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AgMIP WOMEN IN SCIENCE VIDEO
Dec 16, 2015.
In June 2015 over 80 scientists from 24 countries attended the Agricultural Model Intercomparison and Improvement Project (AgMIP) Regional Fundamentals Workshop in Victoria Falls, Zimbabwe. The participants included members of AgMIP Regional Research Teams from institutions in Sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia who, along with AgMIP leaders...
CFCC15: FOOD AND WATER SECURITY
Aug 24, 2015.
At Our Common Future Under Climate Change (CFCC) 15 conference July 7-10 in Paris AgMIP leaders Cynthia Rosenzweig and Alex Ruane took part in the scientific session: Food and water security under climate change. Cynthia Rosenzweig opened the session by highlighting the session goal of bringing together the isolated communities of researchers…
REPORT FROM THE JOINT GEOGLAM/AgMIP WORKSHOP
Aug 20, 2015.
A joint workshop was held by the GEOGLAM and AgMIP international programs with the aim of improving the interactive use of Earth observations and models for within-season agricultural production forecasting. The international workshop was attended by circa 70 scientists, analysts and program managers…
SOUTH EASTERN AFRICA TEAM STAKEHOLDER MEETING
Aug 17, 2015.
AgMIP’s South Eastern Africa Team, CLIP (Crop Livestock Intensification Project) met with stakeholders May 5-6th at ICRISAT-Bulawayo, in Zimbabwe. The workshop, “What do we need to know about climate change, impact and adaptation? Engaging with stakeholders in Matabeleland...
EAST ASIAN AgMIP MEETING IN JAPAN
Aug 12, 2015.
An upcoming workshop, August 26-28, 2015, organized by the Monsoon Asia Agro-Environmental Research Consortium (MARCO) with the cooperation of the Food and Fertilizer Technology Center (FFTC), will be held in Tsukuba, Japan to share the latest advances in understanding climate change related problems in collaboration with smallholder rice farmers in...
NATURE ARTICLE ON CLIMATE-PROOF FARMS FEATURES AgMIP AND MACSUR
Aug 10, 2015.
A news feature recently published in Nature “Quest for climate-proof farms” by Quirin Schiermeier highlighted AgMIP and MACSUR researchers’ collaborations with agricultural decision makers and farmers for co-development of assessments of climate change adaptations. Agriculture, the article states, is facing the twin pressures…
AgMIP LEADERS RECEIVE 2015 ASA PRESIDENTIAL AWARD
Jun 29, 2015.
Drs. Cynthia Rosenzweig, Jim Jones, John Antle, and Jerry Hatfield have been selected as the 2015 ASA Presidential Award recipients. They are being recognized because under their joint vision and leadership, the AgMIP team has dramatically increased the coordination, transparency, and scientific rigor of agronomic modeling to address the pressing…
AgMIP-USDA DATA HARMONIZATION WORKSHOP
Jun 3, 2015.
There is a major gap between the potential value of data collected in agricultural experiments and the value currently obtained through use of those data...
AgMIP JOINS THE GLOBAL ALLIANCE FOR CLIMATE SMART AGRICULTURE
Apr 23, 2015.
According to the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) agricultural systems must increase production 60 percent by 2050 to meet the nutritional needs of a world population of 9 billion. However, agriculture systems will also be impacted by climate change...
WORKSHOP FOR ADVANCING PEST AND DISEASE MODELING
Apr 23, 2015.
Changes in climate and extreme events could have significant effects on agricultural pest and disease distribution and magnitudes and on the distribution of host species. In response to the need to include modeling of pests and disease in agricultural assessments, the Agricultural Model Intercomparison and Improvement Project (AgMIP) held a workshop…
GEOGLAM AND AgMIP COLLABORATION
Apr 16, 2015.
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…
AGRONOMIC DECISION MAKING IN THE FACE OF CLIMATE CHANGE
Apr 9, 2015.
A recent article “An integrated crop model and GIS decision support system for assisting agronomic decision making under climate change” published in Science of the Total Environment applied AgMIP regional integrative assessment tools to study the spatial yield variations in groundnut yields. The study aimed to quantify...
GLOBAL GRIDDED CROP MODEL INTERCOMPARISON PHASE 1 PAPER PUBLISHED
Apr 9, 2015.
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...
LAYING THE GROUNDWORK FOR THE NEXT GENERATION OF AGRICULTURAL SYSTEMS MODELS
Apr 8, 2015.
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 result of investments made 30-40 years ago, and do not incorporate the major advances in data…
WHEAT TEAM PAPER ON YIELDS AND CLIMATE CHANGE
Feb 12, 2015.
A recent paper in Nature of Climate Change, “Rising temperatures reduce global wheat production” Asseng et al., discusses the systematic testing of wheat crop models, utilized by the Agricultural Model Intercomparison and Improvement Project (AgMIP), against field experiments. The testing was conducted because simulations have a large amount of uncertainty in yield projections…
RESEARCHERS AIM TO MAKE GLOBAL CLIMATE DATA USEFUL TO LOCAL FARMERS
Feb 5, 2015.
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...
NEW CANOLA INITIATIVE LAUNCHED
Jan 21, 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...