by admin | Feb 5, 2015 | Climate Modeling, Economics Modeling, February 2015, Food Security
By Niina Heikkinen, E&E reporter With a global population on track to exceed 9 billion by the middle of the century and climate change altering growing conditions across the planet, the need to figure out if agricultural production will keep pace is becoming more...
by admin | Jan 21, 2015 | Crop Model Training, January 2015
A new Canola Initiative has just been launched on the AgMIP website. Canola (rapeseed) has become a major crop for production of edible oil around the world, and plays an essential role for international food security. The objectives of the group are: Identify current...
by admin | Dec 17, 2014 | December 2014, Sub-Saharan Africa Integrated Assessments
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...
by admin | Nov 20, 2014 | November 2014, Sub-Saharan Africa Integrated Assessments
By Jenna Famular 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,...
by admin | Nov 18, 2014 | Climate Modeling, Crop Modeling, IT, November 2014
By Jenna Famular AgMIP, in a recent collaboration with the Geospatial Building Blocks project (GABBs), is developing a geospatial mapping tool to project future climate change scenarios and impacts. The GABBs project will create a web-based system that shares...
