by Site Administrator | Aug 4, 2014 | August 2014
By: Andrea Calderon Irazoque The agricultural sector today is facing the daunting challenges of adapting to increasing impacts from climate change while minimizing greenhouse gas emissions and meeting ever-growing food demand. Crop-producing regions will be required...
by Site Administrator | Jul 29, 2014 | IT, Press Release
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...
by Site Administrator | Jul 28, 2014 | Economics Modeling, Food Security, July 2014
By Mina Coutsoucos 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...
by Site Administrator | Jul 9, 2014 | Food Security, July 2014, Regional Workshop, Sub-Saharan Africa Integrated Assessments
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...
by Site Administrator | Jun 30, 2014 | Economics Modeling, June 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...