ever AgML workshop aimed at advancing the use of machine learning for agricultural modeling. This is the beginning of an important international collaboration…

VISION FOR ADAPTED CROPS AND SOILS (VACS): PHASE 2 WORKSHOP RECAP

Jan 17, 2024

The VACS Phase 2 Workshop took place November 28-29, 2023 at the Rockefeller Foundation Global Headquarters in New York City, U.S. Participants included stakeholders from all key project partners, and were mainly composed of African agricultural experts from across the continent…

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.