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East Asian AgMIP Meeting in Japan
Photo: MARCO By Shari Lifson 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...
Nature article on climate-proof farms features AgMIP and MACSUR
Photo: Dumisani Mbikwa Nyoni meeting with Amy Sullivan of the AgMIP Stakeholder Unit and others at the AgMIP Regional Research Teams Workshop in Victoria Falls, Zimbabwe By Shari Lifson A news feature recently published in Nature “Quest for climate-proof farms” by...
AgMIP Leaders Receive 2015 ASA Presidential Award
By Shari Lifson 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...
AgMIP-USDA Data Harmonization Workshop
By Shari Lifson 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. Typically, data collected in experiments are used for the original purpose, and papers and...
AgMIP joins the Global Alliance for Climate-Smart Agriculture
Photo: C. Rosenzweig and C. Porter at Climate-Smart Agriculture meeting in Montpellier, France, March 2015. By Jenna Famular According to the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) agricultural systems must increase production 60 percent by 2050...
Workshop for Advancing Pest and Disease Modeling
Photo: Pest and Disease Workshop Participants By Jenna Famular 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...
GEOGLAM and AgMIP Collaboration
By Jenna Famular 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 a particular...
Agronomic Decision Making in the Face of Climate Change
Photo: Drought tolerant groundnut yields under various GCMs for RCP 8.5. Attributed to Kadiyala et al. "An integrated crop model and GIS decision support system for assisting agronomic decision making under climate change." By Jenna Famular A recent article “An...
Global Gridded Crop Model Intercomparison Phase 1 Paper Published
By Jenna Famular 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 Project (AgMIP) worked with the Inter-Sectoral...
Laying the Groundwork for the Next Generation of Agricultural System Models
By Shari Lifson 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...
Wheat Team Paper on Yields and Climate Change
By Jenna Famular 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),...
Researchers aim to make global climate data useful to local farmers
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...