by admin | Jun 30, 2014 | Economics Modeling, June 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...
by admin | Jun 25, 2014 | Crop Modeling, Food Security, June 2014, Press Release, Uncategorized
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...
by admin | Jun 13, 2014 | Ag-GRID, June 2014, Soils
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...
by admin | Jun 12, 2014 | Crop Modeling, June 2014, Maize, Press Release
By Jean-Louis Durand, Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique, France Our climate is changing and crop simulation models can project how climatic factors will affect food production in the coming decades, and what adaptations in farmers’ fields could stabilize...
