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ANTICIPATING CROP LOSSES
Oct 16, 2016.
Plant pests, diseases, and weeds can severely impact crop health and production and cause severe food shortages. If not addressed early, these damages can also carry over to surrounding ecosystems. Despite historic evidence of severe impacts, methods to quantify and anticipate the impacts of pests, disease and weeds are still in need of improvement...
AgMIP6 GLOBAL WORKSHOP SUMMARY
Sep 23, 2016.
AgMIP has been developing this interdisciplinary research, or integrated assessments, of agricultural systems since 2010. Led out of Columbia University, the University of Florida, and Oregon State University, with major funding from UK Aid, AgMIP is comprised of an international community of scientists and stakeholders…
SONALI MCDERMID GIVES CAPITOL HILL BRIEFING
Mar 17, 2016.
The purpose of the briefing was multifold: to review findings from the newly released Climate Change, Global Food Security and the U.S. Food System report led by the USDA as a contribution to the U.S. National Climate Assessment; to articulate current risks to the global…
SOUTHERN INDIA STAKEHOLDER WORKSHOP
Feb 4, 2016.
In the middle of November 2015, as Tamil Nadu, India was experiencing some of the worst flooding in its history; a team of AgMIP researchers arrived to meet with agriculture stakeholders in Southern India. The AgMIP Southern India Regional Research Team...
BOOK CHAPTER ON NEW FOOD SECURITY ASSESSMENT METHOD
Feb 3, 2016.
The overarching goal of food security assessment is to find a method that persists through time and space and is continuously reliable. Scientists have formulated food security indicators for their assessments but most at the present fall short in adequately gauging food security. In a newly released…
AgMIP AWARD AND MORE AT ASA
Jan 14, 2016.
At the annual ASA Fall meeting November 13th – 19th in Minneapolis, Minnesota AgMIP Principal Investigators were recognized for their work in the field of agricultural science. Drs. Cynthia Rosenzweig, Jim Jones, John Antle and Jerry Hatfield were honored with the 2015 America Society of Agronomy (ASA) Presidential Award…
RELEASE OF GGCMI PHASE 2 PROTOCOLS
Jan 13, 2016.
The Global Gridded Crop Model Intercomparison (GGCMI) team has just released Phase 2 Protocols for the Carbon, Temperature, Water, Nitrogen and Adaptation (CTWN-A) sensitivity study. The simulation experiment officially starts now! First deadlines for data submissions are March 2016….