by admin | Feb 17, 2016 | February 2016
The Sub-Saharan Africa Stakeholder Engagement meeting, held the first week of February, was highlighted by discussion with stakeholders during a field visit to Wote, Makueni County, Eastern Kenya. The field visit, held on February 3rd, provided AgMIP scientists the...
by admin | Feb 4, 2016 | Conference, February 2016, Regional Workshop, Stakeholder Unit
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...
by admin | Feb 3, 2016 | Economics, February 2016, Food Security
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...
by admin | Jan 14, 2016 | Conference, January 2016, Uncategorized
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...
by admin | Jan 13, 2016 | Crop Modeling, GGCMI, January 2016, Uncategorized
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...
by admin | Dec 16, 2015 | December 2015, South Asia Integrated Assessments, Sub-Saharan Africa Integrated Assessments
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...
by admin | Dec 10, 2015 | December 2015
By: James Oliver & Erik Mencos Contreras The combination of a warming Earth and an increasing population is expected to strain the world’s food systems in the coming decades. Food security, defined as the availability and adequate access at all times to...
by admin | Aug 24, 2015 | August 2015, Climate, Climate Modeling, Food Security, Global Workshop, Uncategorized, Water
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...
by admin | Aug 20, 2015 | August 2015, IT, Regional Workshop, Uncategorized
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...
by admin | Aug 17, 2015 | August 2015, Regional Workshop, Stakeholder Unit, Uncategorized
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...
