by admin | Mar 17, 2016 | Food Security, March 2016
Photo credit: Roberto Tanella and Fountainink.in: Special arrangement. By Shari Lifson On January 20th, the American Meteorological Society hosted a Congressional briefing on Climate Change and Food Security as part of their ongoing Capitol Hill Briefing Series. In...
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 | 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 | 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 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 | 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),...
