Blogs
AgMIP NextGen Research Pillar Featured in Agricultural Systems Special Issue
The image above documents the components associated with the NextGen strategy. This strategy will encourage the development of NextGen data, models, and knowledge tools to support decision makers. (From Antle, Jones, and Rosenzweig, 2017, Next generation agricultural...
Anticipating Crop Losses
Simulating Pests, Disease and Weed Impacts Pest and Diseases Workshop this week in Paris, France By: Greg Reppucci Plant pests, diseases, and weeds can severely impact crop health and production and cause severe food shortages. If not addressed early, these damages...
AgMIP6 Global Workshop Report
AgMIP6 Group Photo AgMIP6 Global Workshop Summary By: Shari Lifson 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...
Sonali McDermid gives Capitol Hill Briefing
Photo credit: Roberto Tanella and Fountainink.in: Special arrangement. By Shari Lifson On January 20th, the American Meteorological Society hosted a Congressional briefing on Climate Change and Food Security as part of their ongoing Capitol Hill Briefing Series. In...
Southern India Stakeholder Workshop
Photo: Wendy-Lin Bartels By Greg Reppucci 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...
Book Chapter on New Food Security Assessment Method
Photo: Carlotta Donelli By James Oliver 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...
AgMIP Award and more at ASA
Photo from left to right: Jean Steiner, Cynthia Rosenzweig, John Antle, Jerry Hatfield, and Jim Jones By James Oliver At the annual ASA Fall meeting November 13th – 19th in Minneapolis, Minnesota AgMIP Principal Investigators were recognized for their work in the...
Release of GGCMI Phase 2 Protocols
Rosenzweig, et al., 2013 By Greg Reppucci 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...
AgMIP Women In Science Video
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...
CFCC15: Food and water security
By Shari Lifson 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...
Report from the Joint GEOGLAM/AgMIP Workshop
By Shari Lifson Executive Summary 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...
South Eastern Africa Team Stakeholder Meeting
By Sabine Homann-Kee Tui 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...