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 | 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 | Feb 12, 2015 | Climate, Climate Modeling, Crop Modeling, February 2015, Food Security, Wheat
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),...
by admin | Feb 5, 2015 | Climate Modeling, Economics Modeling, February 2015, Food Security
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...
by admin | Nov 18, 2014 | Climate Modeling, Crop Modeling, IT, November 2014
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...
