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SOUTHERN AFRICA LIVESTOCK TEAM VIDEO
Dec 17, 2014.
This video is produced for the Biosphere Defense Project, hosted by the International Institute of Climate Action and Theory (IICAT) at the University of California. It features footage of interviews with researchers from the CLIP (Crop Livestock Intensification Project) team of the Agricultural Model Intercomparison and Improvement Project (agmip.org). The video explores issues related to climate...
SOUTHERN AFRICA STAKEHOLDERS MEET WITH AgMIP RESEARCHERS
Nov 18, 2014.
Two recent stakeholder meetings in Pretoria, and Malawi were held by AgMIP Southern Africa teams to engage local stakeholders and inform them about research being conducted in Southern Africa. Local stakeholders, such as decision- and policy-makers, are the end-users of AgMIP research outputs as they seek to form…
AgMIP AT THE ASA INTERNATIONAL ANNUAL MEETING
Oct 8, 2014.
The American Society of Agronomy (ASA), Crop Science Society of America (CCSA), and Soil Science Society of America (SSSA) will host more than 4,000 scientists, professionals, educators, and students at the 2014 International Annual Meetings, “Grand Challenges – Great Solutions,”…
NEW IFPRI WEBSITE FEATURES CLIMATE CHANGE & FOOD POLICY
Aug 17, 2015.
The International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) has launched a new website dedicated to climate change and food policy research and impacts. The website covers news, event updates, project profiles, and shares related materials from across their climate change research portfolio, including results from the CGIAR Research Program on Climate Change, Agriculture and Food Security (CCAFS) and AgMIP...
AgMIP RESPONDS TO PRESIDENT'S CLIMATE DATA CALL TO ACTION
Jul 29, 2014.
Today at the White House the Obama Administration invited leaders of technology and agricultural sectors to announce new public-private partnerships in order to advance the President’s Climate Data Initiative. AgMIP is pleased to announce its collaboration in several of these initiatives…
NEW PAPER REVIEWS SIMULATIONS OF HOUSEHOLD MODELS
Jul 28, 2014.
Can current farm household models accurately simulate food security driven by climate change? There has been considerable effort in the last 44 years by researchers to model climate change impacts on farm households, but relatively little attention have been paid to food security. Food security includes many components and modeling…
AgMIP - CCAFS TEAM UP TO INVESTIGATE INDEX INSURANCE IN SENEGAL
Jul 9, 2014.
A joint CGIAR Research Program on Climate Change, Agriculture and Food Security (CCAFS) and Agricultural Model Intercomparison and Improvement Project (AgMIP) meeting was held June 3-4 to kick off a USAID-CIAT (International Center for Tropical Agriculture) funded study “Increasing Productivity and Livelihoods…
GLOBAL ECONOMICS CLIMATE SCENARIO WORKSHOP: FAO, ROME, ITALY, JUNE 23-24, 2014
Jun 13, 2014.
Five global economic modeling groups met June 23-24, 2014 at FAO headquarters in Rome to discuss preliminary results of a harmonized analysis of climate change impacts on agriculture and food security in 2050. The participating modeling groups, all members of the AgMIP Global Economics team, are from the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI), the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (PIK), the Food and Agriculture....
ARE INCREASING LEVELS OF CO2 CAUSING HIDDEN HUNGER?
Jun 25, 2014.
According to a recent commentary “Food Security: Fertilizing hidden hunger” by Müller C. and others published in Nature Climate Change, CO2 fertilization and climate change will likely exacerbate macro and micro-nutrients deficiency in crops, jeopardizing one of the most important…
SOILS DATA WORKSHOP FOCUSES ON ASSESSMENTS IN AFRICA
Jun 13, 2014.
Crop models have been extensively tested for yields, but their validation for soil water balance, and carbon and nitrogen cycling in agricultural systems has been limited. In order to improve the use of soil data in assessments of climate change impacts on agriculture, the Agricultural Modeling Intercomparison and Improvement Project (AgMIP) and Columbia University’s Center for Climate…
MAIZE MODEL COMPARED IN NEW PAPER
Jun 12, 2014.
Our climate is changing and crop simulation models can project how climatic factors will affect food production in the coming decades, and what adaptations in farmers’ fields could stabilize global food security. Crop models are computer tools used in combination with present scientific knowledge to project yields under future climate. A recent publication…
NEW INNOVATION FOR THE USE OF SITE-SPECIFIC DATA
May 5, 2014.
Recently several studies by AgMIP researchers have been released that highlight the development of improved methods for the use and management of site-specific data for agricultural research. Site-specific data consists of more detailed information about local environmental and economic variables that could impact production. By using site-specific data researchers will be able to create more accurate predictions…
SOUTHERN AFRICA AgMIP MODELS ADAPTATION
Apr 29, 2014.
The Southern Africa AgMIP research team publishes popular article titled “Climate change adaptation: How will we feed people in 2050?” Last week the Southern Africa AgMIP research team published a popular article titled “Climate change adaptation: How will we feed people in 2050?” in the electronic journal Water Wheel…
CYNTHIA ROSENZWEIG ON THE ROAD FOR AgMIP
Apr 16, 2014.
Over the last year, AgMIP Principal Investigator, Cynthia Rosenzweig has been traversing the country to spread the word about AgMIP’s research projects. Last month, Rosenzweig traveled to Harvard University, Stanford University and the University of California, Berkeley to meet with students and fellow agricultural and climate change scientists. At Harvard and Stanford, Rosenzweig held seminars with key departments to promote the work of AgMIP…
NEW GEOSHARE AgMIP TOOL AGGREGATES GGCMI OUTPUTS
Apr 11, 2014.
A GEOSHARE Tool for aggregating projected crop yields from AgMIP’s Global Gridded Crop Model Intercomparison Project. As part of the Agricultural Model Intercomparison and Improvement Project (AgMIP), the Global Gridded Crop Model Intercomparison group helped to coordinate a fast-track multi-model multi-sector climate impact assessment as part of the Inter-Sectoral Impacts Model…
REGIONAL RESEARCH TEAMS MEET IN ARUSHA, TANZANIA
Apr 10, 2014.
AgMIP researchers and stakeholders consider big questions about climate change impacts on agriculture. In late January of this year a much-anticipated workshop was held in Arusha, Tanzania. More than 150 researchers and stakeholders from 26 countries and 90 institutions across Sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia filled a large conference room at the Mount Meru Hotel. The attendees – members of regional agricultural research teams, representatives of their…
AgMIP PAPERS CITED IN IPCC AR5 WORKING GROUP II ASSESSMENT REPORT
Apr 9, 2014.
The Food Security and Food Production Systems chapter, of the newly released IPCC Working Group II Fifth Assessment Report (AR5), examines how new research since AR4 has changed our understanding of the impacts of climate change on current world food systems, as well as the projections of future impacts on those systems and likely…