Blogs
New Canola Initiative Launched
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...
Southern Africa Livestock Team Video
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...
Southern Africa Stakeholders Meet with AgMIP Researchers
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,...
AgMIP and GABBs collaborate on new crop modeling tool
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...
AgMIP at the ASA International Annual Meeting
By Jenna Famular The American Society of Agronomy (ASA), Crop Science Society of America (CCSA), and Soil Science Society of America (SSSA) will host more than 4,000 scientists, professionals, educators, and students at the 2014 International Annual Meetings, "Grand...
New IFPRI website features climate change & food policy
Photo: IFPRI/Ian Masias The International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) has launched a new website dedicated to climate change and food policy research and impacts. The website covers news, event updates, project profiles, and shares related materials from...
AgMIP Responds to President’s Climate Data Call to Action
Today at the White House the Obama Administration invited leaders of technology and agricultural sectors to announce new public-private partnerships in order to advance the President’s Climate Data Initiative. AgMIP is pleased to announce its collaboration in several...
New paper reviews simulations of household models
By Mina Coutsoucos Can current farm household models accurately simulate food security driven by climate change? There has been considerable effort in the last 44 years by researchers to model climate change impacts on farm households, but relatively little attention...
AgMIP – CCAFS team up to investigate index insurance in Senegal
A joint CGIAR Research Program on Climate Change, Agriculture and Food Security (CCAFS) and Agricultural Model Intercomparison and Improvement Project (AgMIP) meeting was held June 3-4 to kick off a USAID-CIAT (International Center for Tropical Agriculture) funded...
Global Economics Climate Scenario Workshop: FAO, Rome, Italy, June 23-24, 2014
Five global economic modeling groups met June 23-24, 2014 at FAO headquarters in Rome to discuss preliminary results of a harmonized analysis of climate change impacts on agriculture and food security in 2050. The participating modeling groups, all members of the...
Are increasing levels of CO2 causing hidden hunger?
By Andrea Calderon Irazoque According to a recent commentary “Food Security: Fertilizing hidden hunger” by Müller C. and others published in Nature Climate Change, CO2 fertilization and climate change will likely exacerbate macro and micro-nutrients deficiency in...
Soils data workshop focuses on assessments in Africa
By Nick Hudson Crop models have been extensively tested for yields, but their validation for soil water balance, and carbon and nitrogen cycling in agricultural systems has been limited. In order to improve the use of soil data in assessments of climate change impacts...