by admin | Aug 12, 2015 | August 2015, Regional Workshop, Uncategorized
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...
by admin | Aug 10, 2015 | August 2015, Regional Workshop, Stakeholder Unit, Sub-Saharan Africa Integrated Assessments
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...
by admin | Jul 20, 2015 | July 2015
By Shari Lifson A cool bright June morning greeted the researchers arriving at the A’Zambezi Hotel in Victoria Falls, Zimbabwe late last month as they joined over 80 participants from 24 countries in attending the Agricultural Model Intercomparison and Improvement...
by admin | Jun 29, 2015 | June 2015, Press Release
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...
by admin | Jun 3, 2015 | IT, June 2015
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...
by admin | Apr 23, 2015 | April 2015, Climate, Food Security
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...
by admin | Apr 23, 2015 | Climate Modeling, Pests & Diseases
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...
by admin | Apr 16, 2015 | April 2015, Climate, Climate Modeling, Crop Modeling, Economics Modeling
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...
by admin | Apr 9, 2015 | April 2015, Climate, Crop Modeling, Food Security
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...
by admin | Apr 9, 2015 | Ag-GRID, April 2015
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...
