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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…
AgMIP AT THE GLOBAL ALLIANCE FOR CLIMATE-SMART AGRICULTURE (GACSA) FORUM
June 24, 2019.
The third Global Alliance for Climate-Smart Agriculture (GACSA) Annual Forum was held on June 15-16, 2019, in Bonn, Germany. Honored speakers such as Karen Ross (Secretary of the California Department of Food and Agriculture), Zitouni Ould-Dada (Deputy Director of the Climate and Environment Division, FAO), and Hans Hoovegeen…
NEXT-GENERATION FOOD SHOCKS MODELING WORKSHOP AT ASPEN GLOBAL CHANGE INSTITUTE
June 4, 2019.
AGCI and AgMIP held the ‘Next-Generation Food Shocks Modeling Workshop’ May 20-24 in Aspen, Colorado, bringing together leading scientists, practitioners, and stakeholders from around the world to build a new framework of understanding around complex food systems and the events that trigger widespread impacts…
NEW PAPER ON KEY DETERMINANTS OF GLOBAL LAND-USE PROJECTIONS PUBLISHED IN NATURE
May 31, 2019.
A new paper: Key determinants of global land-use projections, Stehfest et al. 2019, was recently published in Nature.The paper builds on a recently developed sensitivity approach to improve land-use projections and identify the possibility for different global land-use directions in the future and how future land-use depend…