AgMIP joins the Global Alliance for Climate-Smart Agriculture
Photo: C. Rosenzweig and C. Porter at Climate-Smart Agriculture meeting in Montpellier, France, March 2015. By Jenna Famular According to the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) agricultural systems must increase production 60 percent by 2050...
GEOGLAM and AgMIP Collaboration
By Jenna Famular The Agricultural Model Intercomparison and Improvement Project (AgMIP) and The Group on Earth Observation Global Agricultural Monitoring Initiative (GEOGLAM) recently initiated a collaboration to share methods, data, and outputs with a particular...
Agronomic Decision Making in the Face of Climate Change
Photo: Drought tolerant groundnut yields under various GCMs for RCP 8.5. Attributed to Kadiyala et al. "An integrated crop model and GIS decision support system for assisting agronomic decision making under climate change." By Jenna Famular A recent article “An...
Global Gridded Crop Model Intercomparison Phase 1 Paper Published
By Jenna Famular Evaluating global crop productivity is important in understanding the impacts of climate change and possible adaptation strategies. In 2012 and 2013 The Agricultural Model Intercomparison and Improvement Project (AgMIP) worked with the Inter-Sectoral...
Laying the Groundwork for the Next Generation of Agricultural System Models
By Shari Lifson Agricultural system models provide predictive and assessment capability to a wide range of decision-makers in the private and public sectors. However, despite extensive research to improve agricultural models, many of the models used today are the...